Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-12-27
A SLANn4R ON An1zoN,

census, was 59,620, but it is douht
 lui If lt ls anything like that to- day.
 the nam industry of the territory
 the mining of silver having been given black eye by the recept
 Legislation of Congress. Two thinis
 ot this population is made up of
 Indians and iuwar order of Nexi-
 cans, who have no permanent in-
 terests in the territory, and would
 be much better oh under a terri
 touat form of government. There
 ls no reason Co expect an incease
 oi population. or much develM.
 mont of the resonrc, s of tho terr,.
 tory, fer many years to come. Tho
 major part of 1t is a desert. and
 must remain desert 50 long as inc
 vast possessions of the United
 States are uncrowled: for there is
 no practicable system by which it
 can be improved until the necessities l oi the teemlng millions fenilize
 American ingenuity aud produce
 some cheap plans by which it can
 Do developed; or, to put it moro
 clearly, it would be as easy and
 mone intelligible to undertake the ! reclamation of the Sahara Desert ! as Co undertake the reclamation
 Of the greater part of Arizona.
 tts magnificent expanse of terri.
 tory IS, therefore. more a matter of interest. to tourists who can spand
 thelr money and time in travelling
 over its arid mezas and viewing its
 picturesque slerritas than from the
 standpoint of political economy as
 now understood. Its gold and
 silver deposits are for the most part useless, because the formations are eccentric, and the localities u here there are to be found unsupplied Wlth tho means for workins. ors.
 Inc most valuable resource of the 1 terntory IS probably its copper mines, but these are subsidiary to ! the Lake Superior product. ana can 1 be- h they are not now ruled uut of l the market by ordinary conn, ,tiou ! in the production of copper. The ! agricultural resources. of which ] much will probably be said during the discussion of Congres. are mainly a myth. They exist oulv in the imagiuations of the few enter.
 prising inhabitants of the territory.
 Arizona Is practically wit bout water, and agriculture is imp, ,sible without a hountiful supply og chat element. Ono or two streams are dlgnlled with the name of river. but even these get embarrasss d for lack ot companionship, and rink under ground for thirty or I1rty miles at time. They woniu moi be called branches or creeks any where else. and it is only within a haul mile of their banks that any thing can be produced The larger part oi the wealth of the territory is invested m supplies for the mining camps of X izona and the neighbor- ing Mexican states, and with the tecadence of silver mining. this wealth will be gradually transferred elsewhere Ifadmitted to the [ aion. , Arizona will be a typical rotten bor- 1ugh, a political prize which may urn to ashes m the hands uf the , Democratic party, for the only ] excuse for such a proceed ng IS the prospective two senators. md upon the reorganization of the $ erntory the senators may be Re publican. a
 The above Is taken from the Bal I imore American of December l6. fl nd for gross misrepreseuta ion, C 7lllful, malicious lying, or for double 2 istilled concentrated ignorauc-. of ~ he subject treited of, we have
 ever seen its equal in print. We re at a loss to tell whet her theman t' -ho Penned it is trying to take a " remium as boss liar, one who can a, ot even be approached in the at. or t1 neither he writes in the above n, rain purely from. ignorance of Ari- th )na and its resources. We are m laritable enough to believe that it " the latter, and that the author of m .e article Is some fossilized Rip in an Wrinkle who has never been th ltside of the confines of the place Ve which he was born. Whose men z ] faculties are as narrow and con a,- acted m their conception oi the wi 2 world, which lies outsideoT. and in,
 around the little world in which we has lived, as his own experience wa s been. He has read of a great ,'t asl nerican desert in the days of his bv olesence and now in his seuilitv gir locates 1t in Arizona. If he will in le the pains to inform himself i'm
 'ard Co Arizona and it's resources.
 will discover that the main indus of the territory Is not silverunn- ~, 1, but that gold and copper are tba
 principal mineral products of Thi territory al present, and that in- sur ad of having received black eye pie re never was such activity as at the sent. lrn r Ie would discover that the In- the ms are not included in the census cer, population and that Mexicans plac n very small per centage of the aoo 'ulatiou. oia' Iewould discover that the arid "s "SS l, as, (not mezasl as he calls it. We. e hundreds of niles of canals
 ditches on them, causing such a , Tth of all kinds of vegetation as ou u sleepy, slow going Marylauder The never crossed the boundary line old ! is own state, never dreamed of alws Q would find that oranges and y )ns and all other kinds of semi thor ical fruits grew here in perfec- l,i''O, and are in the market from one r,,It; tn to six weeks earlier than from ont , other part of the United States.
 } would find a similar condition
 fairs in regard to deoiduous Me s also. flVer nile he would find that water is gene selle. e at some seasons of the year. ,,,,' ..,,,a, )uld find that the annual pre- ltion was abundant and that callet ., Lu .l-. -