The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-12-06
A TIPTOP LETTER.
Terrible Wind storm-Mininips. Etc. Et.

EDITOR MNER:-our camp had re
 sumed its usual calmnes5 after the excite ment incidental to election, and had beer
 obliged to fall back on tine staple topics Oi ! conversation until this morning, when Did ' Boreas kindly exerted himself and furnished subjects for weeks discus5-on. Near day ! light strong wind arose, increasing iU
 velocity Jill sun rise, when II blew a hur- ! ricane, demolshing Sil ihe editices ID camp [ that were not extraordinarily secured ] The first sufferers were Barnard < Smith whose big tent saloon collapsed like au | egg-sheli; but the Judge shows up strong
 under diversity. and with characteristic 2 ingenuity promptly improvised 8 bar on a heel-bariow. and gave the boys their
 morning cocktail. noGe the worse for the loss of their mansion. Judge Gates saloon next vielGcd to the fury of the elements. the roof of the sleeping apartment was torn off anG carried bodily not less than fifteen or twenty feet, upon tic hillside. When lifted liom the wall. it detached several
 stones from the mortar, one Of which, weighing several pounds, struck MT. Jesse Jackson on the lefs side of the head, infict- Iag painful, though not serious wound. There were several persons sleeping in the room at tic time, and it Is almost a miracle that no others were iaJurcG. On the oppo- sire end of the building the roof was raised several inches, and threatened 10 leave the remainder of the ediiicc roofess, but by B timely application of large bowlders as bal last, it WAS retained for future service. Ssifenbcrg'S saloon was damaged by Jllc loss of a good part of the awning and many shingles from the roof Roxy & Bencdict's saloon was stripped of few boards, by tie living shyeds of Satf.'s departing canvas. The cab.ns and tents. inhabited by the miners, on Quality Hill" were with few exceptions, completely Aattened. The sud uen change from q snug, warm bed. To s nude, standing position. in the mids, O. conglomcrate mass of flying boards, shin gles, boxes and other rubbish, and eyes filled with the sand and dust that Was carried througn the air in dense bodies, with that velocity cnly equalled by the maddened hurricane, would produce sensa- tions only known ;o us lon that particular occasion) poor unfortunate Tiptopites.
 The mines look as wei as ever. the ore comes forth abundantly, and the mule trains daily carry their cargoes of rich rock to the mill.
 -iA' lNbt iii DDiiitti iS ditNdBClils- i1pltlth in his stone building, and when completed Il will be one of the best in camp
 Mir. Bonner has earned the thanks of tine entire community, by constructing passa- bic trail, in place or the man-trap formerly used across t.e bed of the creek
 M:. Dawes, formerly " th C. p. Head < Go. of Prescott, has opened stock of goods Tn inc budding formerly occupied as a the blacksmith now being accommodated with a buildln. on the dump.
 Bostwick X Fitzhugn are building an addition to their saloon, finding their pres ent quarters somewhat limited.
 Faro and hign-ball poker fiourisheth, and 1 the camp continues, as heretofore, growing | larger and more prosperous every day.
 Several gentlemen, from Prescott and | elsewhere, having claIms in this vicinity, l were recently in camp, and have alrcady 1 commenced work to 8 greater or less cx- ent in several locations.
 Returns from the arastra's in the neigh jornood are encouraging, and mining in ercsts are looking well all over the dis rict, and that the coming winter will be the iveliest Tn tie history of Tiptop is the cx- ,ectahon of all. r.
 TipJop, November 24, 1878.