Until this is done, disorder
and anarchy will reign supreme over the country. The present
condition of California is in a great degree to be attributed to
the want of any title to the most valuable real property in the
State, and the millions which have been spent in fruitless
litigation should teach a lesson of great practical value. Let
those Spanish grants and Mexican titles which have been occupied
in good faith be affirmed in the most expeditious and economical
manner to the claimants, and they will immediately pass into
American hands, and become productive. The remainder of the
country should then be thrown open to settlers. No better code of
mining law exists than the Spanish, adopted in the Senate bill
introduced by the late General Rusk, and passed at the last
session of Congress. A judicious and liberal donation law, giving
to the actual settler a homestead, and to the enterprising miner
and "prospector" a fair security for the fruit of his labors,
will at once make of Arizona a popular, thriving and wealthy
State, affording new markets for the productions of our Atlantic
States, and yielding annually millions in silver and copper.
In addition to the produce of Arizona, the immediate vicinity of
the agricultural region of Sonora affords an abundant market for
all necessary supplies, including sugar, which is manufactured by
the Mexicans in great quantities from the cane.
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