Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-05
Prescott Paragraphs.


 l l.. 5. Sims. contractor on the big tunnel on the A. r. road, has got an IngersoI steam drill to help hurry up the work.
 Louns5erry Bros. arrived on Saturday with three wagons loaded with machin- cry for the Chicago gold quartz mine on Groom creek in charge oi Nir. MeHng- ton.
 Henry Goldwater, formerly postmaster at Ehercnburz, left to-day en route for Washington, D. C., where he goes as a ! witness in Star Route mail proceedings. !
 Neis Gabel, one Of the owners in the ! Blue Dick, mine nigh by the Desoris, ! got in town today. He says the cross : cut on the vein is $ feet deep and shows streak of ore five feet ihinck, fifteen inches ol which will assay 6oo to roo ounces per ton.
 Yesterday P. A. Craisue, and c. B. Fostaa. went out to the Desoris camp and returned to-day. They say 1t took mem m hour to make half a mile going up the mountain side beyond the old ! Clipper mill; the snow was up to the horses bellies. Al the camp there IS no ] more snow than here.
 Chief Engineer Ed. J. Bennett started l out this morning to make preliminary 1 survey from Prescott to the 35th parallel railway He vil start st this end, and | will consume some tune m making a | typographical report of the most advan- taEeous entrance to Prescott. This looks | like asIf Henszey intends business.
 Owing to the demand, j, is said that gram has advanced one cent per pound, ! in the Salt river valley.
 ltis claimed that the Gunsight mine, in Meyers district. near the Sonora mIne, has S+.ooo,ooo worth of ore in sight.
 The roads leading in,o town are in J fearful condition, and the rates on freight Ito Maricopa are likely to keep pace with the accumulation of mud.
 Mr. Dewey arrived in Prescott to-day from Chicago. tlr Dewey comes to look at some mining properties in ,he Black Hills District. He speaks for abundant; capital, and f the properties are as re- presented, a sale will be concluded.
 Doctcr Lincoln and C.. D. Head have recently purchased another band oi cat lie. which is now en route from Wioken- burg. These gentlemen are stocking their farm with the very best brands of cattle. The fine stallion col. they recently import ed from Los Angeles. California. is look ing finely. Fine stock always tells.
 Captain Easan leaves in few days for Washington, D. C.. on official busi- ness connected with this department. He takes his esumable wife and accom- plished daughter with him. The latter he will place at school ia Oakland, Cal We regret ,o say that Mrs. EIgan has been for long time very much indispos- ed and goes 10 New Ior, for medical advice.
 This snow storm holds @ grip on Pres colt. ike that unto which an old and faithful pubic servant" freezes on to his ! official billet
 Curly Reese reports tough time com : ing over the old Hassayampa uail from Walnut Grove. yesterday. The snow, in 1 places, is two and halfleet deep.
 The Wade Hampton Copper claim, in the Black Hills, has been bonded 10 Mir. Dewey, of Ch cayo. whose arriyal we mentioned yesterday. The bond is for 90 days. and the price S2,,ooo. The Hampton $ one of the best copper pro- per,ies m the County I, adioins ,he Eureka, sold some time ago by Nessrs. Head & Richards The Hampton IS now the property of Nessrs. Rufiner & Mcdonald, who have developed the claim Co a considerable extent. Two mines like the Eureka and Hampton. in the hands of men with means to erect reduction works, would be of great be- uedt Co this town.
 Reports from Mohave state ,ha, the mine recently discovered by Jack John son promises to be the biggest thing in the mineral way that whole region. Local experts still differ about the char acter of the ore, bat many steadastly maintain that it IS .ellurium. the riches, $ of all gold combinations. We hope Jack, who is well known m Prescott, has truck , it, and although we have some doubts abou, the 'tellurium7 part of the story, |, would not surprise Us to hear that the mineral had been discovered in Arizona. We believe this Territory contains every known species of metal and mineral to { be found on the globe, and no discovery i of cur hidden nth should surpise ! those who are conversant with the varied [ resources Of this region.
 Miner {
 Hon. Hugo Richards arrived home [ yesterday from an eYtensve trip through the Eastern States. }
 Sauer6eld, a character who spent some months in Prescott, part of the tune in the county jail, has been arrested ID phe- f, nix for brutally beating a woman. !
 Hon W. NJ. Bufum left Prescot, to- d day for Yuma, to he ir attendance at the meeting of the Board of Prison Com g mlssioners. which is Co take place rhis n week
 J. M. Sanford, the oldest American q resident of lavapai county, arrvns m y March, IS62, left to-day for the Bill Wi u ianls country, were he has some pronlis- O ing mining property that requires his at ention. At present twenty prisoners are con ined in Iavapai county jaII. Oi these. y our are awaiting trial for murder two U lnder sentence of death for murder. and he balance undergoing punishment for 2 minor crimes. Considerable property is changing a hands in and around Prescott. q The roads between FlagEaff aRd the -i,,le Colorado are said 10 be almost irl- .l 'assable on acoun, of snow, which n s many places is three feet deep.
 The quartz mill for the Chicago mine ,n Green creek arrived m town Saturday. ., | will be taken Go the creek. put tOgethrr {" md set 10 work immediately .i The Tuscumbia mill at Meey1llc is rur- p ing steadily on good ore under the su- fc of James Nice, one Of the d 'ropnetors. Quite a number of men arc .s continually employed a. the mine and N nill ir A large stockholder in the Silver King p nine has interested himself m the Perrv ! le