Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-02-04
FLORENCE LETTER.
Extraordinary Mining Aetivity--InfiuI of Business Visitors from Abroad--A New Mormon Settlement--AB Unwarrznted Petition. etc. etc

visiting Florence to find a very remarl
 able Increase in mining activity througl
 out tue country over that observable
 year ago. am informed that froI
 about the first of June last business rs
 malned at nearly stan3still until tn
 later part of November, when 1t bega
 to Hook up" little, and by about .h
 first Of January 1t had become brisk an,
 has steadily increased up to date. Ther
 Is daily arrival of visitors and men O
 means who come here to inspect th
 mining district with view to invest
 ment The hotel accommodations u
 Florence are not sufficient tu meet tn,
 demand.
 The principal activity Is a. Minera
 hill, the Plnal Consolidated mines (par
 Of Mineral Hill dlstrIctl whose furnace Is at Butte City, some twelve miles UT
 the Gila from the city. and at Riverside
 Since the smelter at Butte started UT on the fifth instant, all average of teI tons Of bullion has been turned out daily. There are four or five very large sales of mines Tn Mineral Hill district and Riverside and on the mineral range
 between those points, on the tGpis, and during the week several California capl. tallsts are expected here to make e1ami. nations of g large property recently bonded at Mineral Hill
 New and rich discoveries nave been made at Riverside and Tn the Owls Head district.
 Superintendent Walker of the Vekol mine, Casa Grande district, is increas- ing the force of men at the mine with a view to increasing the ore shipments. Another carload of 5000 ore was ship ped from the VekOl Monday. The owners of the Nekol have re- gently refused an offer of Sl50.OOO for their property.
 Increasing activity is reported at Dripping Springs.
 The Pinal Consolidated have just let contracts for Good-cutting which will employ nearly two hundred men.
 The disbursements of the PinRl Con solidated at Florence, for labor. for hauling, for charcoal burning, etc, will amount to at least $30,0OO per month.
 At the Ray mine, Riverside, L. Zeckendorf's property the winze III the tunnel has been driven down twenty feet, and every shot put in uncovers bet ter ore. Blocks of native copper half Rn inch in thickness are beIng taken out now.
 George Evans, who keeps the stage statlon at Riverside has just finished a large adobe building, and will occupy 1t as store ln connection with Felix Le- blanc, with whom he has entered into cO-partnership. Their stock has arrived at Casa Grande.
 Evans and Allen at Riverside are sinking 7O-foot shaft on one of their claims with good results. They have two very promising prospects, and have resolved to show them up.
 A trio OF Mormon dignItaries arrived here to-day en route to the San Pedro valley. Two of them were from the northern part of Utah aHd their com panlon from Mesa C4-, 'hey have surveying outfit. anf althou they are non-committal, II Ia h.''-veI they intend to estabiIs e. Mormon colony at some point on tl.e San Pedro.
 Superintendent Mason of the Pinsl Consolidated has gone to San Francisco on business.
 Another rich strike has been made at AAs the particulars of which have just been l brought here by Postmaster Henry V. | Cottonwood. At the bottom of the in l cline shaft, which IS beIng sunk to tap l the north end tunnel, the mines cut I through what they supposed to be the foot-wall, and struck vein of antimo- | nial and msleable horn silver. When Henry left they had cut eighteen inches into the vein through solid ore, within | dica lions that the pay streak was much | wider. The incline Is down ssme sixty | feet, and has a 2S-inch streak of chlo- | ride ore on the "slip" which had been mistaken for foot-vslL The north end | tunnel shows 1-foot vein of chloride ore.
 The people of Pinsl county are as- founded and indignant at efforts being mado to secure from the Governor par don for the murderer Lee, now serving s five years term o. imprisonment in the Yuma penitentiary for the murder of blind man at Globe City some two years ago last fall A petition in the villains behsk was in circulation here to-day and received few signatures mostly of persons who were not cogni- zant of the strocious circumstances un- der which the crime was perpetrated. nor of the preUous infamous character of the criminal, and some of these be- nevolent persons had their signatures cancelled on being informed of the true nature of Lees offence. The circum- stances in brief were these: Lee, who had been 6 thief and robber and a cur of low degree in California, until run out of that State, was over heard by blind man to talk in Q most infamous manner to little glrl only siI or seven years of age. The blind man demonstrated with the wretch, who slapped him several times severely ID the face. The blind man, who was with a common csse-knlfe, Itruck out, lit IS supposed in self-defense To ward off Lees blOwsD and wounded his asssilant slightly in the nose. Lee drew pistol and shot the unfortunate man dead. When the case came to trial, the defense moved for continu- lnce on the ground of an important being absent, but offered to en- Ter plea of guilty of manslaughter If he prosecution would accept it. This vas finally agreed to. In passing sen- .ence Judge Silent T believe it was) gave Lee the full extent of the law, five rears, and expressed regret that he ,orld not legally pronounce heavier sentence. The feeling expressed here )y the best citizens IS thst Lee richly deserved hanging for his beastly con iuct toward the little girl, even if he lsd not been guilty of the covardly md tiendish crime of killing poor, de- enseless blind man. Any leniency on he part of the Governor in response to his most unwarranted petition would De a gross outrage on the people of this Territory. Lee has forfeited all right to liberty and life itself, and Is lit for no place but hell. The Catholics are constructing here he largest church edIfce in the Terri .ory. On its completion the old church will be put in charge of the Sisters, who will remodel the interior and open a col ege init. There ls scarcely any sickness here, md the weather IS charming. B. Elounced muslin pettIcoRts with | rains are made for full dress, dinner md evening toilets, as well as with Ieparate trains which cap be worn with liferent skirts. Boufsnt costumes are ast superssding the clinginE, scsnty Ikirts of the present.
 
 Two Women. \ grandma sits m her great armchair; Rainy sweet is the soft spring air.
 Through the lattleed lilac -shsdousd pane . She losks to the orchard beyond the lane And she estshs= the gleAm Of . uomAn's drsss ' And huttsrs about ID tas winds ArSs. That child is glad as the daJ is long Her lover is coming. her hfs's s songr' Up from the orchards horsry bloom
 Flosts fragrance faint to the dark mag rOom '