Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-08-12

The following letter came from the
west on last Saturday. 1t must have
been to California. Although rather
old, We give it a place:
SPRINGERvILLE July 8, 1876.
EDITOR CITIZEN: All goes merry as
a marriage bell in this remote district :;
marriage appears to to be the order
and good order tOO-of the day.
Your correspondent had the pleasure
of tying the knot for the first couple
that ever were spliced in this valley
barring the ancients. On the 22d ulti-
timo, Mr.. Asa Walker and Miss Sarah
Humphrey were, with their mutual
consent, made supremacy happy, as
happiness goes in this world, and /
had the happiness @ of being the Off
cial in perfecting said happiness. The
happy bride Is the youngest daughter
of Mr.. Killion Humphrey, and the su-
perlatively happy bridegroom Is the
ahem! Quien sabe! Suffice to say, he
Is now luxuriating in clover. The
wedding took place at the residence of
Mr.. Alexander Jordon, sOn-in-law of
Mr.. and Mrs. Humphrey, and it was
one of those old fashioned country
gatherings which we read about. Mr..
and Mrs. JOrdOn dispensed their hos
FATALITIES to the assembled guests in a.
manner that did ones soul good, in a.
genuine old frontier style. The usual
wedding cake was cut, and Mr.. Julius
Becker son of Northumberland
in bowl Of punch tastefully decorat-
ed, and all drank long life and much
happiness to the newly welded pair.
Oh, the trout, the beautiful trout
whose aroma is in every ones snout.
w. r. Milligan, John Walker, (ourI
Walker,) Julian Chavis and myself,
took a short trip up into the noun
tains TO fish and hunt, and by so doing
spend the ever to be remembered Cen
tennial Fourth of July. We made our
camp at the foot of "Old Badly
Sierra Blanca, and for the short time
that we remained there, had splendid
time. Milligan and Walker took any
number Of the speckled beauties,
while yours being q true Nimrod,
sought after nObler game, such as bear,
deer, turkey, etc, of which there were
an abundance. / might say how many
deer and bear l killed, but will not do
so, for it would look like Boosting.
Mr.. Milligan is still at work on his
mill-house, the walls of which are of
stone and two feet thick. Mr.. W. Adj
ans does the masonry in q very salts
factory manner There is cOnsidera-
bic building going on in the new town
of Springerville, and outside of my
self, other parties will have erected
several good houses by the end of this
month.
The rainy season has fairly set in
and crops look splendid after each af-
ternoOn shower. Mr.. Henry Springer,
now in Albuquerque, sent out five
large wagons loaded with merchandise
for his branch-house in Springerville
Our Walker has charge Of the store
and the business at this place. Mr.
Springer made happy choice, as John
is one of the best of men to be found
any where outside the church.
Last year, to show the yield of the
soil, Don DIonicio Baca, raised, gath
cred and thrashed s.S65 pounds of bar
ley Off of two and u half acres.
Everybody's barley looks fine, and
and especially Mr.. o. W. McCullough's,
who has, perhaps, the finest field OF
that grain of any one in the valley.
An accidental drowning occurred at
Mr.. Johns a few days ago. Miss Cru
citO Romero, sister of Don Antonio
| Romero, was drowned while bathing
in the Colorado Chiquito. Miss Ro-
nero was about eighteen years of age
there was no one present. except the
little daughter of Don Marco Baca Y
IPadilla, that was able to render any
assistance, and before any one could
get to her, she was passed resuscIta-
ton.
From parties just in from Camp
Apache, l learn that that post was Wis
tied by a terrific wind-storm, which
blew the roof off the new hospital
building, and blew down house of
Don Antonio Gonzales, also several
other buildings were more or less dam
aged. The day after the wind-stOrm
a fire broke out in the carpenter shop
and burnt it; also the blacksmith and
other shops belonging to Uncle Sam.
c. A. FRANKLIN