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Section of Ehrenberg
Ehrenberg, a small town of some 400 inhabitants possessing in approximate ratio the the distinguishing characteristics of an Arizona settlement grafted upon a Mexican foundation - result, a mongrel population principally addicted to driving condemned Government mules, drinking bad whisky and firing off pistols at random where the contents stand the chance of doing most good in reducing the census total. For profanity and "general cussedness" it is held highly superior to the nortorious "Army in Flanders."
Ehrenberg dates from 1870 and is properly speaking, the older town of La Paz transplanted, with its virtues and its vices, upon  a more permanent foundation.
La Paz formerly stood, and still stands for that matter, in the river bottoms some six miles above the present site of Ehrenberg and during the mining excitement of the last decade was in a very flourishing condition. The erratic vacillations of the Colorado river, however, headed the chapter of its vicissitudes by first receding about a mile from the town, then in a fit of repentance went to the other extreme by swallowing is principal business street and then retired some six miles off to consider the matter and not arriving to a conclusion has remained there ever since. La Paz proper, as far as the buildings are concerned, did the same, but its inhabitants packed their Lares and Penates on their backs and started the present town of Ehrenberg further down the river on a rocky mesa above the reach of the water. A stage from Prescott to Dos Palmas, the nearest railroad station, arrives every other day and the supplies brought from Yuma by the R R Steamers are shipped thence by wagons to the Northern part of the territory.