Arizona weekly miner., 1877-04-20
LETTER FROM PHGNIN.

"local items differentiated out of social blo- plasm" in this locality, and probably such will be the case until harvest. IL IS mat ter of great interest to the local farmer to ride bv his neighbor's wheat field and com pare the stand of grain, the size al heads, and even to count the grains ot wheat per head. A count of this kind to-day, m Mal. C. II. Veirs field, resulted in showing 70 kernels of wheat we'll developed, on one stalk This is extreme of course, but serl- ouSly. the proSpects of a large crop was never better in this valley. There i> a large acreage both of barley and wheat, and this sea,on has beel exceptionally favorable. II there is no slip, Salt River and the Gila will be able ia supply the expected influx of fortune-hunters th;s year, without an ap- peal to New Mexico or California.
 But aside from our interest in the crops, there is little to stir the sluggish current oi our lives. The District Court has come and gone; that is. the new Judge, Hon. DeFor- est Porter has, with commendable alacrIty and quiet pertinacity, called case after case and refused to see why they should be continued; so that. in scarce more than week from his advent amoDg Us, his docket was cleared; and having invested in real estate in aud about Ph9nix, he betnok him. self back to Yuma, almost before the various criminals whom he had sentenced.
 Phoenix can boast an equality, if not su- periority. of Prescott in one thing,--thc n security of her jail The Board of Super visors have wisely concluded it was cheaper to board out our prisoners than Ia guard them here. Louis Davis was sent this week, with thers, tn serie out his term in the county jail of Yuma.
 We hear that our reputation for smallpox is extensive in and about Prescott The IT, port of the health officer shows no case ot the disease iu the town or suburbs, but since that report was circulated. Som me weeks since. solitary case-that of Mexican child-has been known. The scare k over, and timid ones now breathe more freely.
 1t never rains, but it pours' is an old adage-not very true here, but true with re- gard 10 newspaper enterprise. Growing up in ignorance or borrowed eruditiOn, Phg nix has never had paper, and few ncwspa- per men have favored or bored Us with solicitations But Chronicle agent came through, and the ball was set a-rolling Next came your enterprising, whole-sou ed representa- i've, C. NJ. Daley. who allowed none to escape him, and the large increase in the circulation of the MINER in this sec ton testifies to the fact that we have read ing public q we have anything to read. Bancroft, of the Enterprise, followed, and now subscription k almost full for the purpose of starting paper of our own.
 To-day inaugurateS another era of pro gress. The California and Arizona Stage Company begin tri-weekly line of stage and mail. We shall really be obliged HOW to 20 10 the postoffice daily, as We shall have mail up one day. and down the next. Wonder how long il will be before we have street letter-carrers
 But while we rejoice at the occasion of mail facilities. the whole community k thrown into a fearful state of mind by the closing of our telegraph office, and the de parture of (. M. Clark. the operator, for Florence, owing to the illness (small-poXl of the operator there. We all look ear nestly for his speedy return; for, besides his many qualifications as an electrician and business man, is he not the light and life oi the dramatic circle, who are StIaining every nerve to increa- c the Sunday School Library. Speaking of Libraries, X. Goldman or dered some 200 volumes from san Fran cisco, for the Library Club of PhgniX. We expect them here ih about q week. together with MT. Goldman's goods to the amount ot $30.000. MT. G. will start d branch store at Tempe next week
 The "Desert Land Act" has inspired some of our leading citizens to action. and several have already made GAO acre locations. white others are talking of it.
 Mining is dull here compared with Yava- paia, but coal mine located by Dr. Thi- bido and II. C. Mcdonald, bids fair to have some influence in the civilization of this county.
 A protest against the road commis- sioners' location of the road from Ph9aix h.. l,T., II