The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-10-05
ARIZONA, BY COL. HODGE.

Pinal, and Pima.
 Yuma County is in ihe southwestern part of the Territory. and has population ot 2,2l2. The populations given of the towns and counties are taken from the Territorial census of July, 1876.
 The county town of Yuma County iS Yuma, which Was formerly known as Arl- zona City. lis population Is about l,5Oo. Yuma k situated on the east or Jeff bank of the Colorado river, at it's junction with the Gila river. IL is ID miles above the head of the Cuff of California, eight miles above the line oi Lower California, and twenty miles above the sonora line.
 Yuma j. thc principal shipping and com melcial town oi the Territory. being the point where large portion of the goods and merchandise entering the country ls unloadcl from the steamers of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company. From Yuma they are shipped by wagon to Ph1nlN, Florence, Tucson. and the many mining camps in Central and Southern Arizona. That taken to the northern part of the Ter ritory Is taken by river steamers to Castle Dome, Ehrenburg Aubrey. Camp Mohave, and Hardyyillc, and thence to Prescott, Wickenburg, and other interior towns, and elsewhere aS required.
 At Yuma Is the Territorial Prison, which is now partly completed, and when fully completed according to the plans and Spccl- fcations. will be a model of strength, utility, and architectural beauty. Among the other important buildings are the county court house. jail. public school-houSe, Cathohc school house two hotels, printing office, anu a large number of fine stores, saloons, and private dwellings. The Sentinel, wide awake newsper. is well established al Yuma, and thoroughly devoted 10 the interests oi the county and Territory. IL k now under the management ot George l.. IEnC, Esq an independent and thorough journalist. For several wears il was under the manage ment and control of Judge Wm. J. Berry. who was an able editor and a most genial gentleman.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad of Cali fornia will cross the river at Yuma, which will add much to the prosperity of the place, connecting it with San Diego on the Ia citic. and with all the great cities ot the Mississippi and Atlantic States.
 Castle Dome Landing is thirty miles above Yuma. at which an active little town is springing up. and from which point the Castle Dome mines, fifteen miles distant, are supplied. X store and post-oiiice Is kept here by Wm. P. Miller, who has also smelting furnace in successful operation. Large quantities of argcntiferous galena, and copper ores. are shipped from Castle Dome Landing to San Francisco. Popula- ton about DO.
 Ehrcnherc IS a brisk town l30 miles above Yuma, and next to Yuma the largest shipping town on the Colorado River The popultioui is about 800. Most of the freight for Prescott Wickcnbur~, and the country east is transshipped at this town. There Is q public school, Catholic church, general stage offices of the California and Arzona Stage Company Several fine stores and private dwellings may be found here.
 .'Ehrenberg is the present crossing of the Colorado River of the California and Arl- zona Stage Line, from the Southern Paclhc Railroad to Prescott. and other points m the interior. The annual safes ot the mer- chants of Ehrcnberg aggregate about S%OO, 900. The principal firms are J. VI. Bar ncy. I Goldwatcr & Brother, J. M. Caste nado and Juan Noli.
 Mohavc County k in the northwestern part of the Territory, and north oi the Bill Williams Fork that stream being the dIyl- dinp line between Mohavc and Yuma coun- ties. The county town is Mineral Park, fhe largest town in the county, wltha popu- iation of about 900. has a iive-stamp quartz mill. public school-house, post-oiiice' several stores, saloons, and private d~el- huas. and i, the centre oi rlch and eXten- .sive mining country.
 Cerbat k a small town in the southwest eru spurs Cf the Cer5at Mountains, SIX miles north of Mineral Park, and thirty-tive miles from Hardvviileon the Colorado river, the population being 100.
 Blackberry Is 60 neN and prospcrlng min ;no ,own iu the Peacock Mountains, thirty mics east of Minera. Park. The celebrated Hscsbcrry mine is the cause and tonnda- ton ot it's prosperity.
 Greenwood is a fine little hamlet village nj, ,he Sandy Creek. ia the southern part of ,bc county. twelve mics east from the ccle- brated NcCrackin mine, and the location oi Sts ouartZ mil. the working or which has buiit up town of loo inhabitants. Hack berry and Greenwood have each a lew stores restaurants. saloons, etc.
 Al McCrackin HlIl and mine there are ,bout loo inhabitants. and ai Planet, twenty miles west. about score. Aubrey Land ;nlr ;s two hundred and thirty-tve miles above Yuma. and the landing for goods, merChanulZe. anu iu4AtAS SHiP''NN' AN' ''' McCrackin and Sandy districts
 Hardyville is the present upper terminus of the river navigation. and tine great cross ino point for immigrants from California Ii is three hunured and thiIty-seven miles above Yuma, and five hundred and thirteen miles above the head of the Gulf of Call fornia. It is quite an important place being the point of transshipmcnt oi freight for Mineral Park, Ccrbat. Blackberry, ana ,other points in the interior. '
 Yavapai County embraces the whole oi i central ana northeastern Arizona, an lm- melse extent of territory embracing an area of country larger than the States of New Uampshirc. Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode i Island. Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland, or about titty-iive thousand square miles. The population IS lS,l3S, nearly onc-halt of that ot the whole Ter ritory. It k fast increasing in population, and the immigrants are of the better class, consisting 10 grcat degree of families who come to stay and to build up homes.
 Prescott. the county town, and by an act of the Territorial Legislature, January, lS'', | once more made the Capital of the Terri tory. is a, beautiful a mountain town as can be found oH ;hc Pacific slope. It has a population of $500. consisting almost wholely of white people of the better class. IL is surrounded by mountains on all sides, which are covered with forests of pine and other timber Tho town k well laid out on the eastern side of Granite Creek. one Of the tributaries of the Verde River. An ad dition has been laid out by Judge Fleury,
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