Arizona citizen., 1871-07-29

with. All tn1S COulQ stand. bul the fellow that wanted a five in case
 he killed certain son, etc., was rather
 refreshing; wanted to argue the case
 a little first. "Why, certainly" he
 replied, "all it requires at worst is to
 pay the fine before the Justice; for
 should it go before the Grand Jury, it
 won't cost me anything, and I will re-
 turn you the money at the close of the
 preliminary examination"
 There was no use, l just harnessed
 up my internal machine in the shape
 of a "cayuse horse" and resolved to follow the first man that headed to-
 ward Bradshaw. The first six miles
 south to a sawmill, is a wagon road through open pine, oak. juniper, wal nut and grassy hills; then six miles over an easy divide on to the east fork of the Hassayampa - more timber. grass, etc., stopping an hour or two in view of some good-looking potato patches and small wild strawberries. Thence the trail is split by Mt. Union for several miles-the right hand the sleeper and shorter; hard road enough. Camped for the night on Turkey creek -or where it should be; water in holes. By going the short cut, our little party escaped the attentions of a score or more Apaches, who fired into Jo. Vo- shay and one Jack Leonard-latter may lose an arm. Travel along Tur- key creek several miles, past ruins of of Bully Bueno mill and mine, over 8 divide to Battle Flat-named III honor of siege some years ago wherein no one was killed. A fine pine grove here; but the hills carry little timber and have been burned over along the trails. Near this point the main trail is again divided-this time by Brad shaw mountain proper. Right hand trail by Minnehaha Flat, much chop ped up; left hand one straight up over the mountains, several miles nearer to the mines-and the best trail any how
 The Del Pasco mine and four stamp mill is located in this mountain; mill not quite ready to crush; rock, gold bearing. "Minne" Flat has timber and town site pretensions; water in holes along the creek bed. A couple miles up stream, thence zigzag climb up the face of a high mountain, and a mile or so more takes one along to the dividing ridge whereon is located Bradshaw City, looking two ways for Sunday, and pretty good for high, :" though the main mines and town are on the first ridge south of Bradshaw w Peak. Whole distance from Prescott, say 40 miles, and somewhat east of south. Bradshaw City is the only improvement in that line yet that looks like town; twenty houses, per- haps, Summer finished. Fine timber north of divide for building, and granite rocks in abundance naturally quarried for same or other purposes. South of the ridge and down the can- yon along and across which strikes "the Tiger" ledge, are clumps of rocks, trees-pine, oak and juniper-and cer- tain spots located as town and mill sites. Let these interests settle them selves as they always do, however much newspaper noise to the contrary. At present Bradshaw City has the bulge, and must serve as a point to measure birdseye fashion. A splendid view is obtained from the top of the granite knobs immediately east or west of town. In clear day, the "Picacho' south of the Gila is visible; the Oatnan Flat mountain, southwest on the Gila road; Mount Goodwin, toward the head of that river; the Mogollon range, east; the San Fran cisco and Bill Williams peaks, north over so miles; and mountains near the Colorado (westward) are also in view. Wickenburg is but little further from Bradshaw (south and west) than Pres colt, and may be reached by road that will sort of leave Prescott out in the cold. A road, I think, can be made down to Salt river more readily still. In either case, much money and muscle Will be required to carry a tirst-class Washoe grade into the Brad shaw discoveries. The road question is one of general speculation as yet.
 l was about three daysa at Bradshaw .traveled about some among the dis coveries and works, but the "Tiger" is the representative interest of the district. It is supposed to crop out north of town at the Benton" or be- yond, and to be traceable south mile or two and is so claimed. The dis coyery claim is about midway down