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Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Tucson and Pima County Items.

Pima county was favored on the Eth and Sth with a much needed and co. Ipious rain. It commenced Friday night and continued all day Saturdays steady and soaking rain. The whole country was much in Eted of it, and lit did good. Since the rain we have had beautiful weather.
 Encouraging reports come in from all directions. There are more miners now in the mountains, working their claims, and taking out ri;h rock than at any previous time. In every direc- tion the sound of pick and hammer can be heard. Places where only a few months ago solitude reigned and were thought worthless, are now the scenes of busy life, and the hardy min CT is leaving his mark on the face of the earth. With the new life in min ing, trade has revived. There is not a day, Sunday not excepted) that four horse teams cannot be seen in our streets in front of the stores loading with tools and provisions for the diff ferent mining and prospecting camps.
 People that heretofore have thought town lots in Tucson as valueless, are now anxious to purchase. know of several transfers in city property with in the past two weeks, some of the property having advanced fifty per cent. in price over its market value of three months ago.
 Mir Dave Harshaw, one of the own CTS of the Alta mine, came to town the latter part of the week, bringing with hlm plenty of silver The Alta mine is situated in the Patagonia range, and is worked on small but successful scale by its owners. Although they know little or notIing of mining or reduction of the rock, they have de- veloped the mine, erected reductionI works and made the mine pay for itI all. So far they have been experiment. ing and testing their own strength and skill, and are now learning how toI work their mine and rock Without doubt they have fine mine and can not help making a success of It.
 Mir. M. T. Brown, competentxas- saver from San Francisco, has estab- lished an office il Tucson with Wm. $. Edwards, and since his arrival has had all the work he could attend to. His first experiments were on rock off the Alta mine, general average yield ing about $500 to the ton.
 The accounts of the Board of Health of Tucson, during the smallpox cpl demic, amounting to $766.78, have been and warrant drawn on the City Treasury for that amount Small pOX is rather an expensive luxury, and Tucson can't afford to have it often, but thanks to the forethought and en- ergy of Mayor Allen and Mir. P R. Fully, it was not so bad as 1t might have been. The thanks of the commu- nity are due to those gentlemen for their services during that trying time.
 A city election for Mayor, Council men, &c., has been ordered for the first of January, 1878, and the prospects are good that Mir R. N. LeatherwOOd will be our next Mayor.
 It IS rumored that Mir. James Carroll will move to Leatherwood's old corral, and there in connection with MT. Col ton, carry on hls livery and stable busi- ness, his present place at the corral stables not being large enough to ac- commodate his fast growing trade.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
kit Carson,

Christopher Carson was born in Mad
 ison county, Kentucky, December 24 1909, and while yet in infancy his fam. fly removed to Howard county, Mis- 'souri. At the age of 15 he was ap. prenticed to a saddler, with whom he remained two years. In 1926 he be
 gan his eventful career as a mountain. eer, trapper and guide. In 1882 he was appointed hunter at Bent's Fort, in which position he continued for eight years In the extended and i'm portant explorations of General Ere. mont, Kit Carson was continuously employed as guide. In 1S47 he re- ceived an appointment as lieutenant in the rife corps of the army. In 1853 he took a flock of nearly 1000 sheep across to California, an undertaking that was attended with great difficult ties, but in which Kit was entirely sue cessful. On his return to Taos, New Mexico, he was appointed Indian agent, his extended acquaintance with the Indians and his thorough knowl- edge of their character rendered hlm a most efficient officer, and he was in- strumental in bringing about many treaties with the Indians. During the Civil War he rendered important ser vices in New Mexico, Colorado and the Indian Territory. He rose to the rank of colonel, and was bsevetted brigadier general.
 Kit Carson died from rupture of an artery in the neck, at Fort Lyon, Colorado, May g, 1868.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

MR. Joseph Collingwood, one of the best, oldest and most enterprising citizens .of Florence, left town on Friday last for a trip to the Globe District, where he has important mining interests. After con. cluding his business at Globe he will re- turn to Florence, and in a short time will make trip to HermOsillo, Mexico, where he has a most beautiful and valuable. ranch. Florence owes as much to Mir. Collingwood, as to any one man for her present prosperity and importance. Viva Don Jose.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

MR. NJ. TIERNY, one of the heaviest owners in the now famous McMillen Mine left last week for the mine, but suffered SC much from rheumatism the first day out that he concluded to return to Florence and recruit. If there is any climate in the world that will cure "the ills that flesh is heir to-" We have it right here in Flor ence. Mir. Tierney's congenial nature renders him most agreeable guest, and while we wish him 8 speedy relief iron his sufierings we shall be glad to have hin prolong his stay in Florence many days.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Notice to Creditors.
Administrators Sale of Real
 Estate.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT lN in pursuance of an order of the Pro- bate Court of the County of Final, Terri tory of Arizona, made on the 24th day of November, A. ID. 1877, in the matter of the estate of Jose Maria Barragan, dec'd., the undersigned the administrator of said es- highest bidder for cash, lawful money of the United States, and subject to confr-
 nation by the Probate Court, on Saturday the 29th day Of Decent Der, A. D. 1877, at | 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the door Of the Court-house in the Town of Florence, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, all the right, title, interest and estate of the said Jose Maria Barragan, deceased, at the time of his death, and all the right, title and interest that the said estate has, by operation of law or otherwise, acquired other than or in addition to that of the said intestate at the time of his death, in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel
 Of land situate, lying and being in the
 said County of Pinal, Territory Of AriZo- na, and described as follows, tO-wit: The South half of the NV quarter of the SW quarter, and the South half and
 NE quarter of the SW Quarter Of Section 3l, Township 4. South Range east, Gila
 and Salt River Meridian.
 Terms and condition of Sale: Cash, 10
 per cent. to be paid to the auctiOneer on
 the day of sale, balance on confirmation
 Of sale by said Probate Court. Deed at
 the expense of purchaser.
 JOSEPH COLLINGWOOD, Admin
 istratOr of the estate of Jose Maria Bara-
 gan, deceased.
 Florence, December 5, 1877. s-Iw
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Application for Patent.
sTONEWALL JACKSON MINING
 CLAIM.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, FLORENCE, ARIZONA, November 8, 1877. NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN the McMillen Silver Mining Con- many A cOTpOratiOn organized under tho laws Of the Stateof California, having their office and principal place of business in the. City of Santa Rosa, SOnOma County, California, by their attorney, John J' De- vine whose postoffice address Is Florence Pinal County, Arizona, has this day mado application for a patent to the Stonewall Jackson Mine or Lode, situated Tn the Globe District, Pinal County, Arizona, un- der the laws Of the United States and the Territory of Arizona, for twenty acres ot mineral land described as follows in the field notes, certlned Dy the SuINeyOI Geh-
 Beginning al the NV corner Of said claim where is set stone loXlixlO inches, marked $. J. No. ", in mound Oi stones four feet high and four Feet at Dase rom the corner, and also for a mineral monu- ment, and from which McMlllen's Peak hears N 3gISo \. also a dOmed topped butte bears S 365 F; thence along the Northwest erly boundary Of said mining claim S iI34o " -fvar I3s AZ E by observation Of Polar is1 92 I7 chains. I462 22 feet tO SW corner of said claim, at a stone marked :. J. No. l, in a mound; thence S. il" 4o F. 4.54i chains, 3OO feet 10 a monument Of stones on the lode set for a dividing line between the StCueWdll JdchSOH "Lu LsOo'Le -. t40O mine, 9O6 chains SO feet Co stone Tn monument marked S- J. No. 2; thence along the eas eTly boundary Of said claim and al =. r chains li63 = feet 10 a stone in a monument; thence 4I l4oW along the dividing line between the Stonewall Jackson and Hannibal Mining Claim, chain 66 feet to a creek 70 links wide, run ming sAl chains 90 feet tO a stone mOnu- ment on the lode and 800 chains 600 feet TO the place of beginning. The claim IS bounded on Inc NE end by The Hannibal claim: on the SW end by the Robert E- Lee claim and DOr.hwesterly by the sur plus claim.
 Adverse claims, 1T any, must be nled m this office within sixty days rom thls Hate or they will be barred by law.
 CHARLES D. BOSTON, Register.
 NovanobeTe Q, slow
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

THE enterprising firm of J. Samter under the management of MT. Goldberg has concluded to silently fold their teEtc and steal away from sunny Florence, and locate on one of the principle thorough fares Of striving, thriving Phenix. We wish Mir Goldberg every success and pleasure he anticipates, and congratulate the people of Phenix upon the acquisition of new enterprise and more capital. MT. B. Heinemann will attend to all unfur- nlshed business in Florence.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

MR. VosBURG of the firm of Logan & Vosburg of Globe City, dropped in yes terday fresh from the mountains and re- ports every thing in irst-class order in the mineral world, the mines never have looked so well. Miners never have been in better spirits, business never was bet ter. This is happy news and indicates a healthy condition Of affairs in the Globe country
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

ON the Sth instant, Messrs. Collingwood & Co.,, forwarded for Henry Pascal & Co.,, thirty-two bags of silver ore weighing 32SS pounds. Amabisca's train has just left Yuma with l5, l65 pounds of freight consigned to Collingwood & Go.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

THE Treasurer of the Florence Sunday School wishes 10 call the attention ot those whose names are on the Christmas subscription list that the money will be required soon, hence they may expect g call from the Treasurer in day or two.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

J. $. MANSFIELD, of the Pioneer News Depot of Tucson, is as busy as 5. He says his Christmas goods have arrived but how to get them all in his store Is a puzzler.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

A 3O-MILE power Spy-glass. for farmers use, worth si5. large size-price slO. Send for L. Uncle Harris, San Francisco.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Mining Locations.

The following mining locations have been filed in the office of the County Re- corder since our last issue:
 Chronicle. In Pioneer District, by George P. Wood.
 U. s. Mint, In Pioneer District, by J. P. Wood.
 U. Revenue, in Pioneer District, by G. P. Wood.
 Belglam, in Globe District, by F. A. Moore and W. H. Beard.
 Motley, Julius and Anna, Tn Globe Dis trict, by Charles Hayse and c. E. Buck.
 Clymer, in Globe District, by Charles Hayse.
 Mary Ellen, in Pioneer District, by Nj. V. Gleason.
 Dexter, in Pioneer District, by D. H. Crocker.
 Yosemite, in Pioneer District, by D. H, lCrocker, Oscar Mahalz and A. B. Lawson.
 Empire, in Globe District, by Elizabeth R. Brannaman.
 May Flower, in Globe District by c. P. Fred and c. Bell.
 Sanborn, in Globe District, by J. W. Has, kin.
 Saranac. in Globe District, by c. P. Ford and J. Yogan.
 Lille, in Pioneer District. by Clark A. Galloway. TRANSFERS.
 The following transfers of real estate and mining property in Pinal county, have been filed in the County Recorders office since our last issue:
 Solomon Mund to Louis Gottheimer, lot No. l69 in the town of Florence-consider- ation, sl. W. V. Elliot to A. Hamerslag and J. Col lingwood, the Saddle Rock mine, in Pio- neer Mining District-conslderatlon sIOOO,
 A. L. Byron to W. B. Scott, an undivided one third Coeing 800 feet of the Happy Jack mine, in Globe District-considera- ton, 5000.
 Jeff. W. J. Hunick to A. c. Forbach, one fourth interest in the Papago, Dead wood, Pow-wow and Perseverance mines, in Owl Head District-consideration S25OO.
 Wm. Futile to W. R. DeFrees, the min- ing claim known as the Hub Lode, in Pioneer District-consideration s4OOO.
 W. R. DeFrees to the Silver Queen Min ing Company, the mining claim known las the Hub or Silver Queen lode, in Pio- neer District-consideratio sl.
 A, NJ. Wallace to Joseph Price, the min ing claim known as the Bruce mine, in Globe DistricL-consideration sIOO.
 J. D. Gray to Franklin Beebe, one twelfth interest In the Mineral Hill, Snn- set and Surplus mines, in Globe District S5.
 INCORPORATION.
 Articles Of incorporation Of the Silver Queen Mining Company were filed in the
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Proceedings Board of Supervisors.

| The Board of Supervisors Of Pinal coun- t ty, met at a special meeting at the office of the Clerk Of the Board, on Saturday, | December 8, at 10 o'clock a. ID. in pursu- ance Of the following order, to-wit: | The undersigned members Of the Board Of Supervisors for the county of Pinal, being a majority thereof, do hereby order that a special meeting Of said Board of Supervisors be held at the office Of the Clerk of the Board on Saturday, the Sth day Of December, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose Of considering the propriety Of extending the time for the collection of Territorial and County taxes for the year 1877.
 J. COLLINGWooD.
 P. HOLLAND.
 Present Supervisors Holland and Wheat with J. A. Apperson, deputy clerk.
 The Chairman of the Board being ab- Isent, on motion of MT. Wheat, MT. Hol- land was appointed chairman, pro tenn. The minutes Of last meeting were read and approved. On motion Of Mir. Wheat it was ordered by the Board that the Col lector be allowed until the SOth day Of De- .cember to complete the collection Of Ter ritorial and County taxes.
 Board adjourned sine die.
 P. HOLLAND, Chairman, pro tenn. U. 4. PATERSON, Deputy Clerk.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
To Station Keepers.

Road station receipts and water receipts can be had at Mansfeld's Pioneer News Depot, Tucson.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

,v,-,tst. s0i California Street. IS s,s"' San Francisco. Cal ' 7ss, iri'''''
 lanes M. Barney.
 s,ocessor to the Late Firm of
 william B. Hooper & Co.,,
 .ss ,he Business fin ARIZONA and
 CALIFORNIA
 as an
 ,poRTER AND WHoLESALE. E lyzPPoRTE R AND " hoLESAhk ,rRCHANT. MERCHANT. sayping ss Commission Merchant v1l Carry Full prime Stock Of ,,,srONs. PROVISIONS. ghsg9vISIONS. PROVISIONS, GROCERIES, GROCERIES, SP0CFRIES, GROCERIES, I ogY GOODS, DRY DRY G00DS' G00DS' II 1ST GOODS, DhI IooDs' CLOTHING, CLOTHING, H CLOTHING, CLOTHING, N BOOTS AND SHOES, BOOTS AND SHOES HARDWARE, HARD WARE, H51RDWARR, HARDWARE, I sADDLERY, SsADDLERYr SaDD1LER '1GJI--IG;S '1nGpI-GS AND MINING MATERIALS, 1BPf-GS AND MINING MA FERIALS,
 selected to Exactly Suit v..,bauts. Station Keepers, Miners, Ranchers and Freighters ARIZONA and MEXICO. solicl,s Orders for Goods and Assures
 - Satisfaction. - goRyARDS FREIG HIT AND MFR
 CHAN DISE o any Part Of the World - Insuring
 - desred.- Buys or Makes Advances
 -on all ARIZONA AND MEXICAN PRODUCE. The SALE Of ORES and MINERALS
 SPECIALITY. Buys and Exchanges Gold Dust. Gold and Silver Bullion, United States Treasury Drafts, Legal Tenders, Soldiers
 Warrants and Vouchers and
 Good Commercial Bills. Special orders will be attended to by the san Francisco Branch House with prompt ness and fidelity.
 All orders and commissions should be to
 JAMES NJ. BARNEY,
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

< Member Of the firm will hereafter re- main in New York, so that we will be able to avail ourselves of all ad- vantages offered by fluctuations
 Of the market.
 LORD 6 WILLIAMS
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
INCORPORATION.

Articles Of incorporation Of the Silver Queen Mining Company were filed in the County Recorders office on the 10th in- stant. Capital stock, SlO,OOO,OOO, divided into 100000 shares of the par value Of slOO each. Office in San Francisco. The pres ent Directors are: w. R. DeFrees, B. A. Barney and w. H. Boothe. Of San Francis co, c. W. Hopkins, of Oakland, and B. w. Reagan, Of Arizona Territory.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT 1N all matters Of difference between the undersigned has been this day settled, and all business relations dissolved by mutual consent. S. Shulz Is authorized to collect all accounts due the late firm of & Mund, except those assigned to and held by said Mund.
 Florence, December 3, 1877.
 SOLOMON SHULZ.
 s. MUND. December :. 9-iw
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

AWNING DEEDS FOR SALE AT THE MI CITIZES office
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

,o suy Part Of the World - Insuring
 - desred- -
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

Special orders will be attended to by the San Francisco Branch House with prompt ness and fidelity. All orders and commissions should be addressed to
 JAMES NJ. BARNEY,
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
ARIZONA AND MEXICAN PRODUCE

Buys and Exchanges Gold Dust, Gold and Silver Bullion, United States Treasury Drafs, Legal Tenders, Soldiers
 Warrants and Vouchers and
 Good Commercial Bills.
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

roRyARDS FREIG HIT AND MFR
 CHAN DISE
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

Buys or Makes Advances
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

soIleits Orders for Goods and Assures
 - Satisfaction. -
Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14

ARIZ MA and MEXICO.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-23
The Russian Failure in Asia.

.
A correspondent writing from Con
stantinople, to the Press says:
The failure of the Russians in Asia
is to be regretted, as it would be much
better for the interests of commerce and
of the populations if Russia could have
extended her coast line on the Black Sea
to Trebizond. The Russians are a COM
mercial people, and the Turks are not.
The former improve their conqpests,a ,and
the latter deterierate them. Compare
the Black Sea coast now in possession of
Russia with what itwas when 1t belong
ed to the Turks. For three centuries the
Black Sea was Shut up by the Turks.
Not a trading-vessel of any Christian
State was allowed to enter it. Sinope,
Trebzond, Eupatoria, and the other old
Greek towns, were in decay-no life, no
commerce, their harbors choked up,
misery and ruin everywhere. Towards
/ the close of the eighteenth century Russia
made lodgment on the shores of the
Euxine, the Crimea was acquired, and
Odessa founded. She insisted that the
long-closed sea should be opened to the
trading nations of the world. The Turks
were Obliged to yield to their demand.
Foreign flags began to appear. Odessa
became an opulent and fi0urshing seat
of trade. Sebastopol (the august city,
rose in marble and granite on the solitary
coast of the Crimea with her magnificent
| quays and Incompatible harbor. In less
than half century the Russian shore of
the Black Sea was strewn with large and
populous cities, while the Turkish Goa II
is to this day sparsely sown with the
crumbling remains OF former prosperity
and grandeur. Why this contrast? Be-
cause one part was in the hands of a
Christian, ,civilizing power, and the other
in possession of government that has
no sympathies with progress and modern
lti yiliZatlon
The daily gazette., 1877-07-23
Rustchuk Completely Sur
rounded dby the Russians.
CAPTURE OF THE, ,sHIRKA PASS.
a bAsHrNG CAMPAIGN m Bull,
,o9 GARIA FOR EsHADowED.91pd
ENGLIAND AND HER INTERESTS,
The PRINCE oFI MONTENEGRO;
.n;gO AVENGE THE DEATH0F {
nj sbe HIS COUNTRYAEN.
s1FUAf7oN BEFORE dKARs.:

ei'A"T '@'h J LONDON, July %, 1877.
The Herald's special correspondent at
Bucharest telegraphs under date of 1880
o'clock last night, as ows:-'T have
just returned from the neighBorhood of
Rohstchuck, and can say from actual OBJ.
seryation that the place is completely
the Russians being on the
Danube, seven miles above and eight
miles below the town, with a line. of
communicate between thesetwo points
describing a radius. to the southwark,
which cuts the main road to Rasgrad and
the railway to Varna -'i'''" h''''.'''
'" ALL THAT IS LEFT THEM ' "''
"The Turks still maintain their commu-
nicat:on with the forts upon the islands
Of Pyrgos and Parapan, but the Russians
have now changed front and 1t matters to
them very little how many guns there are
in these forts. The Russian investing
Rustchuk are we'll provided With supplies
and ammunition. Indeed, their commu-
nication with their base Of supplies on the
north side Of the Danube are now amply
satisfactory. va ."'i''''t ~ . F'."
a'A '7''H' A BRisKl CAMPAIGN. 9nI
"Whatever apathy the Russian may
have affected to manifests heretofore evi-
dences are seen on every hand that from
this day forward the campaign is to be
actively prosecuted. There are reasons
for this spirited policy which I am not at
liberty to state, but which may be sur
missed. The Gar no longer manifests
any impatience; the Grand Duke Nicho-
las appears more. resolute and self-c0nf
dent than he has since the troops crossed
the Pruth.
ANEW BRIDGE ACROSS THE DANUBE.
H. sY4e n4lf LONDON, July 81, 1877.
A st. Petersburg dispatch to The Post
says: "a third pontoon bridge over the
Danube has been constructed at Rahova.
JENl scHRA TAKEN AFTER A FIGHT.
i' BUCHAREST, July 2I, 1877.
Three Russian divisions reinforced the
advanced post near Jeni Saghra, and af-
ter a brilliant engagement occupied that
place. The Grand Duke Nicholas posi-
ton at Tirnova has been rendered secure
by reinforcements, ''"
' '" LONDON, July 20, 1877.
A Russian official account of opera
tions in the Balkans, dated Tirnova,
July 1s, says: Shipka Pass iswas taken
to-day and occupied by a regiment,
with two guns. On the nth inst. Gen
Gourko, after an engagement in which
he lost 207 in killed and wounded, oc-
cupied Kazanlik and the village of
Shipka. "'.
ADRlANoPLE, July 20, 1877,
Suleiman Pasha landed yesterday at
Dediagatsh the terminus on the Mar
mora of the railway to Adrianople.
He is expected at Kauleli Bourgas to
morrow. The railway between here
and Buzardjik is still intact.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-23
'' .r,.,.e.4 WILMINGTON DEL MONDAY. JULY 2s $

sieged, and then the Union Depot There
is no, doubt but the destruction will be
complete and total before morning.
There have been, several killed and
wounded within the last hour, but no
particulars can be given. The mob is
hourly increasing ~ i"t p 1H"lN W.
11f. MA number Of citizens went to
the Philadelphia round house, last night
and begged them to leave the city,, as a
general massacre is feared. They were
unable to do so on account of the SURF
rounding mob, and three of the soldiers
who attempted to slip out sihgly were
shot and instantly killed. ,,i..,' 721l2'. ,