The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-04-01
THURSDAY.
March winds for 1881 are played.

March WIndS Tor lool are played.
 Groom creek mines are showing up.
 Mrs. Miles has been quite sick during tn,
 week, but is now convalescing.
 w w. Hatcher has purchased the Peel
 Stage business
 An undeyeloped copper mine has beei
 sold for s25, 900 in this county and within 40 miles of Prescott.
 Those serenaders didn't keep us awake
 all the same last night. We were up and al
 work Come again, boys.
 Business men and others should re ad
 the advertisement of the proprietor of the
 Peck Stage Line.
 West Prescott is rejoicing over the estab. lishment of another business house, boot and shoe establishment.
 NIT. Jas. Baker, one of our largest stock rsisers, Is in town from Middle Verde He smiles when speaking of green feed and fat cattle.
 Several gents of Blackstone tactics are of tomorrow for Phenix for the purpose of be- ing in attendance on the Supreme Court, which meets there on Monday.
 At the office of Geo. W. Curtis can be seen and purchased 1000 xxx flour from the mills of Mir Christman, Salt River, said to excel the very best made by the Touring mills in that valley.
 D. McCurtry & Co.,, have put up this win ter past about l50 tons of clear, clean ice, which they will sell to Prescott people, this spring and summer, at the reduced price of cents per pound
 Some of the stock upon the Star Line hay ing been run of by COW boys or some one else unknown to the writer of this, mails upon this important and necessary route have been retarded for nearly week. All will be well in few days however.
 The Phenix typos and their numerous friends will have glorious time at Wool sey Hall this evening. Dancing, feasting, etc, will make the occasion one long to be remembered. The MINER regrets its in- ability to be on hand.
 While fortunes will, without doubt, be made here in working and selling mines, good, careful business men will not forget that the business of stock raising in Northern Arizona will continue to be a cer- tain, easy mode of acquiring riches.
 Geo. W. Curtis, the energetic saw mill man and lumber merchant, shipped to Mr. Lutgerding, of Phenix, yesterday, 5000 feet of lumber, and has 5,000 feet more for the the same place and 6,00) to go to Tiptop. 1 This section furnishes the outside towns and | camps with large quantities of good mer- chantable lumber
 Mrs. J. L. Hall, one of Prescott's most l.. AL | into the country for two or three weeks visit. In the meantime the old gent will remain at home disconsOlate widower, attending to the sale of fat beef, mutton, pork, venison, etc, at the Tragic Meat Market
 We are no longer under obligations to Hon. ] G. Campbell for papers and pub. doc, as his time of service has expired in and he is again at the helm of his mercantile and other business in Pres cott, however, Mrs. J. G. Campbell, who remains at Washington for the present, does not forget the MINER, but sends numerous Washington journals, for which she will please accept the thanks of the editor.
 We, this morning, saw at the store of Kelly & Stephens, several pieces of almost 'lC otANII run ieCcl DiStiASts |, Those who examined the pieces said they lad the appearance of petriied wood. The ilver IS of the horn and black sulphide Iinds X ton of the stuff is said to be worth ,etween SIS, 900 and 500 It occurs in { and stone, of which there are great fields in , portions of Northern Arizona.
 Our Supervisors, good and safe men for ', he county, are to meet on Monday next for he purpose of squaring up accounts for the irst quarter of 1881. All those having ,lsims against the county should be on hand I with them. As the road leading tothe Peck : nine, in the vicinity of Crook Canyon, is much damaged by recent snow and rain torms, We hope they will cause repairs to ,e made thereon.
 Times in Prescott are brisk. Merchants ell us that during the last sixty days busi- a less has increased at least 90 per cent. Now s the time for wholesale merchants of Kan as City, Chicago, etc, to move for our I rade It is worth millions every year, and he wholesale merchants of those cities I hould exert themselves tO procure it. We I lse everything. almost, in Arizona that Is Ised in the East and many things unknown l 0 those people living Ill the Atlantic States. The 35th parallel road will be stretched s cross our Territory in few months, when Il of our supplies must come from the direc- l ion of the rising sun. T