Arizona Citizen

Ill News From Ralston.

M. L. Power, Chas. G. Meyer, Henry Sidentoff and J. H. Curtis passed through Tucson, early this week for San Francisco. Mr. Power has been in charge of the Roberts-Harpending mining property, but recently received an order from Mr. Roberts to suspend all operations and report in San Francisco, for the following reasons:

First, that owing to distance from supplies and cost of transportation, the mines could not be operated at a profit; second, that the hostility of the Indians made it exceedingly dangerous, and third, that the passage of the Texas Pacific bill insures the construction of a railroad by these mines in two or three years, and then work could be advantageously resumed. Mr. Roberts requested that the mining laws be so amended that titles would hold good during the period named, without further attention. This company having taken the above steps, we may conclude that Ralston will be little else than a way-station on the overland road for some years to come, and also that it may be accepted as a fact that however much silver ore there may be at the Burro mines, it is of a low grade, and cannot be reduced at a profit, except under the most favorable conditions. This has been the opinion of many hereabouts for months past.