Year: 1872

improved by noting what capacity

 the worst appearing soil of Arizona

 possesses when tested by labor skill

 fully applied. Should they retort on

 me-Ah but this instance only shows

 what your uncle's boys and not citi-

 zens can dol would come back and

 say that other boys can and would do

 the same thing without being fur

 nished with all the food they eat,

 cash and machinery necessary, as in

 this case, provided fair, safe field be

 afforded them. But I am glad that

 General Dandy and Col. Lee have

 shown what can be done on what is so senselessly termed a perfect desert, if it did cost them nothing but in- telligent direction, and supplied their tables with fresh vegetables and sur roundings with refreshing sights and shades. Gentlemen, and bloodsuckers, around military posts, suppose you confine yourselves to your little spheres and not make yourselves miserable by cursing a Territory

 whose true capacities you have neither the intelligence to appreciate nor iber- ality to acknowledge, nor much in clination to give others safe oppor- tunity to demonstrate. We don't ex- pect to make an Ohio or Indiana of Arizona, but give us as fair half cen tury as has been enjoyed by those States. and then the judgment of average incapables may be accepted with smiles if not as reliable.

 Passing seven miles down the east ern bank of the Colorado, the stage is ferried over at Bowman's station. Between there and Algodones, we passed number of little patches of wheat nearly ready for harvesting. They are the products of Indians, and unlike wheat generally, this is planted like corn in hills, and accordingly cultivated. It looks to be we'll filled and as if it would yield largely per acre.

 Excepting the meeting of Generals Elliott and Tidball, and Col. Royal (Second Major Fifth Cavalry, at In- dian Wells, nothing of note was ob- served until the mountains between the ocean and the great California or Colorado Desert, were scaled. Right here 1 must say that after 6 fifteen minutes interview with Col. Royal, who is to command Camp Grant, I am convinced that the people of Ari- zona will find him a gentleman of good sense, sobriety, frmness, and right disposition.

 After good breakfast at Mountain Springs, the real luxury of a three mile walk up g. fine road, is afforded the traveller after night on the desert. The summit of the mountain is ap- parently some twenty miles wide and cut up by valleys which make three small summits. These valleys have here and there settlement, and con- sidering the vast granite piles on every hand, there Is much vegetation, now bright green, and intermingled with a variety of flowers. When fairly on the down hill grade, the road passes through series of nar-1 row valleys with here and there @ farm, and an abundance of live oak, which owing to their large tops and heavy foliage, must in Summer be luxury to man and brute. As before stated, the weather was cloudy and rainy when 1 passed along there, but the good, hard road, running now over hill into @ hollow, then in @ valley amid farms, taken in connec- tion with stage riding as easily as a carriage, and rattling along at lively pace, guided by good natured driver without any ill-natured passen- gers, all united to make the ride agreeable. and being in no danger of the steamer, 1 was not inn patient for it to end.

 It IS but just to say a good word in behalf of the drivers between Tucson and San Diego. I don't say but some of them may now and then take a wrestle with Demijohn, and like all who have the foolish grit to persist in the tussle, get foored, yet I will say that with rare exceptions, did any drink st all, and none at any time were perceptibly affected thereby. All were pleasant and sociable, and 1 think they always would be but for the growlers they too often have to haul with them. Comforts are always but it is the misfortune ot many not to so regard them, and