The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-01-17
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 WEDNESDAY,. All teams engaged in hauling from Yuma in the direction of Phenix, Florence, Tucson etc., have been notified 10 stop at Adonde g. miles east of Yuma, and receive theil freight there.
 The grade of the Southern Pacific Railroad was finished on the s;h instant beyond An telope Peak, something more than eleven miles east of Adonde.
 The Sentinel of the llth says new thor. ough brace wagons have been put upon the stage line from Yuma to Prescott-a vast improvement on the blackboard formerly in use.
 default on Tuesday, January 7th. No one 1 was a candidate, and no polls were opened. 1 The city fathers will probably move up to Adonde to hold their Council hereafter.
 HEAPS OF YELLOW APPLES Henry Mat | tock's team arrived to-day. having on board sixty-one boxes of Sonoma county apples ] for Bones & Spencer, besides a general as- sortment of candies, cigars and other good things.
 Mr. W. II. Seamans. of Oakland, Cal, is | taking lock at Prescott, and intends, be- [ fore returning to California, to visit the Kit Carson, GiIlctt, Tiptop, Peck, Bradshaw, Cave Creek and Phenix. Mir. Seamans comes we'll recommended as a business man and gentleman. by some of the leading business men of San Francisco. The Sentinel says that L. X. Smith S Co, have contracted to supply the s. F. R. k. Co, with all the beef needed while con- structine the road To Maricopa Wells Col Barney and David Neahr, have established branch houses at Adnnde, 32 miles east of Yuma.
 The miserable idea of having the ladies who wish to attend the masquerade ball this evening, assemble at the Whipple Park Club Rooms, Is to be carried according 10 an- nounc ement Tn yesterdays issue, notwith- standing the snow, SIX inches deep, makes 1t almost out of the question for them to do SO.
 Hon. Thos. Cordis, Internal Revenue Col lector, has gone on a business trip to Phenix. He took passage with s. w. Craigue, Esq, of Leips, Craigue X Co.,, Los Angeles. who happened ts DC going that way with a very comfortable travelling out fit of his own.
 X Wall street broker laid wager, the other day, that Christopher Columbus dis covered the continent of North America  many intelligent persons entertain the same idea Knowing that he discovered a num- Der of islands oi the Western hemisphere, they think that ho must of necessity have discovered this continent also. They forget that he died in ignorance of the real grand eur of his achievement, believing Cuba terra firma, and the other lands he had found to be remote parts of Asia.
 THEATRE.-The request to play Richelieu al m x-aas.rft.v-s hoe informed, been favorably considered by the Prescott Dramatic Club, and it will be placed on the boards again m about ten days This slight delay is rendered neces- Slry bv the absence of De Mauprat. tMr Cordisl at Phenix, and in consequence of the time required for ,hc preparation of proper costumes, Helping Hands" and "A Regular Fix will he given by our amateurs next Tuesday night
 Work Is progressing favorably at inc Black Jack. The mine continues to look we'll. and good winter business on it is predicted The crnss-cUt to-day is only few inches from the main vein, and the operations in other parts of the mine have all promising complexion. Gen. John B. Winters has been appointed Supenntend- ent of the mine and has assumed the man agemont of the property. Parties inter- ested are very much pleased at this selec ton Idaho Avalanche.
 Tnr TIGER MuI.-From Sheriff Walker, who returned last evening from Walnut Grove, we learn that Bryan's five 1s-mule teams, with ten wagons, had arrived there with the Tiger quartz mill. At the Grove .he machinery k to be transferred from the wagons of Mir Bryan to those of NIT. Chas. Genuug or Jas. Paterson. which are pro- pelled by OK power, and taken into the Tiger, over the rough country necessary to to he traversed between the two places. As the machinery is SO near its destination and the preliminary arrangements for put ting ap the mill have brcu perfected, we may reasonably expect to see the stamps in fnll operation inside the next sixty days. The Tiger company has, under the supcrin tendency of Nr. Helm, conducted its affairs in a business-like manner, and one border ing upon more strictly successful mining basis than any other company in this sec ton.
 Mir. Fiske agent for Inc. X. Walsh sub contractor of the Prescott and Santa Fe mail route. informs us that the suits brought against the Fisher Sage Line. lately carry ing the mail on that route and the taxing of the property of that company under the attachment laws of the Territory have made it impossible at present to procure buck boards for use between this place and Beaver Head, nut that the mall will be carried regularly on horseback until such time as buckDosres can be shipped here from the East. Mir. Fiske yesterday pur chased six mules for use on the route. and will continue ,o make purchases until the stock of the road is sufficient to insure the trans portation of the mails under all cIrcums- tanccS.
 The people of this paFt of Arizona arc in- debted to Assistant Postmaster General Brady for his action ia authorizing daily service. on this route it being our most direct means of communication with the East. We hope that Mir Walsh will con tinue m hls present earnest efforts to put his line in first-clsss order for mail, express and