The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-16
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80 0lyen nv u Texas Man
10 the Editor Of the Herald
FLonEsCE, PfNAL Co.., A. IT, March H.
Believing that your readers will be glad Ia
hgar from this section take tho liberty oI
writing you from this place, where ar
rived few days since, and ! assure you
| that few garden spots even In our own il-
yorod section can compare with this beauti-
| lul country. Florence IL the county seat OF
| Plnal, one of the central counties Of this
! territory, The area of Arizona, as you
have no doubt read from various statistical
works, Is III, coo square miles, consisting OF
elevated plateaus or mesas, loity mountain
ranges and fertile valleys. ! llrd that one
error we people OF Texas have been labor
ing under, is in regarding this as distinctly
q mineral region. II is not-at least one
half of it is one of The finest stock coun-
tries you ever saw, filled with magnificent
beet cattle and bloodcd horses, with
constant acquisitions from California and
New Mexico daily A few miles from here
Mr.. Mason has a stallion that Will sell rea-
Oily, even in Dallas, for Loo.
Heretofore mining has taken precedence
over any other industry, because of course
bullion is Of paramount consideration. with
all of us. Thirty miles from here is no
doubt the grandest silver mine the world
ever saw. The ComstCck lode OF Nevada
pales into insiSniHcance in contrast with 1t,
and nowhere on this continent las such
mountain of native silver been uncovered,
or worked with such profit refer to the
"Silver King" discovered in 1915, and
which has produced since then something
like 50, 100000, and which now, at depth
of 700 feet, gives no indication OF failing.
Drifts, shafts, tunnels, and wings have
been run at every level, all in
native silver, radiant and glorious
i'm their brllliancy, luminous with stalag-
mites and stalactites, and more than all,
comforting in their substantial bullion re-
turns, and rendering us all wild with our
great expectations. Perhaps, however, am
wrong in thus throwing ut you in my first
letter this phenomenal mine, this wonder OF
the western hemisphere. Undoubtedly,
there are other mines i'll this section as
good, simply awaiting development, and
which time will prove to be as valuable.
The curse of this section just now is want
of capital. If some of our moneyed men,
who are carefully investing their hundreds
of thousands in six per cent" could see
some of the safe opportunities that are Of
fered for remunerative returns, this country
would not long remain with It's present
sparse population.
Florence is in the center OF the Gila 4pro-
nounced hes LAY valley, which takes its
name from the ella river. This stream
is some 500 miles in length, having
its rise in the mountains of New
Mexico and emptying into the Colorado
river a few miles above Yuma, the hottest
place in the universe, where that soldier
died, you know, and went to hell and tele-
graphed back for his blankets, could not
stand the change in climate. This valley
produces almost anything that is grown in
scmi-tropical California, and in addition to
the advantages of that golden state, it pro.
duces besides its fruits and flowers, untold
mineral wealth. The alfalfa grass is very
productive and grows in our state not less
than three crops III one season. am get
ting some of the seed. | have been here
but q few days and find that the great topic
of conversation is 'mines," every office or
store go into has a small mineral cabinet
full Of rich specimens. The only
advantage this country has over less
favored regions is this: A young man
cln come out here and engage
in any legitimate business, and at the
same time have an opportunity ofacquiring
an interest in u mine, which at any mo-
ment may enrich him. He has chances
every day of locating claim which may
prove more valuable than any yet discover
ed. And Tor that reason insist that this is
the country not only for the capitalists, but
also any live man without money.
In Florence here, shade trees adorn the
streets on either sides and running water
in aceqiuas, lend an added charm to decid-
edly picturesque ndscape. ARIZONA is
much maligned in the matter of heat, it is
no warmer here, | am reliably intormC d,
than in Dallas, and these exaggerated &C.
counts of cooking eggs in the sand and
roasting off horses hoofs, etc., are simply
written to ''fill up"
You will perhaps be surprised to hear
that during my short stay, ! have
so well improved my time as to become
possessor of interest in some good mining
claims, of whose future have great hopes,
in fact you may expect in the next six
months to see me come out as full blown
millionaire. L have been engaged in put
ting up some of Messrs. Z. j. Pauly Il
Bro. IS Jail cages here, and they are meeting
with many warm encomiums from all. l
will return in few days and finish up my
Jail business" in your city. From Dallas
intend to go to st. Louis and introduce
some of my friends to my ideas about Ari-
zona which, L assure you, are favorable.
will see you in person soon and show you
some ore, and interesting antiqu tiles from
old Aztec ruins here. Yours, truly,
JAMES J. LIGoN.