The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-10-11
Matters in Yuma and Elsewhere

what follows:
 The editor was reliably informed that an assay office, for testing and purchasing ores, precious metals, was about to be started in the town, upon which information and prospect he congratulates such miners of Southern Arizona as are too poor to ship their ores to Bulletinville--(San Francisco). We hope the institution will start. We hope other similar institutions will take root else where in the Territory, ss they would do we'll, and are greatly needed. Start one in Prescott, and we would very soon sell our specimens and have sufficient of the ready to pay for cutting several ditches through the plaza.
 The world will, perhaps, be interested in knowing that the course of the telegraph through the town is jes' so:
 "From initial stake a short distance west of Mir. Giles Merrill's residence, tue line rises and leads along the mesa to a point nearly opposite the Hon. Mir. Rowelrs residence, whence 1t descends the mesa 10 2d street, and keeps on the south side to the Hooper corner of Main street; thence along that thofoughfare in an almost straight line to the head ot the slough where It turns east aud strikes the Tucson road at Rattlesnake Sta ton. leaving Gila City several miles to the north.n
 Writing from Washington, under date of September <, Governor Mccormick, our dele gate in Congress, informs Mayor finiay that California school warrants are not strong enough to hold lands on the Arizona side of the river, and that if after having survey made of the "water front" (not that of San Diego), Gen. Crook finds that the United States can, with safety to her back hair, or pay, we forget which, relinquish her claim to the land now claimed as part of the military reserve, said lands may then be blocked into the Yuma town site, cut up into lots and sold to such deluded mortals as may think it good thing to pay taxes upon them. We'll, we are glad that this boundary question is so near A settlement; which settlement gives the profit to California and the honor to our State" Our old plan was to have declared war against California and knock her into her own corner.
 The paper uses comedy phrases in thanking Gov. Saiord for having made the Territory poorer, by paying $500 reward to the Sheriff of Yuma, for having escorted the Lumey murdsrers to the other world. Mir. Jas. A. Moore came up to the scratch, with SlOO, Tor the capture of his stock but e Mir. Mur- phy, (psrtner of the murdered man) who of- fered reward of $500, is soundly oerated for wishing to pay that amount in jaw-bone.
 Mir. Alvah Smith had returned from q search for metals and minerals, much of which he found near the Mexican line.
 "He visited the Santo Domingo mine near the iine-tbe lode being in Arizona, and the arrastra at the water Tn Sonora The own CTS are Ortega, Hoffman and Dorsey, and they reduce, with furnace and arrastra, two tons every twenty four hours, worth S25O per ton in silver alone. They are busy niglt and 1 day; Gila City, of which Mir. smith is part owner. | next Monday"
 The Colorado Steam Navigation Company's steamship Newberne left mouth of river for San Francisco, on the morning of the 18th instant.
 The Mohsve, with barge, stsrted for Ehr- enberg on September 2lst. The Cocopab. with barge, steamed out for Mohave on the 23d.
 "Wm. B. Hooper < Co. shipped during the week ending to-day: lO2,0OO lbs. telegraph material to Tucson; 40,0O0 los. Indian sop plIes to San Carlos and Chiricshui reserva- flnn lku.
 mlssary stores to Camps Lowell, Grant, and Mcdowell; 6O,OO0 lbs citizen freight for The. son and other points--by follow ing trains Vim. B. Hooper & Co.,, Powell 4 Taylor. Jas. Neuman, c. T. Hayden, Lord < Williams Newman & O., Bowley & Co, s. s. Jenk. Pedro Aguirre, Jesus Contrerss, F. Ouiropa This has been, as will be noticed by the above an unusually busy week with our shipping hrms, ant it augurs we'll for tue trade of the season just commenced.
 David Neahr shipped 200, 900 lbs to Tucson.
 Indians and Mexicans were looking a, the telegraph line and scratching .heir cabssas. Los lndiss thought it denoted the coming of Aon,ezuma; the men and brethren of Sopo. ra looked upon it in the light of a earaja,ia.
 report was up that three Californiaps naa put Period to the existence of some pi- ous Mexican horse thieves, somewhere on the Gila.
 Capt. Jack Mellon again claims the atten- ton of the MINER for having made the fast est trip on record, with his Compilation Yuma to mouth of river and back, in six days and one hour. As a water mellon. Jack is success. We believe be could run that Cocopah. on dry land, to Prescott, and invite him 10 do so.
 MT. Fred. Dent, son of Mir. Dent who ones l Kept Indian tavern on the Colorado, was wis., iting Yuma.
 School-teacher c. W. Nash had arrived.
 SOLE OWNER. = The withdrawal of Mir Larkin W. Carr from the firm of Moore 4