Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-05-31
A Reminescence.

Tie f2t. Rev. c. ". Witaker, D. D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, and at the be low named dates Bishop of Nevada and Arizona, writes:
 4- II made visitation to Arizona in 1874, going down from Virginia City, Nevada, to San Diego steamer from San Francisco, and thence crossing the Col orado Desert from San Diego to Yuma by stage. On Sunday May 17th, off ciated in the morning in the hospital at Fort Yuma, and on the evening of the same day at the Court House in Yuma. There were seventy persons present. Col. Rockwell was the commander of the Yuma department, and Capt. Wheaton was commander of the post. While at theSpost Twas the guest of Lieut.. Has ksll. Judge Berry was then editor of the Sentinel, and pr. Rose surgeon of the post. The trip from Yuma to Tue son was then a different thing from what it is now. We left Yuma at p. m. on Wednesday the Doth of May, in two horse ''ierkey'' and arrived in Tucson at half past seven of Saturday morning the 23rd, having been three days and nights on the road --
 While in Tucson was the guest oi Governor Stafford, and received there, as I did in ,every other place in Arizona the most courteous and hospitable treat
 ment from the citizens generally. On Sunday May 25th I ofiiciated in the Court House. There was large con. gregation in attendance and at the request of the congrega | ton I held another service in the court house on Tuesday at which as many were present az on Sunday.
 I left Tucson on the 18th day of May
 with Judge Hayden, in an ambulance Stayed tat night at Desert Station the following night at Sacatone and ar rived at Haydenville at 5 o'clock p. m op Saturday, the 30th inst. On Sunday morning the 3Ist, Judge Hayden drove me over to Phenix, where 1 held service in the school house, morning and after noon. The room was full. 1 left Phen- | K on June 2nd in covered blackboard I through the kindness of MT. Evans, the agent of the stage company, and arrived | at Wickenburg at II o'clock that even ing. Two mustangs pulled us over there sixty-tive miles, on forty miles of which | there was no water. We remained over night at Wickenburg and went from there to Kirkland Valley, where l stayed over night with Charles Beach, Esq. | went the next day with Mr. and Mrs | Beach in covered blackboard to Pres colt.
 While there I was the guest of Gener al Small. Hound in Prescott an exceed ingly pleasant compahy of army people and citizens, among them Genera l Crook, Col Evans, Capt. Gosdell, pr Williams, Col. Dodge, Chaplain Gilmore and Mir and Mrs. Davidson. On Sun day morning, June 7th, I held service al Fort Whipple, and in the afternoon al | the court house In Prescott.
 From Pres eott Mir. Beach took me on his blackboard to Ehrenburg. We stayed the first night at Kirkland Valley, and the second at McCullen's Station, 10l miles from Prescott. The next day we drove 59 miles to Tyson, and around tc | Ehrenburg at noon the next day. crossed the Colorado river, and stopped at Judge Bidwells. Sunday morning June 14th, held service at Judge Tut ties house at 10 a. m. and in the even idg at eight o'clock. The mercury was 1902 in the shade. June 14th, I Jeff Ehrenburg by the blackboard, for Sar Bernardino, the mercury still 1902 il the shade, and 142a Tn the sun, and ar rived at San Bernardino at noon of the 18th. Thus it will be seen that inde pendent of the long journey from Vir ginia City, Nevada, via San Francisco tc Yuma, the Bishop spent full month il the territory. $. P. K.