Arizona weekly miner., 1875-01-15
Local lnteIIigen nc e.

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 One of Judge Hayden's teams arrived here from the Judges place in Salt River Valley, with & load of bacon and other products ofthe Valley. Invitations to Dan Hstz's Ball, which will come of on the erening of the 2zd inst, are now out. losY-Between the old saw-mill site and the Courthouse, Prescott, a small gold ring with ruty jetting The finder of said ring will be thanked and suitably rewarded if he or she will leave it at the MINER office.
 fFrom Thursdays Daily.I
 Prescott has a poet, but he don't bother the MINER very much. Cause: wholesome dread of the shooting stick and italc sheep's-foot. .. Our old friend, Mike Brasser has returned from California aud appears to be in frst-rate heakh.
 We are threatened with ar amateur Dramatic company Hope the "boys" will organize and give us good entertainments.
 Mail matter to and from this place increases with every trip.
 Silsbee's band makes music light and gay, every evening, at C. A. Luke & Co.'S
 Prescott stores are damned with goods from every quarter of the globe, and Prescott store Keepers do not complain Of hard times
 Prescott saloons are not patronized as well as thay were a month so ago. Reason-Not mauy idle men in town. A good sign.
 The California and HardyviIlc mail wagons ar- rived in town early this morning, ahead of sched- ule time, usual. Mir. Thomas Superintendent of the Mail Company's routes in this Territory, came in from Hardyville
 We heard, yesterday, that Mir. Flores had sold his house and lot on Montezuma street to Mrs. Berkly.
 Sheriff Bowers and Under-Sherif Parker have caused great changes for the better to be made ln the internal arrangement of their office and the jail, as all who go there and look will admit.
 brisk sixpence is better than slow shilling.
 CRAM & OTIs. large and fancy stock of groceries, canned fruits, jelles and jams, at
 L. BAsHPoRD & Co.'S. Prescott is noted for its neat cottage homes, but we did not know, until yesterday evening, that Mir and Mrs C. 4. Luke had such charming hotne as that recently purchased and fitted up by them on Cortes street.
 Those who have been waiting for our new ar rival Of mens' clothing can now supply them selves at CRAM x OTIS. The largest and best assortment of ladies' and gents boots and shoes brought to this Ter ritcry, now open at L. BAsHfoRD & Cos. T. w. Boggs, of Lower Agua Fria, rode to town yesterday. From him we learned that John Evans had just finished planting fifty acres of wheat on his tMr Boggs) farm, which is one of VcsI auu ptSeSiSsb III ehS iS'iiSo'J-
 Remember we keep dried fruit of all kinds, crackers of all kinds; lard, flour, meal We keep The Tdricfy Store. CRAM x OTIS. Have just received large invoice of prints, flanuels, ladies' and childrens hose, trimmings, ruiHincs, &c., to which We invite the attention of the ladies of Prescott l.. $. & Co. great many property owners of Prescott have signed petition requesting the village govern meut to cause streets, alleys, &c, now fenced in to be opened to the public. Favorable action on the petition is looked for by the numerous sgners-
 Those who have been waiting for our new ar- rival of boots now be assured of satisfaction. Look at them. CRAM x OTIS. Gents clothing, business suits, overshirts and a heavy stock of underwear and blankets, at bot tom prices, at L. BAsHFoKD x Co.'S. w. c. Collier has just finished new front for his house ,ortes street. and is now engaged in making furniture. Citizens who wish to build new houses or ornament old ones should not fail to visit his place and lock at the beautiful de- signs upon which he has spent many days.
 A brisk sixpence is better than slow shilling.
 jiiw2 CRAM & OTIs. Dried apples peaches, plums, cherries, figs, raisins, Alden entrants, pickled olives, California nuts and honey, just received at
 jl4d4wlw |. BAsuFoRD X Co.'S. Our friend and brother editor, T. E. Butler, called at our office yesterday, in company with two young gentlemen who he introduced as Mcssrs W. C. Dawes and G. $. Coleman, who in- formed us that they had just made the trip to Prescott from Utah Territory, in a light wagon, via Hardyve; that they had read the MINER while in Utah and were not disappointed in the country of which they had read so much. They appeared Co be the right sort of men for Arizona and We are pleased to be able to state that they Intend to camp here. May success att end them. Ek- cILIrIEs.-Calling at the Postofice, yesterday, we were shown petition to postmaster-Gcneral Jewell. which is, substantially, as follows:
 i've the undersigned, citizens of Prescott and vicinity, respectfully ask that the weekly mail service on Mail Route No. i0, l0l, from Prescott, Arizona, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, be increased to tri-weeky; and that the service on Route No. 0,l03, from Hardyyille 10 Prescott. Arizona, be increased to a tri-weekly service. Your petition CTS would further ask that service on the last named route be extended tri-weekly from Hardy vile, Arizona, to San Bernardino, Cal, thus form ing continuous tri-weekly service from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to San Bernardno, Cal"
 To this petition there are now about 90 names, of bona fde citizens of Prescott and vicinity, and great many more will now be added.
 All who know anything Of the route above laid down (which is. really the 35th parallel route, which all carly Government explorers in this country have almost covered with praise), will say that the service asked for is badly needed, and with the sgRcSs, pray the Postmaster-Gen- eral to acccde to their just requests
 - We hope that copies of this petition will be circulated and siSaed at every prominent place on the route, tbst the authorities at Washing ton will have no good excuse for not granting our request
 Rev. D. B. Wright has commenced erecting house on the hillside above Gideon CornelFs.
 Not long since as Geo. W. Barnard was pros pecting on the south side of Silver Mountain, about 45 miles south of Prescott, he came across and killed an immense rattle-snake, which, he says, was as lively our Prescott snakes in sum- mer all of which goes to show that while It IS winter in the Serras, it is summer on their south crp slope.
 Geese, swans and ducks arc numerous on the Verde river, B miles from Prescott. The valleys of the same river well stocked with fat deer, and the stream itself with tish--trout and suckers Besides ali these Inducements, the climate down there is warm and pleasant.
 A bay-stack at Fort Whipple was set on fire last night. A man was seen in the vicinity Of the stack, by the sentinel. and as there was no possi- ble chance for the stack to have caught fire by ac cidepf inc presumnfion is that if was the work Of