Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-12-18

] Tritle, one of the best-known of the Comstock mining operators and Pres | ident of the Yellow Jacket Mining
 Company, was interviewed by CIT- ! HEN reporter with a view to ascer-
 taining hls opinion of Arizona, her
 resources and future. In answer 10
 the first question, MT Tritle said: '' 1 have visited so far eleven min | ing districts in all in Southern Ari-
 Zona, and 1 am most favorably i'm pressed with their appearance. It is
 the most thoroughly mineralized | country l have ever seen. One great | advantage is the generally simple I character of the ores, chlorldes-the | most convenient form in which to find | silver-abOunding. l have seen a number of mines where there are very
 large quantities of ore, especially at ! Tombstone, but, outside of those large 1 deposits, find an immense number | of small veins containing high grade
 ore which in time will furnish en-
 ployment for very large population. But find here the same mistaken pol icy prevalent that is certain to exist in all new countries"
 ' What is that?" asked the reporter.
 |" Well, what l mean is this: l find numberless prospects where some
 work has been done; shaft has been
 sunk few feet on a very promising
 vein, nice little pile of rich ore has
 been piled on the dump, and the own
 CT has asked big price for his claim
 and sat down to wait for somebody to
 come along with money enough to
 buy it. Now, 1 do not wish to be un. derstood as not wanting 10 see the
 prOspectOr get for his claim all that it
 is worth, but that is no way to do it.
 believe from what l have seen of
 Southern ArlZOna that it IS most en-
 phatically poor mans country. '
 The mineral is near the surface, and
 the formation is so soft that the min
 eral is easily gotten out. l believe
 that the prospector will sooner get the
 value of his claim by taking his ore
 out and having it worked at the near
 est mill. This will give hIm good
 wages and capital to go ahead with
 his prospect work. Take Tombstone,
 for instance. There are several GUS
 tom mills there, much of the time
 standing idle, and yet there is ore
 enough lying around on small dumps
 to keep those mills busy all the time.
 Instead of working their claims them selves many of the owners want to sell out al big figures, and to that end
 they won't sell a pound of ore from the dump, as they need it all to e sell the mine" In many instances prospectOrs have struck a
 hungry place in the vein, and are afraid to go further Then, again, She claims will be bonded for long or short periods, through which the own CTS are often idle during the period, only to find al the expiration of the time that they have realized nothing"
 What do you think will remedy thisg'
 Oh. as far as that is concerned, it will right itself in time, After the owners become satisfied that they can't sell their claims at big figures by the exhibition of a few tons of ore on the dump, they will 20 to work for them selves, and the result will be large and prosperous communities. Look at Eu- reka, Nevada. There were two great dividend paying mines developed in that camp, and the claim owners in l the vicinity acted precisely as they do in many places in Arizona. IL righted itself there, as it will here, in | d year or two, and now there are many | small mines in the vicinity paying | their owners good returns and making | the town prosperous. The difficulty i in Arizona is that visitors are met with l efforts to sell on the part of owners al prices that should be paid for mines, instead of mere prospects,
 How about the numerous districts | where there are no custom reduction | wOrks:'
 " In districts where the prospects will warrant it, the mills will come just as soon as the claim owners show a disposition 10 dispose of their ore instead of keeping It for show pur- poses. There will be plenty of capital when capital sees Its way clear. In another way do the prospectors un- willingly wrong others and them selves. In this manner. l have in my mind a new district-the name of which l do not care 10 mention where there is an abundance of ore, rich enough to make the camp a great one some day. The miners think their ore IS richer than it is. They take their averages, and they believe it will mill at certain figures, when the truth of the matter is it will not mill more than half of those figures. Now, suppose that a capitalist put up a custom mill in that district and proves what l say regarding the value of the orey Why, he would be called a thief, and his mill would be shut down fo= want of rock to crush"
 How does what you have seen of Arizona compare with Nevada? in- luired the reporter.
 Well, |" rephed NIT. Tritle, '' have not seen 8 COmstOck in Arizona yet, but outside of that Arizona is much the better country for poor man. As l said before, your ores are nearer the suriace-in .fact, they are too neal, and you don't do deep enough pros l pectine. Why, the Yellow Jacket is now down 5000 feet, where the water and air are so hot as to make work l, almost impossible, and yet we go light on prospecting. However, that , will come all right in time. But [ your climate is superior and permits |; work to proceed all the year round. ( ou have better grazing lands, and -ou are equally well supplied with ( wood and water. Then, as l sad be- S ore, the formation here Is so soft that ! [ is possible to conduct mining s with far less capital. ' '
 Why do not more Californians and s Nevadans come to Arizona {
 The fact of the matter is that com ( ,aratively little is as yet known about 2 Arizona,' said Mir, Tritle s" 1 am in lopes 10 see two or three of the best of s he Tombstone mines listed on lhe | loard at San Francisco and l think it c yill be done very soon. The people vill buy the shares readily enough, nd the disbursement of a few divi- ends in California would do more