Arizona citizen., 1878-10-05
A Flying Trip to Globe and Back.

A Flying Trip to Globe and Back.
 EDITOR CITIZEN At your request ] furnish few notes of flying trip tc Globe City and back.
 The worst thing about Globe is the way to get there. Several routes are al the option of the visitor, but the quick est, surest and most interesting is the one taken by me on a recent visit; viz, by stage to Florence, another stage to the Silver King and thence by pack train to Globe City. J. V. Wilson & Co.'s stage leaves Florence three times week for Silver King, passing through Picket Post, and connects with Saxe's Express Line to Globe. The time made is good, and no stop. ping is allowed except for meal ai Hewitt's, twenty-ene miles from Flor ence Our stage reached the King abo [ 2 p. IT,, and we were immediate ly mounted on mules and carried over the Stoneman grade to the valley be yond, where we camped for the night. Bright and early next morning we were off sgaln on mule-b back, and for the first time had an opportunity to look about The trall is rough and winding in the extreme, and leads for the first five or six miles over and around hills green with grass and with more or less scattered juniper and oak trees. About five miles from our camping ground,
 DEVILS CANYON
 Was reached. Great columns of sand stone, some at least two hundred feet high, stand, in regular lines of battle, as guards at the gate of this inviting spot. Though the descent into the fla bled domains of His Satanic Majesty is proverbially rapid, a cautious de- scent over the smooth, bare rocks of this trail was advised by old Saxe, the leader of the train, and the mules were allowed a relief from the burden of their riders. After passing this can yon, a pleasant ride of some three miles brought us to the Pinal ranch, on the site of old Camp Pinal. Nat urally this is a beautiful spot, at the head of what is probably branch of Pinto creek. The valley is green with new grass, and quite forest of juni- per, oak and pine adds charm. Here Messrs. Buchanan and Iron have estab- lished themselves, and keep station and farm unsurpassed by any in the Territory. They are industrious, go- ahead men, and with the aid of Mrs. and Miss Iron have made a stopping place famed beyond any other in Pi- nal county. Passengers to and from Globe frequently take the rough trail in preference to the stage road by Riv- erside, merely 10 drink the cool, sweet milk and eat the fine, light bread fur nished, with other dainties, at all meals at this station.
 From here the trail leads over hills and into canyons that seem to be put in simply to make up distance, and is often so winding and zig-zag that 1t closely resembles the Kentucky fence that was
 "Going in and going out,
 Something there or thereabout,
 Leaving a person still in doubt
 Whether going in or going out" And was built so crooked that when al hog crawled under from the outside he still found himself on the outside. ForI about four miles nothing can be seen but huge boulders of granite piled in every direction. Ten miles from Pi- nal ranch is the next stopping place,
 THE BLOODY TANKS, The scene of King Woolsey's famous Pinole treaty. At this point the mules are turned out 10 grass, and place in a double.seated springless wagon fur nished. Because it is deemed necessary to get into the wagon in a hurry, that IS no sign that one will get away imme diately-at least we found It SO. Ev- cry experiment tried on baulky horseI was tried on one of the team, from hauling and pushing the wagon to ty ing his tail close to the bit and mak ing him spin about like top, and all without success until rope was plac- ed around his hooks and sawed back and forth till it cut through the hide. That finished him and he left in a hur- ". From the tanks the road leads down the wheat-feld bottom to GlobeI City, distance of about twelve miles.
 GLOBE CITY