Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-27

street. lie has closed out ms groceries and in the future will sell nothing but wine and cigars and attend to the ten-pin alley. He keeps good wine and will do we'll
 Thomas F. Weedin has purchased the Florence ENTERPRISE, and is now proprIe tor as well as editor of that newspaper. Mir. Weedm has placed the ENTERPRISE in the front rank of the newspapers which are laboring to build up the material in terests of the Territory. Tombstone Nugget.
 Mr. Joseph Champions wife and chil- dren, of Pinal, have gone to Los Angeles to spend the summer Mrs. Champions health was not good here last year and she does not care to risk another summer season here. She could have found no more lovely place than Los Angeles for summer sojourn.
 Dr. II. H. Davis came down from Pi nal Monday on a professional visit to Mir. Aaron Mason's family. The Doctor now sports a miniature Mount Vesuvius on the back of his neck and can turn his head neither to the right nor to the left, but he maintains his usual good nature under the trying ordeal.
 Hon. c. H. Oury desires us to say to those persons who received from his pred e.essor the first volume of 'The Annals of the War of the Rebellion" that upon receipt of their address he will forward them the second volume and all succeed ing volumes of the same that may be pub lished during his term of office.
 The Indiana company has S32, ,000 in cash ill the Treasury, to be used in de- veloping their property at Mineral Hill. We would be glad to see them commence operations for we know that they have geo mines and could soon become bullion producers. We cannot understand why they should be so slow about getting to work.
 A wedding took place on South Bailey street Tuesday evening, and the ceremony was delayed several hours to enable the groom to possess himself of sufficient iucrt to meet the expense of forging the golden letters. He had to place his horse II pawn to raise the money. Arizona lovers do not permit the lack of lucre to stauC
 between them and the "apple of theil eye"
 Hon. A. J. Doran was in town thi
 week. He has delivered two hundret
 tons of ore to the Pinal Consolidate, furnace during the present week ant
 from now on will deliver forty tons pc
 day. He finds no difficulty ill haulin
 thirteen tons to the team, notwithstandin 5 the declaration of tealnsters general that he would have hard road to hAu over.
 BIr. c. A. Brown of the Tucson Citt
 zen, was in Florence Tuesday in the i'll terests of his paper. He met with de served success. The Cdi.en is an excel ' lent journal in every department an q fully abreast with the times as whole '- Messrs. Brown and Whitmore have col . rect knowledge of the newspaper busine: f and will keep their paper in the fror
 rank.
 Uncle Dave Potts, while prospecting , the Cole district this week, found swaIi y of bees housed in large saguara Il 'l transferred them to hive and then el
 tracted the honey from the saguara. I'll IS result was a net clean-up of thirty pount 70 of splendid honey. He coursed sever e other swarms and expects to locate the to soon. Bees do well in this country al
 we are surprised to see none at u : ranches in this valley.
 IS The Pinal Consolidated smelter It Butte steamed up Friday, to test the m ie chinery and see that everything work'
 properly. The furnace will be charg, i. Monday and the first bar of bullion W .n be run out. The starting of the furna n will be watched with great interest, |. every one at all conversant with the conc
 tion of the mine realizes that the compa!
 will make grand success if the smelt lo works properly.
 nd Messrs. Summers and McGonigle stru a splendid water in MT. Collingwood's va ,t at hfty-one feet. At the Silver King tel they struck about the same quail
 and quantity of water at the same dept - The bottom of the wells are in gravel d
 the water is very pure. It is evide
 that the river permeates this whole wall ~ from one side to the other and there W
 be no difficulty in securing good water .os almost any point within its boundaries.
 Jere Freyer, mine host of the C.
 Grande hotel, was at the county seat t ' week. He is more sanguine than er DIV oUsr the outlook in the Casa Grande (
 trict. One of his mines, from which ice had sample assays made recently, av by aged S180 to the ton. This is good sh IS ping ore, but Jere prefers to leave It it the dump to exhibit as a proof of WI er- the mine will produce. Jere's hotel bt
 ness is increasing and yielding him a gC l.. profit. He keeps a good house and :, serves to succeed.
 op- Thomas F. Weedin has purchased led Florence ENTERPRISE and is now prol in. etor as well as editor of that newspaT