Williams news., 1904-07-16
ARIZONA HAS GREAT FUTURE
Produces More Per Capita From
 Mines Than Any Other State

engineer. hut one of the best min
 ing men in the country, and who is
 stopping at Hotel Adams, was pre-
 vailed upon to make few general comments on the subject of mining
 in Arizona. What he said is of in
 terest both because he is not given
 to idle talking and because his re
 marks 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 section marvelously rich in mineral, and respecting the Vulture mine, all that he cared to say was that it was a great mine, and that the only trouble with it was that it was dis covered twenty years too soon.
 Mir. Parish said that he had had
 Arizona under a more or less per sonal observation for thirty-four years, or since 1870, when he first
 visited the territory to see the old
 Planet mine on Bill William ms Fork.
 It was great mine then, and the ores from it were freighted to the Colorado river and taken by boat to San Francisco for reduc- tion. Since then he has been here many times, and at one time or an other has visited all of the princi- pal districts. He says that from the Navajo country on the north east to Yuma on the southwest, and also from the northwest to the southeast, nearly every hill and mountain is mineralized to some extent, and he believes 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 con- pairing Arizona's mineral output with that of other countries, is the small population. The territory is the third in the list of copper pro- ducing states, and add to the value of her copper product in money the four or five millions of gold an- nually produced, and it is not un- likely 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 precious metals are found in mountainous country, and espe- cially in the great Rocky Moun- tain system. A glance at the map shows one that all the greater Col 'rado ranges run generally from northeast to southwest down into Colorado. The Colorado ranges hat are the home of the great min- ,ral belt in that country run from northwest to southeast toward Ari- ( ona, and all the big ranges in Ne ada and Utah, between the other I tates named, are more nearly north I nd south, but all extending on t own into this territory. All the l arge formations of the country q hat are the home of mineral wealth r eem to converge in an area but | title wider than the limits of Ari- + ona, both east and west. The lew Mexico boundary line does S. ut off narrow strip from the E astern side of this mineral won- g but eastern New Mexico h nd western Texas have little to n Her the prospector, and but few lines.
 These remarks, Mir. Parish said. 0 ere merely general, and of course ) not imply that every mineral. ed hill will pay to work. The