Arizona citizen., 1878-11-23

I-ltt ndFt2E.l lAtely UeCpine lnIertSte'
 by purchase Of Tombstone minin,
 property; and here also met II. C ! Hooker and Mir. Samuel Ames, botl of whom will soon leave for TucsOi and lhe Sierra Bonita ranch-Mr H contemplating the purchase of Col
 Barney's interests n the ranch anC adding to itmore fiue stock, and alsC more firmly planting himself in Ari zona. Ex-Gov. doyt is at the Baldwin but will soon start east and will ther, decide whether he will remain or re turn 10 Tucsnn and engage in law practice. IIe has already officially ad
 vised Secretary Schurz that he vii
 not accept the Idaho governorship Ex-Gnv. Saford, Richard Gird and W c. Parsons can be seen every day d the Palace. All are perfecting arrange ments for reduction works on theil rich mines in Tombstone Gov. Saf ford and Mr. Grd have saw-mill en route now and will have quartz mil and supplies on the way very soon Levi Bashford mikes headquarters al Jones & O., in this city, and with hi. vile makes his h6me at Tubbs' Hotel in Oakland He w.th another interest. ed party in the Tigg. leaves for Pres. cntt 10 day. They will at once inspect the mine on wbica steam holsting works are to be put up immediately, and very soon a complete mill. Mrs Coles BAshtord and tlmily reside in Oakland and seem we'll pleased.
 : Yesterday morning g notice like this appeared in the Ala: Died in San Francisco, November :, 1878, Charles E Mowry, a native of Rhode Island, aged fifty years and three months" Cause was not sated. The deceased was we'll known to many Tucson and Sonora people.
 
 People generally have an eye and ear open to hear about Arizona, not withsianding the Comstock aod Bodie attractions. There is much attention attracted 10 the Territory by the rail ways pointing to and in it. This Is true east and west. The only railway building of note in present progres in the country, is either in or tending directly 10 Arizona New railways al. ways attract much attention to lhe sec lions over which they are running or building. Specula,,rs have business ;ng dig eXlIia ,si r,s ..'as- tion lines, and the fact that much mon ey for such purposes comes nowadays from Boston, New York and San Fran cisco, accounts for lively interest ih those cities regarding Arizona.
 You know about as much regarding railway procre}s sS can be learned here, and yor general impressions re garding Inc purposes of the Southern Pacific are correct. They mean 10 rapidly push he road far into Arizona, and perhspsmake little delay in put
 ting it itrOgh tO the Rio Grande . Various clues have occasioned some delay in toOugh start from Yuma
 but materials daily going forward
 and the ditFill be flying and raIl, be laid in # days at a rate of speed
 that will beEfy gratifying 10 most of. your readel. The unexpected death
 of Gen Cdol, and absence of Gov. Stanford ai Charles CrOcker at the time, natulis worked some detri- ment, but itsnoiewOrihy that the old and famous dief of construction on
 the whole l4ral Pacific line, Mir. Strobridge, Id left his larm in Ala meda county (which he thought he ; retired sevesgears ago, 10 superin- tend the wV from Yuma. He is captain in blfng railway As high o as ten miles {track were laid in one day under liSireclion on the Central
 Pacific.
 It may bnfbu,e somewhat to the !, contentme q the people of the in-
 terior to Arnthat there is a general
 dullness ibusness pervadiag most Of
 this SlateThicountry towns are said
 to be exriering much depression, c and in fom observation and re- O liable reis. am sure that many of ly them in southern part of the State, p are quitNe, 10 use a current expres- e
 sion b a half dollar of patronageI s to an in store. is received in a way se that sh any thing but a rush in p' bushes any kind. In several de- al
 sirable ms, good houses and lots b' ] can bgchased for a lrifling sum D.
 compaiO cost Co say nothing of ex- m
 pectatIa a few years ago. As an A instanf one of several places re- m ? ferred ovely Santa Barbara may be st menti, While a general com ar plainileard at Los Angeles, there s are tinsiness and other buildings II
 beingted there. It seems that the Al D. rich Gy has been neglected and in z too upeople flocked into towns. Sc u W. frC 's ~ Ca 's Inn Francisco Bulletin of the So r. 18th A telegram from Los An Pa ieI geleslief Engineer Gray yesterday GU ID stgSet another gang of white men or,