Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-12-11
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
s,TTRpAY. DECEMBEh Il. 1886.
r.rpr now erists Q splendid oppOr-

TvrKE now exists a splendid oppor-
 .u,;tv for our people to accomplish 8
 -, amount of pubic good if they
 .L,,se to so about it in the proper
 ,,sr and spirit. In conversation
 -, -ssiients of several of the larger
 ...,srB cities that have tsrried for B
 s.r ;n our city. We learn of considera-
 sI. ,r5uIry concerning the safety and
 s3r,ssbillty et Arizona investments.
 ,,sI proper and conservative state
 .,tr' the sctusl condition of local
 .,,tsrs and opportunities can be placed
 h.,,,e thsm, there gre plenty of capital
 :.,, ready to invest. One of the best
 ..,bo5s cf disseminating this knowl-
 .,,a. lies ID our treatment of representa-
 .,rs men who are looking for invest
 -s,t. thst upon their return home
 .,,I re?orts msy be spread among
 'ss;- friends and 8n interest
 .vskepsd concerning our territory. A
 ,,,,v n, eastern gentlemen representing
 ,s-,a c,yi.slisis were recently in Tue
 .,, fo- tbs purpose Of examining certain
 mining properties. aud if their opinion
 o,oB- people. expressed before Their de-
 7,r.rrs. be a correct diagnosis of the
 community, the sooner the whole
 rrsbJo IS dynamited out of exis-
 tsn,e .hs better it will be for the terri
 ,or. They came expressly to examine
 seertaiu group of mines but before they
 r,1!s get started by team to visit the o-o,srtles they heard from a dozen
 d,-F-reDt persons thst the mines were
 a, no acc unt and that they we were
 being imposed upon. A each of the sslf-,ppoiated gasriians Of everybody's
 private business had mine or group
 of mines of his own to sell, and they
 were the o-ly genuine mines in the ter ritory. fact atte>ted by having the name blown ID the bottle, the eastern gentlemen were somewhat suspicious of them snd began to believe they hsd tsllen into cen of thieves. They concluded. however, tO complete their erraua and they made @ thorough in- spect,on If the properties, with the re- Illt tla. they VII drop about tEo hun drsd thousand dollars sinong the Pima county people few weeks hence, not E,ihs.Buiiug they say the people are all set of thieves and blsckmailers. This is not an isolated case, for 1t is only 8 rspet..i D of what has occurred often heretofore and Is likely to trsnspire any day ID the future unless some well direct ei epidemic sha ! sweep across the coun- i,y and r-sp down only those who are ripe vith sin und leprcus with corrup- lion. They do not stop to consider that the sale O, one group enhances that much the value of the whole inning interests and makes other sales easler, and neither do .hsy seem to comprehend that he eastern capitalists are not all stuck .rs 10 be taken iu by wildcat specula- n. By misrepresenting the value Of asrits Of one piece of property the whole 15-rs with 1t, ans eventually capitalists Flll shun a country that its own people ay is good for nothing. This practice hould be stopped Rt once. If your leIghbOr sells his mine to-day for good, [ 'ouut sum, yours Is worth the more and 1 .O-morIov Is likely to bring you i purchaser from the advertise ! msnt the first sale has given 1t. I Let our people frown down and stamp out this species of piTRtical | and when a stranger ~Ith all eye tO business comes amongst | 1s- lst us extend to him every courtesy | and every facility tO examine the pro oerty Of any one be chooses, and If we I don | know anything good of the merits | Of the property, let our lips be sealed, | for il can be good without the fact be | lng known to everybody, If our people | could only york together for the con- non good, and lay candid and hOnes; Istenrnt of our wonderful resources | before the people of the large cities of i The east. e would not lack men of means to de7el0p grand enterprises that are Row la the death stupOr from the venom o' naEcotlsm ot our own senillty.