Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-30
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 has been living ill California for years, is now on his way to Florence to take up his residence at the Judges ranch. He is bringing with him herd of fine mares and blooded stallion with the intention of raising horses. Before leaving the City of the Angels, he went to the rail road agent and made arrangements to charter car in which to ship his stock The terms agreed upon were S250 for single car from Los Angeles to Casa Grande. But the agent subsequently, dis covered that one of the horses was fine blooded stallion, and he immediately raised the price for the car to $35O. Mr. Walker politely told him to go to Hades, as it would be much cheaper to drive his horses across the desert as they did in early days. He is now on the way and is expected to reach here inside of few weeks. That is the way the Southern Pacific is encouraging the coming of set tiers and the introduction of good stock into Arizona.
 Superintendent Stevens, of the Pinal Consolidated has resigned, and will take his old position at the Eureka Consoli- dated. MT. Aaron Mason, of Florence, has been appointed superintendent of the furnace and mines, and this fact is suffi- cient, within itself, to insure the success of the enterprise. The company could not have made wiser choice, or one that would lead to better results Mir Mason is one of those men to whom fail ure Is stranger, and great indeed must be the obstacles that would prevent his attaining any end he may desire to com pass. We consider it safe to predict that he will soon place the Pinal Consolidated on dividend paying basis. It needs only intelligent and energetic manage ment to accomplish that result, and that sort of management is characteristic of Mr. Mason. He would not undertake the superintendency on salary, we un- derstand, but accepts as consideration call on stock. Professor Aren't will take charge of the smelting on the same terms. The immediate starting of the furnace is contingent on the discovery of iron ore, suitable for Aux, within convenient dis tance. If the latter can be found the fur mace will be run steadily, otherwise the ore will be shipped and reduced in Cali fornia. MT. Mason is confident that iron ore, in sufficient quantities and conven- tent to the furnace can be found He will start men to prospecting for it at once, and in the meantime will arrange | the charcoal kilns and complete other ar engagements necessary before starting | The mines look better than ever and will turn out tons upon tons of ore.
 The agent for the Indiana company has returned to Laport with ore samples from the Specie Paying, of Mineral Hill, and said, before starting, that his report would be very favorable and that he ex pected to return inside of a few weeks. prepared to begin work in earnest. The company agreed, when they sent him out, to accept his report as final, and if it should be favorable, to open up the mines at once and erect reduction works on the river The agent said they would stand by their agreement and had a suficiency of surplus lucre to back it up. He is so well satisfied with the properties ;that he proposes to buy large amount of the stock himself and take the general man agement of the company Mr. Thos. B. Fish, who holds a large amount of the stock and has charge of the work on the mines, is so confident that the agent will return according to agreement, that he is clearing away the ground at the north end of the claim, next to the Alice, pre- paratory to starting working tunnel, which will run in on the ledge l50 feet be- low the croppings. They prospected the ledge at that point while the agent was here and found an abundance of rich chloride ore, from which the agent took samples to test. MT Fish says there will be no dead work in this proposed tunnel; every pound of rock taken out will contain mineral. If the Indiana Company should go to work on their properties and put up works on the river Mineral Hill would come to the front rapidly, and this together with the start ing of the Pinal Consolidated furnace by Mir. Mason, would make the Gila valley and Florence teem with life and business activity and give us genuine boom