The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-04-08
Local intelligence.
TUESDAY.

Look out for April showers, and then Ma! flowers.
 Sam Lewis, brother to our banker, is in Southern Arizona
 Work on the new Headquarters building is progressing
 J. H. Marion gets small portion of thu grain contract at Whipple.
 Unpalatable-Going without our mai Sunday evenings.
 C. P Head & Co. are selling large quan titles of goods.
 Two quartz mills running in Peoples Val. ley and making money.
 l.. S. Randol, Government freight con- tractor, IS in town.
 Jerry Sullivan was the successful man for hay at Whipple-
 Prescott contains no idle men. Can all other towns say as muchi
 Mine owners should patent their mining claims. It IS not costly and it Is safe.
 Considerable freight is being landed at Maricopa for Prescott merchants.
 Judge Silent and Mr. Vickers leave to- morrow morning for the tropical south.
 There has been bran new baby born at the Hospital in Prescott.
 We think We hear the whistle of the CT zine coming over the 35th parallel railroad. The trees in Court Plaza do not appear to thrive well.-l Tucson Journal. Try cactus. Forty-four thousand pounds of Silver Belt bullion were shipped yesterday to MaricoPa L. Bashford & Co. are receiving almost daily new additions to their immense stock of goods.
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ee R. R. people are about to build branch road to Silver City.
 The Board of Supervisors are still in ses sion, working like heroes, fixing up county affairs.
 Creditors of the Star Line, We believe, should be calm. considerate, and no doubt the result will be satisfactory.
 Gus Richardson, Jesse and John Ellis are in town from Williamson Valley, and Fred HiItenbrand from Agua Fra.
 C. E. Genung is engaged in the butcher ing business at Vulture city, and is using great many beef cattle.
 Jake Miller loaded his train today for the enterPrising firm of D. Levy & Co, who are starting store at Big Bug.
 Chas. Crocker, of the $. P. R. R., has been to the end of the track, over in New Mexico, on a tour of inspection.
 Hon. M. II. Sherman leaves on trip connected with his duties as Supernten- dent of Public Instruction on Thursday.
 Schneider, the slayer of Doct. LeFevre, Is living in San Dicg" county. Cal, and not m Arizona, as stated by San Francisco papers. Robert Cornell is one of our co-ahead successful business men. He, step by step, keeps going towards the top of the ladder John Raible bottles and labels his beer q Ia Best of St Louis. Metropolitan people here in Prescott, the incest city III the far West.
 The sO-stamp mill at Vulture city is bounding away crushing over 900 tons of ole per day. The ore Is of low grade but pays a fine profit.
 Williamson Valley we hear looks beautiful dressed up in garb of green. nearly all the farming land having been planted m wheat and barley.
 Hundrcds of able bodied men. who are wiling to ,ut their shoulder to the wheel and push with a will and determination, can find employment m this county.
 Activity prevails all over Yavapai county with the farming community. Seed time IS upon them and they are preparing for the harvest which is sure to follow.
 The pine forests around Prescott are ewOrth millions of dollars just for the timber to say nothing of the mines scatteredhere and there throughout the entire area
 The final settlement of the estate of the late Aaron Werthemier was made yesterday. Mir. Wormser. the old partner, IS now the sole owner of the property.
 The formerly Lieut.. Somerby. who was a successful Indian slayer m the early history of Arizona. IS now q soidier m the Army and passed through Prescott yesterday
 Chief Quarterinaster Myers, of Washing ion has been examining mIne III Old Hat District. Pima County. The General has al ways been good friend [" favaTal County. LII. Marion has gone to Black Canyon, Black Mesa ani Phenix, something m the atmosphere calling him hither Perhaps mines, perhaps sheep, and probably both.
 Prescott will be 1,2cO miles nearer New York by rail when the Atlantic and Pacihc is completed. than by the old horse shoe bend route via San Francisco.
 w. z. Wilson. Lute Wilson. A. C. Ca penter and othes departed to-day for the Copper Mines, near Squaw Peak. It IS ru- ,,,ored that A sale IS to come oil
 Nihilism is more dangerous in Russia than Socialism in Germany or Communism m France. and the cowboys of Cochise county are a greater nuisance than either.
 A lady writing from the East in quest of information about AriZona. wants |" know If the men m C"chise county have horns on them tha. they should be called boys.
 j. W. Simmons. one of our oldest and most respected citizens. k. We are pleased fn know slowly recovering from a severe s,-ll of sickness extending over a period "i two years.
 Great activity prevails in this section just now in regard to the selling and buying of mines. We have plenty of them for sale and our mine owners want cash and don forget IL.
 Thomas Hughes of Yuma, an old pioneer and a frieud of ours. has just received the -lnst nayment on a mine he sold. The .wount received was S1lS,0o0, gold coin Glad of 1t.
 Pinal county has three good newspapers the Belt. oI reliable. the Chromcie anc Drill Good coantry that to support three