Year: 1878

We are requested to say something about

 the prospects ef this country for the coming

 season Well, they appear to us to be

 @bulIy." live were writing to our kin

 say, Uucle Robert and Aunt Rachal. or to

 anyone of their fourteen or fifteen sons and

 daughters, who are our dear cousins, we

 should probably tell them as near the truth

 as we knew how, and this is about what we

 should say: "Times have been a little tight

 for two years past, we must confess. and

 occasionally some of the people get tighter than the times; now and then one gets tight as q brick.r Your respected cousin.

 however, maintains his equilibrium, and is. l if anything, little .loose- not So much in

 his morals as in his habit of doing large

 amount of labor without exacting adeqnate

 compensation. This, however, is the natu-

 rai outgrowth of great moral reform, a

 revival, so to speak, which always follows in

 the wake of civilization, and tones down

 prices as well as society. Tine pioneers of

 all new countries are apt to strike a high

 key, run business on the high pressure sys-

 tenn, and have good, free and easy time of

 1t until the MoOdys and Sankys and Ham,

 monds and Van Cots, of trade, as well as of

 morals, fnd their way into the wilderness. and oyerturn the pioneer system of busi- ness first, of morals afterwards, and finally

 we find ourselves assimilated with the great mass of mankind throughout the world; the mining camp of the mountains is scarcely less or more than a New England village, and the pioneer is again ready to pick up and move on to find out another

 wilderness"

 These are some of the prospects of which we should write to our kin, with the secret hope, perhaps, that they would not like the picture, and would stay at home, but there are other and more tangible indications of coming prosperity that ought not to be en- tirely overlooked Within the year several new mining districts have been opened in Arizona, and large number of important mining enterprises started, some of which are already in successful, paying, operation, as the Signal and others, and a number are just on the eve of starting their works, as the Tiptop, Black Warrior, McMillen, etc, while greater number are developing with l a view to putting up works, as the Tiger, | California, Little Mack, and hundreds, al- | most, the names of which we do not call to i mind at the moment.

 These, with the already successful works, | before the beginning of the year that is just passed, as the Peck, McCrackin, Blackberry, Silver King, etc. etc, give assurance of pretty fair times ahead. And SO on this &C., count, we should intimate that, while it | might not be just the thing for the heads of families to sell their farms and rush off to Arizona, yet, if any of them should have a few thousand dollars to spare, it would not be bad idea to fit out some of their wives younger brothers, and send them out here 1n prospect. "What man hath done, man nay do, and as men have found rich mines n this country, these young men would, at east, stand chance to "strike it big" and if hey didn't, the country would have the benefit of the money spent, and this is an other of the prospects of which we should write.

 The country is full of prospects; of course hey are not all bright, nor should they be, f it were so it would beget monotony, and people would have surfeit of brightness, perhaps an attack of "Bright's disease The dark spots in the life of a prospector tive zest to his occupation, and by con- rast render the bright ones thousand fold nore attractive.

 To those who are continually writing us rom the East and West to learn of the prospects in Arizona, we can only say that, , heir inquiry is pertinent and proper, but ( hat we have not the time to attend to each individual case, and if they will subscribe or the MINER they can learn more of what 5 going on, and what the prospects really re by perusal of the columns, either of the Daily or Weekly, than in any other possi- $ 'le way, and what they read there they can lepend on as true.

 These are the prospects as they present themselves to us, "where we sit," as Wardy, he stage-driver used to say, and we give hem to you as Gospel truth.

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