Year: 1872

Somewhat ApoIogetic--Certainty Of

 Travel--PersOnaIsC Connected with

 the Bradshaw, Prescott and Wala-

 pai Mines--Railway Advancement.

 SAN FRANCISCO, June go, 1672.-1t was my purpose to have written some thing for THE CITIZEN when at Wash ington, New York, Boston and Chi cago, but my few days sojourn in each was so full of agreeable interest to myself, that didn't care to do any thing in the writing line. Having tramped the Pacific coast from British Columbia all the way down to San Diego, and thus far spent the best part of my life in the extreme western States and Territories which have restless and generous population, l could hardly step off the cars or enter them on any great thoroughfare, with out meeting one or more valued ao- uuaintances who could not, if l had been disposed, be put of with an ordinary salutation, but "talk must be had; and so much of my time was occupied while in the older States and cities. If the time spent this way did not bring its hourly or daily profit in cash, it was delightfully."- fooled or passed away; and really there can hardly be more idiotic use of time than never-ending grasping and planning how to accumulate money. The best moments of life, to my notion, are those in which dol lars and cents are not in contempla- tion; yet I would by no means under l value the importance of keenly look ing out for cash enough to make our pathway to the graveyard comfortable and independent. This is merely by way of apology for not bringing my self down to the newspaper treadmill when facilities for experiencing the bright, sunshiny side of life were not only abundant but inviting on every hand. Let any of my readers go over the same ground I have in the last six | weeks. and see how 1t IS themselves. I wish they all could and would.

 Nothing is to me more wonderful in this round, than the certainty with which one can be in New York, for instance, to-day and in Chicago or San Francisco, or almost anywhere else, at any desired time hereafter. Excepting my arrival in this city from San Diego, I have not been disappoint- ed an hour in the time of reaching all my points. No matter at how many places one desires to stop, or persons to see, on main lines of travel, which now are, Hound in all directions, by aid of the telegraph and sure connections of trains, visit to every prominent, and also to thousands of obscure places, may be made upon pro- gramme arranged at almost any start ing point. When last in Philadelphia, I had still to make visits in places away from railways in Ohio and Illi- nois, and yet there I decided upon times in detail and as whole, and at this writing I am neither one hour ahead or behind, and verify believe I shall reach Tucson on the 10th of July. the exact day intended before leaving there, May ?. So if any of my readers wish to go eastward, and hesitate for fear of the uncertain time required, they need hesitate no longer. A trip around the globe may now be so arranged in advance as to make it occupy within day or two of time certain.

 find in this city many Arizonans, and they all seem happy. c. 0. Bean, E. J. Cook, and George Bowers are prominent Prescott gentlemen and the two former take the steamer with me to Los Angeles. believe they all are here on mining speculations, and have met with success either at hand or in prospective. They each have made good impressions on min ino onerators. and I really believe are