Arizona weekly miner., 1874-04-24
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Ou "Wednesday of last week, iu company with arothct gcntlcman, started fot Wick cnburg Gons uut through Miller Valley, Nc observed several ,ncn and team, busy piuw ing, and large amount or hUj a'Uady plowcI From there we took thc p.,k-.n trail, along which the grass Is coming up and making the hills look green and nice. Ar
 irving in Skull valley. We found ,bc farmer,
 all busy blowing. There Nill hc morc l,ui
 pluwed there this year than ever before. We
 stopped iu the valley for the night and near { lv killed ourselves drinking mliA aud eating
 eggs. Next morning We started with thc determination of going through tu NIcken-
 burg, and made very good time until we rca:nrd Peoples Valley when an invitation to drink some more milk caused us to dis
 mount and rest for a couple ui huut>, during
 which time we took look around tbc val. ley. and here as elsewhere, VIC found all 1 hands blowing all the old land thoy had ever ! plowcd before, and breaking a great deal of new There are great many new corners m the valley, among whom wu noticed Tom 1 Hodge.
 { Again we start, taking the new rDad down ! Antelope creek. which is in good condition, and most of tue travel goes that way that ! iS, light teams, the curves on the grade are 1 too short to allow a large, heavy loaded team ! tO come up but, with the expenditure uf a small sum it could be made good road for ! the largest teams. Arriving at Geo II. Will 1 sons on Antelope Greek, we found hm To cated in a canvas house, but good natured ! He has built caiun house three times ! during the last three months, and every { time II hls washed down: hut he is nd, caSi- ! ly discouraged, as be has men at work mak-
 ing adobcs for an adobe house. We hal in ! tended to stop here only few minutes, but ! as 1t looked like rain, and ] got a sniff from 1 a pot that Wilson was experimenting on the | stove, and we concluded to stay all night. ! While waiting for supper l went down and i visited the arrastras, which arc now working l rock from an cxtention on the Great Sexton mine, which is paying big. We met hero | Mir. C. r. Stanton who, we understand, has ! iive-stamp mill on the way, which he de- ! signs putting up on the creek and crush rock l from the Great Sexton, of which he is owner.
 We also met Messs Randall, Quin!an and | Donard, who arc sinking q shaft in search oi an old channel of Antelope creek, they were down about ten feet with good prospects of
 success.
 The whole country here, is covered with l flowers of all colors, 50 that the hills look
 like large boquets.
 Next morning, after a breakfast that
 would have done credit to Delmonico, we | took leave of our friend Wilson, who, by the
 way, is the best staiion-keeper ever met,
 and started for ickcnburg-cTossing the | plains between Antelope and Wickenburg
 we found the green grass knee high. Here is
 a country of nearly loo miles square covered
 with the best of grass, with nothing to eat | it. It made me feel rather melancholy to
 think what fortune l was losing by not having stock to eat that grass. We arrived
 at Wickenburg about noon, q noticed that my companion always get to ranch or town
 abont meal time) where we found several
 old friends and residenters of that town. | We also met several gentlemen from the | lIumbug mines, who were in town for sup plies. They reported every body as making l money arrAstrsing out there.
 We visited George Bryan and found him | improving very fast and expecting to be ul ! in few days. We stopped in Wickenbure two days and during wlich time we met sev ' eral Prescottites on their way to Phnnix | Then we made start for Prescott, wher,
 we arrived Monday evening after very
 pleasant trip of six days. II. 4. L.