Arizona miner., 1868-04-25
La Paz, Wickenburg, and the Indian
 Reservation.


 L'ia. who has travelled extensively in trzo- ua. in a communication Co that paper, under date of March i, gives the following account ot matter. and thing. here. With thccyccp- tion ol a few crror-. the account i, far and correct The first of these error, is in giving Fort uma as the first town, in Arizona, on the Southern route Fort Yuma is in Cali . Coulia. Arizona City, a large and thriving . town. opposite Fort Yumu, on tue ,'ila and Colorado iiycr,. i, the first Arizona town one . strikes in coming ,o this Territory from Cali . f,rria via the Southern route. The writer is also mistaken in chasing the Indians upon the reservation as Apachcs.' Very few Apaches proper have ever seen the reservation He says
 ! "Tr.yalling from California to Prescott, the principal town in Arizona, there are three different routp-. hnt al ,'ar'iuv from l.o,
 Ancc,c, By the northern route the .iret town iu Arizona you pass through i> Handy vile: by the central route, the first town l> La pez; by the southern, the first town l,
 Fort Yuma Cur company took the central
 road by way of san Bcuardiuu in California, and !a paz, in Arizona.
 IA pAz AND ITS MINES.
 "la puz i, situated on ;Ag southern bank .or Che Colorado river, lSO mile, rom San Der
 aArlmo. The house, are ali one story high
 and built entirely of bricks, the walls uclUr nearly three feel thick. The first house built
 was in l-52, by a German named Charles
 Crosse. but ia very short time afterwards
 many more houses were built. lt l, said that several thousand miner, were engaged .n p.a- D cc. mjuu. from i-G2 and l>Cl, all oi whom
 were comparatively successful. They worked
 the mine, owing to having no water, hy the
 GN. pruce-> ,o generally u,ol iH Mexico. ' he mines are situated n the gucAr, ani flats ln , the mouataiu- near town. There are several n hundred men still engaged iu mining WAo are
 ,a.l Go h. duiug remark abiy we'll ] saw @ . piece of gold taken out by one of them winch
 weighed oyer two ounces. There are within t the vicinity of La pal many gold lr'-v-, and e also some silver ledgcs. ] visited none ut them bat was shown some ore taken from
 some ofth gold lcIgcs, and fouua .t quite
 rich, as iu all tEe different pieces you ouu'd
 see great deal of gold \ iew of tac-. gold Il ledge. are being worked by tLcir owners, and .t the rock reduced u ara-tr4> Nearly all the , lodges are owned by MgNjcan- who. owing to .. their poverty, are unable tn erect proper
 works aHd vyyG unable !a Eos, cascs to build I' ara.tsas.
 COL. DENT AND THE INDIAN r'@EVYArIoN. y h la paz met G. W. Dent, tae Indian l. Superintendent of this Territory, who has d been for many years a resident of California . and wherever be has been known has left ma ". ny warm friends. Mir. Dent ha, established aI an Indian reservation near La Pug lt cu rc braces an extent ot country nearly forty mle' q long, with varying width of from three tc . fifteen miles, and occupies the bottom Ian,
 from this place to the Corner Rocks in ta, " vicinity of Williams Fork The ditch now he being constructed for irrigation purpose, h
 near thirty miles in length twenty feet wide
 with an average depth of nine feet The la
 bor > performed wholly by Indians. and it |
 quite refreshing to pass along the line oiwurE
 and instead of meeting with 3lJ Co iuO Ia x, dian, armed and equipped with the imple p- lncnts of war find them deNfcrou,iy hand Dr. ling long handled shovel and apparently at working with a will These Indians. ! uu e dcr>taud, are paid lu cents Icr Gay lor thui or services. and aJe bomtiiu,N fed with beet Ter -four, hean-, elc., and also are properly cloth Us cd and cared for. The agency building To
 the use of the agent and employer. is U1y. |
 course of construction This building. whc
 completed, will present fine appenia anc, )r abd probably be the largest and Lest in tL  N0 many of those old mansions built by the Cal Tor itornians in earlier days, with a court in tl ,, centre and entrances to all the apartment ur from this court, there being but one main e r trance front and one back so that whc these principal portals are closed. the iunIat, ne are secure from attacks of the Indians in cas Ter of usurrectiOn or insubordinaton l notice n- 2OU or 20 acres of wheat growing, whic no look, very romising Large tcld, have bee I prepared for spring planting oi corn, etc, ( ' which l understood it Is the intention to plan he some , or 1000 acres. Colonel Dent has suC Ire cecdcd in gathering together on this rescrya
 tun over 700 of the degraded Apache h
 dians, and by his discreet conduct toward
 them succeeded in makug them his var By friends. IL S his intention as fast a- possibl an 10 establish the Indians on other reservation -y selected by Congress.
 IT, wICEENBCRC AND THE vrLTrRr MINE tv The next place on our road inland is Wicl enburg where is located the celebrated Vu
 turc Mining Company. Wickcnlurg contain
 about dozen houses, all built of the san ur material and in the same manner as those he La Paz, except the mill l-hou-e of the Vultul me Company and also the mili-house of Nc,~r re- Wickcnburg & Smith. The last named mi at is situated in the town l. is only l.stain .d. mill but they intend putting in 10 mol
 stamps very soon. They crush about seye .re tons per day.
 iii. The Nulture mill is about one mile out ot town. The engine is one of the best ey, ar saw. They only run 20 stamps and four cuI ad centrators, but the engine is capable of rul
 ming 3O stamps, together with all the append