The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-02-20
SATURDAY.

vulture concentrations are said to assay tl2o to the ton.
 JIM. Baker is up from his cattle ranch cn the Verde.
 The rinafore Troupe propose to give an entertainment on Wednesday of next week.
 Territorial Treasurer, T. J. Butler, will return home early next week.
 The snow is in lhe same boat with the Chinese. "It must go.'
 John Georpc of Phenix, put up this sea- son ls,OO0 pounds Of fine bacon and hrms.
 Geo. W. Bowers writes home to friends that he will remain in San Francisco until April next.
 A great quantity of snow has fallen in Apache County this wiuter-morc than for msuy previous years.
 One of Greenup's teams arrived in town today With goods for C. F. Heau & Co, and others.
 The committee selected io visit the A. T. N D. To IAs 18th of March.
 The s. r. R. R. has reduced tariff from Los Angeles to Maricopa on grain ana flour and on ores from Maneopa to San Fran cisco.
 Johnny Bourke left Indiana for home on the 2nd of thls month He will visit for a few days m San Francisco, and come home about the 9Jth.
 woodville Williams. graduate from the Prescott High School, has taken the Skull Valley School for three months, and will leave for that placeto morrow.
 Capt. Jack Mellon, the most successful navigator ot ihe waters of the Colorado river, is Iu command of a new sail vessel which plies between Fort Mohavc and Fl Dorado Canyon
 We are pleased ta learn that one of our citizens has received information of the sale of Tip-Top property, in the east, for $40,- 0e0. of which the said gent will receive si5,OOO.
 Mrs J. l. Gardiner, of the Phenix Hotel, has an advertisement in the MINER. The house is one of the best in the county of Naricopa, and We would commend it to the travelling pubic.
 Gentlemen who recently came from Ton to Basin report great deaf of snow in that section, winch makes it impossible for cer. tain capitalists to visit the Tonto Basin mines for some time to come.
 An Wan who is running n first class res t.,rfI tnl furnish his bnardcrs eggs every morning, and on Sundays turkey and chicken. Wah is . capital cook and will succeed as a land lord The crops in the S1lt River valley look more thrifty than for many years past. With increased acreage s0wD, and the fair prospect for q large yield, we conjecture that the farming community of the valley will come out after harvest with their finan- ces in n healthy shape.
 Mrs. Rowe wLo owns lie celebrated Rowe mine in MaricopH county, Is noW in Phe- nix negotiating ths sale of the same. Mrs. R has been residing in Oakland for some time with her daughter, wife of the late E. F. Reagan, bat intends returning to the Territory and taking up residence at the T
 Professor Maynard, mining expert. ar rived al Maricopa las; evening en route to 1 Prescott, Yavalai mine owners will be pleased to sec thc Professor return, when l they can show him rich mines and an album l dance of water which was scarce at the !, time of the Professors last visIi Co this sec l con. Joseph R. Walker returned from visit | to California this morning. Tn san Fran 1. cisco he met numerous l'rcscottites, among 7 whom were Clark Wilson. Geo. Bowers, l Tom Luther and I. ] Batlcr. Clark Will i son informed Mr. Walker that he had met ! Jim Thomas, 8 former sheriff of iayapai County, whowa adefaul;er, and abscondsd. i leaving his bondsmen in the lurch to the l amount of several thousand dollars. CoAsTISG ACCIDENT Last evening. while 1 numerous people were enjoying the pleas. ! ure of coas'ing uu the track near Goldwat. ! CTS store, the sleigh upon which Johnny i Roberts was riding became unmanagesble, l cutting from the track, colIiding with n pine tree, resulting in frac;uring the bone 1, ef one of Roberts legs The young man ! was conveyed 10 tine office of pr. McCand ] less, the limb dressed, preparatory to pro | cess of growing together. IL is only ques ! tion of time when Johnny will be all right and ready for another coasting expedition ] next winter.
 r. W. Blake will prepare statistics in re- istiou 10 the mineral product of Yavspai county for tho past few years, which arc to be uSe1 by the delegation appointed to go east on railroad matters. It was proposed .t the last session of the Legislature 10 ere ate the office oi Mincralngist in the Terri tory, but through icalolsy or something else the bill was defeated. IL is something which the Territory stands in need of and ~e hope the matter will co~c up again al the next session aud % through. At tine present time. under present circumstances the office would be os great benefit 10 all sections of Arizona, and il is to be sadly regretted that the Legislature failed to see the importance and necessity of the office