Graham guardian., 1901-03-22
Matthewsville Notes.


excrusheating aguny and missap.
prehenshun that we wunce more
rol up our sleeves and shoulder pen
in order to excomunikate a few
ov our meandering thots fur publ
kashun in your most illitirate pa
per.
We desire to inform the human
family that we in Matthewsville air
still on the turf and doin' about as
well as other people air a doin' no
better an us. We air glad to say
that the peopel in this lokality air
awl enjoyin' good health with The
excepshun ov them that air sick
among us; and we urnestly hope
this will'find you all in the same
fix.
1t was my intenshun, as we'll as
my urnest desire, to report the con-
dishun ov the weather down here
at this writtin'; but / have been
outrageously disappinted, The
wind has blowed so tarnel hard
that it swept what little weather
there was by so fast that the them
ometer could register it.
Mr.. Editor believing that there
air meny peopel in this country
and probly some in uther countries
who air ignorunt ov the existance
ov this place, its wonderful re-
soarces, its unspakahle ritchies, Its
meny disadvantages, exports, size,
Isituashun and cetera. / take plez
lshure and pains in furnishin' this
most wantabble imformashun. The
4 degree ov pleEshure, ov course, will
depend upon the pains, the fewer
the pains the grea'er the plezshure.
realise that a discripshun ov this
country OF to be writ with the
golden wand oy an angel dipped in
the softest rays ov a sunbeam, up
on the blushin' and delikate surf.
face ov rose lef and clothed with
the lanwage and eloqunce ov q
| Cicero, Therefor when an indi-
vidual with supply ovnolii about
| the size ov the food supply of Lees
Iarmy when he surrendered to z,
S. Grant, undertakes sich an ele-
phanturious task, hope you'll be
chairantable enouf to cloze your
reyes to awl deficiencies.
To begin with / can say thar our
ginreal stand as kommunity IL
fair to middlin' along side ov uther
places that air in about the same
condishun as we air. Our temper,
al condishun air fourishin' and our
appietites air second to none.
As to our provisions and sup
plies ginreally l am proud to say
we have nuther enouf nor too
much. for which we air thankful.
Lokashun and bindery. This
place il situwated between Butter
milk Point and Joe Fosters ranch.
/ don't no whether Joe claims citi-
zenship in this town or not, but |
kin say we'r not karin durn
whether he does or not. But l
must straddle the thread ov me
story and proceed. We air blinded
on the north by the Gila river
where our bank IL lekated. We
believe. tnat Solomon and Wicker
sham named thar bank after ourn as
ourn liz the oldest institushun.
They kali tharn the Gila Valley
Bank, and ourn has alwas been the
Gila River Bank.
We air blinded on the south by
the G. ", g. & N. Ry trak, and in
the rainy sezons we air water bind
ed on all sides. This is about awl
/ kan say about our binding ex-
cept that wunce in a while some ov
our citizens air blinded over to keep
the peace and l kan say they gin
really respond to the kali.
i kan not give you the exact
latitude of this place but in sum-
mer it ginreally stands about 120
in the shade. AS to size it will
compair favorabley with qther
places containing the same number
of square miles. The populashun
/ kan say is'about the same size as
JEFF Davis cabinet at the cloze ov
the rebelyun, and IL made up prin-
sipally Of peopel belongin' to the
human race, tho the boss race also
represented and this, together with
mill race at the end of town kOn-
stitutes our entire populashun.
The white lanwage is ginreally
spake, notwitbstnndin' our cloze
proximity to the reservation line.
The peopel as a rul air full of de-
terminashun, pluck, pugnacity, but
termilk and 4O-rod beer. There
has been very little change in this
lokality durin' the last 10 years
OWN to this fact the inhabitants
kan bost ov a good quality, stabiH-
ty ov karacter, the same yesterday
today and forever.
Our form ov government iz re-
publikan as you may suppose; tho
thar ust to be some demokrats in
the naborhood. Whether thar air
any at present or not | am not abel
to say MS they have not been hearn
from cince McKinley's leckshun
last fawl. We have no purticular
desire to exklude this faction from