The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-02-28

]. B. Hume Chief Detective officer fo
 Wells Fargo X O., left this morning fo
 Cal. via Phenix.
 Mr. Geo. X. Strickland and family ar,
 about to move to the Tiger mine, iron
 Williamson Valley, where they have beer
 residing for the past two years.
 We understand that the Development Co Stock stands we'll in this section. A gen
 Ileman who owns some of the stock. was of
 fered 40 cents per share, and refused it. [ II Netherlands ten-mule team, arrived thi: morning from Ehrenberg with a lot oi miscellaneous goods for different parties. ! We notice among the lot of articles several wiudmills of Halladay's patent, consigned ! to Messrs. Gosper, Lount S Anderson.
 A petition forwarded to Delegate Stevens, signed numerously dy citizens of this toGn asking for service to bc put upon new route from Prescott to Gila Bend, has been filed with the 2pd Assistant Postmaster General, and will in its order receive proper attention.
 Coon YIEID.-Four assays made by F. W. Blake, for Secretary Gosper, of ore from the Emmet Mine, was as follows: The assays showed the ore to be worth from $l3 to Sl,0l5, or an average of $337 77 per ton. This We consider quite an encour- aging result for the owners.
 NIT. Cherry, the mi1eralogist and humbug is in Chicago, aud under arrest. A requisi- ton has neen made on the Governor of H. ino.s by the Governor of Arizona for hisexpert, and he will probably be brought back here to answer for some of his "deeds that are dark, and tricks that are vain"
 AlamOsa, Co.,, must have queer popula- tion that is willing to support newspaper, called the Independent. in its vicious habit of slandering the best people in the world. Even Zick Chandler, of Michigan is not free from its blackguardlng prOpensities.
 Mr A. M Smith, of Chicago, who has been here for some time locking after the interest of Chicago company, left this morning for his home much pleased with what he saw in this section of Arizona. Mr. Smith has examined with great care all the different mines m the various districts, and thinks there is something here worth investing in.
 " tilNts ti ~ Ao.. came in last evening from his trip to liar dyville, Ft. Mohave, Mineral Park, etc, where he has been putting on mail service He met A. Frank at Fit Mohave with eight mules packed with mail that had accumu- lated on the Ehrenberg route.
 All the mails are now up and tn present contrctors will sec to it that there will ce no more breaks or failures. MT White will leave this eveling for Wickenburg, Date Creek ana Signal, to attend to mail matters after which he will join MT. Stewart and in- yestigate the matter of tapping the S. P. k R. with the Prescott stege line. The ques- tion to be solved is whether to wait nntil the road reaches Maricopa Wells or to run down and meet it on the way.
 Benjamin Morgan and T. J. Drum, will leave Prescott during the week for.an ex- tended trip through the Southern portion of the Territory, ana if sufficient inducements present themselves, Mr. Drum may locate down south in the vicinity of the Southern
 aciic R. R the Great Anaconda.
 News from the McCrackin mine is to the effect that the woIkingmen are taxing out fair milling ore, and every indication 1 points to an early resumption of work at the mil. It is now believed, that with the | openings made in the mine which reveals large amount of good ore that the mill can be run steadily and made to pay large profit over and above all expenses.