Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-18
Florence Facts.

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 Three of Recorder DeTIlc's iE-ie c,ii.- dreH are down vit. fever. 5ut a,- s.3sN improving.
 Frank WIihiuson returned from ias Angeles yesterday. His sister .-aa Ajls- .ci tLe dss before iis got there.
 yre are sorry to hear thas oar old friend Jere FIeyer, of Casa Graude. is seriously iil again. He is -Gv,1< mare than his share of sickness.
 There .s strong probability that nea Catholic church wiii be built at Pual soon. fhe sane sisters who pro- pose building convent Le.r are iItsr-
 ested in the above project.
 Thomas McLeiiu j- sovia- wheat. and intends Co put .a about IjD acres.
 lie aisr intends to SOW a considerable
 amount oi barley, and plant a large acreage of corn. He is raRching on g
 large scale.
 3ir. Aaron Mason and wife returned yesterlav from Pinal. and We learn from
 Mr. Mason that Mir. A. Neuton has been appointed cashier of tine Piual County Bank, Col. c. II. Gilmore having re-
 signed
 Nessrs. Andrews and Kettle, charged with carrying away rich ore from the Silver King, were examined before Judge Benson "Wednesday and were bouud over in the sum of S'j0U each to await the action Of the next grand i0ry.
 The Sisters uf San Francesca have
 made application Co tine Rev Edward G.rard for permission tO establish cop vent and school at Florence He has uat only granted them permission, Lur uas donated them ground upon which
 to erect the building, and the work will probably commence soou-
 Judge Anderson, of Flnrence, is now manager of the Pinal County Bank, and no better man could have been selected for the position. He possesses not Cnly ! the requisite business qualifications. but l is scrupulOusly honest and enjoys the confidence and esteem of our entire bus mess population.
 The VOrHlnen are extracting good ore | from the Silver Queen, in Pioneer dis ! trict Water has been encountered, but not in sufficient quantity to interfere | with the work. The company owning this mine propose to develop ii thor oughly before they go tO the expense of erecting reduction wOras. This k a wise policy, and if followed by other corPora- tions there would be fewer failures. The Silver Queen. belonging to lLr. ! John Bates and other sturdy ranchmeu | or tue San Pedro, has been bonded Co TVcsOu parties for fifty thousand dollars. ! The vaIue of the Queen has been demon strated by the slrest Of all methods. yiZ: mill-runs. The owners hauled seven tons | Co the Tucson mill. and received a return of Sl3O per ton. The ore was not as- l sorted, but taken from the dump as It | came. Two shafts have been ~Buk ou | the cluim, one Jj and the other ii f-et. | The vein as shown as the bottom of the gj-foot shaft, Is three and a half feet iu | width
 , Mr. ". A. Latin, who has cue ol the | best ranches on the San Pedro, has been ! experimenting with fruit trees. He has l a young orchard containing almost every | variety of the peach, pear, pruue and | apple, and the young trees show a se- | markedly strong and vigorous growth. ! His orchard Is bat little over two years | old and still 1t yielded this season all the | fruit hc could consume at home. Next | year he will bav. fruit for market. lie | also has So fine Uneyald, just beginning | to bear. Mir. Latin k convinced by his | experiments that bot. the San Pedro | and Oula valleys are ddmirabl, adapted ] to fine growth of all kinds of irunt All | other ranchmon, vh0 have given the
 matter a careful test, are of the same | opinion.
 Mr. SpangEler, of the Piu.l Copper ] Coupauy, arrived here Monday from | San Francisco. It is his intention tu ! clean out the workings of tho Ray cop ] per mine, and place It in a condition ta enable mining experts to examine aud 1 report on it. Mir. Williams. San Fran | cisco expert, was sent down to cxamiue | it some weeks since, but found the tJ n- nels cayed in to such am extent that ae l could not eHter them. He reported i favOmbly on the ore m the dump, but l couiG -ive no opinion of the mine, for | the reason abO,e cited. Some parties are ready to purchase the mine, if 1t l comes mp to the company's repr- senta- ! tins. They are satisfied with the quality
 of the ore, and only desire Co know the quantity