Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-09-06
ARIZONA'S RESOURCES
And the Possibilities of lis Mineral
 Kingdom,
As Attesied by TOmbsione's Bullion ou,- put and the ou'jotoa Develop
 ments to Date.

nation Of the underground workings of
 the Contention and the Grand Central
 mines, and inside of three weeks he had
 exhaustively exsmiLed, and as exhaust lvely written up for publication in the
 Daily Exchange, the character, extent
 and approximate value of the upder-
 ground developments of every leading
 or promising property in the camp. Up
 to that period, except in desuItory
 way, nothing Tn a connected form of A
 descriptive nature had been published
 or the resources of that once great
 mining center. The report. including
 an abridged but tolerably correct min
 ing map of the district, filed thirteen
 pages Of the aforesaid excellent mining
 journal, which from that day 10 th.s Las
 labored, aud continues to labor ass;du-
 ously in behalf of the interests of Ari-
 zona; and for this reason there Is no
 outside newspaper that circuIates in the
 Territory that Is more deserving of the
 generous support of its citizens, no mat
 ter m what industrial pursuit engaged,
 than IS the Mining Exchange. This
 much by way of compliment to this
 worthy exponent of the great industry
 of not only Arizona, but of the whole
 of the Pacific States and re-rit, ries.
 To resume. That report had A wide
 circulation, and was widely commented
 on, criticised and quoted from by the
 press of the country, East and West. It
 was at the tune charged, whether justly
 or not we will not now pause to ques-
 ton, that IL was . trlfie sanguine. and
 that the merits therein claimed for that
 sepnlchral nOmad camp were more Wis
 lonary than substantial, and that the
 productions made regarding its future
 would never by lIme's unsta. ing mnrch
 be, even partially, veriiird. W at has
 been the result. Let the Sl3.OuO.UU0
 extracted from the mlnes of that stIll
 derlded and little understood mining
 district answer this query. Let that
 grand preclouS metal output answer in
 refutatlon Of the charges alluded to,
 and let those doubtlBg ones, who ridi-
 culed as preposterOus tie claims then
 put forth by the writer for Tombstone,
 nave more confidence in the possibili-
 ties Of the mineral kingdom of Arizona.
 Her mineral resources are not only
 grand and varied, but seemingly inex- hau-tlble, and the more extensively are they becoming exploited the more surely does it seem certain that she IS destined i to become the greatest aud most pro-
 ductlve o' tue mining regions of the
 American continent.
 Tombs,ones output to date aggre-
 gates approximately Sl3,OOO,OO0 in gold
 a d silver, the latter, however, predOmi-
 naiing or this magnificent, noble
 metal yield not less than S6.OUO,0O0 WAS disbursed m dividends, spIurtIoned approxlmateiy as follows: Conten- ton Consolidated (including West
 ern Mining company S2 4J0,OO0; Grand Central SI.S0O.000, Tombstone M. k M. Co. Sl ,6I0,C00 and the N!zinG COnsuli- dated Sl40,G00. The first and last 0f these sums has oiliclal endorsement while the two intermediate sums are estimated, but so closely that they lack
 but little of being correct. The ques- tion now Is has TOmbstone's mInes become exhausted: No: and the man rash enough to say so has but very email understanding Cf their vet un- developed mineral resources. In the Contention and Grand CentlaitLe water line was reached al trIile above GlU feet from the surface. Down tO tHlt point the lode in both mines las becu explored and pretty well mined, but above tLat point tLc lm.t Oi complete exhaustion has SO fer n1t tcen reached n eitber mine lEc Cont it.cn l. now equipped with powerful pumps by whose aid the main shaft Jas been pushed down to the 700 f,ot level or lUO feet below water l,.yri. At 'hrt poiHt station Was excavuted and 6. OsscUt run west for the deseeuding lode. 1hI- it cut. at some short GlstaLCe from thc shaft and measured twelve feet wide at the point penetrated ana showed excel | lent mineral.
 These are important facts, anu after ascertainlng tEem ihe flow or water proved too much for even the powerful pumps of the mine, which was | shut down until tbe Grand Central pumps colld De erected and made ser viceabe. That the Contention lode, | bearing, m a changed form of course. | its ores, with II, would be found des-
 cendlng to the deep, and even to pro ! found depths, in Its inclosing forma- | lions the writer always firmly believed; for it is rarely that a lode of its characteristics and quality of mineral give out at the water llne; and that there is as brilliant future before ] Tombstone and the Contention aud Grand c Btral mines as any they have
 so far experienced he has not even now | the remotest doubt. All the predlc- tions that be made in favor of that dis- | trict m 1881 have been sustained, ana ! like results will not fail to follow Tn the n. a.NfnraT TgHsarnF nFg So much for Tombstone whose past l history furnishes us an excellent | ;IIustration of the precious metal pos abilities of Arizona, and exhibits solli l foundations upon which to predicate | its future, and the hopes now enter i tanned of the Ouijotoa region. Mining | for the precious and usefuI metals ls ] fine Territory's chief, but not only Rreat | ministry. and this so far can scarcely he said to have more than merged from | a formative condition. Herds and fiocks | and cereals of finest quality Arizona IS ! canable Of producing in great abund- | ance. but great and valuable as are its resources in these directions they ap- near comparatively insignificant when placed side by side with the extent and vaiue of its metRliferous productions. Seven years ago the region now GOV cred by the Tomb5tone district, might as well have been eliminated from the map of Arizona so worthless was It eN, cept as affording a safe camping ground for the murderous Apaches.
 or the Quijotol country the same was
 tr7le prior to May 1883, when the adyen-
 tprous Alex. Mckay for the first time scaled the rugged, steep sides of Mount
 Ouiiotoa to discover, just as placed 1 there by Nature, upon its lofty summit mefalliierous wealth enough to ransom l ap Emperor. In less than six years the ] former section of country has eohtTiou,
 ted above Sl3.OO0.GO0 10 the wealth ol tbe nation, and the chances are good Tor tbe extraction of thirteen addltlonai
 millions from 1t m like period or timei
 and there are just now good reasons Tor
 believing that within the same space tie
 0n;iotoa mines may be set down Tor
 trlce sI3.OO0O00 and for perhaps four
 times this sum.
 Rut be these things as they may, there
 is now fsir prospect that the teuilo'ea | little inferior m