Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-16
TIE EFFECT OF THE INDIAN WAR.

The baueful effects of the Indiai t-oubles upon Arizona are great. Min ;rg men. stock men, anchn en, ID fac su ;hs people suffer ID consequence O it Thousands of dollars would hay, basn invested in mines in Arizona thii 1ssr which now will not be, owing tC ,5s Indian troubles; hundreds Of new ,s-.le ranches would have been opened n, and stocked with cattle but for this csuse. The same may be said in regard toarriculture. to while perhaps the latter s1,fsrs least of all our industries. mainly owiug to the fact that most of the agri. cultural lands Of Arizona are remote f-on the country raided by Apsches While if is true that only the so1th- eastern portion ot the 1SrritoryS has been raided, and that peace reisas su- ureme through all other sections. stran- gers who contemplated immigrsting to .rizoua do not understand this fact but bsEeve that Apaches are everywhere, and that danger lurks behind every rock, free. bush and corner. They do not un- 6s-sta ] that the extent of Arizona is egaa. m empire, and that each of our count, E.. are as large as most of the eastern States. or course most people ou the Pacific coast understand the slt- nation. but the average man of the east knows less of the true condition of sf- fairs In Arizona than ne does of those of F1r5pe. This Is most unfortunate to our Territory; the present Indian war vlIl put back the settlement Of Arizona a- least year unless General Crook and tb- Mexican authorities succeed in ex- terminating or capturing the rene csis Aosrhas during the present cam pai-n n Sonora.
 The press of the Territory should en- jeavor ;o lay the true condition of af- fairs before the people or California and ;be east. in order that all who think of coming to Arszona To engage in mIn- Es nay know that all of that vast region Of e5uutrs lying west of Tombstone. and north of the line Of Utah, as well as the northeastern portion, Is inst as safe from Indians, and the laws are as well eEec1te3 as in any of the States of the Union. IL Is the custom, not only Of our own people to tell "cock and bull stories" about adventures that never took place, which are eagerly taken up b. -truierteet" and others, and scat tered broadcast over the country. It i- ul wonder then that the world be- hava- that this Is the land where every ula carries a pair o, six-shooters by his sides, a bowie kuife yard long in his belt and a dagger in his teeth. If our people continue to tell of shooting mems eyes ont d; a hundred pgces and convey t1e impression t0 strangers that all diff i5reaces are settled with knife and ball, so long our country will be regarded as a dangerous land to settle in even if there are DO Indians to add an occasion s f-4 brand.
 The writer ot this article has travelled th01salls ot mlles through Arizoua and Mexico turing the past five years been among all classes of whites, Indians and Mezicans lbut not among the Apaches ; visited nearly every mining camp within 3Dtc 30 miles of Tucson, and has never seen pistol fired, or any kind of diff culty or misunderstanding that could DO, be settled by simply talking matters oyer, when an amicable understanding IS always reached. There IS no use of saying that men in this country will not shoot; but they do not shoot without cause, and 1t is largely owing to this fact that every man is on his good be- havior. always knowing that-if he does rght he Is in no danger, but that griev- 0Is wrong will no. be tolerated.