established. These and the necessary grazing stations will create
points around which settlements will at once grow up, and the
country, now bare, will show everywhere thriving villages. The
Southern Pacific Railroad, which will be built because it is
necessary to the country, will find its way easily through
Arizona.

It is no exaggeration to say that the mining companies, in their
own interest, will be forced to subscribe enough to the stock of
the company to insure its success. The Arizona Copper Mining
Company is now paying $100 per ton for the transportation of its
ores from the mines to Colorado city. One year's freight money at
this rate would build many miles of the road. The silver mining
companies will be only too glad to get their ores to market at so
cheap a rate, as their proportion of the subscription to the
railroad. Iron and coal are both found in the Territory,--the
former especially in great abundance. Texas has guaranteed the
road to El Paso, by her generous legislation; Arizona will build
it, with her mineral wealth, to Fort Yuma, the eastern boundary
of California, and California will do the rest. The first
terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad will doubt less be on
the Gulf of California, at the Island of Tiburon, or more
probably Guyamas. A steam ferry across the Gulf, a short railroad
across the peninsula of Lower California to a secure harbor on
the Pacific, (where a steamer will take passengers and freight in
four days to San Francisco,) is the most natural course of this
route. In view of this probability, all the available points for
such a terminus on the Gulf have been, or are in progress of
being, secured by capitalists, either by obtaining grants from
the Mexican Government, or by purchase from private individuals.