Show FROM ARIZONA word iford from front our former city mar vr U fl wm win X naife fife we have been permitted to peruse a letter written by our former townsman and old friend wro win N fife fire esq to his big son marshal marsha I 1 W W fife father fife as our readers will remember has made his home at oak grove ranch arizona whence he lie writes under date of july giving a satisfactory account of tho the condition of things i in his neighborhood wo we take ta ke the liberty of culling calling borne some of the most interesting items of his instructive communication OWING TO A BIG among the minera miners business at present is on the shelf and many workingmen are leaving for other blaces places while not a few are very hard ard up saw milling and every other kind of industrial pursuit except stock aock raising is dead it is however expected that by the first of september the mines will start up with a it new set of handa hands mr fife is devoting a great deal of attention to the raising of rinju CATTLE paying special care to the treatment of calves he is also makin making a gratifying success in tho the poultry business reaping a copious crop of hen fruit he has realized and arid ia 6 endeavoring to teach his neighbors tho the grand principle of being self sustaining staining Eu which point he hopes the people will soon attain with the help of the almighty they have had bad a good dealto face and to go t through b rough but with a little energy they t b ey can reasonably expect to reap the te h rich reward of their labors THE FRUIT TREES arc are doing excellently mr fife never having seen trees grow BO so fast the grapes graves are also growing and thriving finely the country is admirably adapted to fruit rais ing and will erelong yield abundant returns in that line the frost holding off one month later around mr fifes cifes premises than in some other localities owing to tho the shelter afforded by the mountains THE RAINY SEASON is rather late they had a big pluvial downpour on july they NY will i 11 have plenty of fino fine melons till the end of november there them is also an all abundance of wild grapes cherries and walnuts and rud in two years they expect to be blessed with ciopa of peaches pears etc L owing vv ing to the recent failure of th the e tombstone bank money is is very scarce carce just now many miners having baving lost all their hard earned savings through it john keating a young oung man just starting a ranch lost lost as much as every cent of which is irretrievably gone THE ENEMIES OP OF THE SAINTS are ard feeling well over the passage sange of of certain acts bj by congress Cop gress ta ut u elder fife realizes that the time is close at hand that will tr try them although they in their brind blindness liess are not aware of the things hidden in in the womb of the future tho the blind arc are leading the blind and they will fall into the ditch together being full of corruption and ripe in iniquity the almighty will uso use them up in the hour he sees fit E elder ider fife sends his kind regards lo 10 all of his friends who will be eleaser pleased to hear that ho lie is enjoying both oth the blessings of earth and the spirit of god |