Year: 1877

Hasty COrrespOndence.

 We give a sample of this from the Chicago Tribune today. IL Is full of enthusiasm and kindly feeling and for this, we are sure the people of the Ter ritcry will feed grateful, but it was written too hastily and with very little time for investigation and perhaps none for reflection. The correspondent was in Tucson part of two days and one night and then was of for the most rapid trip he could make vla the northern towns, leaving out Mohave altogether, striking the Colorado at Ehrenberg and thence down to Yuma. It is not surprising, therefore, that many errors have crept into his letter and will into his subsequent ones.

 The correspondence is having Im- mediate effects. The next day after its publication, three letters of in quiry were written us each referring directly to it; one from Slgourney, Iowa, one from Crown Point, Indiana, and one from Kankakee, Illinois. It SO excited Mir Baird, agent of the Chi cagO, Rock Island & Pacific railway at Slgourney, station doing an aver age business under his care of S12, 900 per month, that he thought it would be folly to fool away much more of hls life in that slow place. Mir. New ton, a merchant at Crown Point, thought he would not pack up until he received answers to some inquiries; Mir. a lawyer at Kankakee, be came SO aroused on reading the letter, that on the impulse of the moment, he sent for two bits worth of corrObora- tion. We presume that one letter will excite thousands to come or try to come to Arizona; and if they only come with view of working at whatever their hands can and may find to do, they will hardly regret the move. But silver does not grow here on bushes, nor is it lyIng round in chunks like granite in New England.

 Pathfinder" of the San Francisco Post, has a bewildering letter from Tucson of date April IS, in the Weekly Post of May 3. It is full of gold and silver and enchanting romance. II is delightful reading for the downhearted who think the fiat takes " of this world pretty much all parceled out. But we cannot give more than one such letter per week, and we dropped on the Chicago Tribune mans first. l But for lively reading in this dry and parched season in California, the letter of Pathfinder" will be powerful cheering g"-as a rural Georgian would 1 say.

 We say to these and other cores pondents, we are glad to have you come among us, and give your widely cir culated papers and their readers the benefits of an acquaintance with the many advantages our Territory pos sesses; but for your own credit and that of the journals you represent, stay among us long enough to look round see the country off the stage roads pay less attention to old traditions and | doubtful records; from actual observa- | ton speak of ihe grass, the valleys I and their soil and products; the many promising mines actually worked and conveniences for working; the copiOus Summer and Winter rains; the mild ! ness and healthfulness of the climate the educational facilities; the compal- atiyely light taxation, &c., &c

 Since the above was put in type, we are in receipt of letter from D. H. Walreth of Cherokee, Iowa, saying he had just read the aforesaid Tribune letter and desired more light on the subject.