Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-11-20
Prescott Paragraphs.
IPrescnlt Minnr.1

Steamer will leave Yuma, A. T., Satur- day, December 3d. 1881, for Camp Mo have and intermediate landings.
 Frank Wadleigh, an ex-printer of this office, sold his mine to-day, located on Lynch creek, for large sum.
 Nj. H. Sherman and Rev. MT. Hunt went out to Williamson Valley this morning on a gaming expedition. We mean on hunt.
 Chas. Ii. McNeil, of the Phenix Ga- zette, one of our most valued exchanges, made us a call this afternoon.
 Several Wallapai Indian scouts are in | town. They have been down south trail | ing up Chiracahaus under Dan O'Leary.
 Miss Lulu NJ. Kendall, an accom- | plished young lady and graduate of [ Mills Seminary, IS valuable acquisi { ton to Prescott's society.
 The Gillett mill, we hear, was to have started up on the l4th inst. TiptOp ore IS to be crushed and We expect to hear good reports from that direction soon. Deputy Sheriff Reaves IS home from | Flag Staff, where he went to procure witnesses against certain criminals. He was successful in finding what he went after.
 Hon. Louis WOllenburg and family are once more at home. Louis looks as though the oysters and good things of San Francisco had had beneficial ten dency.
 It may not amount to grand revolu- ton, but there will be the durndest kick-up at least when C. C. Bean gets I.s. f4. r. II ing out Sl00OOO per month over in Cop per Basin.
 Old Baldy," thirty miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the San Francisco mountains, one hundred miles north of Prescott. Arizona, about the same height, and alike are covered with the beautiful snow.
 The largest single shipment of wool ever made by an Arizona firm is that Of C. F. Head < Co. They shipped few few days since from HolbrOOk. per At lantic & Pacific Railroad, 300,00O pounds making a train load of nineteen caIs,
 The Prescott school has now over l30 pupils, and for the purpose of doing jus tice to tine scholars the Trustees have decided to employ another teacher. which will enable the children III attend ance receiving all necessary instruction.
 Mir. F. Lowry, agent for the Judson and Giant Powder, arrived to-day from the Atlantic and Pacific railroad While en route home he drove into ElliOtt's camp for the purpose of greasing his buggy. Just as he reached said camp the cook and one of the bOarders had dispute, when the cook merely shot the ear off his adversary. Mr. Lowry don't like the looks of the natives Of this par ticular camp, and decided to drne on without Oiling his buggy.
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 Ed Hill has just sold the Forest City and Plata Bonita mines for the sum of Sl0,OOO, and, consequently, IS solid man.
 Superintendent c. B. Foster leaves for ths Tiger and Bradshaw tomorrow. He reports mining matters dull in that neIghbOrhOOd.
 Townsend Cox, IT,, arrived yesterday from New York City and left in company with his his partner, Hon. F. 4. Craigue, for the DosorIs mine.
 Charles Taylor IS spending few days in our city. He reports matters about as usual in Minnehaha Flat.
 Mir R. C. Brown, of the Tucson Citi- zen, the pioneer paper ef Southern Ari- ZOna, came in by the Black Canyon stage. We welcome him to the capital of Arizona.
 General O. E. Wilcox, commanding Department of Arizona, arrived to-day at Whipple Barracks in company with Adjutant-General Benjamin, en route from PheniX.
 The Belle mine has a showing that Is equal if not superior to any mine in the Territory, having not less than SjO.OOO on the dumps, with shafts, tunnels and drifts amounting to 525 feet, all in one continuous bed of ore.
 The remains of the late Hon. Gideon Brooks arrived last evening, being con- veyed here by Mir. John T. Shull, from MaricOpa. To-day, aJ two o'clock the remains were buried. The funeral was largely attended by many friends.
 Hugh McCrum left by the Wickenburg stage this morning, for San Francisco. During his stay here Mir. McCrum has interested himself Tn several mining and other properties in Yavapai county, and made many friends. We hope that he may return soon.
 Alr. Wilder came in yesterday from his ! cattle range at Anvil Rock. The stock 1 men have been busy branding their calves l in that section. Mir. Wilder informs us that he has placed the large band of cat l tie he purchased from Uncle Billy Pierce l. on his range.
 There was considerable excitement in l camp from the fact of a new strike by l MT. Harpell, just north of the Belle mine, | of argentiferous galena Ore-gOlng away 1 into the thousands. Everybody IS happy | and looking for a boom in Big Busr and | will get it, ere long.
 Frank Parker brought in his wife and l family and Miss Josie Stevens, Friday, | from his saw mill, which IS situated about | fifteen miles west of Flagstaff. MT. Par | ker has sawed almost 100000 feet of | lumber since he started there in Septem- | Der last The lumber has all been con | tracted for by the railroad builders.
 Volunteer Springs will be the end of railway division. The railway cOntrac- | tors have laid about One-half a mile of | side tracks and are clearing the ground | necessary for a round house, etc. From | present appearances, this place will be a | shipping depot for Prescott. It IS about | seventy miles from here over good | road.
 The following are the Soutiern Pacific Stage Line passenger rates: From Prescott to Agua Fria, g; to Silver Belt, g.; Cottonwood, S4; to Big Bug, g; to | Antelope, S7 j0; to Rumble Bee, S9; to | Gillette, SIP: to Phenix, S20; to Mari | copa, S25. Freight rates, l3 cents per pound to Maricopa.
 Dr. s. B. Farnham leaves to-day for | the Hidden Treasure mine, on Lynx | creek. Reports from this property are | that vein of four feet of gold bearing | quartz has been struck in the tunnel. | Superintendent Farnham is pushing | matters SO that his New York investors | may have something to look at in the | SpnIg.
 The railway expects to get to Brigham l City about the first prOxinO Brigham | City will be the end of the first division | in Arizona, Volunteer Springs will be | the end of the second division, and 1 Blackberry, on the Needles, the end of | the third division. Each of these points | will doubtless become trade centers in | Northern Arizona.
 Saturday two more unfortunates were | brought in from the railroad and placed ! in the Sisters Hospital. One was a sur ] vivor of the tunnel explosion. and was ! but a short time ago discharged from the | Hospital. He was accidentally shot in | the breast, his wound Is serious. The l other was an employee at the tunel. A l rock fell from the side of the cut, and l severely injured him about the head.
 The Silver Belt Mining Company | shipped last Saturday Sl bars of bullion ! by Savers team to Maricopa. This mine l bids fair to be the best bullion producer |