The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-07-03
Railroad Routes...QuestiOn of veracity.

errliren,ar notice of myself and my hope-San Diego Caliornin-'aken from the Arizona MINER pubished ai Prescott in Inc Territory Of Arizona Az |, s n u'unl o hear anything nom that place qrcscorD ns decent hnt
 free from low down blackguarisni, ns this extract indi' ctes n becomes my imperative duty to congratulate the people of iha burg ttaf inc MINER represents n the
 osT ,srial ths srong evidence of their en-
 gh,encd and favou'he progress u civizahon is mghy rrumising and satisfactory. It Is however very nece@y
 that the editor of the MINER may not rsfu1ads hfct inio the days of Chesterfed give him ile wholesome advice srced sufficiently with truth and wisdom o make n plansble much such things be to him. whose ightoned tastes and uunaiiuns have recently udgng from inc elegance oi Inc language nsed by him on his occasion ncunparon with the usual low flung surs ha, he accustomed to and gloriously reves h. be deprdrsd hy contact in some unaccountable way with Ccutlcmanly and courteous conduct IT yon mix NJ trc Acid and Glycerne compound is iormed uai re- solves itself into the explosive agent known io science But much more Tos eria one ran be formed hy m,Sng
 little truth with ihe 18th parallel ralrad r"uie and ire. colt Arzonn. DemOcmc bluckguari essence of currRp- bls irdeoecu This compound no, only blows mp ponder nhle and iuTonierhie things but t also blows up fhe Kings English deccuey etiquette and genilemauly deco rum sky high and a the discharge Uf fDulness in s own ,pbc language gives fhe s Co Lieut. Joserh C. Ives Rep, Co the Secretary of War. Gen r. r. Bsais Wagon Road Report to the officer, r. W. Smith . pioneer Arzonian and of the If the ceatae Vunre Mine, and Dr. James McNultys Medical Direc- for of the Department of New Mexico statements to the writer"
 with o the depth of nearly foot" and that '" ii showed hard al day that he could not break up camp Heavy of sll piled up this noun tain" This seveul days later and in the San Fran. cisco mountains the 18th paailel rcue The altitudes
 given bv him nlso prove Co on eduodtsd rsoH that there nus, b cer s,oils on tbe 18th r-iel route ns thcv range from 213 to 56N feet; in distance of 3e miles east from the Colorlo river. this line lt s almost m. necessary 70 suy tat heavy and deep snoUs always h ai these attitudes The highest point on the Central Pacific lngo te |" lie. ihere is snowfall ai that pace.
 Gen F. r. Bedf says ahoui the same co ms report as Ives docs consequently it Is noi necessary 10 repeat h
 Mir Peter W Smith. of tho Nuiiurc Nine u Arizona a gentleman better known o the early prusIecors oi that country than any other says that the snow in the .IarnAfn winter that it f0HR iHiyosslfg Co dH by thdf route and h. hc with rary Of co rrospccturs he'd turn back in l- from prospecting tour in tesc lns and the deep n the ayines aud gulch- etc. that they could them and that it his candid opinion that railroad through them would be nousy obsructed by during The winter months AS everybody knows that Mir Smiths reputation truth md veracy 6 uumpcachable i' no, necessary to say any. thing more ou ih point Dr. NcN1iy intirIaed me that while of inspection from Furt WhiPpe (Prcsco,D io FoTt Defiance he and his escort showed iu n
 Oh no there s no snow there as all These gentlemen lie" and the MINERS honest fellow, tells the naked truth-in horn.
 Finally tn settle the matter the rrea, Merhis Railroad Convention has unanimously agreed to believe that there i in places % to D feet Of in the winter this pet route of the MNEns and 10 consequence ltOO raroad delegates assembled there from all Iarts 0f the Union have passed resolution u favor uf the 2d paral le which ls such like obs,rucons in iis tire length and gave six good reasons why ii Is tho best besides
 If this don't satisfy the MFk as soon as we have leisure will give him further reliable statistics and other vau able information inc suhiect 70 honest MINER never tell another lie" etc. Yours truly. D. II. HOFFMAN
 There, now, Hr. Dr. Hoffman, we have given you the full benefit of your entire say, untruthful, low, vulgar, disconnected and lu- dcrous though it be, and, without your per mission-regardless of all future consequence es--propose, now, to indulge in a few remarks, that will, no doubt, add to your unenyiablc fame, as a distortcr of truth, an ignoramus, and Predetermined humbug.
 To begin with, it is necessary to inform our readers that, some time last winter, Mr. Dr. Hoffman, in one of his characteristic com munications to the San Diego Union, lied, outrageously, about the 35th Parallel Rail road route, more especially that portion of it which crosses this Territory As we were not, at that time, in regular receipt of the Union, the probability is that we might never have seen NIT. Ills tissue of falsehoods. had it not been for a citizen of San Diego, who cut them out, enclosed them in a letter, and for warded them to our address We have this letter yet in our possession, and will here quote from it, for the sake of showing what the prophet Hoffman is thought of in his own land; also, to give an idea of the "situation J at San Diego, and to show what slim chance that blubbering village has of becoming what it aspires to be--thc New York of the Pacific. The writer says;
 "I send you an article clipped from the San Dieeo Union. Its author D. R. Hoffman Is no. worth noticing He Is poor sPecrnep of a small politician; has run for -.i'Ss: sTsy c:cc 2 :c s..y, getting eight votes a Democrat until last election He then voted fur Grant and is Washington beg. him witness stand not The article s false from beginning 10 end and with bad grace from resi-. dent of this ooany which Is seven-eght desert In fact er, nni yon reach inc TsSss line The s S T' going of about this city" Is all hotitioas They putting up few board houses seven by nine up1n piece of ground, without water. Some seventeen years ago U S Quariermaster snnk iwo asiesan wells l5O feet deep and did not find In 1851 private cit zens sunk well sir hundred fosi in depth without finding water. The stream called San Diego River" s as dry s powder horn three out of five years We have z, o bay, and that Is ail
 In his first communication, Hoffman said :: "From Visalia East to Santa Fe, on the 35th parallel, there is not, at the present time, a locality of 500 people. From any of the pass es through the mountains that lie between this valley (Tulare) and the great Mohaye desert on this route, to tue Colorado river there is barren waste without water, bush, grass or shrub for distance of three hundred miles," That these assertions are false, no person at all acquainted with the country and the questions at issue can doubt, for, after passing Santa Fe, the route passes Albuquer- que, the second largest town in New Mexico besides several other localities containing populations of 800 and upwards. Indeed counting citizens, soldiers and Indians. there