Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-19

caucus proceeded to the election of five delegates to the county convention, held | at the same place on the 10th. Messrs. | Solon Mason, Wm. E. Guild, Levi Rug | gles, Jose Nj. Ochoa and Henry Schoshu- sen were elected. On motion, a precinct | committee, consisting of four, was ap- pointed by the chair. The committee stands, Wm. E. Guild, chairman; Levi Rugglcs, Solon Mason and Manuel Ram erez. The meeting then adjourned.
 The Jessie Benton mill started up Wednesday, but with what result we have not been able to ascertain yet However, everything is in favor of sue cessful run. The mill could hardly be more complete, either in the character of it's machinery or the plan of it's construc- tion; the water is abundant, several hun dred cords of wood, and large quantity of free milling chloride ore averaging from two to three hundred dollars per ton have been delivered at the mill, and, so far as we can see, nothing stands in the way of its success. Mir. J. D. Baker Is in charge of the amalgamating pans, and Supt. Merritt, who is practical and ex- perienced, is directing the entire work.
 The wheat crop of the Pima Indians, in this county, will amount to over 8, ,000, ,000 pounds They traised about the same amount last year. These are peaceable, self-sustaining Indians, and, of course, receive no assistance from the govern ment The only attention Uncle Sam shows them, is to send an agent here to harrass them by interference with their social and religious customs Were they like the butchering brutes, fattened and propagated at San Carlos, they would be given the fat of the lamb and treated with the greatest kindness and indulgence. To witness the governments Indian pol
 icy in Arizona is sufficient to make man feel like scalping every sentimentalist he may meet.
 1 Mir. Bonhote, practical and skillful orchardist and vineyardist, has taken charge of MT. Aaron Mason's orchard and vineyard at his banner ranch, below Flor ence. Mir, Mason intends to plant twen
 ty acres in grape cuttings of the best var
 ieties next spring He will then have
 the largest vineyard in Arizona, as well
 as the finest variety of grapes, He will
 including every variety of semi-tropic
 fruit. He has experimented sufficiently
 to demonstrate to his own satisfaction that
 no better fruit country than this Gila val
 ley can Dc found, and he now proposes to
 convince others of the fact, by q practical
 illustration of the truth
 l Prof. Swain sold to eastern parties last
 week, the Lost Prize, formerly known as
 the West Union, and lying about one
 mile northwest of the Silver King The
 money was paid on the 10th by Mir.
 Frank Czarnowski, superintendent of the
 South King. The owners of the property
 were F. A. Brown, Ben. Hall, H. A.
 Beach and J. D. Baker. MT. Czarnowski
 will commence work on this mine about
 the first of next month. It is very
 promising prospect and good results may
 be expected. The east extension of this
 claim, called the East Union, and owned by Wm. c. O'Boyle 6 Co.,, is fine piece of property, and the sale and develop, ment of the former will greatly enhance , the value of the latter. We congratulate friend O'Boyle on his good fortune. The ledge of the Columbia, one of the Pinal Consolidated mines, has been strip
 ped for distance of three hundred fee on the surface and cross-cut at every fifty g feet and a large amount of very fine or' 8 was uncovered The tunnel run alonl r the ledge about the same distance ant : about 100 feet below the surface, shows continuation of the samo body of ore f thus insuring 100 feet of stoping ground e Both mines show steady improvement
 and are running into fine carbonate an, h chloride ores in the lower workings. Tn . output is regular and the quartz wagon q continue their daily delivery of ore to tn ]. furnace at Butte. Nearly all tho avail :. able space around the furnace will b d taken up with ore by the time the smelte l., is ready to start Hon. A. J. Doran, wh > has contracted to deliver six thousan e tons of ore at the furnace, completed tn first half of his contract Tuesday.
 Il Last Tuesday was the Festival of tn e Assumption, festival instituted by tn = Roman Catholic church to commemorat ts the accent ot the Virgin Mary into hea, le en. It was observed at the cathol n church of this place with considerabl t. pomp and ceremony. The faithful 'i both western and oriental countries haI ,s long cherished the belief that the Virgi
 Mary was taken into heaven. like the propl
 ct body and soul. The American Encycl
 pedia, in treating on this subject, say
 ''This event is called in the ancient eccl,
 siastical writers, the assumption" " ''pa 7, sage" or ''repose" and is mentioned I :" various early authors, among whom a 10 St. Gregory, of Tours, in the 9th centur is and Andrew, of Crete, at the beginning of the 8th. The date of the institution SC the festival is unknown, but it is me
 toned as having been celebrated wi as great solemnity before the sixth centul 'l- in both Greek and Latin churches. w