Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
Territorial News.
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| Cldrk ~ Adams, or Prescott, de sIroyed 75,000 shingles and about 50,' 000 feet of lumber. MT. Adams, wh, wes at the mill, informs us that whil, men were burning piles of sawdus the shingles and lumber took fire. l was with great difficulty that the mil was saved from destruction. The los: to these enterpIising bdsiness men i: considerable, but they are equal to tn, task of bearing up under and making it good IL a short time.
 lPlnal DrillI
 Harvest has commenced on the Gila river.
 Improvements are going on in Pinai J, M. McD0well's house has been neatly painted the church ditto. Mrs Reagan is preparing to build resi- | dence. NIT. Toal is building a dwell ing house. w. T. Dinkley is build ing an extension to hIs store, which will be 52x26. F. E. Whites new hou- on Pearl street is approaching i com plstiOn. Andrew Dolby is build. ing q house. J. W. and William Gates are also building a house on Pearl street. J B. Hunt is erecting another house on his quinta. c. Gil- bert is building. F. A Brown is erecting q large hall and business house on Mason street. Mrs. Hick- man is building a house on First street. F. Kuhn is building q dwell ing near the schOOlhOuse.
 Florence Entsrprise.l
 Farmers are now busy cutting hay. The crop this spring Is an unusually large one, the grass standing very tlIck O the ground and attaining a great night.
 We hear nothing more of a reliable character concerning the narrow gauge railroad from Casa Grande to Pinal, anf begin to think the project has fallen through.
 An immense amount of bullion is being shipped from the Silver King mine at this time; S20,000 or $50, ,000 passed down on the stage on Wednes- day last. A stage load of lO0-pound silver bricks occurring once or twice a week is what tells. Since two large rOasters have been added to the mill at Pinal large amount of reductions that used to be shipped in sacks to San Francisco are now worked at the mill, ard thus this increase in the vol tune of silver bullion passing in the form of silver bars through this town to the railroad.
 [GlObe Chronicle.l
 Bullion shipments from the Mack Morris for the present week amount to five bars, valued al SS, 692. 47.
 The Globe Mill and Mining Con- pany shipped this week four bars of bullion valued at $7, 144.47.
 The total amount of bullion shipped from the Mack Morris mine to date aggregates $175,944.7S.
 A large excursion party from New England arrived in San Francisco on the Sd instant, among whom were the two daughters ol our old friend and neighbOr, Dr. Wilson, who took five years of Arizona life at Ramboz Comp, au.' then, with impIoved money for his share ot the Centennial aad returned to his family.
 NIT. \. Meek, of the Globe Hotel. arrived last Monday. after an absence Of three months, during which time be has prospected in the Black Dia mOnd coal fields of the Deer Creek country, also in the Santa Catalina mountains, south of the Old Hat Dis trict and the American Flag mines. From both of these places he brings good reports. or the coal veins that have been prOspected they range in thickness from three to twenty feet. There are about twenty-five prospect ors working on their coal claims at present. Tucson is their base of sup pile, and is about 75 miles away. In the Santa Catalina mountains is the Apache copper mine, recently bonded tor $50, 900. This mine, though only worb.d for copper, is rich in both gold and silver. IL is located on the easten slope of the Santa Catalina mountains, which Is traversed by rich mineral belt of several large ledge, all striking north with a dip nearing the vertical.
 Galeyvills Bulletin.
 Mir. CoToY, now sinking on the