Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-02


 is now connected with mining and finan- cial journal in Gotham and is as "breezy" as ever.
 The two-foot vein of high grade ore struck in the tunnel of the Santa Cata- lina Copper Company mine, turned out to be only kidney containing about four tons of ore. They are now following a knife blade seam in the belief that it will lead to paying ore body.
 The heavy rain last week filled several of the irrigating ditches, above town, with sand, and it will take considerable time and money to clean them out. Pat Hol- lands ditch seems to have been damaged the most, and Pat will not be able to float his navy for day or two.
 The Silver King hotel is putting on metropolitan airs with its superb Sunday dinners. Tho waiter now presents the guesss with "bill of fare" on that day. It is little embarrassing to the fellows who have forgotten how to read, but makes the other boys feel as if they had returned to civilization once more.
 Mir. W. L. Bailey returned from Phoe- nix Tuesday, and says that Queen of the Salt River Valley as prospering He also says that Capt. Gordon lost three hun dred dollars in the stage robbery which occurred between that place and Prescott last week. Both the incoming and out going stage was taken in, and about S12Oo taken from the passengers.
 Prof John D. Hooker, of San Fran cisco, is here examining some mining prop critics and sampling the ore. Ho is the gentleman who offered sixty thousand dollars for the Alice mine, few years ago, but the owners persisted in demand tug one hundred thousand for tho prop erty and thereby broke up the sale. Min eral Hill would have been a booming camp to-day but for that mistake.
 The gentleman who is running fast freight between Pinal and Casa Grande was two weeks on the road between the latter place and Florence, during the last trip he made. He layed over two days at Casa Grande for the purpose of preaching and Gs consequence got caught in g heavy rain storm and stuck in ths mud Moral: When you are freigEting during the rainy season don't stop to preach.
 Another new stamp mill arrived a Casa Grande this week, but we are not a liberty to state it's destination at present IL begins to look as if this section was 0, the high road to the prosperity and activ fly it's superior merits ontitle to. Ono it gets start, it will go ahead of all it rivals, for it has more and better mine than any district in the west, beside ever, other natural advantage that nature coul' bestow.
 Marshal Gabriel spent the present weel at Globe, looking after transsressors 0 Uncle Sam's law. Just about the tim Hawley and Grimes took in the mali all express train on the Pioneer trail, th telegraph line between Globe and Sa Carlos was cut ard fifty feet of the wir ] carried of. There are strong reasons | believe that an accOmplice oi Hawley an the Grimes's was the author of this dey iltry and Marshal Gabrie! is investigatin
 the matter.
 Nearly all the county officers have taI en possession of their new quarters in tn
 Court House and are comfortably located The Sheriff office is in tho west froi room of the new wing, and the Supervii ors and the Treasurer have taken posses. ion of the Shoria's old room, while Ger
 Moser, of the District Court, has move r into the room at the north end of tn court room, formerly occupied by fl . Supervisors and Treasurer. The County
 new law library is shelved in this rcon
 and is under the care ot the Clerk. Fall travel has commenced, and as l consequence new faces are constantly .;
 bearing and disappearing here. And it a noteworthy fact that many of the comel
 and goers are prominent mining men wl are investigating mining properties a this county. From present indicatio.
 we believe it is safe to predict that thsl
 will be more activity in mining and bus ! ness circles, this fall and winter, than hi
 been seen here for years. People abroa are just beginning to find out that Pina ' in the variety and great value of her T
 sources and natural advantages, is u Il premium county of Arizona.
 , It is probable that smelter. of go, l. capacity, vii! be erected at the Rewa ' mine in the Casa Grande district 6ith
 the next two months There is certain l. enough ore out and in sight at that pro rs erty to warrant such an improvement e The company are now seriously consid( E ing the proposition and have partially [
 ranged for carrying it out. We shi
 know something definite relative to t b enterprise soon. The completion of ' furnace there would give healthy Ii
 petus to mining in that rich and prol h ising district and Do the means of attra " ing capital to it.
 ,, Superintendent Hammond, of the B ,a < Mowery, was here Tuesday, and - learned from him that the new ste: hoisting works at the Blk had been co rv pletcd and were ready for use. The wc
 of sinking will be renewed this week "
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