The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-09-09
Better Late Than Never.
CTucson stsg.)

IL has many times been cause of surpris why the mining capitalists of San Francisco were 50 backward in taking hold of Arizona mines when Tn so many instances the show ing was fiattering. and the inducements all that could be desired. And although our Territory can only be counted eighten months old as bullion producer Tn any considerable quantity, yet there IS more cold water thrown on our mining industries in California, even to-day, than Tn any other section of the
 United States, and this without any shadow of reason.
 There cannot be found to-day one solitary mining property which has shown up well at the surface and continued for hundred feet, thai has not held its strength as de velopment progressed.
 There is not a single dividend paying property to-day in Arizona which has not been offered first in the San Francisco market save two, which have not been con demned and sneered at by the knowing ones And now through both good and Ill report Arizona has pushed her claims for just consideration to the front rank, which Is bringing our California neighbors to a re- lective mood, and they have discovered that the rejected Territory has within her borders hmitless mineral wealth, and they will no doubt in a large measure retrieve their mistakes and with that restless, daring energy peculiar to the San Francisco mining men, will lead in the mining industry here as they have elsewhere The Los Angeles Herald reads the situation thus:
 Repentance has its uses and undoubtedly the people of San Francisco are mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, that they did not earlier appreciate the advantages offered to the capitalists by Arizona. The importance of that section Is now thoroughly recognized at the Golden Gate, and if the history of the past four years were to be enacted over alaln every mine of any value or promise m the sun kissed land would be m the hands of CalIfornians. IL Is amusing even now to en- counter some deyout believer in the Com stock who will turn up his nose at such min eral wonders as the Silver King, Contention, and smile derisively at the idea of anything like permanency attaching to mines that are only from five to eight hundred feet deep. And the Arizonan smiles in his turn, when he knows what a good thing he has so near the surface, and laughs outright when he thinks of the many oUtlays and the deep yexation of spirit he thereby escapes. And stIll the mines of Tombstone pour out bullion at d rate which excites the astonIsh meut of Doth the believer and the skeptIc.
 The Silver King IS getting ready to do won- ders. and hundreds of promising claims throughout the Territory are getting into a state of preparedness for bullion production which will result Tn AriZonas being the sec ond. If not the first, treasure reglun of the Union, inside of the next two years. What ever energy can do to repair an original blunder Is now being done by San Francis cans. The Arizonan, on his arrival at the metropolis, finds that his society is much sought after; and that, If he has any good thing to offer in the way of mineral proper ties he Is accorded a respectful hearing. The change Is an suspicious one, both for San Francisco and Arizona