The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-08-08

J. H. Pierson, aud Pete Reed are in town from Peoples Valley. The Doctor sent out large quantity of lumber for improving has ranches Tn the Valley.
 An important discovery of gold and sil- ver bearing quartz has been made in the Santa catanns mountains by &. D. Rams dall. An assay gave $T5 gold and s72 in silver. The ledge is reported as averaging 100 feet wide.-Silvcr Belt.
 We have letter from San Francisco which states that J. W. Haskin expects to ship quartz mill from that place to Globe as soon as the 18th of September. Nr. H. will precede its arrival He left for New York on the 22nd ult Silver Belt.
 The Camel breeding in Arizona item has gone the rounds of every section of the Union, and has now been taken up by the bound 10 make this a profitable industry for Arizonans, whether or no.
 The funeral of the late B. w. Reagan, of Oakland, Cal, was remarkable in one re- spect. The body Was embalmed and kept nor. than week until favori,e minister was teiegraphed for aId arrived from Can ton, Mo, to officiate and preach the funeral sermon. The minister sent for was Rev E. H. Smith, of the Christina, or Campbellite Church.
 One of the best mining prope. ties in this territory is the Crosscut mine. in Humbug distncr, and still nothing Is being done with it. The property is too valuable to sell for small figure, such as capitalists generally want tO buy Arizona mines for. The time is coming when the Crosscut will take the lead Of all other mines in this ter ritory. Remember this gentlemen.
 Mir. Robbins of the Inter Ocean, is of the opinion that the Hidden Treasure Mime on Lyux Creek, is a veIy valuable property He thinks the mines on Lynx Creek arc similar to the mines at Central City. Col which have turned out so much bullion and become world renowned in consequence A tunnel into the hill of the Hidden Treas u:e, 500 feet, will cut five veins.
 The last Legislature passed law. giving
 bonds to the amount of 0,OO0, against tho territory, running ;5 years bearing intcres
 at the rate of two per cent. interest payable
 annually for the erection Of a road iron
 Bradshaw to Gillett via Tiptop. If th'
 bonds can be sold for so ceDIs, thes vii
 amount to $l6,0O0 which would lee a starte In opening this much needed tnoroughfare Oueur TO BE oAISTD AT OScE.-Th
 fence now being built round the Plaza l
 ,oiDg to be not only useful, but ornamental l The juniper posts are as good as could o s made anywhere, and the rails, of clear pine
 lofs awr.n.s1 n fhfs f any considerable time, both posts and rail
 are bound to check and be materially ID
 iured. Painters ought to follow right slon T and paint Ihc fence at once as fast as It
 built.
 c Jordan Bros brought wagon load flour to town this morning, From the verdi
 manufacrured by them at their mill. In Q is the first four ever brought from tl {. Verde and sold in the Prescott market. d examined the article, and should Jnde d it to le equally as good as that manuta' n tured in The valley of the Salt River. IT 1. furm,rs of the Verde are preparing to plai
 large crcps of wheat the coming season, "n
 Prescott may reasonably expect to recei' ir mucA of her breadstuff from that directiC a in anotber year.
 in ,. DEsrrrurE.-Mrs. Steinbrook, wldo .v vuman with four children, is at present co xe fined to her bed, and IS in quite desfltu
 Circumstances. It Is true that the Board
 Suneryisors have allowed her $5 per we' i'll for maintenance of herself and chiidre .d which would. were the woman we'll and at ry to work. go far toward support, but und ,e o,;s,;,y circumstances it i3 6 mere trlf i'll The woman and her whole family are m ly .Imo., naked condition, and now is the tiI
 for onr charitable citizens to lend helpl II. hand.
 ch David Balsz was awarded the contract CT furnish the San Carlos Indians 500 head n. California cows, delivered at the Agen les for SIG. % per head The Silver Belt s'
 of these COWS:
 .When turned over to the agent wlli '.s desgnated by some government brand es- the Indian families to winch they are app nr- tioned will also have their individual ora ol- which will be regarded as a valid conveya' ne fin the Indians, but on no account VIII u ge. he allowed to kill or dispose of them nd when found in other hands will be recia
 ed by the agent
 ing ANOTHER AW"lNA NAi'V' "" ing RryER.-Mr. Smith, the veteran fruit d' m o-. arrived this morning with load cen grapes from the vinyard of Mrs Edgar 'e" Salt river and unloaded at Herzags. sn on; reports a heavy rain daybefore yester oi ,his side of Giliett. which extended so
 nearly to New river growing lighter m, fnrrh.r south it OK ended. He says tha " ;"r sII h,s experience on the deserts of | ',a, o fornia and Arizona, which has been very or pe, ,crsiye, hc never suffered so much from , P nor had team so exhausted for want 'p1, ,o fresh air. as on this trip between Phenix 1 GiIleit. The weather was excessively 1, ;s inc air appeared perfectly siasnant ana
 dust almost binding.