Arizona silver belt., 1880-06-26
Arizona Silver Belt.
saLaraay. 5ane s8. 1880.
A lrissssa oF E.iee bisproxea.

4 Eisssse oF Lies Disprovcs.
 Tl.s sreai llgasytsscks fo mining in Ari
 zona age lack of water and timber
 7nere arc ihoHSauds and thousands 0l
 acres of sterile waste which are beyond all
 i7pe of redemption hY irrigHion. Riyers
 t,3ai head zi5in the mountains wiEh a
 ufghfy torrent are lost ia tbe sands oI
 t:se uesori Sometimes fheV will run for
 long stretches through the sand, and reap
 ns.ar on the sufface miles away. Then the
 heat in summer dsies Up some of them.
 -0 that for months during 4he hot season
 no water is ia sight. These are obstacles
 t6at confron4 the miners Of every new dis
 1eiei sad hundreds of promising locations
 issFe baG % be abandoned because or
 iaabiii1Y 60 cope with them IptheGlobe
 District, far np in tbe Pima Mountains.
 Is a growth of pine timber that is almost
 p4enenenal for Arizona. II is ten miles
 l8ng and two miles wide, and is expected
 lo furnish sis the timher required by a
 large district So long as they do not use
 ], fo, fuel. it may last perhaps 20 years,
 ii he district is not greatly developed
 1iie C0msl0ek lode would use Il upin fiFe
 ears for shaifing and drifts. Mes5piit
 cottonwood, anu iFou-wocd, oh;aihed
 fgsn tbo desefts and along the river 5oi-
 t.sals are 0sed for fuel. and sells for
 from SSso s19 cord. Water in The Globe
 district is obtained from Pinal Greek,
 hieh flows down from the Riaal Noun
 sains, and is dTg for q di-tanee of 10 miles
 nesr Globe City most of the year. By sinking to ihe bedrock galef enough can be. ohlaiDed te Seep up steam in 8 hye-smmp
 mih. 5at scarcely enough l0 furnish waiter
 tsr iae batteries. AL present no great Gra0unt of wafer is required buI should tile miners begin finding any great quantity of ioiF grade ore, they would have Joaaanlon the expensive aTy.cTush- ing pT0eess. and using ene vet plan would. reaaire a much larger amount of Naser aud they would scarcely be able Co find iE.i A1c yet interested persons are giving out East 1nat tile {5lobe district Of Arizona has plenty of wood anG water Ten miles beiow Globe City the water of Pinal Greek comes 10 the surface and there is a stream of about 200 miners inches, la miners inch Is what Waler will go through q hole an iach -quare under pressure of six inches. )abc bg raising and carry ing thisto a asidehill, enough water mi ght be obtained to supply a 21-slamp mil. which would handle all tbe ores of the district as atl p-esoat aeveloFcd.
 The above isa elipping from 2 column article irthe New York 7'fmss, of the 6th inst, bysa Tucson conuibmo9, which is entitled to about asmach creditas stump speech during heAsed canvass. It is bitter attack upon the capabilities ef Ari- zoaa. and if we are not mistaken. it is from the serid pen of a seribbler who was invited to take walkn from Globe for attempted blaekmailiag. 'Tis true, is is ] s characteristic of Arizona streams to sink ! ia Ehe sand and rise in conformity to the ] lay of the bed rock The Gila and Salt rivers. both large streams present the same l peculiar feature. In many places there is | not wa1er enough to swim duck, and yet vfislsina mile of where tbe sand is on the surface the water is over the back of an ordinary sized horse, when crossing. As 70 the supply in Globe for milling pur- plsses 1t jsmost ample for the running of more sanps thaa wili ever be required to crush the great abundance of ore now on .he various dqmps, and being daily raised from the mines. Pinal creek instead of asing dry as stated by tbe Times, Tucson. correspondent, is now running on the sur .ace. and has been so for more than eight aongis, aud inssead 2f 4 miners 2J5 inch s at tbe 3Fbeatiel3s, as stated in the Fiass, there is enoash to irrigate large .creage ef farming land The Wheatdelds Ire situate on PiHaI creek, not ten,as stated 7 lY the corresp0 sp0ndenf, but thirteen miles lei0w Globe Having disposed of the Tater question, ne will now show the alsi1g of his statement ia reference to s0od- Cord wood never has commanded aors than five dollars here for milling 5arposes. and can always be bought by ne single cord for six dollars Re puts se extent of pineres on the PinaI mount ia at 2z19 miles. when, in fact, il is not ess L1aH Axl6 miles. He says nothing of z he tinler on the Sierra Ancbe5. which | overs s9x 190 miles, the nearest Of which 5 accessible to Globe and is equally si- sat to the fact tbat there are sss s090 square niles Of traceabie coal formation in Ari- oaa. He also stigmafzed Arizona as an { Fia Dssa, when, in facl, he knew thati ae Territory, as 2 grazing country, ean- o. I'e e1eelIed, and which fact is verified g ? she never falling supply of kidney e oFeFea beef which provide their own IFing. and which are always as fat as ,astsra etslf-fss o8ffIe