The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-02-22
Yuma County.

We re-write as follows from the Sentinel of February sth:
 A Tucson correspondent accuses Pima county Of the crime of having gone back on her friends meaning, of conr,e, luma county and her representatives. Said correspondents feelings appeared to be narrowed by tue thought that Pima and lavapai had coa- lescud
 The paper expresses tbe opinion that the climate of lis section IS eIIlte as healthy as that of the most favored section of Cali fUrnia.
 Many good improvements were being car ried out, ID town.
 Capt. Pool had shipped to San Francisco, 9 tons ol sulphur, from the big sulphur mountain in Lower California, near the mouth of the Colorado. We have, in the MINER office, pieces of tbis sulphur, which contain very lstle that is not sulphur.
 The snterprsing gentlemen of tue Colo. rado steam navigation company have new steamer, which k described as follows, by tho Sentinel: l towing to the increasing prosperity of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company, in ! transporting freight from San Francisco to this point, an additional steamboat, Co ply between this city and the mouth of the Colo rado river, where freight ls taken from thc ocean steamer, brigs and schooners, waS made a necessity to meet with tho deinani. Al
 though three good boats with many barges
 have been kept running up and down this
 river, still fourth one, with barge also, had , to be put on the line. Tue Gila, which is the
 name of tbe new steamer, which was put uI ! at the company's shipyard, at Port Isabel, du !, ring the present winter, made her first ap-
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 ruary 4th, at 9 a. m, with Capt. | Polhamus,
 Jr., general superintendent of the compay, in command. She Is n stern wheeler; s l75 feet, l5O keel 30 feet beam, and feet hold
 She draws only l6i inches. Her engines are highpressure, l6 inch cylinders, j foot stroke her boiler is also bigh pressure, with. thirty nine inch fines, and will carry lj0 pounds ot steam. Her passenger accommodation. are unsurpassed by any boat of her size and build we have ever seen-having staterooms, with all the modern appliances and improve ments, for sixteen passengers. Her dining hall Is large and spacious, and her promen- ades are all lover of nature could desire to enjoy the beautiful and picturesque sceneries so common along the Colorado river. She made the trip from Port Isabel, distance of lI5 miles, in 2S hours. For the first trip and at the present stage of the water, this is con ! N, very good time. Who will take command of tue Gila is not definitely decided yet it is rumored, however, that Capt. Thorn will have the honor"
 l MT. Miller, Of Castle Dome mining dis trict was at Arizona City, attending to the shipment of ore.
 Col J. M. Barney, head of the Ehrenberg house of Wm. E. Hooper & Co, was spend ing few days in the parent establishment. with his partner Mir. Jno s. Carr. Lieutenant Thomas, 5th Cavalry, had passed through on his way to the mouth of the Colorado, to meet and conduct his wife to Camp Mcdowell. The lady was coming on the Newberne
 ! Mir. John smith, of McDowen, was in Arizona City, attending the big sale of the late M. McCartney's goods. The supervisors had made contract for boarding prisoners at Sl day. lady 'jokey," whatever that may be, recently backed horse, in a race, and came out first.
 Hooper & Co. shipped, in one week, to Me DowelI, 65,OOO lbs government freight.
 Travel from California was increasing.