Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-08
RIVALRY IN MINING.

The strike at the Crowned K,nc
 Of lew days ago, so closely follow
 lag that of the Isabella in Colorado
 reVives interest in western mining
 and again stimulates the human ele-
 ment 10 state of intoxication that
 the present generation has not until
 now cherished. From Colorado the
 scenes on the outside attending the
 strike are described as something
 wonderful in the frantic and reck.
 less stampede that is being made to
 Cripple Creek from everywhere iu
 the United States, and as the nature
 ot the bonanza comes face to face
 with the many who view for the first
 time the beautiful rainbow feature
 of mining that experience has never
 before given to them, how the scene
 changes ia Arizona under like con-
 ditions as they prevail today identi-
 callY ID wealth and extent at the
 Crowned King mine. So far as sen
 timent in this section of Arizona
 goes in the striking of s2OO,OOO ore
 in the Crowned King, and the strik-
 ing of the same values in the Isa-
 bella of Colorado, the home propo- sition has a lazy and indolent follow ing in discussion, while on the other hand the foreign concern has a fol-
 lowing in Prescott who grow almost
 hJsterieal in words of admiration.
 We believe the strike of the Crown ed King to be more legitimate of the two, because in the first place it IS a proposition of s business nature that is being practically and zeal ously operated for the benefit of no one aside from the men who are in terested. In the second place the Crowned King is not tied up a net work of stock jobbery or a huctuat- ing market to bull or bear 1t at pleas ure, that the Isabella as we'll as any other stock scheme in Colorado is more or lees cursed with, some how ever with exceptions. There are two pictures nevertheless to be looked at in these two strikes. One is that in Colorado the business element of that state from every chamber of commerce down to every individual mine owner of the poorest type. en- courages in making known the min eral resources of their sections with a degree of persistency that today ID influence and the investment of outside money Colorado has tbe lrst call on. In Arizona, and par the section in or around Prescott, that IS recognized justly as the core of gold mining, a sleepy md aPatbetic disposition prevails 'Ver the knowledge thst ip mining nd ID that industry alone hes the .uture life of the community. What las often been said in private will bear repetition in public. that if here are no mines in Ysvapai there s nothing. The stock interests are 'f the past; the farmer can barely | iuccor himself; the importation of l is the rule; We draw 10 revenues from manufacturing be- 'ause not wheel is turned; the tim per domain is for the few instead of 1 he many; the reclamation of the Irid land by water storage is yet in he hands of Providence, and so on | wen to the absence of 6 military 1 post with fat government contracts, IT a territorial pie counter instItu- ion of any kind. We believe the uture consideration of the mining interests of Yavapai county should ,e generously and imPsrtially con- and that such propositions IS cigar box mining exchanges must 'e put on the shelf and the method 'f such places as Colorado grasped t and made known. We have the in short We live in a yer table mselstrom of mineral, and vhy slumber any longer. The rich s of the Crowned King verify that which has been often Prophecied md the entire county will support he belief of others if the commun- ty will move as one and give the outside an opportunity to know it.