The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-07-23
The @ aMiner.
Local Intelligence.
PRESCOTT, July 23. 1870.

,..n,,d Head and several other gentlemen took ,Ao,r departure for Bradshaw and Silver noun. .,.. Tbursday last, to examinc some mines. sAouId Mir Atchison who, by the way, Is an old .,.., and mill man, see anything to suit him, in ',,h., of those mountains the chances arc that be rll embark in miHing.
 Tur paccr uiners of the Upper Hassayampa .. nra,ing for a moderate deugc, they having ,a, itte water to wash the rich dirt of their dig eirg, From all appearances they will soon have .opuy of water, and can then put money in their purses
 Ayrv days ago, as a farmer of Walnut Grove named John Burger, was digging ditch to con sss water to his field for irrigating purposes, he ,,,sek gravel that pros pected well enough to pay well for digging and washing, when some Caliior- ,ia miners who were present. took the job of his hands and went to work to dig the ditch for what ever gold they mlgbt lind.
 BARLEY. Theodore W. Boggs arrived in town Thursday last with lot of Barley. from bis ranch .~.tbe Lower Agua Trio. He says the corn down
 ~as looking finely The Indians who ,.,o1 ,r,,rud there a short time ago, had len for other parts
 uutvna,. d train arrived in town Thurs a.y last from Ehrenbe,,', on the Colorado river. m. train brouplt about severty thousand pounds of merchandise for Campbell & Lufiuin, Cook x Bover.. D. r. Foster, C. A. Luke, ana other tra- aers ol Prescott. The only itcm Jake had 70 re- l.,e was that MeMnllen, very old AriIonian, who keeps d station on the La Paz road, was mar ried at that place. recently, by Catholic priest Bys.byc Mac.
 JUNGLE" BILLY PoINTER, an aged miner of Walkers District, was in town Thursday last, pur- chasing provisions, and noticed that the gold in bis purse wa. quite plenty. Uncle Billy owns cue of the richest gold maes in this vicinity, and has developed il mainly with the labor of his own hands.
 NEW sUrKRvIsoR-Gov. safiord has appointed Gideon Brooke of this place, Supervisor. In the place Of A j. shanks, who recently resigned The appointment, wIli we know, give general sat i.faciou. Mir. Shauks, the retiring member has served the county faithfully.
 RicH gocK.-Mr Frlnk, of Ihe yul,urc Mining Company, who in Prescott last week, showed very rich pieces of ore from tue bottom Of the teep shaf, In the Companys mine. The mill running satisfactorily
 THE Board of Supervisors dnished the work of squaliring assessments this week, and turned the iaHroll over to the County Collector, who. with his deputies will soon cali on the people for tax money.
 Coop NEWS Bea Block, who has just re. turned frosl San Francisco, informs us that Wells
 Fargo S Co, will soon establish express offices al
 Prescott and wickenburg. Mir. Block had to
 work and talk like good fellow in order to gel
 the Company to agree to start said offices.
 W. B HELIlSas, head of the extensive mercan.
 file firm Of HelIings & Co, arrived here, from Camp MeDoweIi few days ago. and started
 honewmds this morning by Grants stage. whi,,
 here, hr. H. called at onr office, and from the con
 versaton then had with him, we can, with truth
 gay that he is every inch gentleman. liberal iI
 all bis yiews good business man, and true frient so the Territory, He informed a= .h=. h:s a-:.
 are going to construct first class aouring mill or near PhGniS, on Salt River. GENERALS sroSENis, Wheaton, cogswcii, Dr WiriI, Col Poster, U s. A., Gov. safiord, Her eert Bowers, Mir. wasson. and our humble sell \ visited Camp Verde, ihls week, and witncsse, more than we have been abie 10 write up. w must, however, say that the road to the Verd ss success that a practicable route has beei 'ound over the MogolIone range, and that roa, s VIII soon be completed over ii. The Verde foll k treated us we'll Lieutenant Henry Ayers, and detachment Of troop, Sd Cavalry protected u rom tue sasages. Coh Brown and lady, Mrs Wales Arnold and Captain Hawlcy, came up witt the party.
 BRrvKr'MiIoR GENERAL FRASK wuEAroS has again placed us under obligations for the lei Yer about Inc Moquis, which VIC publish in today Issue.
 During our absence at Camp Verde '0dge Vim. J. Berry wrote several able articles M TUT which he will please accept our thanks, meeting of Arzoua Lodge, No. 1. 10. Of O. F heid on the evening Of the s3c. inst at their ha n Prescott, D. D. c. N. Herbert Bowers installe
 1e i"hoNiag named members as officers Of th "0ge Tor the ensuing six months: T. s. Ruff, John Laughiin. V. G.; f. J. Cook See; an ''''oh "ertheimer, Treasurer. The lodge W ne pleased 10 learn, Is in a hourishng cond . ton.
 rLts NALLEr.-fred Henry and anolhC \ s'""emah came up from thi, fine valley earl "" week and started back again Thursday las E was feeling exceedingly Jolly, and take sea loud about the fine prospects which h "ongn' the fstute sas ih store for hm He hc 1 u' or I've tien at work, tunneling into one mines, and, as a matter of course, they al
 "s out rich rock The crops in this yalle very promising good wagon-road Ina o.a 0Pehed, which strikes the Prescott and Go S nNer road near Kirkland Valley m