Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-09-25
Sampson's Cigar Store.
A Visitors Opinions.

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 It IS always well 10 learn what the outside world think of our city and Territory and we give the following extracts from letter written by Cal lf"rnia gentleman who bas been spend tug several months in travelling about the Territory:
 Tucson is, as you know, an old Mexican or spanish town. The town itself has the usual '' brick kiln appearance Of the typical adobe buildings, with their fiat roofs, eIc. No town, perhaps, of the Western Slope has had a more rapid Or healthy siowth than has Tucson for the last ten years. It IS in fact city as to size, and the great business center of Southern Arizona, with an almost cer-. tainty Of becoming in the near future the first inland city on the PaCific Slope in point of trade. The amount of its present business is simply as- ioni>hiug. Of course the Southern Pacific Railroad has given il big boom. 1 think 1 have written you before that this is not an agrIcul- tursl country. Nothing in that line can be done here without irrigation, and as that is simply impossible ex- cept to an extremely limIIed extent, Arizona must always be dependent for agricultural products upon more favored States.
 From this gentleman's opinion of Arizona as a mineral country we take the liberty of differing slightly, but as they are Ihe results of keen observa- tion and good sense, we give them for the benefit of such as they may hit:
 In short. as 1 have before said, Ari- zona is simply q mining country, and an ofthe opinion that that Is enough, Tor when 1 iell you that you cannot 20 into a mountain range land the i'm meuse plateau is studdei with them, cropping out, rising like islands in the ocean over thousands of square mlles) 1 state what is literally true in every particular, true as gospel, and, as l repeat, all bristling with metals gold, silver, copper, e'c.--In almost every shape from pure down 10 zero. But it remains to be seen if they are pc rmanent or reliable as a whole. There ar. some, many exceedingly rich mines-true Assure Telns-and many more of like character will, or rather may be developed. But as re- gards the greater part of them they are not sufficiently developed [" pass final judgment upon. The country is overrun with prospectors, ani fnr one mine (prOven) there aie thousands or locations, all, ot course, giving the color" but undeveioped. If is the cnstom here whenever bo- manga Is struck to locate extensions indefinitely and stake off claims Tn every direction in radius ot from three to five miles of i', dig hole, si, down on It, waiting for some dHm- phool to come along and pay them n fortune for it-and strange to say they occasionally get II, too. One such success serves 10 encourage others 10 hold on to their holes, expecting or rather hoping to find another member of the Phule family, and that IS lnsi what IS the matter with Arizona to- day. If these pruspectorS (who un- fortunately for them-elves and The country have no capital io open mInesl wcul sell their claims at reason'b bi nrices. fair compensation ln- theHl' and then let men who have capital de- yelop them, it would be the means oi scattering thousands, nay millions ot dollars throughout the Territor', anu canltal would flow in one continuous stream into the country, ana me pocLe.s If Its citizens, merchants, miners, lahorers, prospecioTs' IT woulI feel what they don't now, nIpnty of coin. But no, few PhuIeS I am not of thnse) have by ? ylng eN- nrhitant prices for ihoSe holes run tbeu crazy. What iS ihe result? Hole" have been " foaicd' on the Enstern market; phules have gulprd down taffv ,o their sorrow, until thelr s,o,nachs have soured, and panic i' tae result. The bottom has simply fallen out of the mining boom' con fidence in Arizona mines has been de- stroved. and ihe big boom whlch these mi-guiIed hole owners are eNpectlhS won, Loom worth cent That there will be an influx of capital here thiS fall is certain. but the same insane, suicidal policy hitherto pursued VIII b,. persisted m, and the boom W Il go over and beyond them into Mexico where mines can he had that will instify investment, and leave the nurchaser a margin-a chance at least for nrnfit. and the Phules of Ari- zona will wake mp 10 find themselves ont in the cold Then and not tlil then will they realize that they cannot free capltal to invest without giving ii some chance for reasonable pron' to its owner. This result IS inevitaoie' and the sooner ii comes tie better TOT Arizona. Nothing else will teaoh these irrespective millionalres com mon sense and business. Then and moi before will Arizona be what she ouoht to. and will, he--one of the most prnsperous mining countries under inc sun. She must, however, invite canit,I to work and develop her inn mense mineral wealth. and offer con- ditions that will justify i:s employ meut before it will come.