Arizona citizen., 1875-09-25
Yavapai County.
From The Miner of September IT

Lieut.. Thomas is driving the mili tary road from here to skull valley with all possible speed. He has ove
 @ hundred men at work, and thost
 who have been at their camp say they
 are making perfect turnpike. They will reach Bowers ranch, 1n Skull
 Valley, i'll about seventeen miles whereas by the present stage route i
 is but little if any less than forty round the granite range by way O
 Tonto Springs. Frank Murray i
 clerk, Dan Lount, foreman, and seve
 ral other citizens have positions in th'
 outfit, and altogether it IS a gooC
 thing for the employment 1t gives t(
 those who want to work, and is going
 to be splendid convenience, not only to freighters of government supple;
 but the goods of merchants and fol
 ranchers to bring their produce tC
 market, as we'll as to shorten the mai
 route some three or four hours. Fol the appropriation of money to enable us to have this accommodation we are indebted to the exertions of ex-Dele- gate Mccormick, who procured il from Congress, and for the prompt execution of the work to Lieut.. Thom- as, under the direction of Gen. Kautz
 The balance of the appropriation will
 be expended on the road to Camp Me Dowell, under the same management, as soon as this is completed.
 E. l.. Alexander, special agent post office department, arrived here Mon- day afternoon by stage from Califor- nia, having come on an order from Washington to look after the Prescott postoffice. He seemed quite pleased to find MT. Adams here ahead of him, as it relieved him of large amount of complicated work which MT. Ad- ans has already performed. MT, Alex ander was in Nevada and Mir. Ad- ans in New Mexico when the news of the dedication reached them, and as Adams was beyond the reach of telegraphs, the department at Wash ington ordered Alexander here. In the meantime Adams happening to stop at Fort Selden, New Mexico, as- certained by the merest accident, through a letter from Gen. Kautz to Lieut.. Conrad, that the postmaster at Prescott had absconded, and hastened with all possible dispatch to this place. AS they hold commissions of equal rank, 1t Is a matter of no conse- quence which does the business, and we are quite pleased with the prompt ness with which they have come to the rescue. If we didn't have de- falcation occasionally we should for get that there were any postal agents.
 Since our last issue, Postal Agent Adams has received from Deputy Marshal Parker sufficient means, of the money taken from Giles and Mee- han, to resume payment of money or dcrs presented here and is selling or ders to be paid elsewhere. There are some other money and property to be turned over to the department besides the fixtures in the office belonging to Giles, and for which he will be enti- tied to credit, which, the agent in forms us, will reduce the dedication below $4000.
 "Oriental " is the name of the mine discovered by George Hogle in which Gen. Kautz and J. Rosenthal are in- terested, and which we enormously called "Orient '- in apr lust issue. MT. Rosenthal has purchased con- plete outfit of miners supplies and sent out gang of men to go to work on it. He hopes 10 be able to soon make q shipment of every high grade ore from the Oriental. 1t lies quite near the Peck and Silver Prince, and bears the same character of ore as that which Mir. Rosenthal paid $1.300 a ton for last week.
 We have this week seen several specimens from the PGck and Silver Prince mines richer than anything that has hitherto been brought in from those rich deposits. Two large ones brought on the pack train and left at Hutchinson & Thorne's will weigh forty or fifty pounds each and have the appearance of being half silver. Several small pieces from the Prince gre much richer-golng, we should think, as high as eighty or ninety per cent.
 Dr. W. W. Jones, Centennial Agent for Arizona, is on a visit to Prescott, and Is enthusiastic in his admiration of the display of rich cres our miners are making. This is the first inter view we have had with the Doctor since the Spring of 1866 at Helena, Montana, and we find he still retains a vivid recollection of the temperature of the weather during the Winter, as. we'll as the rain, mud and snow through which we passed in reaching there after leaving the Columbia river.