The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-06

thus showing a yield of S31 pel
 ton. The ore is friable, so tha
 the crushing of 4 tons daily b!
 each of the twenty stamps is prob
 ably correctly stated: as high a
 five or six tons are crushed a
 many of the Nevada mills. More
 detailed statements would involve inaccuracies. A. Bateman under
 took the superintendence of the
 McCrackin property when it was
 in its childhood. Having worked
 the business up to it's present pro
 portions, he proposes to retire as
 soon as Q suitable successor car
 be obtained. Mr. Bateman says
 that since it's inception his com
 pany has expended nearly $500, ,00C most of it in Mohave county.
 The mill cost $96, GOO.
 The Signal mill is thorough
 piece of mechanism, working about thirty tons of ore a day.
 The ore closely resembles the Me-
 Crackin, being from the same ledge, but we have nc authentic data as to it's yield. Everything about the mill has the methodical, business-like appearance that one sees in a Down East factory. D. P. Pierce runs the mill and prob ably gets out of the ore whatever there is in it. Tom Ewing man. ages the whole outfit.
 Signal Ia ngW town; only few months oldI yet it has iio less than 200 buildings, some of them, like Castaneda's and John Cody's, we'll finiShed; and between 700 and 800 inhabitants. Some residents place these figures higher, but actual count will probably verify our es- innate. Rents are high, almost any kind of a building command ing from $10 to $50 per month. There are several livery stables doing a good business. The stores import great quantities Of goods, but do not carry very heavy stocks, business being brisk enough to work off merchandise as fast as received. Dr. Gildersleeve has been practising medicine, but talks of leaving, the town being too healthy to support a doctor. Law is practised by w. Street, Esq, and by H. B. Jones, Esq, former clerk of the District Court at Tue son. J. w. Davis has started a nice drug store, but probably will sell more hair-oil and paints than physic.
 A feature Of Signal is it's brew cry. A large, cool building has been put UP for it by Castaneda and Wm. GoIdkoffef, formerly of San Bernardino. Great sheds sur round the building and roof in a pretty mezquite tree. Underthem are the boiler, rash-tubs made at Signal of Prescott pine, force pump; cooler; ferrnenting tub, pu- rifier, cool cellar, and an aston iShing array of bottles; and the beer is good, too, - vortret1iichl The saloon business Is decidedly overdone, and few saloons are more than making expenses. The population is orderly and honest; but little criminal business comes before His Honor, Judge Bidwell.
 Signal, like other parts of Mo- have county, has been afflicted by bad mail service. For this the people themselves are somewhat | to blame. When contractors have failed to perform service, citizens have been hired to carry mails; and righteous indignation has been vented in growls, instead of in letters to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, Contract Di-. vision. If every man in Signal who has paid money for carriage )f his mail during the last three would make out his bill against the United States for the amounts 50 paid, and forward 1t