Arizona silver belt., 1878-12-13
Arizona Silver Belt.
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 Chicage will br astoniShed when
 show them piece of ore weighing
 l06 pounds, which IS estimated to b,
 worth ever S600
 This Riue, with 8 great man,
 JIhets, 1 have secured under Yer,
 favorable teirus and if l am noi
 greatly mistaken, any colnpauy work
 ing them must have large gains.
 sm told on all sides that the Julius
 mine promises as well as the Stone
 wall Jackson mine yielded when t
 was in about the same stage of de-
 velopment. The SsoneWaIl cannot now be bought for less than half a million.
 After having arranged our busi- hess and passed the necessary papers, 1 sook leave ot my many friends in Globe and started on my journey home on the morning of Nov. 1
 Late in tue evening of Nov. , l arrived at Florence, the county seat of Piual county, to which Globe Dis wIct also belongs. 1t vas the night of the election, and l was not hTtle surprised at the amount of excite ment l found gong on. The entire village seemed to oe up and in arms. Party lines are not known here everybody runs independent, and on his own merits, and for every office there was a number of candidates in the field.
 The next day, Nov. 6, had to stay Tn Florence to settle up some business, and for the first time in two months did l see a cloudy sky. To ward noon 1t began to rain, and 1t really kept raining all the rest Of the day. The following morning when 1 left Florence a new surprise awaited me-the tops of Pinal mountains were covered with snow
 The journey to Yuma, which lasted three long days and two still longer nights ID the mail coach, was as dreary as 1t vas tedious and unlnter- esting, still 1t was less burdensome chan It was two months before. The rain had fallen over some sixty miles of the road, and so We did not have t0 suffer from the dust us we did before.
 We again passed through the vile ages of the Pima Indians. On ny journey out I had seen but few of these Indians, and their cabins pre- scented a desolate appearance. But now they swarmed with Indians they all seemed busy in getting ready for the winter. Several cabins were un- roofed, apparently for the reason that they were to be provided with aeW roofs 1 also q number of these Indians on horseback-a really splen- 1 did sight. These fellows are as straight as arrows, aud carry them ] selves elegantly in the saddle. They generally wear red flannel shirts. ] ever which their coarse, black halr hangs down very long, sometimes two or three feet. They hardly ever wear any head covering. for their hair IS their pride. No handsomer ! sight can be imagined than that of- l fered by those sons of the wilderness when they rush in the bright sunlight at lighting speed on sheir fine horses through the mesa, their long hair floating in the ar.
 Near Yuma l also noticed to my surprise, laborers engaged in con- stiactIng the railroad. Tue Southern Pacific Company intends to complete this winter tue roadbed from Yuma to Maricopa Wells, some forty miles west of Florence. and have tue rails lad. That will undoubtedly vastly advance the development of ArIzoDa. i
 From Maricopa Wells to Yum the road IS miserable, the country deso- late, and the land worthless. Att last l got to Yuma Before starting from there l had the good luck to ice an Arizona circus company par lde through the streets There were i've horses in the procession, and Il ;amel carrying on his back an old le goat. The procession was lead , y five musicians, who beat the Chi , lese l bad heard in San Francisco ! y good deal in the matter of dis ,ordant sounds, and the tall end of .he procession was formed by some fifty naked Indians with their sauaws. , Ihe Yuma Indians are not supported ! y the government, neither do they i all the soh, and they roam about Y ;lolhed With nothing save an apology c ior fg-leaf. The men do not look f 70 very bad in tLeir airy costumes. 'ut the women look shockingly. The [ nen are tall and well built, but the C quaHs, as : rule, are low iu stature, . f