Arizona miner., 1867-02-23
LETTER FROM HARDYvLLE.
Iraon AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT 1

HARDYyILLE, Feb. C, 1867.
 EDITOR MiNER.-l have but small budget of news to open, but neighbors should be courteous and sociable, and at least change compliments occasionally. And with this preface for briofletter, will proceed to give you a lew items. And first, of the famine that k impending over us; indeed do not know but that l can say tat 1t is at hand The great influx of Montanaites upon Us. and the failure of the steamers to reach us with additional supplies has most sadly depleted our larderS, and the most ars O ratio tables set " beans straightn twenty ore times week Flour and bacon, if any in the country, are dainties hid away, to be enjoyed by the lucky pOsseS>or in the most perfect seclusion, where the gurmand eyes of the hungry multitude can not peer.
 However, we are hopeful of relief, as we hear a steamer is ea rUutc to this place A genius has ciphered it down, that the able bodied of the community can hold out on present regime forty eight days.
 A pack train has been despatched to Vii liamS' Fork, but we have sine learned that they are on short allowance. And unless the steamer does arrive soon, Prescott will have 10 be our Egypt, to whInh we will have to resort to buy corn We have "gOt the corn to sell to Uncle Sam "or any other man. .n-ED.
 Hon. W. II. Hardy, and Mr Nott, of your place accompanying, arrived here to.day ! They experienced no trouble from the ln- dians
 INDIANs--YAvAPAI RANGERS. We of llardyville have taken on much hu- mility since your Rangers came to our door and slayed eur enemies, the Waiiapais and while we are full of gratitude for the great service, yet we can not hut feel some chagiin that our neighbors should do for us our work An effort was made here to raise a company to act in conjunction with the Prescotters. hut at the time, provisions were very scarce ! Besides, those whoshould have been foremost did not give the enterprise the most hearty snpport-thinking it best to defer it for a short time, and the first we know your trap pers were bearing away our "Wallapai fulsn THE MAILS.
 ! The mails all come and go with clock like 1 precision, on all the routes save to Prescott f And now that we are likely to have enough troops to make the road safe, there is z od promise that you will soon have UnItel States malls, per coach and four, through from Los Angeles every week, as We do, pnnctually Mr. Ballard arrived last week, with additional lr'NNNi hAiNh W A' OpDpltunt dS the lntlallS had run off five head from stations between here and Los Angeles.
 MINES AND MILLS. Messrs. Lewis Russell have now got tbe Moss Mine Mill in most complete running condition, and as soon as Mir. C. l.. Strong rr turns from San Francisco the Mill will com mence manufacturing bullion. The apparent completeness of every thing about the mill engine, batteries pans, settlers, concentrators. etc. etc, IS highly complimentary to its man asers. and bespeaks a success for the enter prise. Work upon all mines save the Mos has temporarily ceased, on account of lack of provisions.
 THE WEATHER
 Has been very delightful all winter. In. deed our climate is SD excellent that some (whom you will perhaps deem infatuated) be. lieve that we can subslst, if need be. upun it not very :" fat" we imagine-EDJ At any rate, during the past four years there has been not sing death here from any natural cause and had it not been for the ufiicio,is ness Of the Indians, we should have had fin have resorted to extraordinary means to have started burying ground
 MILITARY
 ino ifu heslneht has iully sustained its reputation for fighting, and all other virtues here. They have carried that procliyity to snch an extent that they have become the terror Of the country, And what makes i, worse, we are without redress, as the man tlat holds command at Fort Mohaye has thus Tar deieated every attempt made by the civil law to punish offenders. When W. Furlong wa was Killed, he refused to surrender to the shenr the man accused of the Crime, and he Is now at large. few days since one ofthem "a discharged member too, but who was stop