Year: 1878

The progress of Pima county during

 the past year has been so rapid and

 manifest that We cannot forbear refer

 ring tn it time and again, even at the

 risk of being supposed in some guar

 ters little too sanguine as to the tu- ture and too well pleased as to the

 present From the New Mexican line on the east To Gro Blauco on the west

 every section and district has felt the

 vivifying effects of the introduction of an industrious, energetic population that is fast opening our mines and cul- tivaling our valleys; while money from the east and west is giving just re-

 ward to the hardy prospectors who at risk of health and life have struggled

 on against poverty and ill-luck. Up to October 30, 1876, the southeastern corner of the Territory was q sealed

 book to the prospector and rancher,

 being covered by the Chiricahua h. dian Reservation, which embraced over thirty-six hundred square miles of country. On that date the reserva- tion was done away with and the land restored to the public domain, but by no means to settlement. For over d year renegade bands of hostile Indians

 prowled about making raids Ut inter vals upon settlements in the vicinity and keeping vacant not only the res ervatiOn ground, but as much more fine country, lying to the west as far as the Santa Cruz river Happily all this

 Is now a thing of the past, and the once

 uuinhabited region Is 50 full of people as tn render further raids from such

 hostile Indians as may be depredaiing on the other side of the line a thing almost impossible. The old haunts of Cachise have been given up to progress

 and civilization. The ChIricahua, Dra-

 goon, Mule Pass and Tombstone ranges

 are alive with people

 At the Dos Cabezas, near the north

 ern limit of the old reserve and in the

 immediate vicinity of the Apache Pass that blood-stained pass-nearly one hundred miners are at work on gold leads, and with their aIrastras are do ing SD well as to make tue prospect of mill not unlikely Along the eastern slope Uf the Chiricahuas, mining dIs- tricls have been organized, farms open ed, cattle ranches started, and talk of opening the subterrtaean stream known to exist in the San Simon val ley constant and promising From Camp Supply to Camp Bowie on the the western slope of the same range, progress is found and the prospects for the future are encouraging. In Mule Pass and DragOOn ranges prospectOrs and miners are al hOme-sale. hopeful and cOntented. The Tombstone dis trict speaks for itself, while the Upper San Pedro, 50 often left desolaie, iS commencing 10 bloom and gives pros poets of being the garden of Arizona. The crops there this season have been unsurpassed and we remember we'll of hearing one farmer there offering tO bet Sl00 that in his field he could find corn twenty-five feet high. Here work has commenced upon the mill-site forI the mill 10 be erected in connection with the Gird mines, and before many months have gone by, mills for other mines, notably the Contention, may be C. e.ected in the same vicinity; and ! just about here must be town that may rival in dimensions and prosper ity Arizona's present metropolis. In the beautiful Huachuca range, saw mills will soon buzz away and lumber camps, mining camps and farms must awaken the solitude. |

 And sJ it is from the east to the west. The Patagonia mountains are alive with miners; a mill Is to go up soon ou the SOnOita; in the Ariyaca district where year ago there were hardly twenty people, at the late election there were cast 12S votes for Delegate.

 Is not the bow of promise iris-hued : With the mines looking better than ever, four mills for certainty and two more probable, with the valleys from Pueblo Viejo 60 Arivaca filling with farmers and their families, trade brisk, peace and good year in Sonora, and a railroad from the east. another from the west and perhaps another still from the south pointing directly to Us, who can foretell what wealth, prosperity and will belong to Pima when the time for the next election rolls along?