The Phoenix herald., 1879-10-24

men from Tonto, is seen on the street.
 We saw quantity of coarse gold from Weaver's in Peralta's store the other morning.
 The Maricopa mountains below town, will pay the prospector well | to visit them
 B. Stern, of the boot and shoe firm of Rosenthal, Feeder & Co., of San Francisco is in the city.
 Jno. R. Dall 6s Co. have just re ceived an immense lot of goods, in cluding everything in their line of business.
 Mr Thompson, the saddlcr and harness maker has moved to the building next to Ira Stroud's saloon.
 AIr Nichols informs us that 15 men are at work grading the mill site for the Silver Nugget Mining Company.
 A large number of families have settled in this section in the last few months and We hear of many more to follow.
 Judge Silent, Mrs. Fremont, and Col. c. P Head, arrived this morning from Prescott, and left soon after in a private conveyance for the Railroad
 Among the many new arrivals from McMillen we notice the follow ing: J. II. Luedke, Frank Medley, James McGargle, J. R. Nichols, F. F. Burke and J. L. Turner, ST. and jr.
 Messrs. Gregg and Groves brought to this office about 50 cents worth of gold pounded out of one pound of rock taken from their clai.l, six miles southwest of town in the Mar icopa Mountains. S1,O00 to the ton is pretty good ore.
 Mark Ezekiels, travelling in the in terest of L. Zeckendorf & Go. Tucson, arrived yesterday, He will leave to- morrow for Fort Mcdowell and thence to Prescott. Mark was for several years in business in Oakland and was only of the most extensive advertisers in that city, and knows how to appreciate printers ink, his notices, at times, occupying an entire page, which for their originality and wit made him known everywhere.
 Charles Jett, one of the owners of the Union claim, 15 miles north of Phoenix, between the Tiptop and Cave creek roads, informed up this morning, that his claim is promising well. His deepest working is 26 feet which shows a ledge thirty inch es wide, and numerous assays place the value at $150 per ton. A second shaft, just commenced, on a vein parailel,with the ore above mentioned shows six feet of ore that horned out between $a5 and s30, all in gold. Three men will go out morrow and a few weeks more work will tell its proprietors what they have.
 A correspondent of the N Y Sun, writing from Maricopa on the subject of rattlesnakes, tells the following story of this section: '' was riding along through Salt River Valley, at the close of 8 very hot in July, when I came upon an oasis in the wilder ness, the home of a settler named Marks It had been so hot all day, that no work could be done out of doors, and it..was only few minutes before my appearance that an Indi= an boy in Marks employ had gone to the upper end ot small vegetable garden to do some necessary chores. He had been there but a moment when he cried out in alarm in the Indian tongue, \ snakel snakc.' and jumped upon shelving rock hard by. Marks grabbed his shotgun and ran through the garden just in time to sec an immense rattle snake preparing to strike the boy, He jumped to one side and fired. blowing the snakes head off and saw ing the boys life. This snake meas ured nine feet and one inch, and was as big as mans leg