Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-06-19
FLORENCE.
General Prosperity Among the People
We have visited Florence thls week

General Prosperity Among the People.
 We have visited Florence thIs week and had friendly greeting and hand shaking with cur whil m friends with when we tiled the soil and run & plinting office a couple ofye.rs That modern but honorable pueblo is pros PeTiEg on a solid basis. The farmers and r1ncEers have ceased 10 be peons and pay as they go, and that delighteth v merchant and maketh him prosper and sleep well o'nighls. Very little barley has been raised this year. Aaron Mason has field of wheat which be expects will clean up ninety bushels to the acre, which shows how productive the soil is about Ference Hay being in demand the barley was cut green and baled. Barley sacked is worth but while hay brings one cent per pound. Fruit trees are well advanced Tn years, are healthy and are loaded with peaches, apricois, figs, etc.
 The mines near the town arc begin ming 10 add 10 the general prosperity. Some of the ore is rich enough to sack and ship, and development gra- duaily improves the prospect of the miners. Speaking Of miners, suggests thc fact that Mr. Harris, one of the original discoverers of the Slonewall Jackson mine Of Globe, is in Flor ence and busted" lie sold his in- terest in that mine couple of years ago for S75.000. He Is 6 philosopher and says he had good time any way, and ihai i> more than most men have with S75,OO0 or more.
 Florence is still a prominent point oa the main route from the railway to Globe, Picker Post and other adjacent towns and districts. IL always will be. While other points will be bene- fted by the Globe business. Florence will be most of all. Buckalew & OchOa ship daily about COCO pounds to Globe by their fast freight line fIom Casa Grsnde via Florence, charging 31a cents per pound. B. & o. are sue cessful and popular merchants in Flor ence. Daily stages leave Casa Grande for the same sections over the same route, and there is much travel. Mir. Sutherland (Idaho Bib is running a daily line, from Florence to Globe, having good teaches and lively stock. There being two lines, fare is low-at times but S4 from Casa Grande 10 Globe, but this losing price is not likely to last long.
 The road between Casa Grande and Florence is much harder tn travel anG several miles longer than from Plea cho, and we are glad 10 learn there is 6 prospect of depot for business at Picacho.
 Water here is about as scarce as in 1878, but many wells have been dug and the trees Nill in any event be pro- T tected or can be. P, ter Will, the brewer, has made a success of grow ing eucalyptus. Some of them are n"w fifteen feet high and the largest in the T,rritory. In a year or so more, there will be thousands Of these rapid growers OH the Gila.
 The pioneer merchant, Jos. Ceiling wood (wilh hls partner, NIT. Smilh) is doing a large business. He says hard tunes ha.e gone and he be lieves 10 come no more" in Flor ence.
 Saloons keep up the old price of a5 cents per drink, without ice.
 The Lewis Ho;el is we'll kep; under management of C. c. Lewis. Guests are well satisfied.
 Politically, candidates for the fall races are astir. Hon. r. R. Brady, q most competent and reliable man, will ask reelection as Treasurer, and hard. ly any one will be risky enough 10 run against him. He is a success as a farmer, miller and officer.
 Sheriff Gabriel expects a re cleo. tion, and as he has been a good officer the people will surely give him a sec, ond term over all opposition.
 Mr. J. J. Devine, Record,r, has just returned from San Francesca, whittier be had been to have an operation per. formed on his eyes. which has bene. flied them much He will ask a re. election, and it is understood that his popularity will, as twice heretofore, given success again.