Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-03-04

road from Bellaire to Butte, with view to bidding for the contract to haul ore from the Pinal Consolidated mines to their smelter.
 Abbott, the jail-bird, undertook to leave his country for his country's good the other day but the Sheriff headed him off at Butte, and returned him to the county cage where he now sports pair of iron anklets.
 The snow in the mountains has com menced to melt rapidly, and pour its limpid liquid into the Gila through num- erous small tributaries As a consequence the former stream is rising and will not be fordable by tomorrow.
 There are now nearly four hundred teams, large and small, hauling freight from Casa Grande to Florence, Butte, Pinal and Silver King, and still the de- mand is largely in excess of the supply. A boom has struck this section.
 We had the pleasure of meeting Thurs day, Mir. James J. Ligon, agent of Pauley Bros, St. Louis He is here to superin- tend the iron work for the new jail and at tends to the financial interests of the firm. We find him pleasant gentleman.
 Mir. Hammond and Mir. Lawson, of Silver King, were out at Mineral Hill this week examining the Specie Payinq, Rialto, Alice and other properties. Mir. Hammond is superintendent of the Til den and Blk, and Mir. Lawson, superin- tendent of the North King.
 Mir Thos. Cochrane, of Butte, spent the week at Florence. He has power of at torney from Manager Linkton, of the Pi- nal Consolidated Company, to sell the town lots at Butte, and is doing good business in that line. A large number of lots have been disposed of
 The iron cells and cares for the new jail are OF the ground, and Mir H. Stoep- person, of St. Louis, is here to put them up. He was sent hither by Pauley Brothers pursuant to their contract Messrs. Lanoue and Remy hauled the cells up from Casa Grande.
 Arrangements are making to incorpor- ate the Miller Earll group of mines at Min eral Hill. These mines have been paid for, and as soon as the company can be or vanized development work will be com menced and continued without interrup- ton till the mines are fully opened.
 The Logan Brothers arerunning tunnel on the Beaugard mine at Canyon de Gro, to tap the ledge 300 feet below the sur face. The ledge shows width of six feet on the surface and carries silver-bear- ing galena all the way across Wm. Hunton is negotiating the sale of the property.
 Charlie Palmer has returned to Flor ence with the intention of becomin.. permanent resident. He has always had faith in the future of this place, and the improvement in the town during the past two months has strenothened his belief. Charlie holds warm place in the hearths of Florentines.
 While at Mineral Hill Saturday, we in spected the tunnel on the Rialto mine and found eight feet of splendid ore in the breast of the tunnel. This claim is the first south extension of the Specie Pay ing and has every indication of becoming equally as valuable and productive as any mine in the district.
 Mr. Robt. Williams. of Silver King, was brought down to Florence last week for medical treatment and is quartered at the Lewis house With the careful mrs inc of Mrs. Williams and under the skill fu treatment of Dr. Harvey, he is doinq | well, and we hope to see him restored to his former good health soon.
 Mai Geo. H. Sisson and wife, of San Francisco. MT. John T. Safely and wife. of New York, Capt. n. B. Hamilton and wife. of Waterberrv, Conn. and MT. G. Platt passed throurh here Wednesday. on ronte to Globe. These gentlemen are all prominent minino men and are interested in property in the Globe district
 Mir. Henry Watzlavzick, late of the firm of Smith & Watzlavzick, will leave for Texas his former home, soon. Hen " is man in all the word implies, and we, in common with many others, regret that he has determined to withdraw from the community and county to build his home in another land We hone he may prosner as we'll under other skies as he has here.
 F. O. Wilkinson completed the sixty foot shaft on the Ida mine, at Mineral Hill, last week. and left with force of men for Oracle camp to commence work on some claims in that district belonging to himself and Los Anceles parties. The party will return to Mineral Hill at the end of few weeks to work on the prop erty of the Lewis company The Ida makes a good showing in the shaft just completed.
 Wm. Hunton claims to have discovered, not far from here, mammoth tusk sev- en feet lonr and two feet in diameter at the butt The cavity in the large end oI the tusk is eighteen inches wide, he says. He desires LIS to keep secret the exact x,haraob bo,ts of tI,;z ,-o,J ,Jo,f,,1 4,,aI- 1oI