The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-28
MONDAY.

Attorney General.
 The Yuma Expositor speaKs emphaticall, and in rather light way of Samuel Purdy Jr.
 Philip Richardson arrived from Brac shaw today.
 The Bank of Arizona is grert conven fence to the people of Northern Arizona.
 W. z. Wilson of Prescott, arrived in Sar Francisco from the east, on the 17th, and is now looked for at home almost at any moment.
 Mir. James Stewart, of the stage Eae be. tween here and Yuma, came into town last evening. He is here on business com ted with the company.
 Cherry, the mining expert, who -5 sud denly disappeared from this section short time since, has been heard from in the City of Chicago.
 Tomorrow evening grand social party will take place at the s'ation of Mir. Sol. Jackson. Let the young men speak for a turnout and for young miss for the occa- sion.
 Mir B. A. Fickas, Chef Clerk in the As sembly, Iel', this morning per erstagc, for Tue snn. Mr. Fickss is a young man of good habits, lots ofability and made many friends in this section during his short sojourn of Iess thln two months in Prescott.
 The Arizona Lottery is progressing finely. A grand rush is being made for the tickets. Those who wish chance or hances for the SlO,O0O prize to be given away June 4tb, should apply immediately at the store of J. GOldwater & Bro.
 Hon. Chas. A Luke returned from Brad shaw yesterday, and when he left the basin, tine Bsaa quartz null was steam ing up and getting into shape for manufac- turing silver bricks by the wholesale or re- tail, just 10 suit customers. road-ageats auj sicf
 Benj. Morgan Esq. ard his very e>timab.c
  taking a sniff of the pure air of thet rural section. Some one suggested tlat Morgan had gone out to head off the S,uthcrn pacif- ic R. R. people, whom it is said are fast ap- preaching Prescott from the South and bringing their railroad right along with them.
 J. l.. Fisher, accompanied by his wife Miss Jones and Mrs. c. w. Beach, made flying visit to Chino Valley yesterday. They reached there just in time to join all the good. d.people of that place in picnic to the headwaters of the Verde. A pleasant time was had by those who went from town, as we'll as those who made up the party from Chino.
 Messrs. Carpenter and Fisher, went out to the Tiptop last Friday, and returned to- day They found the ten-stamp mill at Gillett pounding out bullion by the thous- snds of dollars daily, and the Tiptop mine looking better ana better as the miners con- tinue sinking into the bowels of the earth. The weather at GiIIett is quite warm, in fact regular summer climate.
 4 party of would-be miners started out on horseback, early yesterday morning for the placer mines. on Lynx Creek. After their arrival at the above named place, they seated themselves to rather sGnptuols dinner prepared by w. H. Clark, ''the Ari- zona poet" After their return home, we noticed one of the young men making bee-line for Liuoon's drug store. w4,re he had gone to purchase bottle of iinmelt.
 Guiford Hathaway returned 01 .-l.day evening from a trip 10 Blackberry aud Min eral Park in Mohave County. Mr II reports the Blackberry mill as running regularly and thinks in time it will pay out all right Several good mines arc being opened in diff ferent sections of the country. and the sup position is that times will revive all through the county. The people feel jubilant over tho prospect of being once more placed in communication with the outside world through the agency of mail service which has just been reestsblished between Prescott and Ft. Mohave, twice a week. SPLENDID PRosPECT.-Messrs. Goodnue, Murphy and Mejia went out to their mine, the Silver Trail yesterday and brought n samples of ore from the bottom of the 30 f ot shaft which assays at least $500 per ton i in gold, silver aud lead. The mine is situate about a half mile from the Senator | mlll, amid dense forest of timber, and the | prospects are very favorable to this turning | out an excellent property. They have three i men employed on the mine. and intend . thoroughly examining into its merits Do fore suspcnding operations.
 We are constantly asked to forWard conics . of our paper 10 people living in the east ern cities, who are anxious t) come her1 and go into ba,iness. soms ihieS De ci. gar and tobacco trade would pay others cl,thiag, etc., etc, and lasty, Belle Lyneh wants to buy a newspaper. Next we ex- pect to hear tha; Henry Ward Becsher solicits a parsonage in our village. Ger. tainly we are progressive people.
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