The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-01-03

INCORPORATION or THE ARIZONA DEvEI.- oPMENr COMPANY Tine papers for fine above incorporation bere filed with the Secretary today.
 INcoRPoRAToRs:
 Michael Godwater, W. C. Bashiord. Geo. W. Curtis, Joseph C. Crane, and Charles F. Dake.
 Duration of the corporation, fifty years. Object to buy. sell and work quartz mines and other mining ground in Arizona, build ing, buyIng, selling, and running mills and furnaces, buying, working and selling coal fields and coal measures, building and maintaining toll-roads, aequireg and work ing agricultural, grazing and timber lands, diiches, canals, water and gas works, intro ducing and maintaining electric lights, building railFoads, taking contracts for Capitol and other buildings in Arizona, assay offices, telephones, acting as financial agents or business managers for any kind of business, building telegraph lines, re- ceiving grants, franchises from the United States or the Territory to aid in the erection of Capital buildings, water works, electric light works, etc, etc, and to assist in all manner of enterpnses having for their ob- feet the development of the resources of Arizona. Capital stock, S5,000,OOO. in 100, 900 shares of $50 each. Principal place of business, Prescott.
 P. M Fisher and Johnny Behan returned from a tnp to Signal Saturday, which, by the way, is jus; now more than dilapidated They report the place as nearly deserted, gloom spread over that section, owing 10 the suspension Of operations in the mines A building that co-t Mir. Fisher S100 year ago he offered. with $50 worth of furniture, for $50. rnd could not find purchaser. NIT. and Mrs Cornell, who live near Signal, think of coming to Prescott m about ten days. when Mrs C.. we are informed, will take uD her residence here. IL IS possible that the McCfGckin Company will levy an assessment and srart up work at the mlli and mine, in which event Signal may, in the spring. come firth with the budding flow ! CTS, blossom and flourish.
 ] PRAISE Notwithstanding the night was stormy and the snow covered the ground several inches m depth, quite number of persons turned out to the praise meeting ai Rev. D. E. Wright's church last evening. We understand that Mr. Howe has consented to lead the singing service | audience 10 li.ten Co one Of the best singers Y in the Territory. Sunday evening s2IVlce seems to be growing m favor with our peo- | pic, ana if 'he congregation increases as IL 1 has during the last month. Marina street church will hardly be able tO accommodate
 the visitors with seats.
 II looks as If winter had at last mounted
 the lev pillows of champion polar wave
 and was rushing down apace from its Arctic
 haunts. where it has been loitering 50 long
 after its advertised dale Of departure. Con- siderinQ how ba.ily our migsrs need water for inc proatabie working uf their ores, and IA. farmers moisture for tbe thirsty earth
 we shall not grow discontented with mat ter of SIX or eight inches oi snow, or lhef mometer a little ways down on the minus side of the zero poi1t We understand the storm hgs been about equally divided all over the country,
 MORE BuIIIoS.-C. E. Foster has just brought in ,jOO lbs of base bullion winch he recently run out at his Agua Fria smelt ing works. The bullion is from ore taker out of the Silver Belt lead which Is said C
 be one of our best mining properties. Th' Il proprietor, Mir. Foster, would have made much lsrgsr TaG had t not been Tor breal in the machinery which Iagsed iemporarl stop aage. The necessary repairs wiilhe Der fected in few days and the furnace agaiI set to aork. The bullion just brought II assay. eae thousands dollars per ton. Man Pouad Dsad,
 On the 9th inst. the body Of man wa
 found about five hundred yards south of tin I Te lfl an fpearanee of having been dead about tweni.
 days, and from the position Of ilie body, lli
 head being pillowed on roll of blankets, | is supposed that the man, whoever hc ma ' have been, died a natural death. .ile va dressed in a miners garh, and had lev [ things in his pockets, but no papers or otee [ things by which he couid be identified Q 1. his name Gsceriaine0.
 W. M. Griffith uf Prescott and Fheni
 Stage ine via Gillett k m town, lonhin after business connected with the route Nh c. has succeeded in working the service "a from once q week to tri-weckly and is maS . ing it in every particular one of tue be' u stage lIne- in the Territory.
 ,. The merry jingle of sleigi. bells wer | quite common on our streets today, T, h mind;ug people of times and scenes ava
 back wonder when we were young and ha
 the pteagrre of skipping over the snow-cla
 earth for about hye Ihsn:hs in eEci year. q, Mr. John Casancga. of Skull Valley, 'i very industrious and honest citizen, cam e up yesterday from his home, for the pu $ nose of giving eyldeace agaiasi man, b I the name of Page, accused of having stole :. several hundred pounds of beans from M
 Rsed, af SEpll Valley.