Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-16


 Saddle Mountain and many other merit districts. But this state of affairs cannot continue much longer. The rush to Tombstone and other old districts has stopped. The best properties have pass ed into the hands of companies and spec ulators must look for new fields
 Another meeting was held at the EN rERPRIsE office Wednesday evening for the purpose of completing arrangements for the masquerade ball to be held at the Court House Christmas evening. After considerable discussion it was decided to appoint committee of three to take com plete charge of the affair and make all ar engagements necessary. This committee was given power to appoint sub-commit- tees to assist them, if they should deem it necessary. Henry Schoshusen, Charles Tillman and Hinson Thomas were select ed as this committee. It was also decid- ed that tickets, including ball and supper, should be sold at three dollars each and that no person should be admitted, either as spectator or participant, without ticket. Persons not in costume will not be permitted to dance till after the masks have been drawn Messrs H. J. Sower and F. w. Moser were appointed com mittee to prepare an order of dances. The committee on arrangements will ap- point floor managers and a door keeper to see that no intoxicated persons gain admission to ths hall and to preserve or der The ball will be conducted in first class style and no rudeness of any char acter will be permitted
 Operations have commenced in earnest at the Specie Paying mine, of Mineral Hill, at last. Regular night and day shifts are at work and the force will be increased to twenty men before the 1st. At present the work is confined to the main shaft, but force will be set to work in the north end tunnel next week and developments in both the shaft and the l tunnel will be driven ahead with all speed possible. The company has ten thousand dollars in the treasury to be ex- pended in developing the mine and al soon as the latter work shall have been accomplished. reduction works will be putsup. The company propose to know exactly the capabilities of their mines and the character of their ore at depth before they go to the expense of erecting machinery for treating it. For this they are to be commended; it is indicative oi competent and careful management and argu. well for the success of the company The practice of erecting expensive reduc tion machinery for mines before the latter have been thoroughly opened and tho value, character and quantity of thelr ore determined has led to the failure of nor. companies than any other cause. Prop critics must be developed before they car furnish sufficient ore to keep mills run ming, and 1t costs no more to develoI them before the mills are erected than i does afterward. And it is much safer tc develop the properity first, for if it should prove valueless the expense of buyin; and erecting mills could be avoided 1 However, there Is no question about tn, fSpecie Paying's merits. It has been suf iciently developed to demonstrate, be yond any doubt, that it iz capable of larg production
 Whenever the ENTERPRISE finds caus to criticise the official conduct of any civi officer of the county, it shall call him t account unhesitatingly, be the consequen ces what they may. Neither bra vado nor threats of persona violence will silence it, and tn officials who expect to save themselvs from just criticism, by that method, hac as well understand this first as last w were informed, by message from Distric Attorney H. B. Summers, this week, tha if the ENTERPRISE ventured to say anothe word about the misconduct of the Dis trict Attorney, he would make it a per sonal matter with the editor on the street and that the town would be too small t, hold us both. We don't know how mucl room this puissant pugilist requires whel he dons his war paint, but unless h should swell to unusual proportions, w will be apt to find standing room some where within the city limits. At an, rate we shall very firmly object to beini crowded out, under any circumstances and if our presence IS liable to cramp tn District Attorney he had better move t, a more roomy town. The cause for tn District Attorney sending us this "bull dozing" message was the fact that w were examining tho records to see wheth ] CT suit had been entered against tn railroad company for the collection of de linqusnt taxes for 1S60 We had bee ] told that no such suit had been entere, notwithstanding the board had ordere the District Attorney to begin such an ac tion. We find upon examination tha ' the complaint was filed and the summon issued on the 26th of September, but tha IS as far as the action has progressed The summons still lies in tho clerks offic