Arizona citizen., 1871-04-22
LETTER FROM PRESCOTT.
Feeling Regarding Col. StOneman 1.-The Bradshaw Mines Described and Trails TheretO--COmmOn Ver- dict of Great Richness.

to-day, since the confirmation by the arrival of citizens by the stage, and the articles in TIE CITIZEN of March 25th, of the recent murders and daring robberies by the Apaches. The report of Col. Stoneman in pamphlet form came by same mail, and its perusal added not @ little to the excited state of feeling. Iris seldom that any man. Hesitation of public feeling is visible over any Indian troubles ill this town, so accustomed have its residents be- come to these oft repeated bloody deeds, that when two whole weeks pass and no one is killed in the vicinity, and no stock stolen, that people remark to each other that the Indians have been quiet @ long time; but when from Hughes ranch at Camp Crittenden, from Walnut Grove, from Camp Thomas, or Apache, to the La Paz stage road near Camp Date Creek, the reports come in of herds run off, stages and mails captured, government and citizen freight trains attacked and de- stroyed, and ill. nearly every instance from one to five settlers murdered and mutilated, it is not strange, that, when every report is confirmed, and in some cases the details are found to be worse than the first rumor, even the most apathetic should be reused and moved to talk these things over on the street corners. Stoneman's report, page D, says: 'The Apache nation in this region, as compared with what 1 knew It more than twenty years ago, IS nearly harmless and their destitution IS great in the extreme" and he ques- tlons which is the best policy, to feed them, or endeavor to prevent them from stealing. He may have the fact, long known to Arizonans, forced upon hls observation if he commands the Department of Arizona nineteen years longer, that warming snakes ill ones bosom, or feeding Apaches, Is the most ridiculous method known to ensure their peacefulness, or their protector $ safety. The gallant Col. gets. some friendly truths from the Editor of The Miner, his quondam travelling com panlon, i'll to-day's issue, some of which will cause him to vince, and perhaps exclaim more in sorrow than in anger-Et tu, Brute! The Col. $ first coming to Prescott was hailed by firing of anvils, and celebrated by speeches, and the free flowing of cham pagne. It was talked to-day of hang ing him in effigy to the flag staff in our plaza, on his next visit, just to let him know how his report, and his late winter campaign are appreciated by the boys of Prescott.
 Bradshaw is still the cry in all cir cles, and not day passes without the arrival or departure of miners, pros pectors, and sight-seers. One of the latter class lately returned, has given the following items as facts to me, not dreaming they would get in THE Orr HEN. The distance to the "Tiger" lode, on the southern slope of Brad shaw Mountain, from Prescott, is, as near as can be estimated by comparing the statements of parties who have travelled the three different trails in use, about forty-five miles in a south easterly direction. The route most used is from Prescott te the head of the Hassayampa, about 10 or II miles where nearly all parties camp the first night out from town, thence over 8 high "divide" OH to the head waters of Turkey Creek, down which the trail runs past the ruins of the Bully Bueno Mill, out by the B. B. Mine, to the head of Battle Flat, where the trail forks; the main travel keeps on to the foot of the north side of Bradshaw, and then comes steep ascent, mile or mile and half, and then along the ridge to the rich "Del Pasco", a gold mine which has made some stir here, and given out considerable bullion during the past nine months. On this ridge appears to be the highest point of the mountains. which are seen to be in the shape of horseshoe, opening toward the east. Within the semi circle is ''the basin" as it is called, an immense depression, probably two or three miles across, in which Arastrar creek, Poland creek, and other smaller streams head, and joining in one flow into Turkey creek which runs around the eastern end of the Mountain. Down into the basin goes the trail and crosses it in 8 southerly direction, and climbs the ridge on the other side, where the tired traveller finds that his