Arizona republican., 1895-07-23
FIIZ-MAC.
A Writer on Arizona Mining Interests.
He Utterly Explodes the Assertion That the Mines Do
 Not Go Down.

to all Arizonians, for it is the name of one of the truest and, best friends the territory has. Without fee or reward he it is who has done most. barring local newspapers, to advertise and make known to the world the marvel ous resources through the newspapers. His articles, at first pu blished in the Rocky Mountain News at Denver and read by the subscribers to that great newspaper, have baen reprinted very extensively in other great newspapers who never before had a good word to say for us. His last article in the above mentioned paper of the 14th instant, fills two columns descriptive of Arizona mines and words of commendation. He personally visited the principal mines in Pima, Pinal and Gila counties, at Jerome, Congress- Harqua Hala, Vul- ture, Bisbee and other mining districts. After describing with the skill of an ex. pert the marvellous mines he saw, he declares that with 8 record of great mines, not second to any state or terri tory, Arizona has the worst mining reputation of any section of the coun. try. Whether you go to San Francisco, Salt Lake, Denver, St. Louis or New York, you hear Arizona mines men, tioned in mining circles with hands averting, 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. I have discovered 1t, It is ignorance of the subject; 8 blind, self sufficient ignorance of the character of Arizona mines; stupid conceited, willful repudiation of their history; and. pitiful to confess, this injurious at- titude prevails in Arizona as much as hear it said: Arizona mines? Don't mention them. They are snares and deadfalls. Dead Sea fruit; promising on the surface. but the mineral doesn't go down." Ignorance, falsehood and rotl Why should the mines of Arizona bs an exception to the mines of Sonora on the south, of Southern California on the west, of Utah and Nevada on the north and of New Mexico on the east ? All these regions share generally the same geological history as Arizona
 Why should this region in the center of all be an exception to all? Why should the mineral not go down just the same AS elsewhere? It isn't an exception. The mineral does go down, with such exceptions, and no more, as occur in all mineral countries. To question this is to ignore or repudiate the history of every great mine the territory has had, and It has had brilliant array of great mines. It possesses today in the United Verde the greatest mine in the United States, if not in the world. In the Vulture, the Vekol, the McCracken, the Silver King, the Old Dominion, the Congress and the United Verde, to say nothing of the great Tombstone proper ties, with whose fame the country rang not so many years back, Arizona pre- sents series of great mines, widely scattered within her borders, which but few of the western states can match. The mineral, it is true, does not Ego down" in all of these. Nobody but 8 mining ignoramus would expect it to Some of them are not the kind of mines in which the mining geologist expects to find the mineral go down. Some of them are not true Assure veins, but great interstratified deposits, re-
 sembling those of Leadville-his is the character, I believe, of all the great copper properties of the territory, the Old Dominion, the United Verde and the Copper Queen. How could any body but an ignoramus in the geology and operative history of mines venture to ascribe such uniformity of charac- ter to mines 50 widely separated and appearing in So many different forma. tions, as to say: "The mineral doesn't go down in Arizona mines ?" Yet this false and ignorant word you hear on every hand. If one reflects, the false
 ness and foolishness of the assertion be. comes self evident. It is oyer 400 miles from the mines of the northwestern corner to those of the southwestern and the geological conditions along the line are diversified. It is ignorant nonsense