Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-04
LETTER FROM rHGSIN.
PunNrx. \. T. May 1. lsi

A l EprroI MINER May day is Is, and May day it has been with two hundred or more of the youth, beauty and gayety ot Ph0niN' who assembled at an early hour on the ranch of NIT. Hosea Grcenhaugh, just south east of town, There under the sprcsding shade of the tall cottonwood,, the party made merry. with songs and speeches gamcs and swings, sayoring all with Q portion oi prayer, aS it was | Sunday School picnic. About noon the feast was spread, amt the bountifully laden tables would convince any bvstander that the wolf of famine was far from Salt River doors. The spread would do credit to some of our professional caterers of the States. X noticeable feature of the occasion was the numerous array ot female beauty, tastcfully and handsomely costumcd. The festivities of the day end tonight in a grand ball, to be given in the school house.
 When closed my last letter to you, there was ripple of excitement here over the shooting of George Wilson hy C l.. NJ. Dean That night Wilson died from the cf- feet of the wound. Deans counsel. ai the examination the next morning, waived Sn examination and he stands committed Jill the next term. IL k sad affair, as Dean has a wife and four children.
 The crops are looking finely throughout the valley. but some high winds and sand storms, one of which is blowing as l write, have made sad havoc with some ot the har lev fields, laying the grain flat and twisting it around Tn mats Ii will not do io whistle till we are out of the woods. new steam thresher and separator has arrived from the inside, belonging to a company of the ranch men here, and three or four new headers and new reapers are here or coming, so that We shall bc we'll provided for mean, of harvest ing. Aside from grain, the farming seems to be in advance this year of any previous season Many of our farmers supply their tables now with all kinds of vegetables, and much progress has been made m the setting out of fruit trees and vines.
 Last week, there passed through here a new outfit for the Globe District. Prot. F.. G. Gaetner. |. & Mineral Surveyor. was in charge of the men and teams which were conveying a new and improved smclting furnace and assaying apparatus belonging to the new Richmond Basin Mining Company This Company includes some heavy capi- talists in San Fraccisco, and Prof. Gaetner is superintendent thereof. The Company own five mining claims themselves, and m ad- dition to their own work, propose to do custom work If this furnace proves a sue cess, as they hope and predict, they propose to follow it with others. X detailed de scription of the new furnace is too much for the length of this letter, but itmay bc noted that the blower of the furnace Is to be run by "hurdy -gurdy" wheel of two-horSe power-the first, we are told, that has been brought into this Territory. The superin- tendcnt expects soon to he shipping bullion via PhpniN to San Francisco.
 Business here is looking up little. Mer- chants are getting in new stocks of goods, and harvest is almost full upon us. The first grain is about readyto head. The long expected. and much prepared for, dramatic exhibition, for the Sunday school library. Is positively announced for Thursday next, in the ware house of A. Goldman, which has been suitably fitted with stage. etc. for the occasion. of its merits, it k too early to speak. Nous rerrOHs. :. (. II.