Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-05-18
THE MING REVIVAL.

The excitement that spreads so quick
 ly upon mere reports of the discovery of
 new mining districts on the Pacific is
 merely indicative of the strong forward
 tendency of the mining industry. So
 many collateral activities respond to
 mining prosperity and are impinged up
 on it that is foremost among the con-
 cerns of all classes of business men.
 The Annual Mining Review shows a
 great increase last year in the value of
 the mining output of this coast. In 1879
 the gold, silver, lead and base bullion,
 copper, coal and quicksilver mined in
 the Pacific region amounted to SS7 ,2S0,-
 GOO. In 1888 the value had risen to
 s135, 5,35O,O00. This increase of s48,070,-
 900 in nine years was mostly referable to
 the gain in gold and silver production.
 Of these two metals 77,6O0,OO0 were
 produced in 1879 and s1O2, ,750yOO0 in
 1888.
 In that period the element of duck" in mining almost entirely disappeared, and the business was brought down to the same basis of certainty as any other successful commercial operation. AS a result of the increase the foundry and machinery trades were stimulated, quicksilver properties gained in value, the powder manufacture was prosperous and there was sn increase in the labor gainfully employed in the mines. Of course the profit that came in all of these lines was felt throughout the en- tire business community, and was re- fected in real estate values and in the use of mining profits to erect business and residence property in our cities. which gave employment to the building trades, caused demand for structural iron and extended the lumber interest and advanced the value of timber lands Eastern investment has been moved to look this way, and there is inquiry from that section and from abroad for good mining properties.
 Some of these investments are note | worthy. Secretary of State Blaine in- vested in a mine that promised reason able dividends by economic manage ment, and has already received just $500 for each dollar of his investment. The element of luck had nothing to do with | it. It was simply business investment | in good property, well managed The worlds coinage of gold and silver last | year was s192, 100000; and our Pacific | coast mines alone furnished within s90,- 100000 of the whole amount. This state ment is a graphic presentation of their and it accounts for the growing attention they are attracting in Ill the centers of investment.
 We talk so fondly of "the days of 49" that many suppose those were the most days ever seen. But the fact is that our total product of precious metals in 1S49w only s23,0O0OO0. The highest product of one year up to 1888 was in 1876, when the value reached S101, 100000, and this was exceeded last year by more than million, so that the lays of '49 were small nuggets after all.
 The progress now making in methods of mining and reduction of ores is so ,apid that it implies the working of ne- elected lodges of low-grade or rebellious ores at larger profit than was possible ! few years ago in the richest free-mill- ng rock.
 THE resources of chemical and me- ;hanical science are being brought to ,ear so rapidly and effectively upon mining problems that this industry will 'oon seem to be in its infancy. If the present. normal increase is maintained, within ten years we will produce almost 00,OO0,OOO annually of silver and gold Hone.
 We say normal rate of increase, be- ,ause in the estimate we consider only he utilization of the present known mining field, without considering the lnknow fields which probably lie in Ari- ona and New Mexico, Alaska and east rn Oregon. Prospecting in these reg ons will naturally increase, and their low unknown metallic capacities may 4dd greatly to the sum total of values to 'e developed by mining for the precious netals.-Alta-C Californian.