The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-10-18
LETTER FBeM EHRENBERG.

T MaricOpa Wells will be lad Tn about thre ; weeks after they commence, and in abou
 three months Ehrvnberg will be doomed T follow old La Paz, to the grave. This what the prophets predict. IL IS sad to SC
 a young, once strong man die of consump ten. So it is a mournfu sight to look a
 the ruins of once populous town. La Pa died, and its ruins will Ill after centu-ie
 be prehistoric; nobody has chronIcled Il the prints of the time its ancient grandeur To spare such a sad fate to Ehrenberg, 1 d write these few lines. As far as the prophe
 cies are concerned, they may at sOm future time prove to be true; but, sir, a long as such large wholesale, retail and for
 waIding concerns, as the Goldwaters where Henry Goldwater Esq, is chief, dC
 not pack uo; as long as J. NJ Barney's es tablishment, where Chas. Vandever pre-
 sides, keeps open and busy; as long as Far
 rington stays and prospers; as long as Com
 modore Bryan's and many others prairie rschooners" spread theIr snow-white wagon
 covers, carrying precious loads over deserts sandya@astes; as long as Ehrenberg needs
 and has, two first-class hotels, two meat markets, two bakeries, two shoe and boot
 manufactures, two ship building establish ments, three or four first-class saloons and
 other places of recreation, the Ehrenberg-
 CTS are not prepared to listen to the funeral oration.
 The steambOats have OT late made more
 trips than they have formerly been accus- toned to make. One boat is up r1ver now the other two went to Yuma few days since One of the boats discharged a quartz mill, on wheels, at our levee, des- tined and gone towards your country, 10 the Orc Bonita mine. believe. X French gentleman was with the mill.
 You may perhaps not have heard that there are ship-building yards at Ehrenberg, but such IS the case-those of J. NJ. Bryan and Leopold Graf. At Bryan's yard, new schooner, to be propelled by mule-steam, was launched a few days ago. IL Is for the Commodores own use; its carrying capaci- ty did not learn. At the Graf works noticed some California gents, taking meas urements, making drawings and taking items generally of one of those ships of the desert, just ready to be launched. This craft is of the capacity of ten ton, was built for the firm of Atkinson & Rusher, ard is destined to be takt in tow by larger one, which was turned out sometime ago from the same establishment, and of which our friend Johnny Rusher is the gentlemanly Captain. Both shops work with full force of operatives. No strike is apprehended.
 Little is said about politics. In Yuma county-that means the Village of Yuma Turk is fighting Russ Ehrenberg does not belong to Yuma county, except couple of months in the Fall ot the year when the taxes are payable. Last year our quota of the School Fund was donated to the Yuma children. The cause bengunknOwn to me, l have to guess, and I guess that some red tape was not tied with Regulation knot, or because there is not one arhue child of school age in the place. Catholic 'greaser' children need no schooling. Our new Pro bate Judge and eX-officio Superintendent of Schools has however seen at once the glaring injustice of that action, and we have now the Ehrenberg High School, un der Professor F. J. Garddo, in a flourish l ing condition, thirty-siX children being | daily in attendance. Eventually this school | atGy beat the Prescott Free Academy.
 Up to date we have not had the honor to i see our aspirants for Delegate honors in our is very easily explained. | The four of them know very we'll that Eh- renberg precinct has the casting vote, and | that he who CRITICS this place is sure to be elected; they all lay back until the very | last moment, when they are expected to arrive in full force to play each of them their last and pest trump, of national politics, one can only hear spoken of in whispers.
 It is surmising that the two Ehrenberg of the Enterprise-Tom l Goodman's ''literary" hog driver and the 'vagabond '-are holding their breath to shout, with full lungs, "The Campbells are Coming" that grand poker" tournament $ contemplated to do honor to our present Delegate; that the Board of School Trus- ees are discussing the propriety of giving | holiday to the school children on the ad- rent of the gentleman from Mohave, and hat the Ehrenberg "Harmoniousn society is "IIail to the Chief,n to greet the nero of Arizona battle fields.
 Meanwhile, and in expectation of coming events, suppose, Johnny Meyers has fixed, 'eftted, e-whitewaShcd, re-pIastered and 'e-painted bis saloon in and outside, and he $ rolling in the barrels of "Fredericks- ,urg" Wm. Smith better known as Mill ary Bib, has quietly slipped away to San Francisco Tor case of "Ifeidsick;n Don Pedro has beaten a good race track between lis saloon and Goldwater's, where you can ee him at almost any time of the day trot- ng his huge "Dem l. John" backwards nd forwards; and Bill Lubeck, tfamilisrly alled Dutch Bib, having choice lot of iquors on hand, is laying in large stock f sweet potatoes and other fruit for the ood time coming. Verify, a jolly time we ill have; Charley, you had better come own with the Colonel
 Yours, truly, FAX
 Ehrenberg, Oct. If, 1878