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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
PrehisfOric TIdes-

Atpresent the moon is 240,000 miles
 away; but there was a time when the
 moon was only One-sixth part of this, or
 say 10000 miles away. That time must
 have cOrresponded to some geological epoch. It may have been earlier than the.time when Eoroon lived. It IS m lre
 likely to have been later. I want to point out that when the moon was only 40,OO0 miles away, We had in 1t a geolog- ical engine of trascendent power If the earlier tides be PIG tines their present amount, then 1t Is plain that the ancient tides must have been GAS feet.
 There can be no doubt that in ancient times tides of this amount and even tides very much larger must have oc- cured. l ask the geOlOgists Co take ac- count of thls facts, and tO consider the effect-s tidal rise and fall of 64S feet twice every day. Dwell for one moment on the sublime spectacle of a tide GAS feet high, and see what an agent if would be for the performance of geolog Ical wo-kl We are now standing, I sup pose, some 500 feet above the level of the sea. The sea IS good many miles from Birmingham, yet II the rise and fall at the coasts were GAS feet, Birmingham might be as great a seaport as Liverpool. Three-quarters tide would be about l50 feet of blue water over our heads. Every house would be covered, and the top. of few chimneys would aloneindicate the site of the town.
 In few hours more the whole of this vast flood would have retreated Not on- ly would 1t leave England high md dry, but probably the straits of Dover would be drained, and perhaps even Ireland would Tn literal sense become a mem Der of the United Kingdom. A. few hours pass. and the whole of England is again inundated, but only again to be abandoned.
 These mighty tides are the gift which astronomers have now made to the work ing machinery of the geolOgist. They constitute an engine of terrific powC- to aid in the work of geology. What would the puny efforts of water in other ways accomplish when cOmparei with these majestic tides and the great currents they produce?
 In the great primeval tides will prob ably be found the explanation of what has long been a reproach to geology. The early palRoz pic rocks for a stupen- dOus mass of ocean made beds, which, according to Professor Williamson, are twenty miles thick up to the silurian beds. It has long been difficulty to conceive how such gigantic quantity Of could have been ground up and at the bottom of the sea. The geologists said: "lhe rivers and other agents of the present day will do it if you give them time enough" But, un- the mathematicians and the natural philosophers would not give them time enough, and they ordered the gsol- ogist to "hurry up their phenomena. The mathematicians had other reasons for believing that the earth could not have been so old as the geOlogists de- Now, however, the mathemati- cians have discovered the new and stu pendOus tidal grinding-engine. With this powerful aid the geologists can get their work in a reasonable period of time, and the geologists and the math- msticians may be reconciled.- Lecture by Professor Ball, of England.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
MEXICAN MINING.

The Denver Rocky Mountain Mining Review, in speaking Of the decid, d ten dency in eastern sections to enter largel, into the purchase of mines in Mexico. is unable to gIve any reason for i; except that attention is being drawH thither by Lhe mos fabulous sia emonis bruugh, from there by interested persons. The Review very correctly gives as is opiniun that there are more good mines in the States and Territories of the west than there ever were in the States of old Mexi- co. IL says that ''man of capital has nothing 10 gain by going into country like Old Mexico to invest in mines. There are no adequate facilities tor the mining or treatment Of ore there, nor are there any means for economical transpor- tatisn of ore tO a suitable market. There are a thousand and one reasons why capital should come west in prefer ence to going into the apocryphal mines of the republic 70 the south of us.
 li IS safe 10 say that, without dispar- agement 10 the immense beds of mineral in Mexican States, amuchgreater average percentage of profit IS derived from min ing operations within the United States than in our sister republic, and to the carefu! investor it is by far the safer country for the investment of capital
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16

OF ATLANTIC CABLE EMINHScK.
 Comparatively but few men have so directed thelr individual business actlvi- l ty as to make their names prominent as
 those of eminent statesmen, the dIrec-
 tors Uf nations an the admiration of the
 whole world. Mir. Cyrus West Field Is
 one of those distinguished commercial
 persons, possessed of the faculty to see
 the far-reach1ng importance of certaln enterprises, the courage to engage in
 them iu their earliest stage, and 70 de-
 vote money, time and interchangeable per personal effort to their accomplishment The life of Ar. Field IS a remarkably in terestlng record of business effort SO dI.
 rected as to give distinction broad as the extent of civilization and to be perpetu- sted throughout the future history of
 human progress.
 Cyrus West Field was born at Stock
 bridge, Mass, November 3U, lol9 Alter receiving fair education in hIs native place, he was placed Tn a countIng-hOase in New York City, where he developed d capacity for busIneSs which, Ill few years, placed him at the head of a large establishment. He was about thirty-tive years of age when his attention Was first diDcted to the subject If ocean teleg- raphy. In short time this attention took practical turn, when he procured from the legislature of Newfoundland the exclusive right for fifty years to es- tablish telegraph from this continent to Newfoundland and thence to Europe. He devoted himself with exemplary en- ergy to the accomplishment of this great scheme, which involved as its initial uu- dertaking the providing Newfoundland with the means of telegraphlc communI- cation. The two attempts to lay the sub marine cable between Cape Ray and Cape Breton followed, the second a sue cess. Next in order came the expeditiOu of 1S57-5S, by means of which communica- tion was established between tue eOnti- nent of America and the island of New foundland. When, Tn 1885 and lS66, attempts were made to lay the Atlantic cable Mir. Field assisted, in connection with other eminent business men, foreign and American in this glgan ic undertaking, which, in the second of these years, proved successful. Ills labOrs at thls time, involved more than fifty passages across the At lantic, and were rewarded with the acknowledgements of his fellow citizeus, NtAAAAk AAAN AOA III OA a kOAAA AAG4hA NUtG1 lO hIm and some of his fellow workers by the Congress of the United States. Abroad his services in this connection have been tiatteringly recognized, in- cluding the bestOwal of the grand medal by the Exposition of Paris. His latest great business enterprise was that of as slsting in the construction of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad of New York, by a company of which he was president His name at this. time Is prominently be- fore the pubic, as he IS engaged in the prosecution of George Hendrix, who Is charged with mutilating the Andre mOn- ument, memorial erected by MT. Field, and as his private property, sacred to his possession. But public Opin- ion deals lehiently with man whose of- fense appears to have been prompted by a feeling of patriotism and not of wanton n1iscbipf
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
A GOOD DECISION.

THE Supreme Court of New York has recently made an important decision whose justice is questioned. IL was a test case and involved principles that are
 iaDle to present themselves in mining litigation in this Territory. From the evidence m the case 1t appears that James Boyce of Baltimore, employed JoEn White Of New York, to sell a coal property situated in Maryland and repre- sentedby the stock Of the Maryland Union Coal Company. Boy-e, it was shown, made certain representations 10 White. which the latter believed for himself and repeated to others. Those representa- tons were found 10 be false, whereupon many of the stockholders, and Mir White among the rest, demanded thelr money and were refused. The Supreme Court decision, which covers all the cases, is to the effect that the principal and interes, must be returned. IL IS understood that Whites claim against Boyce is over S4oo, 900, and that the claims in all are over S6oo,ooo. Boyce IS reported 10 have sufficient property to meet the demands.
 A lttls of this judicial medicine admin istered to some of the mining operators of the country would inspire a great conf dence m investors
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
"sNOther One Bu>ted,"

Three years ago Detroit, says the Ere, Press, had about fifty amateur weeklie in full blast. One by one they have sue cumbed to the chicken-pOx, measle- | whOOping- cough and hard times, an, tine number yet alive can now be count ed on the fingers of the left hand. Tn, latest failure occurred yesterday. juS after the bells had strgck l3 o'clock An ambitious, persevering boy of l. had established the Twilight in httl secOnd-tioOr back room beyond the par on Woodward avenue. In bis issue o twenty-three copies in the forenoon Oc cured the following item:
 "NOTIss.-tHere Is A Read-hedeC Woman in This Sitty who LickS he. Childern witH the stove handel LE her heWair or We SHall puBlisH Hei naim."
 Inc editor of the Twilight was seate, in his sanctum at the huur named when q female entered. She hadu' come to subscribe. She wasn't ther to have mineral notice published She didn't look like the President of . female sewing sOciety. No one c0uIt read her errand until she had locke the door. Then she kicked the pres. over. upset the standing gallel knocked the legs from under the edi tOrIal table. and laid hands on tn, editor. Being taken by surprise, h' dId not realize what was going on unti he had been shaken cut of his boot. and iammed into the wool box hea, first, and ere he had Iegained his edi torial eOmpOsure the assailant had fled Rnin and desOlation broOded there The red-headed woman who hcks he children with the stOve-handle ba played smash and left nothing to be-i anew on. No insurance and no nor Twilight.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
The Tombstone Townsite.

The following is the latest judicial or der regarding the Tombstone Towusitc litigation:
 In the District Court of the First Judi cial District in and for the county of Pi ma Territory of Arizoua:
 Edward tield and Horatio 5. Sanford plaintiffs, vs. NJ. Gray, ct al-The mo ton of Robert ]. Winders that the wri, oi restitution issued herein be withdrawn and the same be vacated and set aside etc, having been regularly heard before me al Chambers in Tucson, A. T., pur- suant to notice, William Herring, Esq, appearing for the moving party, and Thomas Fitch Esq, for the defendant. Alter hearing argument of counsel and considering the same, and on examina- ton of the plea and records, it is orier- ed that said motion be and the same herL- by Is denied, and the order heretofore is- sued herein staying said writs of execu- ton is vacated.
 TUCSON, A. T., ApriliSth, 1882.
 w. H. STILwELL, District Judge.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
Dos CabezlS Small Change.

!
 The first bar of bull oul from Ayei Camp "as shipped last Wednesday.
 Teams and labo,ers are in great de. mand here at present, needed for hauling wood and ore.
 The stage from Wilcox arrives every night loaded wIIh passengers, which goes 10 show that Dos Cabezas IS looming up.
 Chas. Washeim, the popular express agent, hnds the shipment of bullion from Dos Cabezas very new feature. Two or three lots have gone from his office this i week, and he says no matter how fast II comes m, II won't make him mad
 Dr. King designs erecting several new buildings at the Hot Springs soon, for the ComiuIt and con.enitnce of sOiournt rs there. The place IS repre- e-ented to be d beautiful spot, and t IS said that aside from the medical qualities of the water, II possesses other attractions that will eventually make it the most popular place uf resort in the Territory.
 Mir. James Montague, a well known exI ert, from the State of Nevada, who has been examining the Detroit, belong ms 10 (. w. Barrow & O., for some parties east, speaks very lattering of the mine. The owners in opening up the ground south Of the shat developed a very rich vein Of golI ore, the quartz showing large quantities oi free gold to the naked eye. The rich chute pitches to the south, and the owners contemplate sinking a new shaft one hundred and twenty-five feet deep, two hundred feel sou,h of m ain shaft, and drift on the vein north and south from the bottom. The c-oppings for three hundred feet south, show rich gold quartz, stained with ion and copper. The vein lies between Slate and SyenIte walls and il IS the opinion that as depth IS gained, the vein will im- prCV- in width and richness.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
THE SOLDIERS, FRIEND

Senator T. W. Ferry, of Michigan, of fered the following bill in the United States Senate short time since, and by an eloquent argument carried it through by large vote. It will relieve many deserving old soldler:
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- Oled, that from and after December 1, rlSSl, every person entitled to a pension under existing laws for the loss of an l arm or leg shall be entitled to receive $50 per month If such arm or leg was imputated so near the shoulder-join or rhe hip joint as tO render the use Cf an artificial limb impossible; $40 per month If the arm or leg was removed above the elbow or above the knee; and $50 per month in all other cases of loss of arm pr leg, or total loss of tbe use of hand. foot, arm or leg.
 There Is no question but that it will pass the House of Representatives and receive the signature of the President. We quote the comments of the National Free Press and cordially concur in them:
 "The part taken by Senator Ferry in the welfare of maimed soldiers during his senatorial career, is at least worthy of special notice from every soldier in the United States.
 We are not in the habit of eulogizing every Senator or member who may have supported soldier claim or introduced \ bill for buncombe or political gain. We are chiefly concerned in the interest and welfare of the soldiers and not in politics, except m so far as to secure honorable, intelligent and honest representatives who We know have stood firm m the sol liers' cause and insisted in giving to the crippled hero, his widow or children, that which the United States promised should be given Tn case of receiving wounds in the service.
 We have carefully watched the course of Senator Ferry whenever the soldiers interest was at stake and have always found him first and last defending their cause. Such men We feel it our duty to make mention of.
 The soldiers of Michigan may well feel proud of their Senator. The hOnors bestowed upon him, first by the State, next by the Nation, have ID doubt been fully appreciated, while his course has been that which no person can say aught about.
 Broad and liberal in his views, with | statesmanship combined. are the quali- fications to be found in the Michigan l Senator Should occasion occur when l the hand of fellowship is necessary to aid his cause, it IS to be hope no soldier 1 will be found wanting"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
Letter from liuaymas.

GUAYNAs, Sonora, Mexico, April 7
 The Sonora Railroad is advancing to
 ward completion, as fast as eircum
 stances will permit. Tine advance of the grade Is twenty miles from Magdalena and the track is fully that distance be hind. The country ground is even there scarcely beng cut or i'll exceed, ing five feet. The most noticeable fea. ture on the line of construction Is the great quantity of sharp curves. The road-Ged will, when completed be one of the most compact and smooth running on the continent. To establish this fac; the engine David Ferguson, used for track-laying purposes, made n run of lj miles in F minutes. Fast running on a new track; and the engineer boasts that the time can be beat by four minutes.
 There is a far sprinkling of Tucson people out here. Speedy has a liquor and gambling palace, where a man can get all he wants any hour of the night. There are in all over thirty tents selling liquors, there being no Incense for the same, hence the quantity. Besides there are orange vendors and candy peddlers until you can't rest. Tue railroad en- ployees are the most orderly your cor respondent has ever seen. There has been but one knock-dOwn in two weeks; and, indeed, am entirely lost, and am afraid a chronic melancholy will set in. Here all moral restraint is sAt at def- ance. IRISH LORD.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
PrOsnectIng as a Business

The business of prospecting is recog, nized to be as legitimate and regular a means of gaining the necesSaries Of life, with a chance fer some of its luxuries in the future, as that of the miner and mill owner. Every man who has a knowledge of Natures ways sufficient, under ordinary circumstances, to render him able to seek intelligently over the surface of given section of country for mineral veins, possesses something which has cost him years of toll and hardship to obtain. Such laborer is just as worthy of his hire as one in any of the other walks of life, and to think of being able to secure the services of a compe- tent prospectOr for a mere grnb-stake, with tobacco and clothes thrown m, Is the night of absurdity. The only sensi- ble method, and the one which is re- garded with most favor among those with whom the business of prospectiug z and mining stands in a favorable light, IS that by winch the prospector employed Is furnished with means and material to operate quickly and economically, ac- cOrding 70 the dictates of his judgment Rocky Mountain Mining News.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
Denfh of A Ten- Millionaire.

There died in Salem, Mass, or
 Wednesday, the 22d ultimo, man whose career has been q remarkable one. His | history is thus stated: Captain John Bertram was born on the island of Jer. sey in 1796. He brought all his posses l sions to Salem in a handkerchief when a boy. In 1874 he shipped on m Amer Icau privateer. Hs was taken prisoner by the British, was soon afterward re- leased because of his French birth. but was again captured a few weeks later, and remained q prisoner until the war ended. In 1924, in command of the schooner General Brewer, he sailed with valuable cargo for St. Helena. When few days out they spoke the brig ElIz- abeth, of Salem, Captain Story, bound for the same port Captain Story came on board and took tea with Captain Der tram, and each announced bis destinR- ton as Pernambuco. When night came on Captain Bertram lauDehed his entire deckload of lumber over the stern so as to tighten his vessel, crowded all sail on, aud on arriving at St. Helena, sold his cargo at big profit. On his return trip he met the Elizabeth bound m. His subsequent career was one of unbroken prosperity. He visited a most every country on the globe. making his for tune principally in the gum copal trade. His wealth IS estimated at nearly Sl0,0O0,000.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
A Jackass that Wouldn't Scare.
San Antonio Express.


 4 vagrant ass stood beside the track of the Sunset Railway at the depot few mornings ago. An engine moved slowly up; 1t stopped within a few feet of the ass; the engineer blew one of those ter rible screams, prolonging and piercing such q blast as makes tie sieeping MillerIte dream of the day of judgment. Did the ass scare? Not worth a cent. Did he shake the sloth from his limbs, erect his tail, and speed away like the asses of BassOrah, faster than the Bedouin coursers run back to the chap paral? No. he didn't. He turned one ear to the engine, just as deaf man uses bis tin ear trumpet, and caught every particle of the sound. And when the steam blown whistle ceased it's notes and all the echoes died away. the animal strengthened out his neck, opened his mouth, and, in voice that deafened all the railroad men and caused the freight clerk to drop his pen, roared: "I can't can't! I can't be-besti be bestl bs-bestl I can't be be be-beatP
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16


 WE were in error ia our statement las Friday that no actual survey of the Mex lcan boundary had been made. The re port of MaJor ". H. Emory, L. s. Com mIss.oner, published in 1857 gives a de tailed account of the survey and speci fes the points at which the monument. were erected. II IL true that those en gagged in the survey westward abandoned the survey, owing to the lack of facilitie. for transporting water and supplies, and returned to Tucson, but the detachment coming from the west made the proper survey and erected monuments to the point of junction with the party going west. The monuments can be easill identified by reference 10 their report and no question can possibly arse as [, the exact line of boundary.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16
The Result of an Increase in the Wheat
 Product of the World.

There need. never, however, be an, fear that the demand will not b, equal to the supply, for the greater the supply. the grea'er will the demand be Extensive supplies cheapen tn" article and wheat cheap, produces more mum erOus and better consumers. When therefore. the wheat product of th, world increases largely there will be an increased number and capacity of con. sUmers. An increase therefore, Of little over half the quantity per head, would be followed by an increase. of abou one fourth ID the number of new con sumers, and ahOut Out-fOurth in the quantity consumed by each. Thus 8. consumers would Oe increased to 4u, while he quantity needed to supply tn, wants of the forty would be a, much as needed tO supply that of fifty previously. If, therefore, the United States produced say 750,000. OOO bushels, an increase of 270,00GOU bushels, and this in ten years, she wOulr have less tO export herself, while ever, bushel would be used at home Orabruad Allowing. therefore, the utmost latitude. a reduction Tn price of about 9 per cent might be expected, perhaps not so much This would he met by increased care T. Tn cultivation, which would produce tn. same crops from a smaller area of soi So in California where l6 bushels has been reckOned as an average of goo years. with bad 1t would be needed b careful cultivation to increase that aver age to 20 bushel to obtain similar re- suits.
 Still 1t does not absolutely f. How tha theretwOuld be great decrease in price. The increase m consumption might b larger than we suppose, ,and Tn lS65 whe the crop was only 5,O0O,0OO centals. th, highest price for shipping wheat n Ma was not above that now offered. In lSi. the July price was S1.65 for the best while the crop fur the United States wa only 249,997,0OO bushels. whereas in 1SS it was about double that figure and tn prlce offered is Sl.60 or only 5c less.-Sal Francisco Daily Journal of Commerce
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-16

POPE LEO XIII, IS about as shrewd a ruler as most of his predecessors. Hi. latest hobby IS Co enlist the daily news paper m the support of the church, and he earnestly urged thls in the conslst,rl which assembled last month. The Pop, recognizes ihe value of tha, journalism, that not only pnntS the news of the day but the power of strong, clear editpritl comment, and the effecl that such pro duces with the learned and the masses as well The Pope recognizes that any writer and more particularly writer Eu the daily press that speaks oJ vast audi ences each and every morning, Is, Or ought 10 be, like the great LAsELLE aver red he was Nhen he sat down to wrJt- armed with all the science and litera- ture of the tune, thus soaring above the mere automation clippings fo. The col. umns that like the drone supplies only food prepared and brought to his door, by Ihe thinker and observer. The pope progresses Dahas Herald.