The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-11-21
le ~a Sfl(iner,
Local intelligence.

f.rtt tI
 y..,,omines. New Mexico The party came
 h. wbipplc or 3jth parallel route. Mon.
 ,ro or three of their number called
 s,r advice and information about the
 .c,nyon diggings, in this county, and upon
 .,r, them thc truth in relation to the dig
 npy appeared well pleased and said that
 ,.o,ling for wages for a while, they would
 ,.-. and pu; in sluice.. Most of them have
 ..r., plsccr. in Colorado, and we know
 .... Black Canyon they can do well, as there
 ..,,, of ground. gold and water They say
 .,n5. of men would come here from Colo
 and Sew Mexico, had they the means
 ,,v I,yrNrloS.-A soldier at Fort Whipple,
 ..ott has invented a new breechloading gun
 .b if all we bear about it is correct, lays v ., any weapon heretofore used forsc;tling dis
 . He has applied for patent
 coon g8,ps The people Of Central Arizona ,,e oa.5n Co be thankful to Nature and the
 Trt. of a few private citizens for being con ,.d by two good wagon roads, with the Col. ,I, River. and California, but they should not
 satisfied until a good wagon-road is made New Mexico. Theprcsout route in the vicinity
 he Sin Francisco mountain, is very bad, the - having been washed away, and the great lers for which that locality is noted, p. a terror Co those who have to travel over the l On the Little Colorado river also, the I s now very bad, but it would not cost st ts. l. with ihc East. cia New Mexico, and must .r find better road or repair the old one u Albuquerque. New Mexico Co Prescott, a.er. grass and timber are Co be found every
 ere. and OK teams can freight over it just as and as eheaply as they do over the plains. lur people should also put their shoulders to
 wheel and make the long.ialked-of oai-oG
 he Ia paz and Prescott road between Pres go and Skull Valley. and the citizens of Wall
 Cfoye should. as soon as their crops are
 cred. either build a road 10 Prescott by thc
 e mine, or some other route. or else. make a
 road 10 the La Paz road. and aid iu making road over the cutoff from Prescott io Skull ey. Wickenburg, also, should do something ards helping the Walnut Grove people Co .d a road io that place.
 HWY INclpxNr.-Thcre is in this town Of .-seou a restaurant, kept by descendant of
 ( the ancient lIidalgos Of old spain, who , ,. noted for a very amiable temper but is,
 -heless. argt rate old fellow. Tho other slzag. as he was endeavoring io attend to the a for "ooicc,1 ,1 ~be1stesc, '" etc, he became an- P at a gentleman from Walaat Grove. who had .cn waiting a long time for something to ;um ?. and who, half angrily sang out. ho; cakes- % ais raised the ire of the venerable Hidalgo Do. quick as thought rushed from tle kitchen } the dining room. with a panfill of batter aging, or rather hissing out, there's plenty cite cakes" Scarcely had the words passed |. lips, when Gus Swain. for t was he who liled for ;he cakes took hold of thc pan, raised ! 1gh over the Hidalgo's oabe.I, and. in the rlmc ol Feadinand and Isabella, anaointed the a.s old fellow with the batter. making him lit- ally as white as sheet, and learning him q les
 that be will not soon forget The laughter a ensued made thc old fellow awful mad; be vre like our army in Flanders" and shut shop for the balance of that day. Next morn , he opened the concern. and was as sweet as -P.achc-pie' to his grinning boarders.
 Fry AHEAD.-Christmas is coming and SO is Tou dyes. the irrepressible mouniaineer. harvester Indian "harn and jolly good fellow generally --e quitting the mountains, Tom has beer --eticing bar-kecp for A. H, Peoples, at Wick rsnrg. and the boys down there say they like n and his medicine for be dispenses none bu
 best Persons who came up from Wicken gg recently. inform us that Tom being anxious see his piney-woods friends here, is coming uI irt Christmas with wagon load of champagne ec. to treat all hands. Come along. Tom, yol vill be well received, and no doubt, some Of th' boys will kill fatted calf or an oleagiRous gob bier for you.
 FLOUR MnL.-Bowers < Bro. are fixing VI heir mill on the Agua Frio and will soon bav !, ready to grind corn and wheat A splcndi, ei of buhrstones. of home production and man Ifacture, were recently gotten out for them D. Mr. John Simmons, of Miller's valley, near Pres cott Hope the black hearted scoundrel wh burned mp their mill on Granite creek, will no also burn up their Agua Frio mill.
 FLouR.-Wc believe that at present there not as much as a sack of four for sale in Pre- colt. and were it not for some corn meal brough here by Robert Postle, from his mill in Chin Valley, some of our people would be hard n for bread-stuf There is also a scarcity of hou at La Paz, our supply port on the Colorado ri' CT, Most of our merchants have supplies Of thi aecczsary article coming, bat the Lord know when ii will arrive, and we will be compelled mbsist oa corn meal, potatoes, beans and sucl until flour is brought here. We felt liul ashamed of our toN,n inc other afternoon. whe