The herald., 1896-12-29
: ARIZONA NEWS
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Tie Phoenix correspondent of the Los
Angeles Times shows surprising lack
of knowledge OF the mining resources
of this territory in the course of an ar
ticle in Sundays Times on the subject
of Arizona's future. This is what he
says about mining here:
THE whole future Of Arizona lies in
irrigation. Mines come and GO. They
dazzle for day or year, or maybe ten
years, and then they peter out, or the
metal goes down in price, and they are
abandoned. The richest mines, so far as
surface indications go, have already been
found and worked out. or are being de-
pleted. The future of Arizona does not
lie in the direction of mining. Twenty
years from now will not show any more
mining than is being done today"
We doubt not that 80 out of 100 men in
terested in Arizona will take issue with
the above declaration. The facts are
directly antagonistic to it. What about
the United Verde mine? What about the
Congress gold mine? What about Chs
Old Dominion? What about a dozen
others that are producing more minera
now than ever before in their history
The two first mentioned properties have
limtless bodies of ore The Old Do
minion has been paying proposition
for years: and those interested in it say
its possibilities from dividend-paying g
tsandpoirt are wonderful Every few
days we hear of some rich strike being
made. The Black Warrior mine in the
Globe district is now In process of de-
velopment, with every prospect of profit
able returns. The Los Angeles Times
man evidently had some of the aban-
doned silver mines in mind when he
wrote that remarkable paragraph. AZ
a matter of fact, mining in Arizona is but
in its infancy. The annual output Of
gold from our mines already is enor-
nous. In the next two or three years
the world will look with astonishment
upon the figures relating to Arizona's s
mineral wealth. The Los Angeles Times
man has made a deplorable mistake
Arizona Republican
Senator White Of the committee on
territories, says: "Arizonas mineral
resources need no further demonstra-
ton than the product of the mines during
the last ten years. Every mining man
knows that Arizona is one of the greatest
mining regions in the United States. 1t
contains large deposits of both silver and
gold, and it is especially rich in copper
In respect of minerals it lacks only in
COAL but there is a good deposit of coal
in the San Carlos Indian reservation
which undoubtedly will soon be brought
into use. During the current year the
product Of Arizona's mines will estab-
lish the reputation of the territory as a
gold producer if any more of that char
acter is required"
A correspondent from Benson says
that Thursday morning a head end col
lision occurred at Dragon Summit and
three locomotives and a number OF
freight cars were wrecked Engineer
Charles Smith was slightly hurt A man
named e. ]. Emanuel from San Fran
cisco, who was supposed to have beer
riding on the tender of one Of the loco
motives, was found thrown outside OF
the telegraph poles, so severely injured
that he died at Benson, where he was
taken Thursday evening" His relatives
were informed and they wired to have
the remains forwarded to San Francisco
which was done.
Superintendent of Public instruction
7. E. Dalton is at work on his report
to the governor. He states that the tota
amount Of school expenses in the terri
tory for the year ending June 80, 1896, is
about $4,000 that the valuation OF
property will be about $500, 900; that there
are 334 school teachers and that there
are 1896 children of school age in the
territory. The number enrolled in tn,
public schools in the past year was r.
SS9.-Tombstone Prospector.