Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-08-11
SOME SUGGESTIONS TO PaospEcroRs.

tO0Olgtt ed much the same as in other territories and with about the same results. The ! ups and downs have been and are being gone through the same as they were il California and Colorado in early days and later in Nevada, Utah and Montana
 We should have thought strange of a farmer in the states some forty years ago, 1T he had have built a large mill, simply to grind the grain produced on hls own farm, and We very much doubt whether any of our citizens know of such foolish thing having been done But many sensible men did build mills and some of them were costly ones too, for the reduction of their own grain. and that of their neighbors into good flour. But they depended mainly upon their neighbors to supply them with wheat to keep the mill gong, and the mills were kept busy the year around. and paid fair profit on the money 1n- vested. But if they had have gone to work and built mills of large capacity. 'sqiiiclent to grind their own crop in a few days, and then refused to do custom work for theIr neighbors, at fair rate of toll, it would not require very far seeing fnancier to predict the speedy failure of the enterprise.
 How few look at matters in the same light when the business of grinding wheat Is abandoned, for that of grind ing stone for the gold and silver it con- talns. It is true that We occasionally have mines which compare with Darym- ples big Dakota farms and they many produce sufficient ore to keep a large mill running for several years. But ex- perience has taught us that such mines are the exception and not the rule. In order to make a success in mining, the best way In the world to do 1t, is after the same manner that our fathers run the old fashioned custom flour mills. And If an exceedingly rich price of ore is encountered, it would not be out place to put it in a sack-the rich ore in one end and a rock in the other, to bal ance 1t, as our "dady's used to do" when they had but half grist, and take it, on horseback, to the nearest quartz null and exchangs 1t, or have it reduced, or sell 1t outright. There are hundreds, yes, thousands Of small mines through out this Territory that will pay to work, but they are not large enough to war rant the erection of a mll for each sep arate clam or lode. But with good re- duction works, placed al the most advan- tageous localities, on lines of communi- cation, in reach of mines and fuel, there k no end to the number of mines that may be worked with profit These mia-5 e u!I J- worked for what there k lo them. ;..ru tnrp-osp. would not lay around, a.E starr. g, for ysar= try ing t5 s-l m .la for what it may or msy not have i4 it. Make mining @ leciti mate blsiaus-. and It Vll pay. The business of llins "a pIg in poke is about layed out Pro-pectors who have mines in reach of railroads had better g. to work extracting ore, and ship it 70 Benson or some other point for reduction. T. the claims have no ore in them, or if it is of such character or grade that nothing can be done with 1t -s r---a-..-4.-d -drasl if as xou would A hot potato. and try to find Q better one, or 20 to work for some one who has bet ter one. There are too many idle men in the country, too little work being done. Prospectors and miners stand around the street corners and wonder if the particular district in winch they are interested will ever come out, never dreaming that 1t depends largely upon their own efforts, whether it comes out or not We have DO doubt but there are lO0 men n Tucson to-day who have claims in easy reach, which from one to twenty tons of ore, each, can be taken out within the next thirty days, that will go from $50 to Sl00 per ton. Go to work; take the ore out; ship 1t and get some thing for it. l. will furnish a good liv- ing and enable prospectors 10 develop their mines. mine that will yield one two or three thousand dollars year net to prospectors. is much better for most of them than S10,O00 or S2O,0O0 cash down. With such a mine prospectors have a good income, but there IS not one in twenty-five who have anything left out of a cash payment one year after date.