Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-10-09

hnrrah and hustle of first excite men' attendant on all new railroad towns pass away--Is to become omit, an important shipping point, and 2 place of considerable size. The peo- pie who are here now, however. con Slltute little more than 8 picnicinp party; no one dares to erect anytbino more than the easily-moved tent lest the railroad company. in its myster- lously-veiled purpose, may decide to build it's depot at some more eligible spot, and certainly & more eligible spot could readily be found in this valley of magnificent distances. In fact, there are few points between these two ranges of mountains where town could not be better located The present Wilcox (with two Is, for that Is the way the powers of the rall- road describe it) lies in the center of the Sulphur Spring Valley, and is separated by intervening strata of dust and cement from the seeping waters slowly finding their way from the mountains and plains to the Yaoui River, and thence to the Gulf. h. deed, they claim here that these springs are the hesdwaters ofthat river. Certain 1t is that an immense body of water slowly creeps down under the dusty and alkaline plains. For miles across the valley this water can be reached at depth varying from three to thirty feet. Here at Wilcox very fine wa ter is taken from wells only eight feet deep, thougha large well sunk by the company IS fifteen feet deep. This well, large-sized pumping engine, 8 huge tank, a side-trsck, and a small, oarsely-constrncted freight platform. constitute sllthe sworks ' with which the railway magnates have yet deigned to console the weary campers, as all of these improyements-with the ex- ception. perhaps, of the well-can easily be moved, l can hardly charge the ciuz9ns with lack of enterprise in not erecting more substantial build ings.
 Although the freight now being re- ceiyed at Wilcox is considerable, the same uncertainty regarding the local ity of the town still prevents much of the freight form coming here The inhabitants therefore find considerable time on thei T hands, which. being an especially merry and genial lot they employ in the circulation of petitions for every conceivable thing, from postothce down to goats, and in fun making generally. The pioneers taose who came in with the railway few weeks since, look down with pstroniziHg condescension on the new eomer-it is the way observe with all pioneers. Every man whom l met, with few exceptions, was forward ing and commission merchant, or combined that with some other busi- ness. There are already everal fam flies in the town, and the due prOpor- tion of rosy checked children may be seen running around in the dust-and such quantities of dust.
 The future of Wilcox will be that of a freighting town, I fancy, and a large town at that. All the freight and supplies for Camps Grant, Bowie Thomas and Fucker, San Carlos Agency, Globe District, ArivaiDa District, Swisshelm District, all the settlements on the Gila, and last but by no means leas, Dos Csbesas Dis trIct must necessarily come here; and as the agent of the Clifton Copper mine. MT. Marcus B Mayer, has es tablished himself, here, l conclude that the heavy shipments from those mines are intended to find a railway outIet in Wilcox. If a quarter Of the glowing reports which l hear Of the Dos Cabesas mines are true, then that district of itself, only twelve miles south of here, will in the near future keen sn immense number of teams busy hauling supplies.
 Politically, Wilcox IS for Stewart first, last and all the time. Hold, l found two men who said they would vote for Oury, but they weren't pio- neers. and I believe Mir. Stewart won't need their assistance, anyway. And I am told that our gallant candidate will go out of his home district (Camp Grant is only thirty miles south oi here) with a practically unanimous vote. In the science of politics, if candidate stands so well at home, it IS pretty safe for those who do not know him so we'll 10 endorse him. And this is especially so in this instance from the fact that I am told that this section of the country Is by no means unan- imous in support of the Republican ticket, aside from BIr. Stewart though from the frequent expressions Of dis gust of the ticket put up by the Democrats, I am led to believe that our whole ticket, with few executions, will take the cake here. And the vote of the new pre- c,nct of Wilcox will be no mean one' I can assure you.
 Prominent among the ex-Tucsonians established here, I find K. b. heily