Mohave County miner., 1895-07-27
FITZ-MAC.
4 Writer on Arizona Mining Interests.

Onc Oi tuc futet anu Ucst friends me territory mas. Without fee or reward he it is who has done most, barring local newspapers, to advertise and make known to the world the marvellous re. sources through ihe newspapers. His articles, at 6rst published in the Rocky Mountain News At Denver and read by The subscribers p that great newspaper. have been reprinted very extensively in other great Dewsoapers who never he. fore had good word 10 say for us. His last article in the above mentioned pa- per of the l4th instant, fills two columns descriptive of Anzons mines and words Of commendstIon, He personally yis- iIed the principal mines in Pima, PInal and Glla counties, at Jerome, Congress, Harqus Hala, Vul,ure, Bisbee and other
 mining districts Alter describing with the ekiil of an expert the marvellous inines he sag, he declares That with x record of great mlnes, mol second 10 any staie or territory, Ariz jDa has ihe worst mining repur ation ot any section Of the country. WnethsI you goto San Frst :. cisco, Salt Lake, Denver, St. Ljuis or New York, you hear Arizona mines men, toned in mining circles with hands avertlng, as if they were things to be warded of. From all quarters she gets The bad word and the black eye"
 There must be reason for this. There is. l nave discovered i,. IL is ignorance of ,he subject; bllnd, self
 sufficient ignorance of the character of Arizona mines; stupid, conceited. Silliul repudiation of their history and, piiiful to confess, this injurious attitude prevails in Anzons as much AS any. where else 0d every hand you hear it said: Arizona mines? Don't men, ton the D. They ars snsres and dead falls. Dead sea fruit; promising on the surface, nut the mineral do- sn't 70 down." Ignorance, falsebood and rot ! Why should the mines Of ArizOn& he an exception 10 the mines of Sonora on the south, of Southern Cali.ornis on the west. Of Utah and Nevada on the north and of New Mexico on the esst? All ihe-e regions share generally the same geological history as Arizona. Why should this region in the center oi all ne an exception 10 all? Why shonid the mineral not go down just the same az elsex here? IL isn't an exception. The mineral does 70 down, with such ex- captions, and no more, As occur in all mineral countries. To question this is to ignore or repudis,e the history oi and II has had brilliant array of treat mines. lt possesses today in the United Verde the greatest mine in the Chi ed States, If not in the world. In the VuIture, the Vekol, The MeCracken, the Silver kIDg, tiie Oid Dominion, the Congress aud the United Verde, To say no,bIng of lhe great Tombstone prop
 critics, with whose fame the country rang not % many years back. Arizona presents A serIes oi great mines, widely scattered within her borders, winch but few of the western states can match. The mineral, it Is true, does not Ego down ln all of .nese. Nobody put a mining ignor anus would expect it 10. Some of them are not the kind of mines in which lhe mining geologist expects to find the mineral gu dosn. Some of them are not true 6ssuie veins, but great interstratihed deposits, resembling those of Leadville--lhIs is ihe character, 1 believe, of all the great copper prop. critics of ;he territory, the O.d Dominion, lhe United Verde and the Copper Queen. How could anybody but an ignoramus in the geology and operative history of mines venture to ascTibe such a uniformity ol character to mines SO widely separated and appearing in so many different formations, AS to say: The mineral doesn't go down in Ari. zona mines2" Yet this false and ig. norsnt word you hear on every hand. If one reflects, the falseness and foolish. ness of the assertion becomes self evi- dent. It is over 400 miles from the mines of the northwestern corner to those of the south western and the geo
 logical conditions along the line are di. versiied. It IS ignorant nonsense to talk of mines over such an area ss if it were likely or even possible for them to po.sass a uniforoo character of mot