Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-25
CASA GRASDE SPEAKS.
lOlc Sonora Now Arizona-Anbititus Old Casa eranse-The Hills of Gibraltar.

IL ,sd Gran6e-The Hills of Gibraltar.
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 , EDITOR CITIZEN; If you were aware
 wtat laborious performance it is for me to put down on paper the many s.things that I could so easily explain and 50 lucidly demonstrate by word of mouth, fSI am sure that you would reserve your scondemnation of my silence and bear s sleIliently with me on account of my Eseeming tardiness. Old mn as I am, Esupon whose forehead the wrinkles of
 age have planted themselves and kept
 creeping upwards until becoming inter
 swoven with my gray hairs they have Eformed banner of warning that my
 +passage through life has been over rough
 Rand uneven roads for the space of nearly a century of years. It is at this import S ant period of my life when look back .tssover this my centurial pathway and ob-
 serying the powerful influence of the public press; the great cities 1t has aided r to be built; the vast railroad enterprises ssthst it has instigated and the profound { light of progress that it has shed over universal civilization, l cannot help but Heel stimulated to devote the few re- < maining years of my allotted time to the Rebuilding up of new Territory; to the distribution through the columns of your svaluable newspaper and other neWspa- .3pers of like value, exemplary" evil kdences that may benefit those who live esin the present age and be a source of fu- ture reference for those who, by the
 marital bonds of matrimOny, may come ! to bless future ages.
 k3 ArizOna is a country full Of mountains
 and hills, and those mountains and hills z full of metal ranging from auriferous
 gold to argentine silver and continuing r. through the entire catalogue of metals. ! finds itself in possession of exhaustive fields of that very hard substance from, E which cannon balls are made and z through whose instrumentelity revOlu1 tionists have been shot to death, brutal Snations civilized and monuments of it's Svictories raised as high as the monument &of Bunker Hill. So stands A-izona to- F day She holds in her lap cJrdons of
 mineral. Let the skeptical come and 4see that he may have no further mis- s trust; let the unbeliever likewise come and see that he may say verily believe. S and let the preaching demagOgue come, and see, that he may lift his hands and |. cry, "Nerily, here Is metal Canaan, all. z 1t needs is water"
 At my present writing 1 am living, as! ts.I have lived for many, many years, un-. der the shadows of the castle of Old Casa Grande. Gorgeous times werel r.' Al. ,oI press of melody in the halls of Casa The Grande Voluptuous days were those.
 But wealth created ambition; ambitionI t{created envy, and envy brought about
 disastrous wars that laid all that was. Sbeautiful in the dust. The blue-eyed, SIndians of Eastern Arizona, who are nOwl tfresiding in the foothills of the AriZOni- ! cal and MeIicanical range of mountainsl known as the Hills of Castle, alone carl Frying in their sorrowful memories the, true legend of how the Chief of CastileI fell from his pinacle of wealth, and howl
 3his castles fell into ruins and how thOse t. ruins stand to-day facing the wearyi
 traveller and plodding taamster. as they "gee" and 'haW" theiri { heavily laden teams on their way to Sill Ever King. Most interesting, indeed, isl E the history of the reign of Casa theI kGrapde, and at some future date, whenI Fmy infirmities will permit, 1 will en1 fsdeavor, from time to time, to favor your headers with true and unpainted rec Ford of how the proud house of one of Ethe pruudest chiefs of ancient SOnOTal Enow Arizona) was brought to grief the bickerings, petty hatreds Band ;ealousies of ambitious and design- Esing intriguers S-ho headed the opposlngi How Casa The Grande illumi- Enated his cas, an ne eve of a pending Hconfict, and ho, they were in a yeryI Elbrief time blackened by the smoke of al s.consumlng and destructive cpnflagra1 Etion, pending his overthrow. SouIi4 of HCasa Grande station (railroad), within al Edistance of twenty miles, lies q network sOf undulating, symmetrical hills, offset Eby abrupt and almost perpendicular kiormations, resembling, by moonlight. monumental ghosts, and glittering with 5Sapparenrly supernatural phOsphOrousI E,At certain periods of the night, accOrdI Fling to climatic changes, can be seen one sof the most enjoyable panoramic views
 Fever witnessed. It reminds one of ten Ethousand railroad trains in motion, and lS i've times ten thousand brakemen swing Fiing back-up lanterns; and the scene is ssmade more imposing by the absence of k2all loud and pyrotechnic oaths that gO Fshand in hand with railrOading; no Esthumps of cars, no angry exclamatlons Ssfrom the captain conductor; on the cOn- E3trary 1t is peculiarly silent, and if 6 mill fslion South Sea island firetiies were sim lultaneously turned loose upon any one ksobiective point, n scene more spasmod- pjically brilliant could hardly be coniec1 estured or experienced than thls une11 Explained phenomenon. It remains Tor f the mineralOgist and astute scientist tO ssexplain to seeking travellers whence came ksthe metallurgical mOnstroslty, or whether t9it be a side issue, or luminary aqueduct Eswherein the significant comet furnished ssup her cometical tail It Is III thls pecu- ksliar spot that the ever advancing pioneer Eminer, undaunted by seyerest ordeals, Bland ever firm in his unalterable faith in Ela big strike, rich find, etc, has estab- ssslished his miners wigwam, and with nls- Rssiles of execution, bearing names of Esthundering sound, such as thun- der powder, dynamatic dynamite, s and herculean Hercules, and gi- Gigantic giant, they have laid the founda-
 tiOn of what promises to be, to all ap-
 spearances. the most famous bullion pro z ducing region ill Arizona. It was here s5that gmoney loving Casa established sthe vaults of his treasury; 1t IS here that
 fthe gold and silver seeking miners of
 sthe year 1881 are strenuOusly seeking to '&find the ine1haustible lodes from which eiCasa drew his nuggets. Straddle of the k5patient burro, astride of the swlfter ftmule, and mounted upon thoroughbred Ecaballos, the pilgrim prospectOr and fat .Nt- -ssafter day in caravanical groups wend- Sing their way to the hills of Gibraltar, nigh to the camp of OriZaba, just twen- I ty miles away. There is no Munchausen
 .allowed in this district, for the old and E the young ofsthe tribe of Casa hated all
 such, and would strike them as sudden lssly dead as was Annanias of the days s.that are far and past. No scientific ex- sspert allowed in these regions to practice is;mining legerdemain. No lengthy ledges E5"thlrty miles in length" nor widthic;L surmises "fouteen feet" in width. But ksthere seems to be not only theoretically
 4but in actual production a belt of min Heral fcountry destined to open the eyes ssof Arizonians and startle the slumber- ,ssiug lethargies of the "hOp me one" and sss'hop me two" Eastern financiers. Within kza scope of country more condensed than 3scattered can be seen the miners signal
 Bred flannel shirt on one pole, white shlri
 Son another. and the balmy sun of Sep
 sstember's last days shining down upon s4them in sublime benediction for a sue s5cessful iuturity. Here IS to be found tthe '.grardmother" claims and right pro
 4lific has the old lady been in ore Reproduction. Next her comes the queen, tssly Orizsba circled by king aud princes
 ssof the world of mineralism. Nigh tC
 Ethem stands Julius, whose latter name &was Cesar, then Gifts are presented tC ...l:. ..nt,-.r k-.ll,--..l l--