Arizona republican., 1902-11-23
BOWLING GREEN, KY, March 24, 1902.

of wagon transportation of ores out of here to a smelter and reduction works in Phoenix and of supplies in here, would create a side enterprise of no small scale. Freight outfits of men and beasts to supply cannot be excelled as means oi drawing out and keeping in circulation large amounts of money. ] Merchants of the city and ranchers. of the valley would be the special benefi- ciaries; many of these with contrac- oTs big and small would get rich and their wealth become a basis of solid | general prosperity.
 All of us concerned in these new dis covCTies and effected thereby endeav- ored to shut out the improvident who could do no more with the richest ! claims than sell for a few dollars: for
 when these new discoveries pass from
 us we want them to go into control of operators who can make the most of them for the general good oi us and the country at large
 During the eighties the prospecting | done here seldom deserved the name.
 It was done too often by incompetent
 men who had to make the most of a
 grubstake and quit if they did not hit something fabulously rich. The dis trict suffered also from i'll advised op- | erations of ardent but inexperienced
 men who established with inadeuuate capital and skill small plants on mill
 sites whose water supply failed in the | drought of the ninetieg. There fol- | lowed other results of incompeteucy.
 The relation between fuel and ether | necessary expenses and the capacity of ! plant; values of refractory ores run | ming off into the tailings: lots of lIn-
 forecasted conditions popped up to teach | whole families of us that to run a mine | and mill successfully required an ex- | ecutive ability which would insure sue
 cess in any mercantile or manufactur | Ing enterprise. There were men here
 who, though skilled in certain mining
 specialties, soon developed in their op-
 erations the fact that they had not the i faculty of taking a general and com { prehensive view of all the details of ; their business. Too late we all learned that small plant ought not to be | considered in a locality where water
 and fuel supply is limited or uncertain
 If a big smelter at some accessible rail-
 way point can be reached. But in our
 estimation the hardest kibosh that
 ever hit us calne two years ago when l | putting q premium on misrepresenta-
 tion; Of applying rascally horse-trading
 ethics to the sale Of our mining prop
 critics, and of punishing such consci-
 entious public officials as Governor
 Murphy for the efforts he made to pro- tect our best friends, the capitalists,
 from frauds. and that, too, at a time
 when our mining propositions could
 stand the most rigid expert examina-
 tion.
 It is therefore no wonder that when
 we sent agents east to solicit the aid
 of capital in behalf of any private. | corporate or public enterprise, they
 were coldly received. denied or em-
 phatically repulsed, and no wonder that
 the interior department proposes to in-
 corporate nine-tenths of our areainto an
 unproductive forest reservation. How
 often in shady hooks of Phoenix plazas ! do we hear the peevish question put: | Why don't the people of the Sierra