Arizona citizen., 1877-10-13
Picket Post, PInaI County.
From Sentinel October 6:

From Sentinel October 6:
 Picket Post has, since the develop ment of the Silver King mine, become a spot of considerable importance. Ii is charmingly located on the bank of Queen creek, which supplies it with plenty of delicious water and nOurish- es willows and cottonwoods that afford welcome shade and gladden. the eye with their verdure. Two tri-weekly lines of stages connect it with Flor. ence, twenty-five miles distant, supply it with newspapers and keep alive it's interests in the affairs of the outer world. Here is located the mill of the Silver King company, now running 5stamps but shortly 10 be increased to run of ten. Recent mining discov. cries have made it base of operations in several directions, and will make it's importance permanent. It lies at the edge of basin surrounded by promi. nent landmarks and at the very foot of curious mountain, upon which Gen, Stoneman at one time proposed to es- tablish a looking glass signal station The general appearance of this noun tain indicates a formation Oflava piled up in horizontal strata. IL is probably the plug of an C. tinct volcano and oc. cupies the former crater. As the vol canO subsided the lava in it's crater cooled and solidiied in the compact solid mass now standing there. The overflow oxidized, crumbled, and with the scoria and ashes, has been decom- posed and washed away into the val leys, until of the lips and sides of the crater nothing remains in place.
 On the tops of the higher hills evi- dences still abound of volcanic flow Superstition Mountain is a landmark of great prominence, but destitute of the legends promised by its name | Weaver's Needle is a remarkable rock, standing upright like an immense obe- fisk and visible for fifty miles.
 On one side of the basin stand high cliffs, that will always be famous as the scene of one of the last great trag. edies of Crooks Indian war. On top ! of them the troops surprised lot of Indians and stampeded them over the cliffs, over forty were dashed to pieces | on the rocks below, and there still lie their bleaching bones.
 l Grass is abundant around Picket Post and the place revelS in fresh but ter and milk-rare luXuries heretofore | in Arizona mining camps. Cattle have been brought into this country in considerable numbers, and several nice 1 liule ranches are being improved. | Charles Whillow has one which, in Its profusion of ash, walnut and hackbeT- " trees, wild grapevInes and jimpsOn weeds, and in its olu-iashiOned spring house piled with milk pans, for mo- ment make one think himself back in some favored nook of the old eastern States. Besides cattle, ranch and teams, Whitlow has mines of which he feels justly proud. One was shown us from which, under huge croppings of iron and copper, was knocked down for us the specimens of horn silver that grace our cabinet under the label of Silver Bell Mine" But of the mines that surround the thrifty village of Picket Post we cannot write in detail; they are too numerous and too varied i'll their character to be comprehended within the limits of a newspaper arti- cle; they will ere long advertise them selves in bricks or bullion.
 The name IS not pretty one, but to old settlers v abOuDds in tragic mem ories. When StOneman established Camp PIual, a detachment nf soldiers was stationed here to guard communl- cations. and this gave lhe name. IL lies in a former heart of Apache coun- try; the hair breadth escapes and bloody fights that have occurred Tn Its vicinity would fill book.
 Its society is adorned by the pres ence of Bob Conn and other old 1u- ma friends. Here Pete EglOff pounds iron for business and runs saloon for recreation. New buildings are being erected, several families have come in and Picket Post bids fair to soon be- come a town large enough to demand more sonorous and less alllteratlve name.