Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-04
Pinal PicsingS.

Six thousand pounds of beef are con
 sumed every week in the Florence market.
 Five bars of bullion Were received
 from Globe, Thursday. three from Mack
 Morris and two from Centennial.
 The mother of oar townsman, Mr ! OchOa, accompanied by his sister and
 two nieces, returned to Tucson Monday.
 A road IS building from Cunningham's ! ranch, ou the San Pedro, up to Powers
 old camp, Saddle Mountain, distance
 of nine miles. Six miles are now finished. ! C. w. Culver, of Pinal has sold to the
 Goodenough Mining Company, of Wash
 ington, D. C., the iioodenoI,h n mine, Pi-
 oneer District, P.nal county, A- z.
 The Richard IT. copper clam on the ] Giia, owned by Mess-s Eurbach and ] Heckelshausen, is proG'i:i..-s iI-h-graGe l copper ore. 1t Is rumorcd t..at ;iiis mine
 was bonded last weei; for a large sum. Business at the Florence postoiiice is | rapidly increasing, an average Of l5O let
 ters being mailed daily, and receipts per month of first-class matter rating at | 2,550 pounds and second-class matter, ! 4,4S7 pounds.
 On the Rip Rap tunnel has been run twenty feet. Ten feet more will tap the ledge fifty feet from the surface. The croppings show a ledge Of foIr feet.
 Messrs. McKinzie, Harvey and iapu are the owners.
 Messrs. Evans, Allen anl Roberson are putting mp a comfortable adobe house on the Globe road opposite the Pnal
 COmpanys shelter. They have va'u-
 able mining interests in this vicinity and
 propose to pitch their tent by tho side
 of Rio Gila permanently.
 Roadmaster H. J. Sowers, of the Flor
 ence Mining Bureau, leav' for Casa
 Grande tomorrow. He will take Mir. DePuy's place in Smith X WaiZlayzicks,
 that gentleman intending to visit his
 mother in Sacramento for Christmas
 holidays.
 It is definitely annourced that the Tweed group of five mines, of which the
 O'Brien and Sa Carlos are the princi-
 pal ones, has been sold for Sl75,000 These claims are on the north side of the -Gila, about ten mics above the month of the San Pedro.
 We regret to learn that MT. Jennings condition is unimproved. He has been suffering for some months from an az gravated type of fever and ague, and his physicians recommend a change of eli mate as the only medicine that will per manently benefit him.
 Mir. Lew Baileys many friends were pained to hear that his father, J. T. Bai- ley, of Washington, was dead. Deceased had been a resident of the District of Columbia for many years, and at differ ent times held various positions of trust. He died at the age of a, leaving wife and 13 children to mourn him.
 MT. John Schoshusen, father of our Coroner, Henry Schoshusen, was brought in from the San Pedro yester- day quite i'll, and IS now confined to his bed at the residence of his son. The trouble seems to be pulmonary com plaints and general debility. We wish him speedy recovery.
 Mir. Miller, of Tucson, has put up good building and opened store at Dudleyyille, Harrington's ranch, on tine San Pedro. A road will soon be com pleted from this point to the Ash Creek mines, and later, on to the coal fields Dudleyville has a pOstoflice for the San Pedro and Saddle mountain districts.
 Mir. F. A. Stevens passed through Florence Sunday en route to Globe, ! from where he and NIT. Cornell go to San Carlos to take charge of the post traders store They have both been connected | with Messrs Buckalew & OchOa's estab- l lishment in Globe, where they made a host of friends by their courtesy and l fair dealing.
 Mr. Johnson, from Mineral Hill, says l that ore from the Specie Paying, first | south extension of the Alice, assays from | SiO0 to Sl20O, giving an average of SS3O l per ton. This Is in the bottom of the | shaft which, when completed, will tOuch | the ledge at the depth of 200 feet. Such | figures as these speak for themselves in I no uncertain tone
 The Silver Seal, Mineral Hill, owned by Messrs. Rapp, Sullivan, Birchard and GOOdfellOw, looms up as future bullion producer. Has shaft of only twenty iiestt but this depth will be increased soon. as force of men will be put to work next week aud developments push ed rapidly. Ore, galena ant carbonates, from $40 to SlOO with a well defined vein.
 Mr. E. r. Kellner, an enterprising merchant of Globe, has purchased a steam road engine, with hauling power of thirty tons. Its cost was S7,OOO and it is intended tO supplant mule power in freight from Wilcox, and its use will necessitate bridging the Ciila. It will have demOralizing effect on the gentle mule and the prOsPectors' guile- less burro.
 MT. Jas. B. White, well-knovn min ing expert from the COmstock, passed through town Monday on his way to Pinal, when he goes to survey the field for mill for the Surpriser mine, Queen Creek, owned by the Hastings Consoli- lated Gold and Silver mining Company. Mir. White brought articles of incorpO- ration of this company with him, and they were filed in the Recorders office, Nlr. D. T. ElmOrc being authorized resi- lent agent of the company at Pinal.
 Reports from Owl Head district are The Chief mine has a shaft IS feet, vein five and half feet, all Jf which gives l7is per cent. copper and S54 silver. The Queen, first extension. shows the same ore on the surface as the Chief But little work has been done lere. The Edison, second extension, has | ten-foot shaft, 40-inch vein, giving S1O ,ilvcr and B per cent. copper In the shaft of lj feet IS a vein of four feet, ore rom which has worked S17i in silver md 42 per cent. copper. Chico, same edge, no work. Mir. Peterson is down p feet on Silver Chief, and returns give .l9 ounces silver and a large per cent. copper. The pay streak Is one foot and 'ein 4is feet wide