Year: 1859

treaties of peace confer benefits on those swho

 make them, whereas it is frequently the case that quite thescontragy effect is produced If we sift the matter to the bottom, and look at the

 final results We consider that it is thus with the late, ,Pinal Apache treaty--the immediate results are undoubtedly the cessation of hostili. ties, and the security with which stock farmers can graze and raise their stocks at least for the present. If farmers are thus benefited by this treaty, we cannot help but to rejoice, but if we investigate the matter closer, we will find that in the end even this, the agricultural interest of the country, will be loser by it. As every one knows, the farming population of Arizona can never be very great, owing to the extremely limited portions of country that can be cultiva- ted, and the great scarcity of water which is used for irrigation, as without this nothing grows If Arizona is poor in good and avaia- ble land it is all the richer in mineral wealth.

 and the time is not far distant when capital

 science and industry in mining will open the hidden resources now laying dormant in those bleak, rugged mountains that traverse Arizona in all directions, rising like islands from the surrounding thirsty plains and valleys That which strikes terror into the emigrant who looks terwgood location to erect farm and pleas ant home, is the delight of those that look tor fortunes in the bowels of the earth tie miners The very barreness of the country facilitates the miners peratons, at least in the beginning, when prospecting for mineral deposits, as the cropping out of veins are not hidden by heavy soils or thick vegetation There is mineral wealth enough in Arizona which, ifproperly de. veoped, will make this territory one of the most productive in the Union and many of its inhab- itants the most wealthy. Let few do we'll, and the country will at once swarm with mining companies, some of which will succeed, and others will fail, but all will spend money in the territory, and assist in building up a new and undoubtedly prosperous State. It is then and not until then, that the whole of Arizona, and especially the farmer, will grow in prosperity. The few lands fit for cultivation will only be used for the raising of vegetables as these must be had, and cannot be brought from distance, and these better spots will in the end rise high inyalue. For staple articles, as flour and corn, TweNEll ever have to rely on Sonora, and in course oftime we can on California, when com munication is better and transportation cheaper. live are correct in our views 1t shows that the grand interest of the country being mining, this should be fostered by all means, and in doing so all the SuDOrulnate. ones Will rise to perma- nent prosperity. To bring mining to success ful issue, is however, no easy matter anywhere, and much less in Arizona isolated as we are by great deserts and distances from the rest of civ ilization. Miners, machinery, goods and pro visions, all have to come from distance, at ru- inous costs for freight Only heavy capital can succeed for large companies, accompanied by economical and judicious management Scen- tifc and practical men, we'll acquainted with the manipulation and metalurgical treatment of ores, are indispensable. To be eminently successful we ought to bring in play all the discoveries of past ages, and the science of the present. This cannot be learned in day nor in a year--it is a profession that is ever pro gressing. All ores and veins require a differ ent treatment the practical smelter who works in one locality may find himself nonplused a mile farther, or even in the same vein month hence. We may work and worry with little adobe furnaces, or one-mule arrastras, like many so called miners in northern Sonora, but to carry on mining so as to realize our expecta- tions, we need the aid of science, and those that despise it, or pretend to do so, will all find this to be true to their cost Who but an ignorant man would spend life time in experimenting with perhaps very limited means, where the world at large has worked for ages in branch of industry of which he has no Knowledge?

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