Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-09
SIMPLIFYING WORKS FOE TUCSON.

SMELTIHG WORKS FOE TUCSON.
 Again We call the attention of our
 citizens, and more especially those com
 prising the Board of Trade, to give heed
 not only to the advisibility. hut to the
 pressing necessity, of encouraging, and
 if need.bc, creating nucleus by which
 Tucson can be made a manufacturin.
 and self sustaining town. \ railroad
 center it may be. and bids fair to be-
 come, but without the hum Of tue
 manufacturers wheel 1t IS not, nor can it
 ever hope to be. more than what it now
 ls-a supply point to its surroundings.
 Our many mercantile establishments, now apparently SO prosperous. are not yet dependent upon the city proper. If
 they were, one half could not exist, and
 tine spursely settled and undeyeloped condition of our neighborhood could, and does add but little to the trade in question. The country at a distance daIly becomes less dependent un OFT
 market, inasmuch as they m numerous instances have created commercial cen. ters of their own and each one so formed diminishes the trade which our
 ------i----'- '----.- a,, l.,-,s- rnrtrnUed. Tha Mexican trade, once source of great
 revenue, is to us buta fraction Of its former self, having been absorbed by the merchants of Bisbee, Tombstone and La Noria and the little left bids fair to halt at Cqlabasas, on the compile ton of the road now heading to tlat place from opposite directions.
 Our merchants cannot hope to be middlemen and thus supply the mer- chants of the towns named as they are and will be within as easy reach of the great East as ourselves and are covetous of the profits that would otherwise &C., crue to us. How, then, are we to main tain our present prosperity and com mercial supremacy? By the creation and fostering of other and new Tn lUs- tries, whose demand will at least equal any present or prospective loss. But as  We have now 6 regularly organized Board of Trade they are, and reasonably too, because of their many avenues for obtaining authentic information, ex pected to take the initlatory step look ing to the assurance of our cIty's future. An attempt to recover the trade now virtually lost wouldin certain directions be intellectual, but they could recon meud, encourage and foster industries by which the existing problem of trade could and must eventually be solved. Tucson, thou h virtually on a plain is mountain girt and almost every visible hill to a certain degree mineralized. The ores in our immediate reighhorhood are neither rich nor extensive. but in sulli- cient quautiles and of such 'alues as to largely pay the cost Of eXtractjor, haul ing and Ieduction; butfew, if any, would justify the erection or reduction works for their own particular use. They could and would, however, contribute largely to the success of any worSs so erected, provided, said works were so aS to be accessib. Q tu all. Tue sou Tn every s-nse presents those ad- vantages and sincerely it is to be hoped that they will be utilized. II works of sufficient size were erected and were ex- clusively devoted to the economical crushing of custom ore, their influence for good would be 1l- most iucalculahle as our mineral resources are in themselves practically inexhaustible and in their extraction
 md working, hundreds of men would dnd remunerative employment, and the ores now lying useless. dead and scat tered on every bill would at once be- come a marketable product. The means thus furnished would be further us. q for the opening up and developing of properties, and thus putting them at once on a sound financial and paying basis. Not a more intelligent or indus trious class of men than our miners can be found anywhere, and any country that can give profitable employment to its miners, cannot be other than pros porous. If our surrounding mountains were not thoroughly miueralized, the argument for the building of reduction works in Tucson would be at once gone. and other avenues must needs be sought to accomplish the same end, viz: the building up of new injustre- that will develop the resources oi the country. and add materially to the wealth of Tucson. By the erection of the reduc- ton works in question, such an end could and would be obtained and Tue son become the center of a great min ing indus'ry, flat woull eventually double her population and trade. For such vorks-samP ing a- well as reduc- i-g works are needed-.his city pos