Arizona weekly miner., 1875-08-06
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Williamson Valley, of which We shall have some
 tninS 10 say in another place. Here we had I
 must excellent dinner, fed the horses and had a
 pleasant interview with the host and Jim Madden
 ai'er winch we took the advice of Horace GreeIy
 una went West, passing the farms of Mr. Bridger
 auu ueorge Ihomas, we paused for moment a,
 tue pacheior residence of Burke & McCulIom
 and received directions to the house of James
 Douglas. That gentleman insisted upon m.
 hooking the team and ending the journey for the
 day, but having desire to see more of the Val.
 ley We begged oil, and were allowed to 20 on a
 promise to return for supper, which promise we
 Kept with scrupulous promptitude The ranch
 oi Ihos Sheridan and John Kite lay next in our
 course where We found the propretors and others
 hauling hay. Williamson Valley well sustains
 Its reputation as the great hay-producing dis
 trict of favapai. There are miles and miles of
 beautiful meadow land all along what is known
 as the Williamson Valley wash, all thickly set
 with wild grasses.
 | w. II. Cook, lately arrived from California
 with his family, has bought the Jim Madden
 place and removed the house to a beautiful grove | of walnut trees, where he is preparing to build new and large residence this, without
 wishing to depreciate the beauty of others, Is,
 We think, by all odds the handsomest place In tue
 Valley. An extensive grove of large walnut
 trees hanging full of nuts and we'll of pure. cold water are not tue least of its attractions.
 nor yet the greatest, for a very intelligent lady
 and four handsome children in . neiyhborbood
 hitherto noted for the great proportion of it's
 bachelor residents, come like a ray of sunshine
 to illumine a dark; place
 We drove thence to Robert Nash's place. but
 hndng no one at home passed on out of the Val
 Icy, over succession of juniper-covered hills and down into another valley, to the new house of MT. $. T. Jordan, who has recently arrived
 with his family and settled on little stream which, out of respect to him as its pioneer settler
 may as well be called the Jordan Here is d world of stock range and MT. Jordan having se- cured the water commands miles of it. Proceed. ing westward along "Jordans stormy banks" we went in search of the newly established camps of Messrs. Pittman and Christie but missed the road and had to return withO It finding them | Being admonishcd by the suns decline of the ap. proach Of the supper hour, we quckened our | paceand reached Mir. Douglas ranch inst in time | to enjoy real feast of good things which Mrs | D. had prepared for us. Mir. Douglas has good | ranch and a fine stock of cattle and horses He | is going 10 work to build new house, which he l really needs, and then with his wife, daughter, son, fine stock, splendid farm and surrounded by | pleasant neighbors, he ought to be happy for the remainder of his life. After supper we went to the school meeting at Burke tS McCullum's and | thence to Simmons station, where we were right glad to find good lodgings for the night, for we were tired.
 The ranches wanted to see and didn't for want of time were those of Phil Mcdonald & Jesse Ellis, Henry Clack, Tom Flornoy, James and Norman Marlow, N Bagley and Jas S Cook.
 After breakfast we continued on to the east ward, passing the ranches of Stephen Breon, Lou Anderson, Sam Rowley, George Harlow, Jessy Ellis, Alferd Zimmerman, Jack Earle, Jerry w l Sullivan, MT. Quigley and w. w. Standifer At examined their extensive cheese works and cellar. In the latter were between forty and fifty large cheese, some of which weigh over forty pounds each. This cheese is becoming very popular in the Prescott market, and promises 10 be agreat source of profit to these good people. We hardly dare trust our pen to describe that "blessed baby" of which we had heard so much, but really we felt like employing the language of the Queen of Shcba when she beheld the splendor of Solo, , mons Court, "The half had not been told" It is beauty, and a marvel of physical development. We're in the family business our first negotia. ion would be for cheese ranch. The burden ,f Judge Carttcr's conversation after we left here was the effect of cheese infantile life, i md we thought we detected covetous inclina- ion to possess himself of few acres of the lake ( ands of our friend Standifer, which appear to be I,,;r .,I ,ta nfo
 Williamson Valley is ihe freshest and greenest . pot we have seen in Arizona, The large extent , fl meadow land has much to do in rendering it and this is well backed and sustained " waiving fields of excellent corn that grow I rithout artificial irrigation the soil being sufi iently moist near the wash or dry bed, which at a igh water seems to drain the Valley. [ Between Williamson and Chino Valleys the s md is arid and dry, yet tho hills we'll } oycred with grass, and when means shall V c found to bring water to the surface for the use F f stock the range will be valuable. n Having an eye on the main chance we govern d our movements so as to arrive at the farm a ouse of George Banghart, Esq, in Chino Val ", just in time for hearty dinner, the quality which so many of our readers haze so often ,sted that we need hardly mention it. This is utter ranch, of which they make large 9uanti- es and of excellent quality. Mrs. B. regards u le butter business as quite remunerative as heese and not attended with much hard work.
 From here went on foot with Mir. B. to the s leep ranch of John H. Marion, about mile and ., half distant at the mouth of Granite Creek. |, he sheep were out on the range and we did not a ee them, but were assured that they were doing n ell. barring raid made into the corral few r. ghts since by catamount or wildcat of some d escriptiou which slew six before the herder was nj ware of Its presence. John has an excellent n, leep range bounded only by the capacity of his F., ,cks to travel to and from the water. He holds e only watering place for many miles, and is monarch of all he can survey with " glass. y' But as intimatcd in the beginning of this arti of e, we saw too much on this trip 10 do any of it GU stice and will close this cursory glance by a r, p home on Monday forenoon by way of f' loughs limekilns and Curtis watermelon tch on Granite Creek. Clough has one kiln adv to draw and Is filling the other. Curtis Fl elons are ripe and we tried their quality, which , i'm in, fNur larr