The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-02-06

lGTmtIiy tFlOuthTg 10 IT, NOW. III oiuc to reroyer that trade We must place our selves, or be placed in a position where VI are nearer ;o commercial and manufacturin; centefs than they, 50 that goods can b placed here in Prescott aS cheap as they cal De placed at Maricupa. When that is ac cofupllshtd We viii recover the trade " have iost.
 If Northern road is constructed ther can le brought to Prescott from the col mines which are known 10 exist 0n th Little Colorado, coal by which iouHdrie can be supplied, and thereby the machincf wh hch is needed in t~e mills and mines Cal be manufactured and repaired cheaper tha. can be brought from Ca,if1rnta. We mus fDat ourselves in close connection with th great hearts of civilization, and If that caI be brought about it vii, work great revo iuiinn in trade.
 Now one word about inc attitude of on merchants towards railroads: l suSpos that those gentlemen who embarked in ih mercantile business iD this part of tiIc Ter ritory did s0 not for bcnevoien or e!cmoseynary purposes. but wi,i the object Of m king IacHcy, an' If some of them in tunes past hav been unwilling to stake prospec'ors au, take chances on the returns, u was becaTst i they were warranted in 90 doing; and | , they charged 2 dollar pound fer bacon, i presume It was because they could get ! { and bacon Was scarce. Now. II has beer suggested to mc. although l dO not accept ! Or eHdpree the suggestion, that there art merchants here, who hayirg adopted theil ] business tO q frontier aHd isolated Commuu ! fly, are unwilling t0 c.ange their mode oi ! business now and \ hO look with apFrehen. sion rather than favor upon railroad com munication with Ihe east. don't believe ] that any of inc merchants of Prescott really entertain that idea. can understand how it might be entertained. If, f9r instance you are in possession of very fine horse that tIO.s in 2:3O, d horse that csn beat any thing in your part of the country. and you are in the habit of entering him for all the races and carrying off all the purses, and il It is proposed u orLng in new horse ,hal can trot in 2:2O, perhaps you won't care about developing the turf interests in this
 way, because 1t will force you either to re- tire from the rIng pr improve your trottiDg stock so you can compete with the new corners. Now our merchants arc strong enough, and energetic enough to compete with any newcomers. l would like to see the capitalists of New York, Chicago or St. Louis, who can come here and do anything in ;hc world, SO far as securing trade is concerned, that my friends Goldwater or Burmister would not have thought oi and achieved three weeks before, daughter and applausel Our merchants can take care 0f themselves. If we desire to succeed in commerce and in growth we must not re- main isolated, We must keep ourselves in the channels of communication with the outSiuc world. We need cheap transporla- ton and capital in ortler tO develop our mines and this Is the induccncnt, as far a. we are concerned for promoting the con- struciinn of railroads We don't get much help from SIn Francisco, and don't know that such help as we have received has been oI aBy particular benei: in developing the mines of ArIzona. l remember one mine which was at the height of its prosperity when 1 first made my advent into this country some three years ago IL was developed without dollar of out side aid. Out oi it's proceeds its owucrs built ten stamp quartz mill. employed many men and contributed largely to the pros pcriiy Of Prescott. Well after awhile they got into litigation and then they got inlo something that wa, great deal Worse, the hands of san FraHciScO capitalists. Laugh ter. Tie san Francisco gentlemen ran Ihe
 mine for very nearly a year wiihUu; lawsuits aud without anyone breathing the breath of suspicion against their tile, and io, k out in the meantime three or four hundred ihOUs- and dollars. 1 don't know how much, and then stopped work. About iha. time some public spirited gentlemen here, who wanted To give the san Francisco operators good excuse for not ruunng he mine any longer, cpInIHcnced Some lawsuits and sure enough thc San Francisco capitalists immediately gave cut tbai Inc whole thing had gOue tO Inc devil and the lawyers had stopped the mine. IAugh,er.l That little bt of dis drove off the San Francisco capitalists, Why, gentlemen, if yOu tdhc an Arizona mine to san Francisco to-day and offer il Io the San FranciScp capitalist Re Ill nOi even treat you politely. such money as he can spare for m!ning invest menus he ;IeferS tO Use for the purpose of backIig tt that game which is dealt III Pine street every day aI II o'clock at inc Stock EoaId. Ne owe Sau Francisco nothing some of Us may owe her balances on goods for which she charges two price, Laughter and appiauscl bat we owe her no gratitude for fIvois or assistance. There is nu, one of Il, bat will b.d good greeting tO the day when We eau iuru our backs upon her and her cN ar, ions, N hiie We welcome the black horses ina; sill break through the snDw5 of the MugO.luns, and come Iiautin- Up from the Rio Grande with the refrain of wealth and prrgiess screaming from their escdpe- pipes. tChrers.l
 To drop meta Lhor, gentlemen, and come tO bI~ine-S. Prescott must have nearer railroad connection with great commercial and manufacturing centres, IF Prescott Will be apt, sooner or later, 10 join Carthage and have more or icS~ c!a>sic notices written upon her ruins. \ year ago ] suggested as
 much by way of defence, at an indignation meeting winch was hcid here tO reproye those legislators, myself Included, N hu pass ed bill to Try aud induce somebody 10 build a road from Marico.a hGve,
 We had nc ldea then, nobody had any .dea then. that the A!cbiSOn, Topeka ana San,o Fc would build along the 3Jih paral- lei, and so We tried to coax q roau up here from the south. That r,ad, all newspaper statements of what tie Southern Pacific is going 10 do, to the contrary. has net been and will not be built, and unless we get relief from the east We get none at ali. Every once in while We hear by newspa- per that tie Southern Pacific Is going to build this branch read. Their managers have had opportunity 70 take this S400, offered in county bonds if they desired and build the road, but they declined and the road won't be built. We have no railroad anl unless We get railroad communication from the east We get none at aiI, and with railroad communication with the commer- cial and manufacturing centres of the east, Prescott will speedily become city of i0,- 000 people, and without it-geil, We won't have so many. tLaughteF) With such a road, the lost trade ol the Tiger, Peek ani ;he many other promising mines in the Bradshaw mountains will De recovered. With such a road we can bring III coal from the Little Colorado aa1 establish