Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-15
CROAKERS

No mining country possesses full complement of elemeuts until tn, ''croaker" appears, and he general! comes among the first wI.h the bonn. He Is one of those dis pensations of the iuscrutable wisdom of Providence for whore creation our nor tai eyes can see DO occasion; hut as We taught that nothing was made in van, perhaps there is a place in the econom! of nature that would be a Iretched vac uum withCut him.
 However this may be, he is regarded as an aflliction with which contact | avoided whenever pract cable. Itseems that some people who have had experi ence with him have discovered metho d o' operation that robs him of tn, greater part of his venom, and entirely cIrcumvents his powers for evil. The Nevada City Transcript details th r method as follows, and the principle ap- plies equally we'll in Ar.zona:
 4 gentleman who bas been buy ing mines m thi- vicinity. aud Who was care ful to keep ihe object ot hi- visit a s, cret, says tLe c.ur-e he has pursued should be adopted by all would-be Iur- chasers of cl ins in ny district. Had he made his bnsin ss kuUwn on conf nere he would have teen moved by every croaktr in tue district aui by men who had groaDd Co sell. and the prop erty he has bonded would have been de bounced, no matter uog much vAiue Ii possessed, gs tue very worst kind ui frauds. and be would have been warueC that he vas tDr wing his nancy away etc. At least thi- has teen the cIse IL many instances during tue past few years, although this place IS no Worse m that respect than almost any otheI mining community. Not long az, a gentleman arrIved bere for the pur- pose of bu!iu quartz mine If h- could find one that suited him. H. asked as a personal favor that this pa- per would not mention his name or hIs business, as his expeutnce Tn other camps had been such tbHt he desIred tU
 void repetition ot It here. The first gentleman spoken of in ihis article h id never been in this part of the State be- fore and when he went away he eX- pressed great surprise that capitalists | from everywhere dld not come in here, | where the most of the mines Sc m to warrant the largest kiud of investments He, as we'll as many other intelligent aud observing strangers who have been here, predicts that when our mines be- come properly appreciated we will have - boom that will scare all the croakers md toe jON Ous surprise to even thOsr who look forward with SO much conf dence in the district. There IS no u~e disguislng the fact-we do not appre- ciate our surroundings. For years and years Go come real estate here will not reach any lower figure tan 1t con mands to-day. We have at our very doors. almost, thousands of acres of mining ground that have never been Prospected and m cOurse Of time, when our prospectors becom more numerou- and capital begins to flow in, We will have many su .h mines as the Proyld ence. NerrIfield. Wyoming Nevada City and MountsIneer. The outlook IS good and it requires live men with capital to bring 1t up tO the standard which Ii merits. If any one wants to find out what class of men are constantly giv- ing ths district black eye and injur- ing themselves. let him take tue trouble to be around when this article Is being read