Arizona republican., 1907-10-24

ridges, is now d desert. It is a pie ture today which would link one thoughts with the gloomy Byron's melancholy words, And History with all her volumes vast, hath but one page"
 1 Messrs. Mckee, Garesche and Porter after spending considerable time at La Paz, went back to Ehrenburg. This will be remembered in connection with the lost postoffice tales, which are many and varied. The party delved farther into the past and set the men at work in the old postoffice and store, and the results are worth the effort, as will be seen by the display. From an old vault, an old fashioned express box, made of wood and bound with iron bands, were taken letters, old rec ords. strange documents, legal papers. official commissions. shipping receipts 1 for bullion, which make a huge pile of relics. There is a leather pouch which the mail rider carried, with blood stains dyed in its surface. The carrier was killed by Indians. There is a picture of Heppa, the daughter of Chief Pasqual. who was the princess
 
 a white man. Among the rubbish was found a map of the western country, made in 1875, showing Fort Yuma on the California side of the river. Arizo- ma City, now Yuma, La PaZ, Tucson, Prescott, then the capital. and Phoe- nix, and a number of forts. The $. P. railroad extended to Fort Yuma and the Santa Fe to Needles. Not a line of railroad lies within the territory. A curious thing is the paper money issued by the Castle Dome Smelling Co, payable in merchandise at a store and signed by Wm. P. Miller and II. q. Hutchins. In some of the old account books the prices are shown as charg- ed then. and the names of many old timers appear. Sugar sold at 9 cents a pound: corn s5.65 a dozen cans; to- matoes s5.75; barley cents a pound: bacon B cents a pound; corned beef not nearly so good as Armours, says Garry. brought 37 cents a can. Matches sold for 25 cents package and coffee for S1 a package.
 In the old postoffice were heaps oi letters and registered packages un- opened. letters undelivered and letters never posted. If one could go back and follow the course of events, which have been changed by the multitude ol missves now lying in the debris of the old ruin. many a romantic story would , be revealed and perhaps many a sad one. How many there are of the let ters that never camel
 The story of the lost postOffice i: not new. but runs briefly like this
 The postmaster cared nothing for hi.
 official duties, often closed up hi: store and went off prospecting in tn,
 hills. The mail came and when h'
 was there most of it was thrown int, a big box or behind the box, where. ever it happened to fall. Finally
 things got so bad that an inspector came out and investigated. He found
 registered packages two years old
 that had been carelessly thrown ava,
 in any old place to be out of the way
 He even found a letter from Postmas.
 ter Wannamaker. commenting tn,
 postmaster on his discharge of officia
 duties and explaining how much de
 pended on the faithful performance O
 his work. This letter had never beer opened by the postmaster.
 It is related that a young fellow iron Frisco came to Ehrenburg in those early days and frequently wrote to {