Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-16
Letter From Denver.
DENVER, Co.,, Sept. 2, 18S2

EdltOr E1tteTpr1se:
 The time allottetls for the Grand Ma tional Mineral Exhibit has now little | flore than half expired, and we can be- | gin to form some idea of the practical re- 1 suits tha. will follow. The collection of l ores as whole, is conceded by all who 1 have examined them, to be the greatest l in quantity and variety and the richest in quality that has ever been collected to- gether in the United States. To the | prospector, miner and capitalist it affords rare opportunity tor investigation and comparison, and could you have heard the ten thousand questions (more or less) asked, daily of each commissioner, you would be convinced that they mean to make the best of the opportunity thus af- forded them. The attendance during the first, second and third weeks was not large and we were able to answer all questions and show our ores at leisure, but during this week the attendance has been large and we haven't had any spare time, nor have we spared our threats. The greater number ill attendance belong west of the Missouri river, though have mot quite number of persons from Bos- ton, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. But we have to admit that we are disappointed in the at
 tendance from the eastern cities. It is
 not what we had looked and hoped for,
 and from that source we looked for capi-
 tai to aid in the development of our
 mines. The main reason why we have
 not had larger attendance from the east Is the fact that no provision has been made with the railroads for reduced rates, which the people had right to expect and would have received if the managers
 of the Exposition had done their duty. To have insured success cheap excursion
 rates should have been secured on all the
 by the management before they laid a
 stone in the foundation of the building,
 but instead of that we found out through
 a committee appointed from our commis- 1 sioners, to wait on the railroad agents,
 that the railroads had not even been asked ! to reduce their rates. Our committee
 succeeded in getting all the railroads west
 of the Missouri river to run excursion
 trains at very reasonable rates, but no re-
 duction east of the Missouri. Many sug- gestions have been made here as to how
 we shall overcome this difficulty at the
 next exposition and secure a larger at-
 tendance from the east. My plan is to
 hold our expedition in the east It will
 cost Ar;zofr exhibitors no moro to exhi-
 bit their ores in Now York City than it
 does here in Denver. and the. advantage.
 of New York over Denver need hardly bs
 mentioned to a business man. Ire diff. l, ference would be simply this: we would
 carry our ores to the capitalist instead oi asking the capitalist to travel two thous , and miles to see our ores. We would no l only have the capitalist of New York bu of Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Wash
 ington, Baltimore and many other wealth! , cities within few hours ride I woult
 not have your readers conclude from thi t article that no benefit has or will accru l to Arizona by reason of the Denver ex position, on the contrary believe it vii be of very great benefit. I know of v number of persons who have examine, g our ores and are SO favorably impresse, : that they say that they are going to Ari n zona.
 : every piece can be seen and every piec s is marked with it's assay value, whethe ' gold, silver, copper or lead. This canno e be said of any other exhibit. Some C e the counties of Colorado have a portio $ of their ores marked as to value, and som ' of the Territories the same. This fac a alone has made very favorable impres d sion for Arizona. Then the average C Y our ores and the yield of bullion durin t the past two years makes still more ia l. vorable impression, as the output of d J. the mines that are yielding bullion is dis > played on large cards placed on top of ou i" cases.
 ,s Before closing I wish to say a few word > in behalf of Mr, T R. Sorin, the assist