Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-03-18
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Jack Hays First regiment andsubsequent- ly as lieutenant in Hays Second re- giment until the close of the war. Went l to California in..1849 and came to Arizona in the year 1855. No pioneer of Arizona was more favorably known nor more | universally respected than Chris. Dodson. l In the dark days of Arizona's first settle ment, when the ruthless Apache Spread | havoc and death OCT his pitiless path, he was ever first in the saddle to pursue and the last to give up the chase. At the commencement of the civil war Dodson joined his kindred in the strife for the lost cause and remained with 1t until its hopes were buried in the soil of its birth, when like many other southerners, he returned to Mexico and thence to Arizona where he has been living for the past four or five years somewhat broken in health and fortune. He resided in Florence with his lifelong friend and companion, the Hon. Granville H. Oury, now dele gate to Congress from Arizona.
 If the ancient Egyptian rites of sepulture were in vogue, witnesses were challenged to say aught why his body should not be entombed with honor and his soul pass over the river, the world would be silent; for none could utter aught against him. On the contrary he was a manly type of a brave frontiersman living mostly amidst the solitudes of nature, communing more with God than man.
 But little need be said of a good man. He was brave, and truly warm and gen erous friend. He earned his subsistence from the resources of nature and owed not any man.
 bosom his mortal remains; and his soul goes on to other spheres free from taint in mortal existence c. D. P.
 The first run of bullion from the Girard mill and mine, valued at S6,633, was shipped this morning. A herald of future dividends.
 The Southern Pacific railway of Arizona will soon build two new stations and side tracks between Casa Grande and Tucson, and will name them ''Mallard." afterJ. s. Mallard of Los Angeles, and "McCormic" after former governor of Arizona. Courier
 Reports from the south end of the Huachucas speak fatteringly of the min ing prospects in that section and upon which much work is being done Some are quite large, and are copper, silver and gold bearing and are proportionately valuable Citizen.
 The copper properties along the Bill Williams Fork are beginning to attract the the attention of capitalists There is a live ly demand for copper and experts are con stanaly in the field searching for that mineral in the interest of would-be in vestors. Yuma Free Press.
 The McCrackin mill will start up in a few days This mill has been lying idle for some time, owing to some differences. We are glad to see this rich property once again in operation, as it affords employ ment in the mines to great number of men. The mill has been lately overhauled and put in complete state of repair - Free Press
 Mir. Leighton, who has been at work on the Perry mine, came to town last evening. He reports the claim in good condition for the extraction, and has serious intentions of shipping lot to the reduction works at Pueblo, Col. This is only one of fifty claims in the immediate vicinity oi Prescott that would be worke steadily ii there was any way of reducing the ore.- Democrat.
 The first dividend of the Contention Consolidated Company, amounting tc $62, 300, was payable on Feb. 28. The Western Company, which formerly owned the Contention mine, paid S1 ,405, 900, ir dividends between July, 1880, and De cember, 1881. The Tombstone Mill anc Mining Company has declared it's twenty fourth regular monthly dividend of ter cents per share, payable March 18th
 There are, at present, about 150 mer employed in the camp, in the various mines, mostly upon the South Pioneer and its road building. This mine is i'm proving with every days development The drift from working shaft is in 110 feet placing the face ten feet beyond the for mer workings and fifty feet underneath developing an ore body, wider, richer more uniform, and with every evidenc of permanency. It is stated that severa old miners on the Silver King, familia with all its ins and outs, unhesitatingl say that the King is the only mine whicl can compare with the South Pioneer The drift above alluded to will be run 22 feet to the northeast corner of the mine and is expected to control all of the sur face water. At present, this drift is drain ing the former working from eighteen t twenty inches daily, aud the pump handle J the balance in every four hours out of 24 From the drift has been already placed O = the dump 150 tons of ore, verey rich
 Globe Chronicle.
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