Arizona citizen., 1879-10-04
Mohdye County.

". I . lCuCHi OI MO0dFc, lnIOTms the ExpOsitor as follows:
 The new mill in Cedar Valley Dis trict is all ready to test Silver Queen ore, and will be turned loose in a few days. The mine is prospected to a depth of 175 feet and shows vein of good ore.
 R. F. Abbott has gone to San Fran cisco to make arrangements to work the Congress mine.
 Col. Golfer has made a rich strike on the old Hope mine.
 Ten tons of ore were recently ship ped from the Hibernia mine which averaged over $500 per ton.
 At Signal times are very dull. The Signal Company have compromised with their creditors and work on the mine may be resumed in few months. No prospect of the NcCrackin mill .tarting up.
 John G. Slaven is going'o drive his band of cattle, about eight hundred head, 10 Tombstone.
 Lop Eared Bill has discovered a very rich gold mine east of Sigma. on the Santa Maria.
 The mill at Mineral Park is running on Keystone ore.
 Wm. II. Hardy has a force of men ar work on tunnel to tap the Fair field mine. The tunnel is now iu about seven hundred feet.
 Bud. Grounds has struck a very rich body of ore on the Lone Star mine, at a depth of about three hundred feet.
 John Barry has put up a five.stamp mill at Cerbat to work ore from the Cerbat mine
 SaH River Valley.
 Items from the Phenix Herald of 24:
 New stamps and dies, twenty-two of each, came this week for the Central Arizona manufacturing company.
 A Tombstone correspondent says that Sulphur Spring valley is by far the best stock range l have ever seen {; in fact, this section of the Territory Is a great field of heavy waving grass.
 A petition asking for a mail route from Hayden's Ferry to Picket Post is at the pOstoffice and iS receiving many signatures. It should be signed by everyone. Besides growing accom- mOdatiOn to our Mormon friends east of Tempe, it would facilitate business between the Globe and silver country and central and northern Arizona.
 After October 1, The Herald will appear weekly as well as daily.
 PHENIx items from the Expositor of he 26th of September:
 Ice at Bradshaw last week one quar- er inch thick.
 Irish potatoes find ready sale here It three and half cents per pound.
 Salt river is lower than ever known before at this time of year.
 Fruit--apples, peaches, plums, pears, grapes, figs, etc, cheap as dirt.
 Rain commenced falling about nine o'clock this evening and continued for several hours. The ground received al good soaking.
 w. B. Helling < O. will soon com hence to work the tailings piled up at he old Fulture mill site.
 An EXpOsitor correspondent says hat any man who has travelled through Arizona knows that NIT. Levin, of Tue .on has the largest beer establishment ,f that kind in the Territory.
 FROM the Prescott Arizonan of Sep ember 9:
 The wagon road from Phenix toI Prescott, via. Bumblebee, is said to be n very bad fix. Teamsters who haveI recently travelled the road say so.
 The placer miners of Lynx Creek Ire compelled to be their own mail carriers. They number just now, about ,ne hundred.
 Frank Hart, at San Francisco noun aims, has just clipped sixty thousand pounds of wool, which is to he shipped .ast via. New Mexico for C. ?. Head t Co.
 Same paper of the next day saysI Nessrs. Osborne and Murphy, of Mount Hope, are in town enroute to Tomb tone district. Also that Peralta'sI cams from Phenix, unloaded 2j,000I pounds of flour today.