Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-04

arrived at Casa Grande A large amount of other material, belonging to the same company, is lying at the depot, and will be moved as soon as the road from here to Butte Is completed. The latter will probably be accomplished some time next week.
 Thursday, Commodore Blair came down from the cattle ranch owned by himself and Charles Rapp, and located near Drip ping Springs He says there is plenty of green grass on the ranch and the cattle are fattening like pigs in clover. He re- ports Messrs. Tweed and Bush at work on their copper claims with a force of twelve men, and says the mines are showing up we'll
 A. D. Brewster, the irrepressible, has located a spring about eight miles above tho Grey copper mine, and proposes to es- tablish a new district. He sold one-half of all his interests, at Mineral Hill, to Co., c. M. Gilmore, of Pinal. In collo- quial terms, he's ''rustler" from ''Rus- tlerville," and has sold more prospects for small amounts than any other pros pector in the Territory, and always has one left for emergencies.
 Chas. Tillman completed the carpenter work on Mir. Mason's new house, north of the river, this week, and Mir. Esterbrook, by whom it is to be occupied, has taken possession. The main building is 40x1S feet wide, with an ell 1Sx12 feet, and summer dining room 21x15 feet. wide porch extends along the entire front of the building. The building is handsome ly finished and is one of the neatest, CO., siest dwelling houses in the valley. It is newly furnished throughout with hard maple, inlaid furniture of tasty pattern. Our friend, Eugene, evidently realizes that pleasant home is one of the prin- cipal essentials of happiness.
 The rumor relating to a sale of mining property in the Casa Grande district, by the Chilson boys, and mentioned in these columns last week, was partially true They have bonded piece of property in that district for S50,000 and received a cash payment of 80, 900 on the same, and beside, have contracted with the honders to do given amount of development work. This is the proper way to bond mining property. It shuts out that class of operators who have neither means nor reputation and go about bonding claims on long time, in the hope that some rep utable and monied man may come along and pay them premium for the bond. The sale of great many good claims has been prevented by this class of mine bonders. Mine owners should demand part payment on bonds or require the bonders to do a reasonable amount of work
 Superintendent Philips, of the Silver King, arrived here from St. Louis Tues day, and proceeded at once to the mine to enter upon his new duties. It IS not known what changes, if any, he may make in the present force at the mine and null, but there has been a vast amount of speculation and considerable uneasiness on the subject, as is usually the case when changes occur in the superintendency of a mine. The change, in this instance, oc- casioned more than usual commotion among the employees, for the reason that they had become warmly attached to MT.
 Mason and feared that his successor might not be so agreeable. But Mir.
 Philips hasn't the appearance of severe
 man, or one that would be hard to get
 along with, and we think matters will run
 along smoothly under his management
 MT. Mason accompanied the new super intendent to Pinal
 Alexander Goodfellow and w. R
 Stone, of Pinal, arrived here Tuesday and went hence to one of their claims, To cated about ten miles southeast of Flor ence. A Mexican at work on the clain recently, discovered the face of an ole tunnel that must have been opened de cades bebore the coming of the first pic
 neer to this section. The latter conclu sion is warranted by the presence of large trees, which have grown up in the moutl of the tunnel since its abandonment b, the unknown miners of the long ago The tunnel is filled up to a cousiderabl, depth from the face, with the exception
 of a small space left between the top anC
 the debris by the settling of the latter
 The discoverers tied poles together an' :. inserted them in the opening, but coul, not reach the end. From the expert
 ments they made, they reached the con
 clusion that the tunnel is clear of debri beyond depth of fifteen or twenty feet
 and the purpose of their present visit F. to clean out and explore these ancien r works. We shall know something of tn s result next week.
 w. l.. Bailey, Chas. Rapp, Henr , Schoshusen and Norman Mckenzie wen
 down to Montezuma Sunday, and. spen
 the afternoon ill watching novel fool race between the Maricopa and Pima IT n dians. This race had been in progre. Il since Friday morning and about sixt bucks from each tribe took part in i
 They ran on straight track, six hundre Il yards long, and the contestants were " vided into two parties, containing equ;
 numbers from each tribe. One of thes l. parties was stationed at one end of tl s course and another at the opposite enC