The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-08-05
Local Intelligence.
SATCRDAY.

NAlA
 The weather Is warming up again.
 See notice of postponed Sheriff. sale.
 Our Prescott brewers are now making good beer.
 Freight teams are in great demand i'll Northern Arizona.
 Equalization work is completed and the Supervisors are at rest
 No dispatches to-day in regard to the con- dition of the President.
 Wild turkeys are still numerous in the mountains surrounding Prescott.
 Most all the bar.ey raised along the Verde, this year, Is still ill stacks, unthreshed.
 Travel between Prescott and the railroad camps to the north Is increasing
 Prescott astronomers keep nightly vigil for comet which Is coming from the south.
 Bones S S'Spenoers fruit bins and tables groan under heavy loads of tropical and other fruits.
 The managers of Dan Thornes Cabinet continue to regale patrons, every evening, with choice rfusic.
 l. N Roberts, one of Yavapais oldest and best citizens, Is up from his farm and stock range, in Agua Fria valley.
 c. Fogdstan. Col c. F. Head, J. NJ. Nyen, Judge Morton and G. E. Powell vent out by Black Canyon stage.
 Dan Hatz and kis assistants have all they can do to feed the hungry at the restaurant and bakery few doors south of the MINER office.
 The farmers of Williamson Valley who recently lost some crops by high water, have the sympathy of this scribe, who knows eI- actiy what such losses mean.
 Arizona youths, who are anxious to be- come soldiers and sailors. will, on Monday next, undergo an examination at Phenix, when the brightest and best boys will win.
 Mir. Frank Meador, telegraph operator here, to-day informed us that several mill tary lines south of Phenix have been aban- doned. This will help the W. |. Company.
 J. W. Ambrose. just in from Walnut Greek, assures Us that crops in that vicinity are looking we'll Potatoes will, this year, he the main crop raised on the creek bot toms and in adjacent valleys.
 4 spirited runaway was, to-day. indulged in by mules near C. r. Head & C.. s. The kickers broke the wagon pole. Lieut.. Scott, |. <. A., nho Was present, mounted a horse and captured the rnaways.
 Mr Anderspn Assistant Secretary of the Territory, yesterday favored Us with well bound copy of the Acts, Resolutions and Memorials, passed by the late Legislature, for which act Mr. A. has our thanks.
 Mir. Brown, one oi our hardest working. | and. of course, most successful gardeners, is | supplying his customers with choice vege- | tables He, this morning. brought m lot | of finely favored watermelons. a couple of which we're dessicated and sacrificed on one | of our largest imposing stones
 VassINT>- Sheep and cattle men of this | section have reduced the coyote crop, but | there are yet great many mountain lions, lynx and wild cats, [" prey on sheep, calves, goats. colts, etc. Recently, m the vicinity | of Camp Hualpai. lions have killed several calves, colts and goats.
 Our old friend. Capt King. 18th Inf. who has performed great deal of hard duty in Arizona and other frontier regions, was in town yesterday and had to' shake with the old boys who knew him but to like him when he was here in the days of Indian raids and hairbteadth escapes.
 We hear that the $ F. R. R. people have reduced their old carload tariff on grain be- tween California and Maricopa, in this Ter rit"ry They say California barley Is now dumped at MaIicopa for little less than Sl 10 per hundred pounds. Looks like little play against the trade of Salt River Valley.
 C. P. Head X Co. to-day received barley from the south which was turned into the Quartermaster store at Whipple. The in- creased cost of grain and transportation makes it rather binding on this firm to fill large barley contract at S2.72 per hundred pounds, but they keep on delivering, at a loss, all the same. MINING SALE--Mr W. H. Ferris, a very { deserving Arizonan, has recently sold mining property in Bradshaw Mountains to Eastern gentlemen for a fair price. The purchasers arrived here today from their property. } They say they are well pleased with 1t. It is their intention to commence the work of |, development at an early day. Ii GoING.-Mr F. NJ. DeBord, who, for several years past. has been a faithful . WorAer m the store b NIT. " III. M. DuUull, l Prescott. has severed his connection with that house, and will soon start for his old , Kentucky home. His place IS now filled by Mr. H. H. Moves, very worthy gentleman. Good lucl, to yoD, DeBord.
 Mir G. H. IaBertu. for many years con . hected with thIs office, but now a mining ] man. having one of the richest and most I promising claims m this county, the Ban ming mine, returned to-day. and reports i heavy rains as having fallen m the vicinity . of Banning Greek. We hope that Bert l will become bonanza king and thenhe can ''set' 'em up as often as he pleases.
 BILL WILLIAMS. MT. J. F. Scott, a potato Y raiser of Bill Williams Mountain, says his I potato trees are looking well. Coming in I he met wagons. with Parkers saw-mill, at I Hell Canyon. At Johnny Rodgers old place, Berry | Bros have large stock of general mer- II which they sell at wholesale and q retail. SiI immense wagons. drawn by cIen. arrived from the eud of the track. with goods for thls firm. Thirteen ox-teams {, recently passed on to MCCormicks camp with supplies from the end of the track. Merchants. We hear. sell high up there Vt Kansas oats goes at cents per lh.. Arizona d corn and barley for about six cents. The several contractors alt pushing work.