The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-03-13
Trip to the Country.

MetroPolitnn and sometimes rural editors, are rich enough to own carriages, fast horses, velocipeds,, etc, and enjoy life by riding up on and in them, but 1t seldom falls to the lot of quill dnver in . new country to enjoy any luxwiss or indulge in recreation what ever, unless footing his horn" about so-and- sos big head of cabbage; Jacob Twistem's capabilities for the position of Interpreter of the Spanish language; the richness of Mfr. saltems feet and the piety of the gentleman who s~ears, drinks and gambles every day in the week, Sundays excepted, as the daily newspapers ssy), can be called luxurics. We need, then, scarcely tell persons who are in the habit of reading the MINER, whenever they can find nothing else to read, that yield ing to the persuasive eloquence of MT. George W. Banghart, we took . seat in his spring wagon, Saturday morning last, and were soon under full headwsy for his ranch in Chino Vsiiey, some 22 miles north of Prescott. As the song ssys,-
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 yes, | good deal clearer than our head, al though, % far Hs that favorite diet admired under the name Of whisky, was concerned, we left ou an empty stomach, but that =ss not our fault-it was simply our misfortune to have been so stupid and forgetful as not to have supplied ourself with . bottle of the eour,ge-inspiring. revenue producing fluid known here as "bust- em wide-open." As there was but two of us to a regiment, as soldier would say, and both of us being off, cers, each did ss he pleased, and did not nn- dertake to keep step with the horses or charge bayonets on the air. Knowing that our enc my ea disAabiue the Indian--was lurking around the country, we took care to provide ourselves ~i.h the necessary implement. Of destruction--in the shape of guns, pistols, ete-,-and were ready af moments warning, to get scared, fire at random, miss an Indian, and like as not, shoot horse of wound our selves- But, luckily for us or the Indians don't know which-we made the trip with out seeing any of the sarpints. For the ben efit of those unfortunate beings who live in California and the East, and make living by swindling each other, we propose to branch out little on the country, it's resources. etc, hoping. thereby, to induce some of them to come here, where they can make .a hones; living and lay foundations for future fortunes Everybody knows, or ought to know, that our starting point, Prescott, is situated on Granite Greek, at point where said creek leaves the mountains and the pine timber--in e delightful . valley as can anywhere be found The first mile brought us to Fort whipple, which is snugiy seated on . bluff overlooking Granite creek, the mountains south and west of Prescott, and the vast ex- psnse of prairie country northward towards the San Francisco mountain. whipple is probably the cleanest and healthiest post in the Territory, and, at last, the soldiers are comfortably housed, having in the past couple of months, roofed and repaired their quarters in neat and substantial manner. Being . ''big bug" i've once held the high and impor- tAat office of Recorder of Big Bug District, we had reason to expect that the command ing officer would honor us with salute, but in this we were mistaken, be let us pass as though ve were Gigadier Brindle in dis grace, . contractor who had not made money, or miserable euss who had neither uncle. sunt, or brother-in-law in Congress. But we attributed this to our misfortune, and passed on down whipple valley at rapid rate, past nice farms and comfortable farm -houses until the road left Granite Greek and wound around the Point of Rocks, through the tail end of Willow Valley, on through brushy. solhng hills where we expected to get jumped ey lurking ssysses, ssd out on the open, roll ing, grassy prairie, where hundreds of ante Iope were feeding and froIscking. We love the solitude of the mountains, the chilly air from their snowy tops, and the signing of the t.ii pines, bu. Est buoysn. while rolling through the grassy prairie-over a road as smooth and hard as billiard table. To the East lay the Black mountains, thes tops eev- cred with pine and ssow,-Woolsey snd Granite creek ssfieys. from which ascended fnnu~erable smokes, from the houses of the hrmers; facing w to the northward, were those hugs mountsins-the San Francisco and Bill WiAisns and part Of the timbered mesa that stretches from the Colorado to the Miembres. To the. west was the Juniper range of mountains. We soon arrived at the Government ranch, took look at the herd and tho numberless springs M cold water that at this point rise and flow out of the ground, and form very large creek. A short distance more brought us to the ranches; we slighted at that Of Mir. BaDgharts, and after