Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-20
Reduction and Refining Works.


 EDITOR CITIZEN: The following con.
 else and alive-to-the-situation article, ]
 copy from the Star of Dec. 7th:
 "Tucson as a municipality could well
 afford to make a donation or S50,000 to
 any party who would establish milling
 and smelting works within the limits of
 the city. The revenue which would in-
 directly return to the city through its
 business prosperity would soon repay
 the donation"
 Now l fully agree with the foregoing,
 though it is to be regretted the writer
 did not advance, even briefly, reasons
 for the statement, as reasons and facts
 would have enlisted closer attention to
 the subject among those persons in the
 monied centres of the East, on whom
 We are dependent for the success of
 enterprises that materially assist the
 well-being of our people of this city and
 the inning districts in our immediate
 section of the Territory, as 1t must ap-
 pear our resources are comparatively
 unknown to them; yet the great natural
 advantages of the cig's situation,
 geographically, our almost inexhaust-
 able local water supply; the vast
 extent and number of ore-bodies, lying
 Tn every hill and mountain forming an | almost continuous circle of either gold.
 silver and copper veins, around Tucson
 as centre, awaiting only the practical y scientific means for their conversion
 into bullion; the comparative nearness
 of the extensive coal fields of the San Carlos district to this embryo metro l polls; our advantageous position by being directly connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad and in our telegraph connection with the whole civilized wOrld-all these resOur rces and 1 aids to comfort and commercial con venlence are well known and fully ap-
 preclsted by the intelligent, progressive
 and energetic miner and business men
 Of this frontier American city and coun-
 ty, though knowing them, We are like
 vOyagers on the ocean becalmed in a
 full rigged sailing ship, they have their sails all set to catch tue breZe that shall
 wait the ship on her course, but are
 waiting for the wind, and just so shall We wait anu be becalmed, as we have
 been these three years or more." unless the gentlemen, who the coming year, are tO occupy our county and city official positions, will make the initiative movement, that will intel llgently present the advantages of our situation to men of capital in the East. Clearly 1t Is the duty of he incoming officials as 1t was their predecessors, to advance by every legal and legitimate means in their power, the interest of this commu- nlty that has been committed to their management, get should they discover any legal barrier to such action, the present condition of our business affairs and its future prosperity, and value of | real estate, cOmpels those gentlemen to | memOrialiZe the legislature at Prescott | this coming session for such legal au- thority that shall enable the city and | county, jointly, tO offer, as the Star has | suggested, SJO,UOO, and as a further evil | dence of the confidence of this commu- | nlty m our resources by taking shares | of stock Tn the company who will erect | smelling and refining works at Tucson | Let them do this after thoroughly in vestigatirg the matter, then commission | a capable gentleman to visit New York | and Boston, taking with him clear and | intelligent statement of the whole dues- tion, with the proposed manner of the and cIty's assistance in this all | important enterprise for furthering our commercial importance; and when this Is accomplished with the wide awake men ot those cities the necessary money will be forthcoming to build and equip a first class reduction and refining works. When thlS greatly needed establishment is completed, is It not reasonable to be- lleve that our hundreds of prospected mines would be proiitably opened and the paying ores brought to the works Tor reduction or for sale, and the scores of developed properties that have so long been left unwOrked, awaiting the advent of reduction works, themselves would swell the volume of metallic rock that would come m continuous supply from the numerous camps. and many new discoveries would be made! Thus the mining interest in the southwest would receive an imp-t tus that could only be profitable and permanent, giy- ing employment to thousands of willing hands. Miners, teamsters, grain grow CTS, asSayers, merchants, hotels and numerous others that are part of our would realize the benefit and pleasure of increased business. for We should Dc making ballOn, and that k the first operation m "cOining money" rom the now dormant resources of our and thus build on the banks lf the classic Santa Cruz a new Denver. Real estate would advance in value, every now unOccupied house would Do needed, and many more, Tor the increased population. and when this IS cOnsummated, the day lf adobe buildings will be ended, au q in he place of the unsightly mud huts with their d1mmy-canDOn-like tin | ipouts sticking from port-holes in the 'oof, We shall see long blocks of brick lining our principal thorough ares, and as the weary pedestrian nean1ers the sidewalks under the cool ng shade of umbrageOus trees, he will bless the City Fathers of 1885
 Here as m all similarly situated towns, here are few persons who forever de- ,reciate the resources of our mining properties; these persons assume to ,now all about the value of mines, and till they remain with us, yet discourage ( 'nly themselves by their chronic croak. ( To such persons 1 simply submit, If our t inning properties are worthless, how I re We to account for the ores they [ rOduce being sought for by the reduc- c lon work at Denver, Col, for 1t Is we'll i nown here, that, We have periodic ' isits from the expert-buyers of ores ttached tO the Denver works who have a sen coming here for that purpose the asst two years or more, then if our ores | re sufficiently valuable for shipping s D Denver, 1t would seem 10 confirm b heir worth, and all sufficient evid- b nee of the value of our mineral re- c 1urces that ought to animate our busi- O ess men and real estate owners to such v ction, as shall. with their means and t Spressed views, assisted by legitimate fOrt, that IS imperatively needed to laugurate this most important enter rlse by our incoming county and city a ficials. E.C. E