Arizona citizen., 1871-07-22
Agents for The Citizen
WICKENBURG TO PRESCOTT.
Hasty Glance at Things in General -PersOnaI-B BradshaW-Weat


 -PersOnaI-B Bradshaw-Weather,
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 PRESCOTT, July 7.-Arrived here by Grants stage in the middle of last night-about 20 hours and 90 miles Good road, but fearfully crooked even for mountains. The line has quite good stock between these towns, and good meals can be had. The line will soon be replenished with new stock clear through to San Bernardino--25 fresh horses were expected at Wicken- burg yesterday, and MT. Grant wrote that he would leave San Bernardino with as many more the same day. The semi-weekly mail has already started from here to Tucson and Cali fornia It will be fortnight or more ere the new stage arrangement will be completely effected. A full load of passengers came in from the west, and didn't rend the air with complaints of slow coaches, poor fare, etc., hence 1 think the line is doing as well as the country will justify as yet.
 l spent a very pleasant Fourth of July in visit to the Vulture mine some particulars of which 1 have taken notes for. It is not good to jump at conclusions even with regard to the best regulated families-hence little reflection even over the Vulture works will do no harm. This change of scenery and air favors digestion, and 1 may run off column or so on the subject in question at an early day not for the sake of that mine, but as it suggests much of importance re- specting the future of the whole Ter ritory.
 Speaking of climate, the Fourth was rendered quite pleasant by show CTS that have streaked this north sec tion with mud, generally laid the dust, and cooled the air as we'll as purified it. perhaps, The drive over the Vulture divide was specially blessed. They say Wickenburg is somewhat sickly, but no good reason is given why. My view of the case is, that 1t IS a sort of entrepot and point of departure from the main set dement's of this part of the Territory; that more or less newcomers reach there busted or wait round for work in a miserable sort of way, and then get sick to create sympathy. Blast them, anyhow! There's old man Wicken- burg, who discovered the Vulture, iv- ing on the Hassayampa yet, and un- less he does like ComStock (blow his head off) he will finger for years hence. Great stream that Hassayampa to be called river-not water enough in its bed in front of town for years to swim a pismire.
 Crops are literally failure in the Prescott valleys this year-as they have been to d certain extent for the past three seasons. The Gila and Salt river people are supplying the grain in this direction. Some hay will be obtained hereabouts. The corn in Kirkland and Skull valleys looks like the last rose of Summer-what little ! of 1t ever rose above the surface at all. | wish this were ali otherwise, of 1 course; for if there is a class of man kind naturally deserving of success, it is the honest farmer. 1 look upon the 1 honest miner as magnitied no such hing. But the pioneer generally, over whom so much inflated bosh is 5alked, written and printed about-is really deserving of no sympathy what ever lie is simply the tub or Jonah which civilization (the bloated beastD mconsciously throws to the frontier