Arizona republican., 1894-10-10
COL. FITCH'S RETURN.
He DiscourseS on Mines and
 Politics.
How Loan Commission Expendi-
 An instance of Party Loyalty

Col. and Mrs. Fitch returned yester- day from period of several week s roughing It on the Santa Maria. Con. corning their isolation the colonel said to a REPUBLICAN reporter:
 II have been camped for five wee ks on an island in the Santa Maria river far from the madding crowd, fifty five miles from the railroad, and as far from postofice. For five weeks have not seen & newspaper and the 'doings" of the world since September 3 last. are unknown to me. I have combined business with pleasure. Mrs. Fitcth and 1 have been taking our outing and watching the blasts on the mines at the same time.
 "Tha mines, whose prospecting I have been uperintending, are in a box canyon on the Santa Maria river in Yavapai county, about thirty miles north and west of the Congress mine. The ledge is several hundred feet above the river bed, and dips into the noun tain at an angle of about 45 degrees. We sunk an incline i'll the center about fifty feet and found about twelve feet of ore that averages over $20 per ton in
 
 the ledge for hundred feet in length. It is seven feet wide all the way. The upper ledge is four feet wide, goes from s6 10 $15, and averages $8, and the lower ledge runs from $50 to $7O, and averages $40, all in gold. The ore is not free milling; if it were we would have no use for capitalists, but could arrastra enough gold to open the mine and build reduction works. AS it is, the mine will require considerable capi- sal for Its development. A tramway will have to ba built mile and half to the mouth of the canyon, and stamp mill and concentrators provided. There Is water enough in the river at all times for all milling and other pur- poses, and dam and Hume or pipes could be put in that would furnish a water power.
 "Well, colonel. the political issue has been made in your absence. What do you think of it?"
 "I know nothing about the loan were not as economical as they might have been in their travelling expenses. Mr. Christy could have made his bill less by eating chuck steak instead of tenderloin and maybe Oakes Murphy could have saved the territory some- thing by travelling second class. But thls campaign is not to be fought upon such trivial issues. The burning ques- tion in Arizona is whether her voters will start the coming state on the right track and join the great Republican re- viyal, or whether they will elect to be left behind with only the solid south and defeated Tammany for company.
 'Oakes Murphy is an ideal candi- date. He is the incarnation of tact, perseverance and good temper. He deserves much from Arizona. He should be elected by rousing major ity.
 'My friend and law partner Jo Campbell-God bless his generous and manly heart-has been beguiIed 1t seems into accepting the Democratic 1 nomination for councilman. Doubtless it was the chivalric impulse, the senti- ment of loyalty to losing cause, the hereditary devotion of the clan Camp bell that moved him to this deed l There is nothing in the world I would ! not do for Jo, except to vote for him.
 twill 1 enter the canvass? I don't | know. have never been able to keep p1t If Eha fiyht vat ,,