The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-31
THuRsDAY.

rHuRsDAY.
 l Robert Garside is furnishing new hay a, the various feed and livery stables.
 John Dixon and John Ehle, of Skull Val ley are building fences around their ranches
 The case of Hill vs. Wilson & Ha skel was called in Justice Gates Court to-day and continued until 10 o'clock tomorrow.
 Two mammoth teams belonging to J. NJ Bryan, took departure for Ehrenberg, thu: morning, heavily laden with lumber, wool etc.
 Wells Coe, of the War Eagle Mine, WAS leading pack-mule through the streets thi. p. m, from which circumstance we infeI that he is preparing for raid into the mountains.
 The Colorado river is said to be quite high and the steamers running up from Yuma encounter a serious obstacle in navi- gating that stream, at present from the swift current.
 The ground is drying up very fast and unless rains come early, say about the 18th or 20rh of June, it is feared that the corn crop of Yavapai County will be limited Grazing, however, all over the county is re- ported to be excellent.
 Yesterday gave us taste of what a sand storm on the desert is like, yet street dust was substituted for sand, and to-day is not much better, only the d0st is all blown away and we now have the wind without the dust.
 Caldwell < Levalley's stage that arrived yesterday brought no bullion from Gillett, the mill having stopped for some necessary repairs. Mir. Levaliey says next trip will make up for the delinquency. The stage left again to-day with but one passenger, but loaded down to the guards with pack ages for people at Gillett, Tiptop and along the route.
 A MT. Edwards, son-in-law to Gen. Vol ney E. Howard, accompanied by young lawyer named Baker, arrived to-day from Los Angeles by private conveyance, and in- tend making Prescott their future place of residence. MT. Edwards formerly served Uncle Sam as Captain in the 9th Cavalry. which position he resigned.
 LUMBER-Our saw mills are turning out large quantities of lumber this Spring, and we should judge, from the twenty thousand feet we saw passing out of town, to-day, that the mill men are getting ready sale for all they manufacture. The fence law has necessitated large purchases by the farmers who either have to inclose their agricultural lands or submit to the crops being destroyed by stock.
 James Stewart, of the c. & A Stage Co, ac- companied by J. Gil mer. the new contractor, left today for the south. They intend to examine the route from here to Yuma ria Kirkland Valley, Old Camp Date Creek, Cuttings and Desert Wells, where they will strike off and prospect for a new route di rict to Yuma, and in the event of finding a passable route they will save about 80 miles in distance.
 Two old timers, who have been away from Prescott eleven years, dropped in to see us this D. m., and like Rip Van Wrinkle, seemed tn expect to find everything just as they had left it. The first inquiry was "Where's, old Meacham, don't he edit the MINER yet. !" Being informed that the scenes of the MINER drama had been shiftsd many times, and that there had been many exits and entrances since MT. Meacham bestrode the tripod, it recalled the fact to their minds that time was really passing, and that they were liv- ing in another decade. The two gentleman SFNc UT sil nS A. 'Viit7mcs oaA A<Ouic Becker, recently from California, but both old residents of Prescott dating back to 1864 and along up to 1867.
 If Michael Goldwater would write book, embracing history of early times in Ari- zona, and including his experience as gov ernment contractor, speculator, etc, in which he was his own messenger through the Indian country, between Lapaz and the various Military Posts, the many Indian attacks, in several of which he was wounded, and still carries the evidences in the shape of scars: the shooting of hls brother by Indians in Skull Valley, and narrow escape of the party with their lives, tricks of the trade in the contracting business, etc. etc, and embeIish it with all the quaint ex- pressions which he uses in telling it to an appreciative crowd like that which listened to him last night in Kearney's reading room, it would sell like hot cakes. It would oc cupy an entirely new place in literature, as no such book has ever been written, and we fear it never will be, but if it tshould it would be the most attractive work ever published about Arizona