The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-07-03

it showed at intervals, but little feit.. On April l2th, binding snow storm occnrred in Secretary Valley, and on the Mogoyon Mesa, from six to eight inches lying on the ground. but the next day the sun came out with a warm breeze, and all traces had dis appeared by the l4th.
 Ifthcre is to be the slightest particle of ob- struction, even the most temporary from snow, anywhere west of the Rio Grande, 1t will be in this range Hence, the evidence in regard to it has been carefully collected, and 1t covers SO many winters, and all seasons Of the year so thoroughly, that there IS no room left for the slightest apprehension on this subject.
 In western Arizona between the Mogoyon Range and the Colorado which was reached about the middle of January, 1868, none Of our parties saw any snow on the outward march.
 Whipple reports fall, of seven inches in depth in the Aztec Range on the 18th of January. 1854 but says four days afterwards it had disappeared; and after leaving this range, he saw no more indications, except near a few mountain summits. In the Black Forest and Val de Chino mature had put forth spring flowers and green herbage." Our return parties encountered, in March, 1868, several storms between the Wallapai Valley and the Mogoyon Range, usually in the afternoons and at night, the mornings being clear and warm These storms did not how ever. prevent the mules from picking upn on the march, the grass being fresh and green early in March. The fall never exceeded two inches and usually melted away the following morning or same day.
 Were it necessary, we might keep on quot ing testimony similar 10 the above until our 1 fingers would grow tired. But it is not nee essary for us to do so, in order to accomplish our purpose, which is--to convict Dr. Hof- man, of the aspiring village of San Diego, California, of ignorance, untruthfulncss and malice, which we think we have done.
 There are however, some points in the Dr.'s etFusion, which we cannot help noticing | But, as time and space will not permit us to retrog1de bdck" into a discussion of these points with the learned(D pillar of San Diego, we must do so in as brief a way as possible. So, to save type-setting, we pro nounce his version of what he says Mir Smith said to him about the snow in the Black and Mogoyon mountains, in 1863, m unqualified ! 4"t'Nh'V'r anu 'O HUI Dttitft lsldl MT CIniNU ever said it, for the reasons that, in 1863, he was not in this part of the Territory; that but very little snow fell, anywhere in Arizo- na, that year, and that he has never been in either the Black UT Mogoyon mountains.
 Believing that educated persons" will, upon reading your communication, doubt the logic of the assertion, that a person who deals in How flung slurs '" can become "de- Prared by contact with gentlemAnly and courteous conduct" and wonder at your corruptible indecency" in thus airing your ignorance of facts, logic, punctuation, spelling and the proper use of words and phrases, we will close by advising you to keep out of fine papers, attend to your pill bags and the one horse office you got for deserting the Demo cratic party and you may yet become truth fu, useful and intelligent citizen of your yil- lage.