Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-08-05
Arrival of Boston CoIonists.

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following interesting communication
to The Herald at Silver CITY:
MERGERS Anzona Company left Bos
ton, June first spent the second at tn,
/ Centennial Exhibition at Philadel
phIa, and the fourth at st. Louis. The,
arrived at Pueblo, Colorado, on the
fifth, and El Moro, Colorado. on tho
sixth Of June. The arrangements wer,
made by the Pennsylvania Central and
were complete in every respect Al
Ell Moro the<party remained in camp
/ till June t4enty-second, purchasing
horses, provisions, etc, for their trII
southwark. The principal cause OF
the delay at I'll -Ioro, was that they ar
rived in the midst of the rounding
ing season and horses such as they
wished to purchase, were scarce. AT
ter extraordinary exertions, the cap
tain succeeded in mounting all his
men on such animals as satisfied them
at an average cost of $2S.S6 per man
On June twenty-secOnd, they left FL
Moro and arrived in this city on the
twenty-seventh, some ten DAYS Of the
time being spent in resting and recruit
ing. The route was by way of Las
Vegas, Anton Chico, SOcorro and the
/" North Star " road. ApropOs of this
road, this company prOnounces it a
complete success and that the endeav-
Ors of an interested few to have the
road condemned and broken up as a
route to this part Of the country and
Southern Arizona, are criminal in the
extreme. A few hints as to its better
ment by engineers who accompanied
the party, may not be out of place. In
the Cienega de Los AlamOs, the grade
should be on the left. instead OF the
right; doing away with The corduroy
bridges, which cannot be made to
stand the heavy waters that sweep
down the Cienega. The grading of the
following hills should be rendered less
steep, else it cannot conveniently be
used by heavy freighters, viz: Four
miles south of Diamond creek: Juno
ton of ella and Sapello, and the three
hills into and out of the Black canyon ::
again the road bed of the stream which
flows through it and when this com
pany passed, was so washed that il
was almost impossible. a competent
engineer could in a week make a road
in this part of the pass that would be
permanent Over the entire road
where there are steep grades and turn
offs" there should be macadamized
bitches running diagonally across the
road. BY this means thousands Of doll
lars IN repairs would be saved and the.
first laid road-bed made permanent.
As the waters would be taken off piece
meal and no streams of any magnitude
could be- created, gullies and washes
would be almost unknown. The saw
ing of time, labor and distance is vcryi
great as compared with other routes
To d lover of nature trip over this
route, is sufficient of itself to repay
The traveller. 1t Is well watered, hast
many bold flowing streams in which
trout abound, grass and tim
Der every where, and we are only tool
glad that our ears were closed to the
few on the Rio Grande, who'
OOk especial pains to diSsuade us from
on the North Star road. The
with their heavily freighted |
wagons passed over the entire road
saSily in less than six days. At the
JUNCTION of the North Star with the
DO Caliente road, Magruder's first ex-
press for Santa Fe with 1900 pounds
If silver, was met-twO and a half
lays out. Magruder himself was in
;harge and seemed we'll pleased with
he new route
Of the original company which left
Boston, seven found satisfactory situa-
ions on the road. Among those now
the party are T. Lille Mer-
,er - who originated this movement
md has led it throughout Capt. j.
l. Garter, G. r. Whittier, \. d. Hoops,
;. F. Pond, r. H. Watson, Geo. Atch-
son and others The party left here
morning for Arizona via
pueblo Viejo, where it will divide
,art going to the Pinal mines and the
balance to Southern Arizona. The
ompany is composed generally of the
light sort of metal and are determined
D stick and breast it out and will no
oubt succeed.