Arizona republican., 1899-05-24
MINES OF THE NORTH
(ContInued From First Tage.)

atoot the man is tc the fore who wants
 to bond a mine for say s25,000 without
 Eftlucing a cent, and who, if success
 ful, Immediately hawks it around for
 $l75. .000 He is in evidence in other
 E7ays which are not calculated 10 de
 any good to the territory, but are not
 likely 10 do 1t much harm, as in these Gays capitalists who are not mining men themselves take care to be pretty
 well advised, and one thing is certain that even the most cautious investor if inclined to make venture in Ari- zona can satisfy himself from the bona fide developments in progress in all parts of the territory that the mineral he wants is here in immense Quanti- tieS-enough for everybody, in fact. This is the main thing and the after part of the business is, of course, en- tirely his own.
 TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
 Before. leaving Prescott-the county seat, containing a population Of about $500 and prettily located in the valley of Granite creek at an altitude of 5000 feet-it may be stated that for some what sparsely settled section of west erp country Yavapai enjoys excellent transportation facilities
 The Santa Fe Prescott 6 Phoenix railroad extends from Ash Fork with in a mile of the northern boundary line of the ccunty to the southern line near Wickenburg, distance of about 40 miles, thence to Phoenix, it's total length being 197 miles. A branch of this road, known as the Prescott & Eastern, running from Prescott 10 Mayer, a distance of twenty-eigbt miles, gives access to the Big Bug. Chaparral and Agua F'ria mining dis tTictS, while just south of Mayec are the Rumble Bee and Black Canyon districts and to the southeast the Squaw Peak. Its construction also makes a saving of twenty-eight miles in wagon freightage from the mines cf the Bradshaw country.
 The United Verde and Pacific, twen- ty-five miles in length, extends from Jerome Junction, eighteen miles north of Prescott, to Jerome. The Congress Gold company has a line from Con- gross Juncticn on the s. F. p. 6 r. road to it's mining camp at Congress, ! and stage lines run to every part ot the county not reached by railroad 1 connection.
 And before tackling weigntier mat l ters l cannot help making one more effort to disabuse the minds Of those l good people who regard Arizona (chief1y I believe from impressions made by stories of the Arizona Kicker" type) as the widest and wool ] Hest part of the wild and woClly west. Let such misguided nortals be wholly i reassured that Tombstone Bill, Al i kali Ike" and "A-izona Charley are ] as dead as mutton.
 Phoenix, with it's ten church organi- 1! ZatiOns and high-cIass schools, is in l all essentials an American city of the : best type, and Prescott, with it's six i churches and admirable educational i facilities is, if anything. rather more ! American than Phoenix-the Mexican ! element being infnitesimal.
 A Chicago visitor told me only yes l terday that after spending a winter in { Phoenix and the neighborhocd the sort of questions that were asked o1 | his return concerning the territory ! made him downright angry, and a Chi ] cagO mau who indulges in gratuitous ] anger cn purely hypothetical grounds ] and when nobody is trying tC gOuge ] him is refreshing experience.
 Our eastern friends may be assured that a man with civil tongue in his head is as safe in Arizona and perhaps i SdIef- than ne would be In his bedroom in New York, and certainly in less danger than the little boy Chauncey Oepew says he met in graveyard Up in the Catsl1il.s eating green apples md singing Nearer My God to Thee.
 By the way, my Chicago friend In- -roduced me tC a recent arrival from southern California in whom the milk If human kindness has peradvensure been dried up by a two years drought md who broke in upon 2 peaceful dis 5ussion Of climatic conditions with a 'avagely expressed assertion that If America was an elephant California would be the tail" Without any de- sire to make inviduous comparisons he remark may be permitted that with all the charges brought against he territory nobody has said anything ike this about Arizona.
 Tomorrow l start fer the Big Bug md Rumble Bee mining districts and lope to have something interesting to 2y about the Big Buggers and Rumble Bees in my next.
 R. J. H. FRY. rRWEDE -.,-