Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-06-10

The Democracy of pinal county have issued their call for County Convention to elect delegates to the Territorial Con- venri n, to be held at Phoenix on the 11th of next month. The County Con- vention will meet on the Sth, and three Democratic friends propose to make a thorough and systematic fight for Dele gate Oury, they do not propose to draw party lines in the county election, for the reason that they believe better officers can be secured by leaving politics out of the contest
 Alexander Goo6fellow came in from Phoenix Wednesday, feeling inbilant over the fact that he had at last secured deed to the somewhat noted Red Rover mine, of the Cave Creek district He has been making efforts to purchase tliis mine for more than twelve months past, in the face of diseouraging opposition. We have heard considerable of this property, and not one of the many reports have been adverse 1t looks as if Mr Good fellow had found the short road to for tune. He l.ss several buyers for the property now, and will probably make sale soon.
 As will be seen by call published in another column. the miners and citizens of Pioneer district will hold a meeting at Pi- nal this evening to make arrangements for sending collection of ores from that dis trict to theDenver exposition. All other districts of the county should do likewise Pinal county can make better display Of mineral than any other county in the Territory, and should take advantage of this golden opportunity to make her merits known. As we have said before, 1t will be a long time before she will have another such chance to advertise hergreat wealth effectively.
 Mir. G. A. Sharp, who Is interested in the marvellous copper claims located eight miles east of Butte, was Tn town this week. He has been sinking prospect shafts on these claims, and found solid bodies of ore at every point where he went down. A number of specu'ators have endeavored recently to secure bonds on the property, but MT. Sharp has re- solved not to tie his hands with bond 5 unless large forfeit shall be put up. His head is very level on this point. The prospector who bonds claim without re- quirinG a forfeit, or the payment of at least five per cent of the amount of the bond, makes mistake 1t IS like fur nisking a man with means upon which to speculate, on the condition that you are to receive no return if he should fail to win.
 Casa Grande IS beginning to acquire reputation as q live frontier town, and victims of the destructive ''folty five" Tie first corpse was furnished Saturday by John Regan and FL Estes was the lad elected to fill the back box at the head of the procession. The quarrel started over a game of cards. Estes was the aggressor anjiired two shots a. Re an before the latter brought his gun into action. As soon as the duel commenced ;.ther parties drew their itte guns and indul,;ed in considerable amount of pro- miscuous shooting However Estes was the only nlau sent over the range. Re.-an surrendered himself and had a preliminary hea inr next morning, before Justice Loss inc verdict was justiiithle homicide al.d the prisoner was liberated.
 As ge stated in three line item last wee k. t. Pinal Consolidated smelter was started up and worked successfully The first run was merely exp imental and was made before all the work of setting the machinery had been completed The latter will be finished this week, and the furnace will then commence its regular work The test run demonstrated that the ore contained more sulphur than had been calculated upon, and therefore re- quires large amount of iron Aux. Sup erintendent DoEnelly, has decided to burn the sulphur out before putting Il c ore into the furnace, and in this way will grt at!y reduce cost of reduction The ,ssnipimg mil will be ready for operation 1 by the frs of next week and the Comp any will then buy dry ore to mix with their ore, which carries about fifty per cent of lead