Mohave County miner., 1904-04-02
"A Strong Man."

B. Frank Hall, vice. president of the Golden Gem Mining company, came in from the mines yesterday. He reports that sinking is in progress and that the vein has wideIed to ten feet and that the ore is gaining in value with every foot of depth. He believes his com pany has in the Gem one of the big gold mines of the territory. When asked by our reporter who seemed to be the strongest man in the democrat ic party for president, he said: "From what l could learn the democrats have not settled upon any man, as yet, and while nun Der of candidates are men. toned, there seems to be a strong and growing sentiment in favor of General Miles. prominent New York demo crat stated that he considered him the strongest man that could be nominated, giving the following reasons: First, There are several hundred thousand old soldiers still living; they have sons and daughters and they in common have children who are now voters practically three generation of voters. which, taken in the aggregate, nun Der more than one million votes. Second. From the fact of his having captured Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and Geron- imo, they believe he would be the strongest man in the vest quite en, dorse this part of his statement, hay ing lived many years in Arizona my self and, looking back to the years of 1878 to 1886. when the Indians were almost constantly on the war pat h and life and property was nowhere safe in the territory, when today one is as safe here, or safer, than in the cities of Chi cago or New York, as far as life and property is concerned, and when one realizes that this was brought about by the capture of Geronimo and his band and that General Miles did it, one eau readily believe the Generals nomination would be strong in the west, as what he did in Arizona was simply d duplicate of what he had ac- compli, he'd in the great northwest. I had the pleasure once of being one of the Generals party on tour of in. spection of military posts and for,i- fcations, our itinerary taking in the west, noithwest and southwest. From the time we reached Omaha going west until we reached New Orleans on our The people who came to the train 10 see him seemed to feel they owed to him the security of their lives and property, aS almost the entire territory over which we travelled was once in- habi'ed by murdero ous Indians. Look. ing back on this journey and remem. boring the many atrocities committed by the Apaches within the confines of our own territory before they were captured by Miles, and remem bering too, that while chasing the Indians he looked beyond their sim pie subjuga. tion. regarding it as only the beginning of a great future for this western DOT. ton of these United States. In 1892 he wrote his famous article, which was published in the North American Re- view, and was, 1 believe, the first ex. haustive production in print on irri- gation. Representative Frank New lands, in his address on irrigation in Congress, ten years later, quoted this article in full and it appeared embod- jed in his speech. This article of the Generals proves him statesman, as we'll as soldier and, cons sidering all he has done for the west. believe my friend was right-Mles would make a strong man."