Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-04
PHENIx A 4 MINING CEyrFF
Encouraging Outlook for the Coming
 son in Our Mining InduStris>. l.

' Pheu5K Gazette.
 | With the advent of the Soutberb clic railroad and the developme1r the great mines of Tombstone. uir men, specuiatOrs and investors com [ to our Territory, were attracted, IkJ- moth. to the dazzling flame of the sot. srn bonanzas. As a natural oonsegr4. the central portion Ot the Territ1rv
 though the earlIer prOspected. bac4s neglected, aS much On account Of II moteness us anything else, and tboI the people who did not care ro foUoA the ''big strike" and -'nes eNritem.k generally devoted themselves to arr-i tural and pastoral pursuit Hov.t- the continued successful Opera;rot.f
 the lp Top mine tO our north, auih-
 improved and extensive facilitles I1i
 duced at tue NultUre, where r.t-.
 stamps are continually dropDinc tr.
 pied with the gradual declIuatlou Drtr-
 Tombstone excitement. once y.--
 brought into prominence the vast u.fs.-
 iferous region of central Arizona. vis--
 vast and rich mineral deposits o--
 known tO exist. The completion f A
 parallel and competing railroad |,
 point north of Us, has had the effect a,
 brightenIng the prospects, for tL.s a..
 tiOn materially. and the future of rt-
 nix as a mining center IS now fuIl,a..
 sured. A few years more and .hi. --e.
 ton of ArIEOna which has been ca,uaTs
 regarded as a desert plain, frinreJ vis
 barren and desolate mountains v.T
 in all probability, take i-1-,
 rank among the mineral pr1i1..
 CTS of the coast. Capital Is 1u-u5,s5
 with healthy confidence in the va|1-..
 the mineral products. and the -at--.
 prises now being pushed forward. sr5
 others being formed, cOustraIns r,+,
 thls belief. Already Phenlx be-lrs+.
 feel the good effects of the impetus u
 mining circles, and her advantage, sa-,-
 cation and surroundings. In adiluor
 to the two great mining euterpris-.. f..
 which We first alluded, most Img ga-,sr- operations are now being pruser.--f
 The Holmes mine on Squaw C.--, --
 by general consent, prOnOunced t.-a.
 gold mlne on the coast, and tue ru.--.
 with which work k being pushed fr
 ward m it's developments. leads us..
 heve that the resources of tn, s.,....
 will be materially increased lu arar... half year. by the product Of bullion fan. this mammoth lead, and the dropu.r,a. forty stamps on her ore. In the t... Creek county the outlook K egual, .. fair. The PheIIx gold mine la- la-r well developed; crOss-cuJ Ou tle W-t Side shows up a POO foot veu of .- .I milling ore; the Golden Fleece vii ..e- works ere long, and the MeSharkr-. ra. developed a mineral deposit thai V... rants mill ar the present um-. I.- Maggie May, Joliet, I,acheu7asb. ami Carbonate Chief, iu the same J!,.-.- are all good, strongly defined .et,-. with the best indications ofiu-u-r --.... ness. The Red Rover. in Magazine dis trict, the Red Dog in Wm.f-ed ar-.-.e- and the several silver lodges ID thr Mi. Pecache Mountains, are all mur- tr.. at DO very distant day bii far e. m crease the prosperity of This valley.
 We are treating now, though aat of the precious metals. O.- copper resources are even more ahul4 ant, and at the present time ,u-l m.7,, attract Eastern purchasers more r.aE, than mines of any other character. Inc Castle Creek copper ledges and deposIt- have frequently been described lr tl- They are almost unlimited and some of the more prumineu, wllI be- operated during the preseu: season. The owners of the Collier Couusr, arc now m thls city, with a view Ul r-- and of putting Up smrlter Dr their property. The Colorado Comp44 will make similar investment at .. early day, which will bring Castle Greek solid to the front by the close .f t.- year, the ore being high grade aHdg.,.. Another copper field thatar pears to be almost inexhaustiblr. ]. m the Haucuvar mountains. Ledsr- .-o,s and re cross each other. checgur-Iuctb. country most wonderfully. and the o--. Tor the immense amount of it. is almost rich, running from 3l -u jO per cent. Our fellow towusmen. Aessrs. King. McGrath and Phdes. own group Of twenty-siX mines. which they have been developing during ttr past few months. and upon which tU.. shortly purpose erecting a smsifar. g immense copper deposits of that section would scarcely be believed without tler were seen. and ore running 8 per cent n copper, m many instances coutaIa. SZO m silver and S1J m gold tp thr ruu The value of these mines can he r,.ar. lnderst Od, when 1t is known that l.a precious metal they contain I- sufficient Q pay for all work of taking out and -e- lucing the ore, and laying down ttrco.- Ter bullion in the Eastern markets free The ore supply being so large ve cannot elp regarding this enterprise as one uf lOst importance to our city, and tle-- can be no question Of it- sue ess. The rapidity with which develop lents are going forward in all d.r-.- ions, will soon demonstrate by the ulllon product. all that We have laimed for Phenix as a mining center nd Central Arizona as a mineral rel.uu.