Arizona republican., 1900-07-06

and try their fortune. The widest esti-
 mates of the gold that will be taken out of Nome this season does not place it at as much as $10,000 GOO; and what is
 that? To get that amount of gold per
 haps as many as z5,C0O people have been scratching and digging all season. The , wealth is shipped al one time or with in a short period, and seems to repre-
 sent all the money the people of this
 earth need wish for. Now. estimate
 the amount of money taken from the
 United Verde mine in a year and com
 pare the two. 4 fair estimate of the
 copper taken out and shipper in a year
 is 60.000,000 pounds from this one mine.
 Suppose this vast amount of wealth
 was saved for a year and sent to
 market at one time, what a sight it
 would be. Calculating on a car holding
 40,000 pounds, it would take 1,500 cars
 to hold the product of a year. Il all
 this copper was hauled away at the
 same time traffic would be suspended
 until it reached its destination. A string of ten cars and an engine will
 measure about 45O feet long, and 1t
 would require 150 such trains to start
 the metal on its way after it was trans ferred to broad guage cars at Jerome
 Junction. The length of these trains would be 67 ,500 feet, or 12 69-SS miles if
 the trains were to run right behind
 each other as close as they could run. Allowing for the usual distance of half a mile between each train and the one following, it would string out 7412 miles
 further. People would go for miles to
 see that great string of trains, and it
 would be so great an advertisement the rush to Jerome would outrival that to
 Nome. The value of all this copper at
 16 cents a pound is $9,00O,000. The l amount of gold and silver contained in that amount of copper could only be told exactly by a very few people in the United States. and those few would
 not tell, were they here; but occasion ally such things leak out in some un-
 known manner. 4 fair estimate of the | value in these two metals would be s. | GeO,OOo. That brings the total up to
 $l4 GOO. Nome is then outdone by this
 one mine. To produce all this metal
 some 1,2O0 men are employed, against
 the 2o,OOO engaged in Nome getting
 out less money. Stay at home, boys,
 and help develop your own country,
 and you will come out all right if you
 are diligent and save your money.
 Well, the day of days has arrived and | the town is turned over to the people. | The special train arrived from Pres | colt on time and the parade has | reached town. A good delegation is 1 over from our neighboring town, and : all of them will have a good time. The | oration and reading of the declaration
 of independence is now going on. after | which the sports will begin and con | tinue all day and most of the night. As | the mail leaves too early to get in a ! full description of the celebration I | will postpone it until tomorrow
 i E. D. TreadwelI returned from his | business Tuesday morning.
 i Mrs. Jake Marks and daughter ar | rived from Prescott yesterday and will remain until tomorrow.
 | Dee Scott began his Fourth this morning with hot runaway down the l hill from the shelter. The mare he | drives delivering soda water took a
 noticn she did not care~ today,