Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-31

once. MT. Bailey IS a good citizen and we shall be glad to welcome him and his estimable wife as residents of Florence,
 The school trustees are advertising for a competent, reliable male teacher. Mir. Stanton, the present teacher, has more pupils than he can manage successfully, and it is the intention of the board to either establish graded school or to di vide the present male school into two de- partments and employ teacher for each department.
 Miss Rena bod, of California, passed through here Wednesday, en route to Globe, for the purpose of linking her for tunes with those of Frank Fitch, formerly of this place She is prepossessing young lady; a happy medium between the blonde and brunette types of beauty and still radiant with the blush and bloom of adolescence The golden letters were forged before this paragraph was printed, hence it is in order to extend Frank our congratulations.
 Mir. Aaron Mason, superintendent of the Silver King mine, left for San Fran cisco Thursday. The annual meeting of the stockholders and election of officers | for '82 will be held at the companys of | fee in San Francisco, on January 10th, and he will remain there till after the meeting It is probable that the com pany will take some action as to the time and place of building their new reduction works before the meeting adjourns.
 The dining room of the Silver King ho- tel was neatly and beautifully decorated with flags and evergreens Christmas day, exquisite taste was displayed in the ar rangement of the tables. The bill of fare was complete and would have been a credit to any establishment. The variety was surprising, considering our limited market. The list of entrees was, seem- ingly, without end, and the same was true of the pastry and dessert.
 T The three mercantile houses of Jos. Collingwood, Smith & Watzlavzick, and Buckalew 6 Ochoa are selling more goods than any other three retail establishments in the Territory. They keep teams on the road, between here and Casa Grande, constantly, haulding in new goods, and still they can hardly keep up with the de- mands of their trade. Their business does not fuctuate, but is regular and uni form. This speaks volumes for Florence as business point.
 Mir John Sibbald brought in from the
 Wedge and Alice mines, this week, some
 of the finest specimens of horn silver we
 ever saw. One was q perfect slab of the
 precious mineral and the others were al-
 most as rich. The beauty of it is the
 quantity of this fine ore contained in the
 Mineral Hill mines. It is not found in
 small strata, but in very strong veins, which grow in width and richness as they go down. Even the most bitter enemies of this matchless district are cooling down before the growing evidences of it's great merits
 The Silver Queen nine, located in the San Pedro district, was sold last week for
 S3O.0 The property was bonded some time since, the face of the bond calling
 for s50,O00. The buyers are Illinois men
 and are said to be milionaires. MT.
 John T. Bates and two of his neighbors,
 whose names we did not learn, are the
 sellers. We congratulate them upon their good fortune, and also upon having sold to company strong enough, financially 3 to put up the necessary machinery for the l profitable working of the Queen. It will @ be a great benefit to that district. i Robt. Lemon, better known as "OlC Kentuck," died Sunday night of hear
 disease, and was inferred Monday H,
 came hither from Nevada some years ago ! and followed prospecting. At one time n he was owner of the famous "Kentuck' : mine, at Gold Hill, Nevada, but like - many other miners who made fortune. y during the early and palmy days of Ne I vada, he scattered his gold along tn, Il gilded way of fast life, till his purse Wa. 6 depleted He was a native of Kentucky
 and about 63 years of age. Peace to hi d ashes.
 n The Florence and Silver King telegraph E. line is rapidly advancing from Casa Gran v de to this point, and Postmaster Guilt D. will be enabled to open his battery o1 n Casa Grande by the 10th at the latest sr The post planting brigade will probabl. 'l reach here by the latter part of mex
 week, and the wire stretchers will not b. F. far behind them. The instruments ant In batteries are all here ready to be placed in position as soon as the line E complet ,D ed. They are from the Tillson factor, ,r and patterned after the latest model ,o There are three sets of instruments, e.cl D. set consisting of sounder, key and light fin ming arrester. They cost $50.
 A Christmas tree entertainment wa s. held at Silver King school house satur or day evening, and attracted large cowd ye The tree was loaded with nuts, cand, an, re handsome presents for the little ones I nd was gala night for them, and their ittl 1k hearts bounded with a delight suh a an only A child can know The Silver Z1n e. brass band was in attendance and6lle,
 the night with music. A set of toyban, . ..lnaol L.