Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-11
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It seems to have an eley yatIng effect upon Q the mind corresponding with the alti- 5 tude. Hear what correspondent of the Kansas City Journal has to say Of the : future great" Few Americans appro- ciate tho vast patronage which is trrou-
 tary to this Mexican Central railroad, by ! the side of which ] am now writing. IL must transport tue food. clothing, furni- ture, luzuries or necessities for three and one-half millions of people by the , last day of the first quarter of next year.
 Not thiS only, it must carry 2,jO0,OOO native passengers annually. and over | 2,O0O,O0o to 3,0O0,O00 of travellers, as tour ists, spesulators and laborers. It must bring tO Mexico machinery for 100000 silver, gold, copper, lend, cinnabar, iron, tin, manganese and other mines during the coming five years, and carry the ores and bullion products of such mines worth millions of dollars. I have meas ured Mexico for too many years, too faithfully, carefully, accurately and with | too much of keenest criticism to be la- boring under mistake" This Missouri tenderfoot, for he can be nothing less, to write in such crandiioquent style of what is and what Is to be done by the Mexican Central-had better he down and dream a dream or two" Possibly | be has been dreaming.
 But he does not stop here; he says: Capitalists who visit mining grounds invariably purchase whole or partial properties. Mills soon follow and are put to work at a profit The output of the mills now in running order for 1883, will be Sl0O00OOOin silver bullion alone. Mining particularly is making strikes of progress in Chihuahua and Durango, such as was never known in the United States. More new mills have been purchased and brought to Chihua- hus alone during the last two years than both New Mexico and Arizoua have run ming to-day after thirteen years of accu- mulatiou.'
 This fellow writes rapidly. He tells us more in a minute, than We have heard of Chihuahua for the past three hundred years. But he talks like man who had only seen his first mountain, and at the time he wrote, of mining grounds" had never seen the inside of a i mine, and could not tell gold from cop per ore, nor iron from manganese. He speaks of Arizona as having been opened up for thirteen years, and Chihuahua will exceed us iD mills the present year. A comparison indeed. The fact Is that mining in Arizona really did not begin until the building of the Southern Pacific Railway through Arizona, now less than two years ago. It is a notorious fact that the mines of Chihuahua and Durango have been worked for nearly three hundred years.
 We build mills in Arizona when We fni mines which pay to work; and the mills cost from S40,OOO to S2OO,0OO each; the cash value of the mines they are built for range from S20QOOO to S5,OOO.-
 0O each. The actual yield in gold, sil- yer and copper last year was fully Sl2,O00,00G. How much did Chihuahua and Duran go produce? Not one qnarter of that amount. And if those States materially increase their yield of bull lion, it wlll be at a loss to the capitalist who invests in mining grounds" We nave nothing to say Of the number of mills which the gentleman says are go- ing into Chihuahua. But what kind of mills are they? Cheap snide affairs" worth or cost about S5,O0O and you could not give them away in Arizona. It pleases us to hear of the possibilities Of a country; but when we hear of capitalists buying mining grounds right and left, it excites us.
 The gentleman also tells us of 'old Mexican mines" from which millions up- on millions have been taken; but owing to the crude way the Mexicans had of mining, they have allowed them to fall into decay. We are not in the habit of going out of our own way to give advice, and least of all to those who are inclined % go to Mexico; but We will venture to make one statement, which all such men will find out IS true, sooner or later; 1t IS this: that when Mexicans throw up mine, because it is not profitable to work, tenderfeet as well as all others, had better let 1t alone. Mexicans may mine in a crude way, but they do know some things about mining that can only be learned by years of experience, and they are cunning enough to not allow tende feet to pumpit ont of them either. Go in young man and induce your friends. to go with you; but ityou should fail, utterly fail, to secure the great for tunes that seem to you to- be lying around loose, don't blame the country for it, but bring it nearer home and put it down to ignorance.
 As to the large amount of business in store for the Mexican Central Railway, we have nothing to say, further than that as the 3,5O0,000 Mexicaus, who have raised their own grain in years past, and have been content with "tortiios aud carne" for ages, will not sstonish the world with purchase of luxuries for a year or two yet. But it does seem as though the freighting of mills into Chi huahua and Durango-"lO0,OOO'-we take it for granted that each mine must have mill, will furnish more business than the road can well do in the time specified. Let us see-It takes on an average 40 cars to haul mill and the material that enters into it's construc- ton: to take in 100000 mills, at that rate, requires 100000 car loads; allowing 30 feet for each car, it would make train 9, ,727i, miles in length to say nothing of the l5,333 engines that would be re- quired to haul them. Yet this is the most reasonable state ment made. 1t is no wonder then, that Grant has lsbored so hard to have mining machIn cry admitted to Mexico free of duty, for ii would bankrupt the United States to pay it.
 TEE managers of the proposed rail way from Tucson to Port Lobos will, they say, begin the construction Of the road from the latter place, owing to the lower rates of freights to that point. TIes and iron can be laid down at Lobos at about the same rate as at Whining