Arizona republican., 1890-05-21
ARI2ONA'S MINING RESOURCES.

The most important of all the in. dustries, and the great factor on which
 all hope for the future wealth and pros
 perity of this Territory is based, is its extensive mineral fields. Scarcely a
 mountain in the Territory but has it's
 metalliferOus veins of greater or less i'm
 portance, and in some of the outlying 1 foothills are found the richest mines of | the world.
 The mines of Arizona when developed
 will require a vast army of workmen certainly not less than fifty thousand operatives and they must be fed from
 the rich agricultural area within our
 borders, thus giving our farmers the
 best of all markets for their products.
 The development of these mines is of vital necessity to our advancement, and with the opening of the new railroads will be rapidly accompli he'd, When our North and South and East and Vest lines of railroad shall intersect the Territory we shall see history re- peated here as in Colorado. Narrow gauge lines will run up all our principal mountain valleys; concentrating plants will be established on hundreds of prop critics now unavailable from want of cheap transportation; smeIting and re- duction works of immense proportions will be located in our valleys and in the more important mountain towns where facilities for treatment of ores can best be found.
 Parties in the older mining countries see the fultillment of these things in the near future, and mining agents and ex- perts are now pioneering all over Arizo- na engaged in securing the best proper ties to be obtained in order to profit by this advance movement so confidently expected.
 The great gold belts are well known in Arizona. One of these stretches away from the Colorado River in Yuma county northward including Haraua Hala, the Vulture, the rich mining re- zion of the Hassayampa, Castle Creek, Cave Creek, in fact all the mountain parts of Maricopa and Yavapai counties. The other gold belt passes through Go chise county, wherein is situated the rich mines of the Tombstone district. Aside from these, gold is found in quartz and placers throughout the Territory. Silver also abounds plentifully. The great Silver King mine in Pinal county, has produced many millions and the unparalleled richness of it's ores have astonished the mining world. Silver exists in all of our galena and many of our copper ores.
 West of Phoenix, between this city and Harqua Hala, there is belt of heavy, high grade galena, yielding from six to twenty ounces of silver and from twenty to fifty per cent. lead to the ton. These mines must lead to the establish ment of smelting plant on the Buck eye canal in the near future, as they are easy of access from that point.
 In copper, Arizona has immense mines. Clifton and Bisbee kept up their regular shipments of this metal, even during the great depression in its value by the foreign syndicate who at tempted to govern the market of the world in this metal. The copper pro- duct of Arizona is held in higher es- teem than that from any other country, being much harder it is better for all copper alloys and this is what enhances it's value for many purposes. There are rich copper mines in Maricopa and Pima counties and many undeveloped mines of this metal in various parts of the Territory.