Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1870-12-10
Still Wants to Whip Somebody.

Still Wants to Whip Somebody.
The following is paragraph from
one of Sylvester Mowry's letters to
The Alta, dated at Salt River. Mr..
Mowry came a thousand miles to
whip Mccormick, and failing in that
he is willing to travel another
thousand to whip anything, no matter
how indefinite. We admire his grit,
but Sylvester's judgement is a chief
weakness with him:
The progress Of American civiliza-
ton not only extinguishes effete mon
arches. but also obliterates the names
by which, in their barGarous tongues.
they have attempted to carry down to
posterlty, rivers mountains, and even
springs. "How is that for highr'
The translation into plain English is
that the beautiful Spanish names of
Arizona are fast being brought down
to our hard Americanisms-for exam
pie: the Rio Salinas is Salt River;
the Rio Blanco is White River; the
Rio Azul is Blue River; Las Sierras
Blancas is White Mountains; and.
last and worst of all, beautiful
spring, called anciently, "Los Oios de
Inez," (The Eyes of Inel,) is now
Dinsmore Springs. Shades of Lopez
de Vega! avenge the wrong. Iwould
travel thousand miles to whip the
man who committed this last outrage.
CAPT. HAwLEY, of Camp Verde,
advertises at Santa Fe for 500, 600 lbs.
corn, oats Or barley for his post, where
upon The Post remarks as follows:
Capt. Hawley informs US that q
new road has been made to Camp
Verde, which is much better than the
one formerly travelled, and is sixty
miles shorter.
The military authorities of Arizona
are convinced that supplies can b.
purchased to better advantage in New
Mexico than elsewhere, and we shall
not be surprised next year if all the
supplies for that Territory are bought
in our Territory.
We would advise our neiphbors not
to rely too much upon demand for
their grain in this direction, for bear
IN mind that the crops about Prescott
and Verde will not fail every year as
they have this, and the new road to
Salt river via Mcdowell will opon the
way to an abundant and convenient
supply. The Verde river has an am
pie supply of water to irrigate mil
lion Or more acres, and little time to
construct bitches there will insure
large crops every year, as productive
soil on that streum is plentiful.
In and about Tucson, good corn and
wheat sells sluggishly at q to 3 cents
per pound.
THE Albuquerque Review, speaking
of petitions for more mail service, has
the following:
Our fellow citizens have now an op-
portunity of doing little for them
selves, by signing those petitions at
present in circulation here; they ask
for the establishment of a daily mail
from Santa Fe to Ell Paso, and mail
from Albuquerque to Prescott, Arizona
Territory. We are equally interested
in both routes, the need of them is
deeply felt, and should the Postmaster
General hearken to our prayer, he will
confer on this Territory valua BILE and
much needed accommodation.
The fourth number of the ARIZONA
CITIZEN has come to hand and is added
to our list of exchanges. 1t is right
welcome That is more than we can
say Of the remainder of our Arizona
cotemporaries they have not deigned
to grant us like courtesy. The ap-
pearance of the CITIZEN is creditable
in both typographical and editorial
sense and 1t seems to be well supported