Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-12-07
OUR WONDERFUL
 MINERAL RICHES
Reviewed by Eastern
 Mining Man.
Climatic Conditions Are Most Fla vOrable for Mining Operations
 the Entire Year.

III my ldSb l"LI6E lOuCH6u . pdE1uSls , upon your handsome city, your adja- cent as a minigg present and future, unintentionaIly emitting to publicly express my high appreciation of the cordial greeting extended to me, a stranger, by the business and pIofes- sional gentlemen of your city. Such kindness as has been shown to me and as 1 am sure, is shown to all who come within your portals and they with good and honest intent, fnd a fitting response and as Shakespeare puts it in the following lines:
 "Thou to mankind be good and friend
 Iy still:
 And oft return''-
 Digressing from the question of your valuable mineral deposits for a time let us look into the manner of procedure in giving to the world the actual commercial values of this pro. duct, that must of itself make your future standing. 1 refer to the pros pector or mine locator. Sturdy, hon. est, hard working men they are. But to my mind, as 1 observe by careful observation many of them are follow ing in the footsteps of many of the new mining camps of the country in relocating claims already taken by their associates. In doing this they create two or more evils, viz. retard the workings of the original locators, cause unnecessary expense in proving titles and engendering feeling that makes the work of prospecting one not in keeping with good fellowship.
 Again 1 find many discovery shafts located without any regard as to the economical working of the mines. The single showing of a cropping of miner al or the finding of huge dyke is not sufficient guarantee to the pros pector that then and there is the time and place to sink or drift for the op- ening up of big mine.
 Without presuming to instruct or dictate to these toilers for wealth, 1 would offer the following suggestion: Look well to your mountain, note its trend, the cleavage sides, examine the character of your outcrop carefully for by these indications one often- times may determine the approximate depth to good ores. Nature has done we'll her part and she has left to us the key of her doings.
 Study and thinking are our educa- tors of natures workings. Again, do not try to market your product as producers, self supporting, until you have the material to produce Capital is a great commodity, an es- sential to our existence. Let us in re- turn for capital give full values, then the day of waiting for working our mines is at an end.
 Your climate here has a remarkable tonicky effect on ones'system. During the past thirty days up in the moun- tains 6500 feet above sea level, have made daily observations with the tenn perature. In not one single instance of the day did 1 find the thermometer to fall lower than sixty degrees, or above eighty degrees, while at night it ranges from twenty to forty degrees. This of itself is not only of great val ue to one's perfect health, but it also gives renewed vigor and endurance to those that care to make researches in the hills and valleys of your territory Thus l say, here is the golden oppor- tunity for those that care to go from idleness to labor in search of the pre- cious metals that are stored within the confines of mother rock.
 In future article 1 would, with your permission, like to say a few words concerning indications from stones and mineralized conditions of croppings, and their relation to the different minerals and their values.
 Nickel.