The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-12-12
Prom Wednesdays Daily.l

Showers of rain and snow continue to descend Hope they will keep coming Can't make 1t too wet for us UT this country. In water lies our salvation.
 Billy Buffum, of Campbell k Bufrum, Is selling of his old stock of all kinds of goods, very fast
 wiliscrafI has issued posters, informing peo. pie what he can do for tbe'n In tue boot aud shoe line.
 Business Is good with our storekeepers, even in these dull times.
 Tommy BuIlock one of the legal (bar) tenders at the Dana Saloon, will please accept thanks for valuable present.
 Mir Banty, has, at his place in the old Capitol building, sufficient bacon to run tbis section nearly year, but Is too 5ashiul say so, in the advertising columns of the MINER.
 Wild turkeys are numerous In the Juniper mountains, about 70 mile. west oi Prescott A fine one was recently brought in here by Aaron Wertheimer. We desire turkey for Christmas, for which we will pay cash, Daily or Weekly | MINERS so bring on your bird. | Philip Richardson Is putting the finishing touches on the Fort Whipple reservoir. u Chas. Bird has posters out, calling for pro- posals for erecting an engine house at the fort. ! Chino TaIiey.--Charley Hall arrived hcre yes l terday, from his home in Chino, and told us of | very heavy rains out that way | WiIiiamson Vaiiey- Stephen Breon was here yesterday, from this valley, aud informed us that | his fellow-citizeus desired change in tue !oca- ton of their postofice, which is, they say, too | far away from twO.tbirds Of the people of the valley. Our delegate will be apt to attend to this matter, soon. lt...t. s.[ #I|t. Very LOU.-News was recently received from | San Francisco, to the effect that Herbert Bowers was not expected to live.
 The county collector and his deputy not succeeding very well in collecting taxes. ReasoD- scarcity oi money.
 From Waina GroUe Distriet.-Fred. Henry was in here yesterday, and informed that the arras- l tras were running on Vesuvius ore.
 Pete Smith was preparing to count his dollars, after pretty fair crushing of rock. | Fred has sold his ranch In Peoples Valley, to 'Unce" Jimmy Cochrane, who Intends 10 bring sheep and start a station.
 Messrs II. Ronte, Jas. Cochrane and II. vro. man started out by Grants stage this morning Ronte to Wickenburg, Cochrane 10 Peoples Val ley, and Vroman 10 California and the East.
 Mir E. K. Buker, who has been putting the hn- isbing touches upon the new road between Phe nix nnd Camp Verde, arrived here yesterday from the Lower Agus Fria. and informs us that four or five trains, laden with grain aud fonr, are e, route to Verde, working their way through the | mud
 MT T. W. Boggs came up with Mir Buker.
 More Rain a,,d S,,oso.--Had about three hours very heavy rain last night. after which it snowed several inches.--Snow in ibe mountains very deep.-At Verde, where snow has rarely fallen l to any depth, some six inches fell in the late storms.--At Kirkland Valley, away down In the foothills, MT Me Atecr says he recently measured four inches of snow.-Water Is now abundant, and the ground is wetter than at any time since 1865, all of which Is highly encouraging, to miners, farmers, traders and everybody else