Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-25

ticS haNO Dceh HCSOoidli1S AOh u, OuI tHo owners will not sell unless they can get their own price for the property. They are satisfied with it.
 MT. N. c. Perkins, son-in-law of Mir. Chas. Beckwith, of the Silver King hotel arrived here Sunday, with the intention of becoming 8 permanent resident of Florence. He is desirable acquisition to our citizenship and the ENTERPRISE eX- tends him cordial welcome. We would be glad to see many more men of the same pattern settle here.
 | Charlie Lewis has made new irrigating ! ditches around the old Lewis house and set out young trees along the sidewalks. He is also making neat, new summer 1 house in the hotel courtyard, planting shrubbery and making other improve ments that will add much to the beauty and pleasantness of the place when sum- mers blush and bloom come around.
 Some of the semi-civilized Apaches, who have planted their wig-wams in the yer nal valley of the San Pedro, have been laboring faithfully, but in vain, in a effort to ''take out" an irrigating ditch. Last week they gave up the undertaking and 'laid down the shovel and hoe" with the declaration, "white man can make water run up hill, but Ingun no can do it. "
 SR. JOSE SANTAcRUz has opened a sa- loon at Florence, thus filling a want long felt in the ''prettiest town in the Terri tory.-DrW.
 Reymert is the only man who has sui fered from this Hong felt want" His credit had played out at the old saloons and he "felt the want" of new one where he could ''stand 'em of" awhile. Reymert is a frank cuss
 Mir. Odell came in from the San Pedro district Thursday, and paid us a friendly visit. We learn from him that the Silver Queen company have commenced the work of developing their mine and are running two ten-hour shifts. Work will be commenced on the Yellow Hammer and Watson claims next week, and there is general renewal of activities in the district.
 Chas. Odell called at the Citiren office this morning with fine specimen of cop per ore taken from mine called the Yel- low Hammer, in the San Pedro district, which he and his co-owner, c. Carlton, are developing. The shaft is down about thirty feet and shows a vein four feet wide carrying considerable grade ore The ore averages from 10 to 30 per cent across the vien. This district IS coming to the front.-Citi=en.
 Judge A. N. Alexander, of Yuma and one of the ablest limbs of the law in tho Territory, was here this week in the in terest of the Southern Pacific Railroad [ Company. That corporation has decided to pay no taxes and are taking steps tC procure injunctions against tax collectors of the various counties through whicl their road passes. Of course they vii carry their point, for justice seems to b' prejudiced in favor of railroads now-a days.
 The blacksmithing firm of Messrs. Bien Atkinson & Mckenzie has been dissolved by mutual consent, Mir Mckenzie retir ing. The business will be continued bl Messrs Bien and Atkinson at the olt stand. They are frst-class mechanics ant too well known to need any recommends tion from us. Mir. Mckenzie will go t , Tucson to accept situation in one of tn 1 shops there Mack is master of the bu
 siness and good fellow generally. W
 hope he may do well.
 Mir. E. E. Simmons, brother of Mrr Wm. E. Guild, arrived here last wee with the intention of making Florence hi
 future home. He met with painful aC
 cident while on the road, the results ( which have confined him to his roor since his arrival. In stepping from tn
 platform to a car at station in New Me,
 ico, he missed his footing and fell, stril
 ing his knee against tie and receiving . severe bruise. The injured member is s t swollen and stiffened that he will not | s able to use f for several days yet. " 0 welcome the young gentleman to Flo
 ence.
 !. A party of prospectors from Mexic d passed through here Tuesday, en route | s Prescott. The leader of the party was a e Englishman representing syndicate
 English capitalists, who are desirous
 securing some good mining propert, !, They located some claims just beyond u Sonora line and expended about $6,000 ' prospecting them, but discovered that u ;. claims lay within the prohibitory belt ar u could not be held. This discovery so di
 gusted them that they packed their ba n gage and re-crossed the line with the il ls tention of trying their luck Tn Northel j.. Arizona. Joe Chambers is acting n guide to the party.
 k A special meeting of the stockholders
 the Jessie Benton Mining Company W i. held at the companys office, in Florenc A on Tuesday, to complete the final arrang d ments of the consolidation with the Pen e sylvania company. The new compan ,s which is styled the Jessie Benton Go
 solidated Mining Company" will cor
 mence business at once and place the
 properties in shape for turning out br u lion. The Jessie Benton stockholders I 'i tain their old stock and receive portiC V nf fhe new The names nt tha office