Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-29
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENT.
PHGNIx, Arizona, Dec. 24, 1s'


 Guilford Hathaway, Robt. Plumridge, Joh
 Dobbs, Charley Young, another gentleman
 (whose name I have not learned) and tn
 writer, arrived here, right sides up with care
 in the afternoon of the esd inst We lief
 Prescott in the forenoon of Thursday, De
 cembcr 21, so you see, we were little les
 than three days en route to this place. WI
 travelled by what is known as the Blacl
 Canyon. route, which, as most readers o
 the MINER know, is somewhat shorter thai
 that cia Wickenburg.
 Leaving Prescott with little capital, bu
 with great hops of soon acquiring sS.ne, W
 bade our friends adieu ana soon found our
 selves rattling Ssst Fort whipple,-tht headquarte-'of the Military Department O
 Arizc.x,--where we espied a magnificent P rssarry banner floating in front of Gen / Kautz's office.
 Whipple you know, or ought to, if you don't, is one of the largest, neatest and most comfortable of frontier posts. It was so ir the days of Gen. Crook, and is much more so at present, under his worthy successor Gen. Kautz, who has constructed, at small cost to Government, very fine hospital new headquarter residences and several other buildings that would do credit to any place. It used to be one mile from Pres colt. but is SO no longer owing to the recent rapid extension of the town in the direction of the post, which, in few years must be- come near suburb, if not an actual part of the town.
 For the information of MINER readers unacquainted with Whipple, we will say that the Jort is not all that fort should be. It is not fortified, but is merely large col lection of houses, stables, corrals, &c. The houses are almost every shape and size materials used in their construction, wood, stone, adobe and pics. The officers new quarters and the new hospital are among the finest buildings in the Territory. All the other buildings present very neat appear ance, so that the post is really gem of beauty and joy, in one of the handsomest mountain valleys of Arizona. Granite Creek, which affords abundance of water for town, post and outlying settlements, runs along its western line. Its waters are shaded by great pines and cottonwood trees, clumps of black walnut, ash and diminutive forests of willow.
 Our vehicle, which had done good service as an A. & N. NJ. express coach, was soon whirled around point of mountain, by four of Hathaway's best horses, shutting us out of view of Whipple, Prescott, Miller Valley, and the great mountains around Prescott. We were now fully on our way and soon passed the old quartz ledge, near which Indians used to waylay people in the early days. It was here they attacked J. c. Lennon, and Sugar Foot Jack" who saved their lives by making good use of their legs. A little way beyond, on a side hill, Jerome Calkins, Piatt and others were attacked
 The spring at which old prospectors and miners used to moisten their lips after a trip from Big Bug or Lynx Creeks is still in the old place; but. Spirit of Progress, near to it is the slaughter-house of c. T. Rogers & Co, butchers of Prescott. While gazing upon it, memories of old rushed to our brain; we thought of our trips by it in 1864, '65 and 66; sometimes alone; again with one or two companions; we recollected how, "while kneeling down to take drink" we used to keep one eye on the water, the other on the brush, for fear some Indian might catch us with both eyes shut. Hap py, "brave old days" gone, gone, never, we hope, to return.
 Our road soon turrfed to the east, over pretty high hills, down which our carriage rolled with great speed. Behind us lay that most beautiful of mountains-Granite; on our right, the hills and mountains of Lysx | Creek and Big Bug, where hardy miners were at work, robbing rock and gravel of | their treasures. We passed the Bulwhacker pr Salvador mine and saw two men at work | ,n the windlass, hoisting the rich gold ore for which the mine is famous.
 Lynx Creek was the next place of inter- sst that appeared to us. It came near being 'ur final stopping place on Earth, for, as 'ur carriage was rolling down the steep de- ,livity, on the Prescott side of the Creek, all lands and the driver became somewhat Harmed at its rapid motion. The person whose duty it was to see that everything ras in order, previous to starting, had neg ected to put feathers on the breaks, and here we were, taking a real old Horace Ireeley ride. The driver, Charley Young, i'd everything that man could have done to we the ''outfit," and did so at the peril of is own life. He guided horses and vehi- e over very narrow bridge and, seeing eep, rocky and dangerous chasm before in, (a leap into which would have been tai to men and animals), high ledge of ! Ird rock on the left, Ca bump against | hich would have smashed passengers, q es and vehiclel, 6 tree, little to the Q SI- these breakers, which proved to be a (