Arizona citizen., 1875-01-16
Improvements About Town.

On Tuesday, we took look into Fully, Ocnoa 6 Co., $ corral and buildings. around and in 1t. In the old government black smith shop, the firm now has like one aud also a carpenter shop; in the one oc- cupied for a carpenter shop, is now the beginning of what will undoubtedly grow into an extensive and profitable woolen factory. At present but ten men are en- ployed-all by the piece. Two looms are in use. As yet the work of carding, spin hing and weaving is done by hand. Four ble texture are turned out daily when all are at work. A very fine and ornamental blanket was in the loom the day we called, the progress on which was necessarily slow.
 Passing round little farther, we came to two furnaces for smelling ores. These were not quite finished ready for use, but probably are by to-day. For want of con- venience to a foundry, the workmen were engaged in making couple of necessary copper castings. Six tons of ore, prin- cipally copper, from the Mammoth mine In Silver mountain district, were on the ground ready for smelting; also a small quantity of mainly lead ore from recent discovery. The firm will enlarge the works just as their experience warrants and also permit others to test their ores in these furnaces. A man Is in charge who has spent all the. years of his man. hood in smelting, and is familiar with the operations of the furnaces. We have hC, hat nd f,,l business will be here built up by the firm.
 We remarked to MT. Ochoa that there seemed to be full as much activity in and about that corral, as when It were oe- cupied by government, and he replied that he felt rather badly when it was abandoned, but that it was not in him to see it all unoccupied, and therefore cecid- ed to make business, and set himself about doing it, and the evidences of his resolution may be seen daily.
 Looking over this corral wall to the the west side of Convent street, we ob- served the two new residences of Pedro Aguirre ard c. A. Paige nearing compile ton. MT. Paige's is so far advanced, that we are justified in saying that when it re- ceives all the finishing touches, it will not only be neat inside and out, but very
 
 kitchen is cellar firmly cemented, and sunk in and below the bottom of the cellar, is a large and substantially con structed cistern. It IS safe to say that the house has the most perfect roof of any in Tucson, and the water will run clearly from it into the cistern. Aside from the cellar, the house has five apartments and hall, all arranged and finished in good style and for comfort.
 Looking over MT. Paige's wall into the back yard of Dr. R. A. Wibur's residence, we noticed two excavations about twelve feet square and eight deep. Upon inquiry we learned these places were to be filled with suitable soil and orange trees then planted therein. This is just what more people here ought to do, and Dr. Wilbur is setting an example that we trust wiE bring forth abundance of fruit. For nice oranges, we are now paying ten cents a piece or twenty five cents for three. But they are brought by wagon or pack animals from Hermosillo-a distance of nearly 300 miles.
 We observe other improvements going on, and cneditable taste being displayed, in various parts of the town; and all in all, the comfortable and substantial char acter of the improvements made during the past few years, must be encouraging to every sensible citizen.