Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-24
Arizona's Mining
 IS ASSURED Of a Great Future
PRODUCES MORE PER CAPITA FROM MINES THAN ANY
 STATE.
w. A. Parish of Denver, Who Has Made Close Study of Arizona's Min eral Resources, Talks for Publiea- ton.

w. A. Parish of Denver, who is recognized as not only a competent en- gineer, but one of the best mining men in the country, and wno is stoping a; Hotel Adams in Phoenix. was pre- vailed upon to make a few general comments on the subject of mining in Arizona. What he said is of interest both because he is not given to idle talking and because his remarks are most encouraging.
 He was particularly asked about the Vulture district, where he had been sampling properties for the last month He entered into no details but said it was a section marvelously rich in mil- eral, and respecting the Vulture mine, all that he cared to say was that it was great mine, and that the only trouble with it was that it was dis covered twenty years too soon.
 MT. Parish said that he had had Ari- zona under a more or less personal observation for thirty-four years. or since 1870, when he first visited the territory to see the old Planet mill on Bill Williams Fork. It was a great mine then, and the ores from it were freighted to the Colorado river and taken by boat to San Francisco for reduction. Since then he has been here many times, and at one time or another has visited all of the prin- cipal districts. He says that from the Navajo country on the northeast 10 Yuma on the southwest, and also from the northwest to the southeast, nearly every hill and mountin is min eralized to some extent, and he be lieves Arizona will at some no distant day be the greatest mining country in the United States.
 One thing that people who rely on statistics often overlook, in comparing AriZona's mineral output with that of other countries, is the small popula- ton. The territory is the third in the list of copper producing states, and add to the value of her copper pro- duct in money the four or five millions of gold anually produced, and it is not unlikely that Arizona is today pro- ducing more per capita from her mines than any other state.
 And the general conformation of the country suggests it's mineral wealth in another way, even to one who has never been here. It is known of all men that for the most part the prec- ious metals are found in mountainous country, and especially in the great Rocky mountain system. A glance at the map shows one that all of the greater Colorado ranges run generally from northeast to southwest down the Colorado. The Colorado ranges that are the home of the great mineral belt in that country run from north west to southeast toward Arizona, and all the big ranges in Nevada and Utah, between the other states named, are more nearly north and south. but all extending on down into this terri tory. All the large formations of the country that are the home of mineral wealth seem to converge in an area but little wider than the limits of Ari- zona, both east and west The New Mexico boundary line does cut off narrow strip from the eastern side of this mineral wonderland, but eastern New Mexico and western Tex as have little to offer the prospector, and but few mines.
 These remarks, MT. Parish said. were merely general, and of course do not imply that every mineralized hill will pay to work The statements are only made to show how clear it should be to all that it is a mineral country, just the country a man wants to look over for mine.
 But what is needed, said Mir. Parish, is more small mines in operation; plants where the small miner may work his ores and get a profit, and when he is tired let somebody else work them. He says it was the many small enterprises that made Cripple Creek, Leadville and other great camps, rather than the bonanzas that were discovered.
 In conclusion, he said that the busi- ness of mining is fast becoming leglti- mate. Safeguards are thrown around the investment of money, greater care is taken in the investigation of prop critics, and reducing and operating ex- penses have been made so much cheap CT than in former days that he be- lieves there is less money lost today in legitimate mining enterprises than in almost any other line of investment. Arizona Republican.