Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-23

be seen the ingenious handicraft of al most every cline, each separate win , dow being filled with artistically arranged
 goods representing in part the six specia
 different departments within, with as
 many different heads, viz, hardware
 grocery. notion anl fancy goods. dress
 goods and dry goods, clothing and gent,
 furnishing goods, boots and shoes.
 The hardware department situated oI
 the south side of the store and to tn,
 left of the entrance, is in its details
 among the most complete, every know1
 and not toO cumbersome articles tha'
 can be Of possible use in the trades O.
 professions of the country, whether they
 be machinists, blacksuiths, tinkers.
 bakers, tallors, teamsters, miners, pros
 pectors, carpenters, builders. joiners.
 stone cutters, masons, butchers, painters
 surveyors, dranghtsmen, assayers, hunt
 CTS, yardsticks, cowboys or Yankees.
 which by means of counters, cases
 shelves, drwers, racks and bins provisions
 have been made for the display, propei
 keeping and convenient handling of tn,
 multiplicity of articles embraced under
 the one common head.
 The show window of that apartment
 IS ID size fourteen wide byfour feet deep.
 displays varied assortment not offer
 got together even in the great cities il
 the east; turning lathes, surveyors in struments, cases and chains, shot gum
 rifles, revOlvers, cartridges of ever,
 known make. stocks and dies, steam fit tings, table and bench wise, iron an6
 bronze butts, edged tools, handcuffs. brass cocks, faucets and steam iointin! are 8 few of the articles most conspicu- ous. Between the show case and the ! hardware department proper is a cas- ! specially designed for the keeping O
 guns, the stock on hand being Winches | ter, Ballard, Remington and Sharp,
 rifles, Moore, Baker, Winchester, Clay
 brook, Porker and Plate breech loading shot guns, single and double barreled l In the dozen drawers are kept th, ! various articles for loading shells als,
 shell extracters, cutters and cleaners
 The hardware department proper i, ! about l65 feet long and is divided int
 shelves and sections and drawers anc of the latter there are on the end ad- joining the gun case, 656 616 drawer
 with sample of contents on face. Amout them may be noted SI different classes of iron, bronze, brass and steel padlocks 2S styles of cupboard or drawer lock, add lj patterns of trunk locks. Abov. the drawers are shelves that for two fee deep and 20 feet long are filled wit
 every kind of cartridge made At tn, end follow the shelves for the genera stock, nine of which are devoted to steam fittings, same number [, files, three to brass cocks and faucets. three to cutting plyers, nails and saw sets, ten to table cutlery, six t' shears, two to auger oits, two to razors, two to spoons and carvers, thirteen t,
 butts and hinges, ten to wood screws twelve to iron and wood planes. three {, carriage fixings, tweI ty.four to varnish, colOrs, etc, each shelf is three feet long, two feet wide and one foot high.
 Under the base counter which extend, the entire length are shelves containin. everything that man has made of iroI and brass, even to a Chinese gong, als. twenty-ore ziEc-lined nail bins, with the pennyweiCht marked on the front and an additional thiriy-eight drawer, filled with glue, sulphur, borax, camphor, etc. Parallel with the stock named ar. the counters and show cases, the first of the latter being devoted to the displa, of pUcket-knives of which there art over one hundred varieties, hunting knives, butcher and table knives, forks, spoons and bar fixtures; in the base Oi the show case counter on one side ar, fifty-four drawers filled with augers and edge tools and on the revrese side are thirty bins full of washers, nuts, rivets and bars. Tn counter No. ?, are car penters tools such as planes augers, levels, adzes, braces, oil stones, lines. chalks and so on. Underneath are drawers and bins filed with every variety of the tools in question. Showcase No. 3 is for mining tools. Hammers, tongs, anvils, sledges, tamping bars, spoons, prospectinl and drifting picks are among a few of the articles to be seen, and under meath their counters are the double faced drawers for the proper keeping of their DIsstOn saws, of which may be mentioned hand, rip, panel, compass and butcher saws. Counter No. Is occu- pied by the scales, with nail bins below, and No. is used as a sample counter, and contains twenty bins filled with cory overhead are twenty-one shelves filled with house furnishing hardware; twenty-one with bridle bits, spurs and harness fixtures; three with horse shoes and paint brushes, followed by many other. filled with trowels, hatchets, wrenches and similar articles. In the basement of the store the same side is reserved for the same line of goods, the great rack being there with its hundred and fifty tons of refined Norway round, square. flat and oval iron; octa- goo, tool, pick, blow, spring and tire steel. also the rack for every kind of feathers and stacks of tackle blocks of one and two sheave, wagon material, such as hubs, spokes. telloes and an endless line If other equally important articles; wagons for ore, freight, farm and express purposes; corn sh-llers, seed drills and all agricultural or cum bersome articles are kept in the ware room, near the depot. are brought down as required On the opposite side of the store, and running parallel with Pennington street.