Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-29

that it precipitated Charley to the ground
 Johnny Dobbs, who was with him on tn
 drivers seat, sang out, in despair, tha
 Charley was killed; but Charley escaped
 with slight injury to one of his legs, and
 won our esteem by his valiant, dexterou: driving He held on to his horses and bore
 down on the break like unto hero Dohbs
 whose arms and hands were long ago shat
 tered and crippled by Apache bullets, was
 unable to render the driver any assistance
 and would have jumped of the coach had it
 not been for fear Charley would have fol- lowed his example, in which case, Prescott
 would have three more widows, and some
 old bachelars would have cause for rejoicing.
 We. of course, commend him for his
 bravery and foresight. A government am
 bulance, containing Dr. Magruder. the De-
 pertinent Medical Director, other officers and D. c. Thorne, of Prescott, was quite near
 us during our peril. These gentlemen were
 not slow in coming to our assistance, and
 appeared we'll pleased upon learning that
 nobody was seriously isjured One horse
 was thrown down agt famed.
 Sam, a sor<of the Flowcry kingdom, who
 keers-a station at LynR creek, furnished [ the necessary material for making repairs :; we thanked him, clambered up steep hill ard were again rattling lover the hills and far away" The "boys" congratulated one another upon their lucky eacape and saw in it an omen of capital success.
 Spaulding's Station, in Woolsey's Valley, was soon reached Here we met W. S. Head, who was on his way from Verde to Prescott and Tucson. He very wildly list ened to the tale we did unfold, and very politely asked us to revive business in the Station, proposition to which we lent will ling ears. This Station struck us as being an excellent one.
 We followed the old road to Agua Fria Valley, missed every farm save Dicksons and made dry camp on Big Bug. Judge E. w. Wells was found early next morning at his place, one-half mile below our camp; animals were watercd, hitched up, and the procession" started south On. on, we went, over a horrible road, until Swilling's ranch was reached, where we 'greased" and started for New River Station, at which place we arrived even with night
 We saw, on the way, great many new houses, thousands of horses, cattle, sheep and other domestic animals and last, but not least, great many people. This sec tion is fast settling up, and is amply provi- ded with grazing, mining and other resour- ces.
 Judge Wells and his son Frank have fine stock ranch and some good farming land. The old gentleman spoke of the olden time when "we" used to feel for our scalps-a thing that is now quite unneces- sary.
 We took the old mesa road to Black Can yon, and found it, like Jordan, "a hard road to travel" Those who came by the upper, or military road, say it is better.
 Swilling has nice place on the Agua Fria, almost opposite the mouth of Black Canyon Creek. He was not at home, but his wife, children, and nephew-recently from the States-were. He has abundance of land, water, wood and mining claims. Several tons of rich looking silver and gold ores, from mines near by, in Bradshaw were here sacked, awaiting ship ment to Smiths mill at Wickenburg. There are about 50 miners in the district, all of | whom are hopeful of success. They are praying for the erection of mill at some | point in the district One should be put | up there, right away, by some of our Pres colt capitalists. It is too far to haul ores to Wickenburg ria Phoenix.
 New River Station, on river of the same name, is owned and run by John II. Mullen, an old Californian, who showed us speci- mems of gold and silver quarts rock, deer md mountain goat horns and other curiosi- lies. The place is on the edge of the level lesert, yet it was cold as We cared to have 1t when we were there.
 We had long since left tall timber, grass, .tc., behind us and feasted our eyes upon ;acti of every size and shape, mesquite, oalo verde, iron-wood, cottonwood, syca- nore and other trees, yet the grasses were good and plentiful, and the fat sheep, cat le and horses which we encountered showed hat even what is known as the "desert" greed with them. They were fat, very fat. This section abounds in game,-such as leer, rabbits, quail, COWS and 'sich." Coy ties appear to flourish in it, and the clumsy rows appear to have no woes. The coun- " has become level, save here and there or, rather, hill. New River con- aims abundance of good water, in places ye found here some Mormon preachers, n their way south to convert Gentiles to he Salt Lake faith. A six hours drive rought us to Phoenix, the chief town of Taricopa county, of which VIC will speak in UT next. NJ.