Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-12-29
ARIZONA's MINERAL AND HER
 OUTPUT


 T. Day of the Unitsd Ge,ioRicuhfur- vey, the CITIZEN has been favored with 8 copy of the mineral resources of tbe United States. From the general bear tgined therein, it is evidently one of the most valuable works of the kind ub- lished by the government. That DOT ton relating to the mineral output of this territory IS especially interesting to the friends of Arizona. Although some of the comparisons snd tabular sts'e- ments are not so favorable to this DOT ton of the country as desired, still we are far from being ashamed of the showing.
 For the year ending 1886, Arizona stood 7th in the rank of gold producing states and territories, 9th smong the silver producers snd 7th ID the total val nation rank. In 1887 she stood Sih ou the list of gold producers. 5.h ss silver producer, with total of 7th.
 h 1881 the yield in gold WAS Sl co., coo, silver S7, 300 GOO. In 1882 gold ST. g65,OOO, silver 1,7OO,O0O. In 1883. gold 95G.G0O. silver S52OOOOO; 1884. gold Sg30,00O, silver s4 5OO.OOO, 1885. gold sS80.GO0. silver 8 500 900; 1886. gold S-II0,O0G, silver S3 4UO.000; 1887, gold S8309U0, silver S3,S00.O00.
 The yeild in pounds copper for 1882 wss r 9S4.4l5; 1883 2S ,s74.963: 1884, 26 134, ,345; 1885. 9, 7O6.36G; 1886, 15,657,- O35; 1887, I7,720.462. As copper pre- ducers Michigan and Montana alone ousrank Arizona.
 The output of lead is somewhat sum = marily disposed of ss follows: What little lead ore is mined in Arizona goes chiefly to smelteFs outside of the terri'c- ". Some interest hss been attaiched to -umors of large bodies of lead ore ID the Cataract Greek district, which have been examined with view of providing rail road facilities"
 Anon minerals given ss mined in the territory arg sulphate of lead. sntimo- nisl lead, silver glance, Grsenical pyrites' chloriie Of copper, blue carbonate Of copper-often called bromide of silver sulphide of copper and iron, su.Phide Of autimouy and iror, bismuth ores' varis- gated copper ores, manganese otes' chloride of silver. carbonate ot lead, blces one, copper glance, copper pyrltes' silicste of copper, copper oxide, emerald copper. native copper, dolomite, arsenl- cal lead, antimoDlde of silver, chioro- bromide of silver. fiourspar, antImonlal suIphide of silver, Cslens. garnet rock, gold, graphite, iron ore. Ignite ocher' green corbonates of copper, black oxide ofcopper, porphry. light and dark ruby silver. pyrites, binoxide of manganese, magnetic pyrites, quartz. brown sPar' siIyer, blende, brittle silver, talc, soap stone, teIlurium, gray copper, turquois lead spar and sulphide of sniimony Of lead.
 Those found in the territory and not mined are given Rs GlabRster, alum. sul- phate of alumins, sulphste of lead, an hyd-ous gypsum. abestus. ssphltum' brass ore, heavy spar, brown spar, sill cate of zinc, carbonate of lime, impure eulphates of lesi. sutimony oohre, blue vItroI, ciunsbar, green vitrol, oxide ot manganese and copper, chromste of lesd' vsnsdate of lead, msgresisn limestone, garnet, epson salt, fire clay, h0urspar' suIphate of s ds ard lIme. gypsum, com mon salt, black and gray manganese coal, iron ore, carbonate of mBgnesis, magnetic iron ore, manganese ore, glsu' Der salt. sulphide of mRly bdenum' mlcar opal, snbsesquichchromsti of lead' plaii' nun, phosphate of lead, carbonate oi zinc, suIphide of antimony. talc' tellu- ride of bismuth. verde salt, chromAte o' lead and copper anbydrous sillcate o' zinc. msly bdate of lead, etc, etc.
 Now while We don't pretend to know what one-qusrter of these things mean still there are enough in plain Engllst to convince almost any one of the gres wealth of the territorysn minernlsialone s In the number md variety ot its mlne- rsls it exceeds any other state or tern tory in the Union, not even e1cep'in' California and Colorado.