Arizona silver belt., 1883-12-29
The A. M. B. R. R.
Firy Miles to be Buiit Immediately.


 A few days since contract for the building of the first division of the Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad, signed by Greene B. Raum, president of the Mineral Belt Construction Company, and J. w. Eddy, president of the A. NJ. B. R. R., was forwarded from Bos- ton to this place for the signatue of George White, secretary of the R. R. company, which was signed and re- turned by Mir. White.
 The contract provides for the build ing of the road from point on the A. & P. road, at or near Flagstaff, to Globe. It further provides for the building of fifty miles of the road the coming year QS84), and fifty more miles in each consecutive year until the road is completed to Globe. With out positively knowing that the build- ing of the road will not progress more rapidly than stipulated in the contract, circumstances lead us to believe that the work, once commenced, will be rapidly pushed to completion, in order that the road may be rendered useful to the company, and available to the great mineral and timber belt through which the road will run, with as little delay as possible. The Hon. P. Ham, ilton, in his "Resources of Arizona" a book replete with we'll considered sta tistics and reliable facts, estimates the amount of timber on the line of this road at seventy billions of feet, and the grass lands at six thousand square miles. MT. Hamilton speaks of the mineral resources 1.-the region through which this line passes as among the most extensive in the Territory. Gold, silver and copper are found in nearly all the mountain ranges, and in the neighborhood of Globe the copper de. posits are among the largest and rich, est in the Territory" And besides these inducements for building this road, is the climate, nowhere surpassed on the habitable globe. In such a climate courageous diseases are un. known, and malarial levers exists only in swampy grounds, or along creek bottoms. We again quote Mir H.; "Centennarians among the native born Mexicans and Indians, are not uncommon He says: "There is nc region, not excepting the Italian pe' ninsula, that can show such grand effects of light and shade, such gor. geousness of eoloring, or such magnifi' cent sun -bathed landscapes. x No artist has undertaken to paint ar Arizona sunset, but for him who car transfer to canvas its wonderful color' and its inexpressible grandeur, there is both fame and fortune in store. Two or three years since, wher speaking to two old gentlemen of Chi cago-the Messrs. Hill--of our rari fled atmosphere, that the Sierra Anchas fifty miles distant, were plainly visible after candle light, which, by the ex pression of their countenances gavt us to understand that they were full, convinced that we were tossing them and being somewhat nettled, we mad known our discovery of their disbe lief, and proposed to satisfy them tha very night of the truth of our asser tion, and did, to their expressed aston ishment. This is the county that Col Eddy proposes to open, by rail, to tn hundreds of thousands desirous o seeking new homes in country wher wealth, health and comfort are tn handmaidens of industry and thrift.