The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-12-05
Local intelligence.
TUESDAY.

John Ellis IS back from a visit of several months to San Francisco.
 We are told that Abe Prather win he ar
 is, a candidate for City Marshal. Placer miners at Black Canyon are mak- ng good wages with rockers, sluices, etc. Mrs. Judge Hargrave, we are sorry to state, has been quite ill for several days SORE EYEs.-we see several nerson, around Prescott afflicted with sore eyes One Of J. M. Bryan's teams came in this
 morning from Maricopa with merchandse. 4 s. W. Carpenter has started a new pauer in the metropolitan City of Tuscen. Sue
 cess to you, NIT. c.
 Yavspai County cattle were assessed fh;s year al from sl2 to s30 per head, and they can't be sold for that
 We noticed anumber of strangers in town to-day. How many of them are mining capitalists we have not learned. H. The examination of Blackburn and Moves for an intended assault on R. DeKuhn has been up before Ju dge Cate to-day. E Miss Ida Burnett, having closed her school E st Walnut Creek, has concluded to put in the winter studying under Professor Sher- I man.
 $ Several large freight teams went out to 4 Curtis saw-mil this morning Tor lumber, E which will bs carried away to the lewer
 country.
 Lynx Creek is turning out considerable 0 ~.l~ s-a- Prescott, being transferred to our merchants
 for supplies.
 Tosr.-The Tuscon people are fast be- q coming a metropolitan class. They are
 having Pinafore, masquerade balls, bull I fights, etc.
 See notice elsewhere of Village election \ Tuesday, Jan. 9th, 1880. Select good men
 for the various officers should be the verdict f of our citizens.
 4 Good reports continue to come to us from
 the Silver King mine. It is now said to
 lock better than at any previous time since
 its discovery.
 4 The young ladies land some of the cid U ones) of Prescott are delighted with the | idea that there is to be a ball at the new \ Geldwster building.
 4 Now is the tune to plant your holiday ad- vertisemeRt. People are already beginning < to look out for place where they can buy & cheap. Let your lights shine.
 I William Smith is in town from Peoples
 Valley. He reports everything quiet en the
 Patomac, but he is going down to Chino s& Valley next week to locate.
 Il Picket Post is becoming quite place, I and we are told that n all probability the \ coanty seat of Plnal will be taken there >f from Flerenceat the next election. .I James Patterson, who is just now busy A putting in wood at the Peck with his OK teams, made his way to tswn yesterday, for the first time in several months. { Livery Stable men and others, inform us \ that business increased last week. A great H many people from the country were in town II paying taxes, purchasing supplies, etc. Fl Watson rolled into town this afternoon 4 with three large prairie schooners, drawn bbSsf6 mules. His schooners were loaded to I the brim with merchandise for Goldwater & Bro.
 Rumors como through the stage driver { on the Gillett route that the stage robbers have been corraled somewhere on the Verde fiver, above Mcdowell, and the pursuing party have sent for endorsements. The agent of c. T. Hayden is again with H as contracting his flour, bacon. pork, lard, bran, wheat, shorts, etc, all of which NIT. I Hayden has an abundance, and is continu- .I ally shipping to all parts of the Territory.
 Joseph DupreZ, who held forth in Pres Fl colt fer over two years with his bret, went s3 to the new and fresh pastures of Tucson, !. but To and behold he found that pasture M dry and has concluded ts proceed to Sonora H-Adios, Joe.
 Two hundred men will be put to work on December Is. to grade the branch Of tue z Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway to C 5 Santa Fe Depet grounds have been To- q catcd and Commissioners will soon be ap- | pointed te assess and condemn grounds for depot.-Citizen.
 Mrs. Fisher has finally thrown the doors n of the corner restaurant open to the breeze [ and allows all unebstructcd passage to her dining halls. The popular stand will be I kept in frst-class style and the public will
 find this the most convenient eating house | in Northern Arizona. 8 Marshal Dodson has an announcement in
 the MINER of this issue. declaring hls in- z4 teution of once more asking the suffrage of
 his feIow-citizens for the office of City E Marshal. He has served, we believe, for
 two years, has made a good officer, and 1t s7 is now for the people to decide whether he shall be reelected or net.
 Mir. P. NJ. Fisher, who holds forth ai the 9 Nifty" keeps pleasant place of resort, ~ d and his old, and new friends seem 10 stand
 in with him in keeping things lively. Fisher takes pleasure in making every person
 around his premises, happy and contenisd. sn Strangers who come to Prescott will please
 remember Fisher at the Nifty" ,rrl Theodore Otto, with considerable care
 has mapped out the different mines around \ Prescott, within a radius of l5 miles. mum J, bering about iJ0. Of these, seven are
 large copper deposits, some of which will
 vie with tha relenrated conner mine at