The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-08-15

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 Ifaupt < ITaun's I0-mu'e team arrived in Prescott this morning from i'iehix bringing load of 13 .U00 pounds of barley for MesSrs. Raibie < wurIh, brewers
 The stages yesterday. as indicated 5y Sat ur,lay's dispatches from Marieopa, brought no msiI or passengers. that is '-hArdly any There were fcw letters and papers from Southern Arizona, but none from Cal or the Esst.
 The fight about California lumber for public buildings in Phelix, like all other hgh;s in which tine MIXER Is interested. IS postponed until the boss returns. We doat know Tor don't want 10 know anything about it.
 IEFT BfanxD TixE AGAIN. Gilmer. Salisbury sk Cos stage which arrived here at , D. m, to-day, left Maricopa 5lg hours behind time, haTing waited for the mail from the train that was ditchea at Cotton wood. Geo. N. Bowers came in as pas sengcr.
 E.A Fiske, Attorney and manager Of the Star Line Mail Cu.. arrived In town last nigist by one s.f the eompany's bueksoards and will remain here several days paying off employes for fhe last quarter and arrang- lng fir the dsily mail service ordered by the Department on the ist inst.
 Col. Martin. X. A. C., of this Department kis.iIy sends us tue following dispatch:
 wHIrrLE BARRACKS. August II.
 Msior ChafFee reports that the statement that 1900 lndiaus are absent from the San c.alos Agency on pass, is entirely without foundation.
 Master Charley Hanson, the -boss" car rier of the DAILY MINEB, added the names of five rew subscribers tn his list last week, and has room for plenty more. All who want the latest news for twenty-tiye cents sboud not fail to give ;heIr names to Master Hanson, aud reeeisc a copy of the MEYER.
 Hon. W. II. Hardy, of Nohaye county. who has been East for several weeks enlist ing capital tO work certain Muhaye mines, rcturncu to Prescott on Saturday evening, ria santa Fe. and informs us that he was entirrIy successful in his mission. Ia an- ushsr place we publish communication from hIm an the routes of travel East, which will be read with interest, as il is more dcf- mite and more to thc point than anything wc have yet seen in print on tEc subject.
 C. X. Bchm. of Bray's stoie, and John Moore. of Bowen, Knowles x O.. have caught the mania. They will begin, on Saturday evening next, trial of speed and endurance for twenty eight hours for one hundred dollars and gate money. Boil, are
 
 without doubt will show the OEisidc world that Arizona is not far behind the times Tn the production of 0'Lcarys, Roweils, etc.
 Prescott is quite cosmopolitan in the character of its citizens, as was illus;rated the other day in downtown saloon. We ,lDse vrd, seated around a table, in quiet game of "draw," native from "Afric's burn ing strand" son of the 'anld dart" dusky representative of the race of Monte zuma and Castile. and one of Columbia's fair-browed youths, each with a stack of 'aehlps' and unminlfui of the curious giances of the bystanders.
 From MT. Wm. Vanderbilt, one of the owners of the Golden Chariot Mine, situate on Groom Creek. we learn that they have struck q lead of decomposed rock which carries large quantity of free gold, and if ii holds out. their fondest hopes will be realized. We saw a specimen few days slnce that weighed an ounce and a quarter, out of which was taken 7J cents of gold. If tae lead proves one tenth as valuable as the specimens which we have seen, it wlll be the biggest strike ever made in Arizona.
 S0mo of the owners of tho Kit Carson mine visited that bonanza of latent wealth yesterday, no. so much as cxDerts as @ sec that it was still there. The Kit is no doubt the king of all the base metal mines in Arizona, and its immediate neighbors the hilver Flake, Silver Belt, Agtia Fria, Ida Nav, etc. are like unto 1t. IL Is a shame that no more is being done to these valuable properties. The Belt is working few men and making it pay, but all the rest are idle. when they ought to be turning ont their thousands.
 .s---,iry leaves. that befo-r the wild hurricane fly, when they meet With ohsiacle, mount to the sKy.'
 So it would have been with Joe Mclvin's team las. evening when he fetched up against the porch of inc old Excelsior Browery, had he not had Cheap Jack as al passenger. Jack was too heavy for eay such ethereal flight as Joe evidently had in contemplation. We have been ambitious to sec some body run over house ever since smiths team tackled and got away with so many fences last week, and if it hadn't been for Jack we should certainly have been gratifed.
 TnE APACHE COUNTY SEAT MATTER.-ln the District Court this morning Judge Silent stated with reference to the Apache county. seat contest, that the questions raised by the demurrer of defendants were of too import ant a character to bc hastily decided. He would therefore keep them under adyise- ment. and the case would ge over until No vember The Judge stated that no public would result, for in the mcan- ume Saint Johns was both of right and in fact the county seat, and all county business must be conducted there.