Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-27
ArizOna'S Resources.

The United States secured Arizona as it did Louisiana, by purchase, and paid as much for one as for the other. The original Arizona was called the "Gads- den purchase" We bought il in 1851, when Pierce was President; Marcy Sec retary of State and Jeff Davis Secretary of War. The purchase was a concession to the South and slavery. That part of the Union wanted a railroad route of its own from ocean to ocean, and to secure that 1t was necessary that we should have a slice of the state of Sonora. On account of the Apaches, the Mexicans were not at all reluctant to part with a region that was a constant expense to them and accounted but little better than a desert waste. The Gadsien Pur- chase proved to be of little value to the United States-in fact a dead expense for many years. It was not thought worthy of territorial organization till 1863, and then it was sup pIemented by the attachment of a slice from New Mexico, a large block from Colorado having been cut of and added to Arizona before Colorado WAS admitted as a State, which event oc- cured in 1881, soon after the gold dis coveries around Pike's peak.
 The Territorial machinery did not help the country as much as We ex- pected. As an advertisement of its mines it did some good in attracting mlnipR adventurers. The establish ment of the Buttertield overland stage line in lS59-60, and the influx of troops from thIs State during the first two years of the civil war gave some impul sion to business and trade, reacunl favorably on Los Angeles, which sup piled most of that early trade with Ari- zOna. But there was no enduring pros perity till years after the civil war. The terrible Apache held the greater part o the Territory as his own quite as de tiantly as he had under the Mexican rule. As late 1870 the white population including Mexicgns, was 9,5Sl, and thes, were compelled to live in few town and fortified places. If they ventureC out in small parties ten miles from Tue son or Prescott, their scalps paid thu penalty of their temerity. From lSf 10 1880 there was a stir of immigration to Arizona, caused by very rich minera discoveries, and in 1870 the total whit, population reached 35,l7S; Indians 8, 3,493; Chinese, l, I,632; grand total, 40,44l 4 considerable part of the white infu, was from Utah-Mormons and thi class is rapidly increasing.
 Since 1880 the streams of immigra tion have been flowing in from severa directions, but mainly from Utah an, California. Tucson has now over lO,OOi inhabitants, Tombstone half as mary and Prescott and Phenix are places O 2.500 and 1,5O0 population. In his re cent report to the Secretary of the In terior, Governor Tritle estimates tn
 total population of Arizona at 75,OOO If this IS correct the increase has beel about 35,OOO in the last three years; ant all white, for the wild Indians never m crease after a close contact with civiliza ton. An increase of S7 per cent in thre, years, or at the rate of % per cent year, is something astonishing. If goes on at this rate till the next Fedora census, the Territory will have Ove 220,0O0 white inhabitants and may conf dently ask admission Rs a State.
 Whether the rate of increase shall g' on or not depends on two cOntingencie the removal of the Apaches from tn ! the Territory which they now cumbe and exclude from settlement and culn vation, and the continued success O mining operations and new discoveries It is the habIt here to regar, the mineral resources of that cOuntr, as great and inexhaustible" But ther
 IS uncertainty, at least about the latter As far as discovery and development have gone in the last five years, the re suit enables the Governor to state the production of gold and silver last yea at S9, ,29S, ,267, which is Sl,lOO,OOO oveI the preceding Oear, or about l212 pc cent. increase; and he predicts a tota from gold, silver aud copper mines O Sl5,0O0,0OO to Sl6,00O,O00 for the presen year, an increase of S5,70O,O00 to S6,1OO, GOO over last year if the prediction hOlC true. Pastoral industries are also rap idly increasing. There are 3OO,OO sheep now in the territory, and If care fully tended they will run up to3,OO0, 900 by the year 1890. Nothing IS saIC about cattle, but Arizonai IS known t' contain much good grazing land. IT grain productions the Governor make: the most of what IS, in fact, not verl good exhibit, by stating the quantity O
 wheat and barley in pounds instead O bushels. Stated in bushels, the whea
 production this year is estimated at 233. 333 and the barley at 3O00O0 bushels Neither IS as yet sufficient to supply th' home demand for food and seed of population of 75,000. But the export O 2,4OO.OO0 pounds of wool-the clip O this year-in some measure compensate for the smallness of the cereal crops s. F. Chronicle.