Year: 1878

name IL. COmelllntS III ny lllllc lllpe in your country I have been delighted with the strange contradictions which have met, and l have felt quite poetical at sight of a thousand and one beautiful little flowers sifted over those sands like a shower of smiles over some dry old figgity face, and as I have long been short of poetic ma terial of my own I would begin to think of some little verse to say, and feeling quite patriotic would begin with something about that noble six hundred" and wake up in a field of cactus humming,

 "Cactus to the left of us,

 Cactus to the right Of us," &c.

 and now Mir. Editor, 1 just think if I knew the rest of that poem l would put it all into cactus, and then would say no more cactus in mine.

 If you wish to appreciate my feel ings wait until you get to be a grown person and then take a ride in a stage, q do not say stage ride in your own country,) when you find yourself just a little too long, just a little too wide, just a little too high for your surround ings, no fault of the stage, but you are too large; and then if you do not feel like saying more than your prayers, my impressions are that you are too good to go to that place that Cannon Farrar & O., say is not any where. But these calamities, poetical and other wise, have survived until this day.

 I am glad my folks did not live Tn Arizona when I was a little boy, and had to go out into the brush and cut a stick about a yard long with which the teacher might beat time upon the backs of us boys, for I am afraid that my early rccollections would have been soured by memories of thorns in the flesh. 1 wonder if il is really true that every shrub h Ari zona grows thorns, I have tried sev eral and am so certain of it that never go to look at any if I can help il

 Being a miserable mechanic, I have no right to criticise the way things arc done, and 1 do not wish to be irrever ent, but really if l could make such beautiful flowers I do not think l would make them to waste their fra grance on nobody's midnight aiI out on these sand flats. The botony oi this country must at some time form an important link in its history, cer tainly the profusion of delicate flow CTS and Towering shrubs cannot well be equaled.

 Arizona must yet play an important part in the history of our country I do not think that her resources arc as well arranged as some other sec tions of our great nation, she may never take the first rank as an agricul tural state, she may not excel in manu facturies, but for minerals and old bachelors she is equal to any of hel age. If some eastern railroad puts in an appearance here it will probably make a market for both of these com. modities, for which I believe the hind part of this commodity are saying {" le Us pray"

 I have been very favorably impress ed with the general make up of thi: country as a mining region. There has not been sufficient work done 1T any section which I have visited tC settle the question of Assure lodes, ye the indications are that they exist 1T wonderful size and in great numbers The Patagona Mountains and tho spurs in that region give a good min eral promise, and the Santa Ritas, tht old stamping grounds of Cachise an( Pumpelly show marvellous outcrop pings of silver, lead and copper, anC | your county what little 1 have seer of it, parts of Pioneer and Globe Dis tricts, rank grandly in the scale O mineral probabilities. When the rail road comes these mines and bachelors if they keep young, beautiful and rich Twill be much sought after. And nov iMr. Editor as my pen is poor, and ml ink pale, I'll close this tale of jottings VISITOR.