Salt River herald., 1878-09-07
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MiHcr as follows: l. hasibccn rain ing heavily for several days past. and the country gencrallyis flooded with water. The mail road is wash ed so badly that there are perpen- dicular pitches Of five and six feet. The mail carrier who has just come in from Navajo Springs says he had to camp two days and one night on the high lands, by the side of a stream that in ordinary times is scarcely greater than a Till. Ser geant Bothwell, from toward Camp Apache, has been kept here unable to proceed on account ofhigh water. Jeff Ryan undertook to take a mail bag east, got into a creek and mar rowly escaped losing his life. | With great difficulty he succeeded | in getting out with his team and the mail. The drivers of the buck boards have all displayed great courage and endured much. The flood is nearly as great as that of 1861.
 We take the following from the ! Sentinel: Ex-Governor Stafford has arrived in Yuma from Washington. ] While .here he declared very posi- lively that he should not under any circumstances come before the peo- pie as a candidate for office; that his private affairs now demand his attention to such an extent as to forbid his taking any farther inter- est in politics than is the duty Of every citizen. He was very posi- tive that the Southern Pacific com panv would begin pushing their railroad from Yuma into the interior within a comparatively short time; and gave good reasons for that be- lief lie thinks Tom Scott will not renew the fight next winter. He reports that great interest is being taken by Eastem people in tue mines of Arizona.
 ETiacr: Two mermaids might have been seen splashing the limpid waters of Granite creek yesterday just as the setting sun renders the . greatest length 10 the shadow of l the cottonwood that line and pro- tect the banks of that enchan. ed stream. Their gambling was un- | restrained, and their antics were as varied as the performances in q frst-class circus, and only for the sudden appearance of the maternal guardian of those nymphs probably they would have keptUp their rev elry to a much later hour The sound of shingle might have been heard above the wells of those two amphib.ous juveniles SIS their speed increased al every jump until th, fa.aily door shut of from obserya. ton the exciting scene.
 Tucson iSfar: We learn will great pleasure from contractor Grif filth that quick transit of mails be. tween Yuma and Tucson has beer arranged with the Post-Ohice De partment, and that 1Iessrs. kcren. l * Griffith have now enroutc iron California new stock which upon il. arrival in a few days will enabl, them to make the trip in less thal three days. The old bid has beer set aside and they are now paid ; reasonable price for their services ID. C. Stevens, who is now in th' city, will act as superintendent O the route. He has served the com pany for years in the same capacity on the Texas end of the line.
 . Los Angeles Hcrd7d; While th, casual visitor, who stops of for { day, may report Arizona as in tLc plight of the rest of the country viz., dull, the fact is that merchant! who have dealings with that Terri tory report that its citizens are thc most reliable paymastcrs in tht whole range of their customers. Ar izona is making steady progress
 and, fit be true that railway oper ations from the Colorado eastwar, will begin with vigor this winter we shall shortly be called upon t, chronicle splendid achievements il that section.
 Another mail contract farce i
 thus spoken ol by the liiacy: Tho Prescott and Santa Fe mail rout has been awarded to one McDraugl for the sum of S13,3I3 a year. I'm present company is getting s42,22i l a year. tt will cost at least S15, GOO to fit up along the route [, transport the mail as the law re quir.s and as the present contract ors are doing. Persons who know estimate that lhc mail cannot be car ricd over this route, according t the requirements of the contract, lo less than S3O,O00
 The 1Imcr of Aug. 50 says The Peek stage arrived yestcrda,