The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-16
THE SENTINEL.
SATURDAY .: June 16
Greenwood.

HIS tOWn Tn MOnaVe county
 has in and around it some 400 people. It is pleasantly situated
 on the Big Sandy. The climate Is excellent, and it is the very heart of rich mineral and graz
 ing country. Along the river are
 many ranches, which will always supply it with the best of fruit and vegetables; and there is plenty of land and water for
 many more farms along the val
 ley. Tom D'Spain showed this
 season field of as fine grain as
 ever grew. Clark's ranch has
 grown to perfection all the many
 crops and fruits that have been
 tried upon it. A tobacco plant
 now stands there which has lived
 through the winter and has grown almost into a tree-little frost
 there. Choice meats, butter ard
 vegetables are among the luxu- ries constantly enjoyed by this mining town. Ii lies on the main
 route of travel through Mohave County. The country dependent on it now supports many large herds of cattle and sheep, and has room for thousands more. No stranger can go into it without being struck with the air of viz orous thrift which pervades it. Greenwood would be always a prosperous village, were never a mine near it.. but as it feeds a country rich in minerals, in addi- tiOn to it's other re sources it is destined to become one of the prominent towns of Arizona. The McCrackini mine alone is enough to build upra city, but the trade of Cedar Valley and other rich camps is also controlled here. From the latter district constant shipments are being made of'rich ores and of gold and silver bull lion, worked out by arrastra and barrel process. Two large black smith shops are fenced in by wag- ons waiting their turn for re- pairs. New buildings are being erected. The cheery chatter, day and night, of a stamp mill gives Greenwood constant assur. ance that the stream into her cofferS of wealth from that source IS unceastng. So well has the McCrackin Company done with this mill that they propose put ting up another without delay. The Signal Company has large force of mechanics at work put ting up fine new ten stamp mill just below town. The Davis House is we'll patronized, offers the traveller daintiiy clean beds, a luxurious table, and gives him an undefinable feeling of being in a refined home. Heavy stocks of goods are carried by Solomon &
 Meyers, Kimble Bros. and Levy & Koshland, Money is plenty, business on cash basis, and no one seems to have use for book keepers. A good physician is
 there, but the health of the place gives him little to do. There are no lawyers there: the people are law. abiding and cobwebs hang on the scales of justice. If any of our readers think this description. of Greenwood is overdraWn,
 personal inspection of the place will convince them to the con- trary. The town is reached by Doling's four wagons from
 Ehrenberg. Many old Arizo- mans and YumeN0s are now re- pairing their shattered fortunes
 there. Dan Conger and Johnny McCann are there, eager for Yuma gossip. Fatty Smith andl John Cody have two of the incest
 saloons in the county. Nash and Geo. Matlock, and Creed Bryan are hauling ore from the Me
 Crackin-but we cannot name them all. The most disgraceful
 matter remains to be told. Here is a community of over 400 peo- pie, building up a prosperous set- tlement and actually shipping some $50,000 per month in bullion and ores, entirely destitute of mail facilities. But for her own en- terprise, Greenwood would get no papers or letters at all. Over I S1.000 per year is paid by her citi- zens, in sums of from S2 50 to S1OI per month each to employ private mail carriers. We have taken measures that we believe will soon change this state of things. Greenwood shall have the SEN TINEL regularly, even if it bursts every mail contractor in Arizona. The place is off the routes fol- ] lowed by the superficial travellers who have been writing up Ari. zona, and is legs widely known than many other points here of 1 less importance. It has just built ! itself up on merit, and without l any advertising whatever.