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Section of Aubrey.
Aubrey Landing is a small settlement compound of one saloon with billiards attached, one house occupied by the saloon-keeper and a small shed intended for the reception of goods shipped per Wells & Fargo's Express who have an agency at this point. It is situated at the confluence of the stream known as Bill Williams' Fork and the Colorado at the foot of Mount Whipple.
Despite its humble and unpretending appearance, however, a considerable amount of business is done in the shipping of freight to the interior, it being the port of entry for the small settlements of Greenwood, McCracken Mine and other nondescript establishments in the mountains adjacent. The Colorado Indian Reservation is situated between this point and Ehrenberg.

Section of Mohave.
The central point of this section is Camp Mohave, in itself a beautiful and well appointed military post garrisoned by one, and intended for two, companies of infantry. It possesses well founded claims to being the hottest spot on the habitable globe during the summer. Cut off, as it were, from the rest of mankind, there being but one steamer per month calling at it, and there being - Providence and broken-down mules permitting - but two mails a week, it is a sort of Botany Bay settlement transplanted on Arizonian soil - or rather pebbles & gravel.
It is situated at the head of the Mohave Valley, the principal settlement of the Mahhaos or Mohave Indians, which begins at the notion store called Hardyville, six miles above the post and extends to the Cañon of the "Needles" 40 miles below it. This is one of the most fertile valleys in the Colorado Basin claiming so far, however, but 4 or 5 white settlers. The principal object of the post is to overawe the Mohave