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Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
RAILROAD ITEMS.

The cars are now running withia two miles of Kingman.
 The steam pile drivers for use on the Col orado river bridge have been loaded on freight wagons and sent to the river by way of Union Pass.
 The company are unloading piles for the bridge all along the line for six or seven miles from Kingman and teams are taking them to the river through the Union Pass, Each four horse team takes down five pile.
 An express and telegraph office will be open at Bingman next week.
 As soon as the cars reach Kingman the company will make temporary terminus Shere for few weeks and and all the bridge builders and carpenters will be sent to the river at once.
 Sleeping cars will be running to Kingman next week.
 An agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. will be in Mineral Park in few days with view of establishing an office here.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
Dr. SPINNEY. NO. II KEARNY STREET. Treats all Chronic and Special Diseases.
YONNG MEN

YOUNG MEN
 Who may be suffering from the efecta of vouthful fOIlieS or indisGretiOn will do well fo avail themselves of this, the greatest boon aver laid at the altar of suffering humanity. pr, Spinney will guarantee to forfeit $500 for every case of Seminal Weakness or pri- vats disease of any kind or character which he undertakes and fails to cure.
 NIIDDLE-AGED MEN
 There are many at the age ef thirty to Six ty who are troubled with Goo frequent evac- nations of the bladder, often accompanied hy a slight smarting or burning sensation and weakening of tho system in manner the patient cannot account for On exaSnfn- ine the urinary deposits ropY sediment will often be found and sometimes small particles of albqHeD Will appear, or the CO., for will ha or a thin mill1ish hue, again chanGing to dark and torpid appearance. There are many men who die of this difficult tv. ignorant of the oause, which is the sec ond stage of seminal weakni6s. Dr. s. will guarantee perfect cure in all such oases, and healthy restoration of the genito-urin ary organs.
 Office Hours-10 to and to 8, Sundays from 10 to Il A, M, Consultation free. Tho rough examination and advice,$5.
 Call or address
 DIR. SFFNNEY & CO.,
 deo1tf No. Il Kearny St, San Francisco,
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
GOOD NEWS TOR MINERS.

We have had the pleasure of meeting C., L. Hubbs, the manages of the Gran Quivera mining and smelting company, of Albuquer- que, New Mexico, during the past week. He has been visiting most of the prominent mines in this and surrounding camps with view of seeing fer himseif how much ore there is in this district and acquainting himself with the different grades and quail ties which are produced here. He expresses himself wonderfully surprised at the num- Der and size of our lodges and the richness of the ores they contain, and more especial ly is he surprised at the amount of ore ly- ing on the dumps of the different mines. He proposes to give the miners such good rates for ore that it will pay everyone of them to sort over their dumps and ship the ore that heretofore has been considered worthless. He offers the following prices for ore: Gold, SIS per ounce; silver, $1 per oz.; Copper, $1.50 per unit from 20 to 30 per cent. lead, 30 cents per unit; from 31 to 10 per cent, 40 cents per unit, and from fl per cent. upwards, 45 cents per unit. He charges $20 per ton for working and makes no charge for crushing, samplipg or assay ing in lots of one ton or over and deducts no discount or percentages, He has se- cured terms from the 4. & P. railroad, which will allow miners here to ship ore by the carload to his works at Albuquerque for the low price of $50 per ton. At these figures $50 ore will net the miner $21. 50 per ton delivered at the railroad and at these rates there should not be an idle man ID the district. To obtain these rates ore must be shipped in carload lots, but it IS not necessary that carload should be made up from one mlne and three CT four or more may join together and make up a carload between them. The ore may be shipped direct to the works or consigned to the CeI- tral Bank, which will see to the sampling of it and collect and return the money for it, If this does nat satisfy the miners of this county, then indeed we shall think they are either hard to please, or else too lazy to work.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
HACKB B R RY.a
LizardviIle to be Photographed.
HAcxnrnnr. A. T. March g. 1883.

HAcKBERBY, A. T. March g, 1883.
 EDITOR MoHAvE COUNTY M1NER:-I feal my brain and nervous system generally has been so shaken up by railway rides and rides on the hurricane deck of an equine mon ster during the past week that l feel un- equal to scribbling the usual amount ot news.
 Our town is quiet as church mouse and everybody settled down to the inevitable waiting for the good times coming. Moth | ing of remarkable moment has occurred since my last.
 Had an opportunity to visit Peach Springs during the week and found all quiet there, so people say, still to me matters and things looked brisk. The railroad has cer- tainly built up a brisk little town and with the company's desire to make this stop over place for tourists to the Grand Canon of the Colorado, all feel sanguine of the flu ture of thls burg. Quite a number of strangers are coming in daily, red hot to see the grand sights and as we'll to catch a ten CT twelve pound fish at the mouth of Dia- mond river. Young & Farlee have put on buckboards and also have accommodations at the river for sight seers, and also have boats for a short trip in the canon. The Indians round and about Peach Springs have just undergone vaccination, Dr. Day having received instructions from Washington to give all of them dose. He will go among the entire tribe for that pur-. pose.
 Mr. Fisher, agent at the front for the railroad company,is now at New Blackberry siding and freight is being Phipped here.
 R. P. Hall has returned from Albuquer- que and gone to the front.
 Persons travelling meet very courteous people connected with tte railroad. 1-
 Our Lizardville ,norama has been heard of as far east as Kansas City and all are anxious to see..Kaisar Pumpernickel Poodle's picture embossed thereon. No person con- uected with the scheme now pays any fare on the railroad. If we have good luck we will clean up fortune and tolerably clean reputation at Lizardville. We are not charging our herders for any losses made by the death of our stock in matching and none of them have run away defaulters yet. We are to have our panorama photo graphed and sent to cur different agents and besides put on the trains for exhibition. We think it will show up fully as we'll as the Grand Caion.
 The Indians in this vicinity will probably be fed by the U. s. pretty soon.
 INooGNITo-
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
point.-Atchison Patriot.

% be apricot trees are in bloom. A. E. Davis and J. c. Potts arrived il town from San Bernardino Inst night.
 WIZ. Grounds has gone out to Golc Basin to look after some of his mining ir terests there.
 Founi postofice key. The owner car have the same by applying at this office anC paying for this notice.
 H. H. Watkins has recovered sufficiently from his late accident so that he can agai1 take his place in the store
 The enterp1ising firm Of E. J. Post & Go of Albuquerque have a representive here They are extensive dealers i'll hardware etc.
 We wonder if Judge Blakely, A. E. Davis J. c. Potts and the rest of the party that left here for San Bernardino have got lost or shipwrecked on Soda Lake.
 Parties requiring the services of Judge Rush during. the coming term of Court are notified that he will be in town next Thurs day or Friday.
 We hear that W. c. Parsons, well known capitalist. will be in town in a few days, Also that Richard Gird will pay Us visit in the course of a month or six weeks.
 Get your specimens ready for the Santa Fe exhib' tion They can be left at this office and with be forwarded free of charge.-- There will be ID charges for showcases or extras of any kind as at the Denver Expo sition.
 We had the pleasure of meeting MT. Rob inson, of the law firm of McPheeters & Rob inson, of Prescott He is visiting this part of the county for recreation and pleasure and will remain with us until after the Diss trict Court adjourns.
 Jack J Jhuson informs us that he and his partners have got out about twenty tons of ore,wi 3h they are now sorting and sack ing prepare :1ry to shipment, from the c. O. D. mine. This is a good looking claim and it's owner will make some money out of it yet, if we are rot very much mistaken.
 Krider Bros are hard at work on the ad- dition to their store and have even pressed Ed. RoelIe into service mixing mud. Ii looks now very much as though the new part of the building will be larger than the old. Krider Bros. are p121lar mo rchants and are doing good business and their in- 3reasinG trade renders 1t absolutely neoes- sary that they should have more room.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
MINING ITEMS.
What Our Miners are
 Doing.

1 Robert D'Yhr informs us that he expects some parties out from Chicago very soon to examine the Gro Fino mine, owned by him
 self and Louis Davidson. The mine is looking spleRdidly.
 | Work is being vigorously prosecuted on 1 the Indian Boy mine at Stockton and ar- arrangements have been made to ship large quantities of the ore to the Hubbs' smelt- ing works at Albuquerque.
 There are quite number of new locations being made in the Cedar District and sever. al rich finds are reported.
 Robert D'Yhr has a contract to do some work on the Concentrator, owned by B. Moses of Albuquerque.
 Gladden. and Ewing have made another rich strike on the Diana mine at Chloride. In cross-cutting the ledge in now place, they found streak of ore two feet wide showing horn silve, which he says will go $4OO to the ton. The ledge is twelve feet wide.
 Davis and Styles have gone to Music Mountain to work on the Fairview mine.
 H. A. Owen, familiarly known as "Chlo- ride Jack,'' was in town last Wednesday accompanied by John Gird. They left here on Thursday for Owens copper claims in Cedar district.
 Ed Cavanee is working on the Snow Flake mine at Layne Springs and is taking out some good ore.
 MohaTe county, Arizona, is to be well rep resented at the Santa Fe celebration. Louis Davidson, of Mineral Park, will make col lection of ores from that county and send them on, ''and,'' MT. Davidson said, Eff any one doubts the richness of our mines, they will have good opportunity to present bet ter ore from their own property" The specimens wlll be forwarded in time to re- ceive a prominent place at the exposition and the party that will take charge of them in thIs city will have the proper assays made here and sent on with the eore.--Albuquerque Democrat,
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
JURY LISTS.

GRAND JURY.-The following is list of the persons summoned to act as Grand Jurors to be in attendance on the District Court in Mineral Park, on Monday, April 2d, at 10 a, m.;
 Thomas Mulligan John M. Taylor John Buckley John C.. Asbury Robert G. Patterson Caldwell Wright Wm. A. Atkinson John E. Ryan Henry Lambert w. 5. Clark Ornsbe Groom Chas, E. Sherman Rees M, Jones Wellington Starkey. David Southwick W. B. Ridenour Vim. Freeborn H. H. Partridge Asa Kimble Samuel O. Prince Samuel Crozier A, H. Smith H. H. Watkins
 TRIAL JURoRs.-The following are sum- moned as Trial Jurors to be in attendance Thursday, April 9th, at 10 0a,m,: Geo. W. Coleman IH. A. Owen A. B. Burdick w. NJ. Ewing Isaac Conkey James Smith Benjamen Spears Solomon c. Rowe Matthew Carr James w. Michael James Twiggs Jack Kinney David E. Nelson John H. Johnson John A. DeLand James DoughertY John Falvey Thomas Woods John F. Long Robert Gray
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
SURFACE IMPROVEMENTS

SURFACE IMPROVEMENTS
 at this mine. consisting of boarding houses, stables for the numerous animals, offices, and substantial chute holding over POO tons, etc. There are from eighty to ninety men employed, and twenty-six teams are running all the time working over a hun dred animals. A big boarding house lskept for the accommodation of the employfs, by Mir. I. B. Crandall, who also keeps the Frisco hotel, near the depot.
 The next producing mine is that of Messrs. NJ. Bell 8 Co.,, about mile west of town. Here some twenty-five men are employed, who take out from fifty to sixty-fve tons daily. The vein which is struck at depth of 19O feet, is over six feet thick and pitches into the hill at an angle of thiIty-fve de- grees. The coal is hoisted with a whim, worked by two mules. It is a superior article of Ignite, and leaves on burning no clinkers, and only Q small percentage of fine red ash.
 The remaining producer is Patton's mine, some three miles below Gallup, which ships from sixty to seventy tons day. There is also some eight miles distant, at Defiance, Tucker & Talbott's mine, which makes reg uIar and constantly increasing shipments.
 CHARACTER OF THE COAL.
 The product of all these mines if of bi- luminous character, but 1t is very hard and compact, and would by many @ superficial observer readily be classed as anthracite. In fact, as greater depth ig obtained 1t would not be at ali astonishing if veins of regular anthracite should be disc overed. 1t is not a coking soaI; there is as far as heard from. none of that kind in the territory But for steam purposes It ls excellent, and sar railroad use it cannot be surpassed, In one or two e the veins that are at present worked here, there are thin seams of slaty stone running through the coal. They are called ''bones," and while they do not in terfere with the character of the coal itself, they are somewhat troublesome to tho min CT, and keep him from getting ahead with his work as rapidly as he could wish. The formation of the low rjlls which surround the plain in which Gailup is sitqa ted is sand stone of various colors red brown and gray The coal veins are usually under and over laid by thin layers of slate, and occasion ally by layers of limestone.
 With coal delivered or the cars at Gallup at $2. 90 per ton, we certainly ought to get it laid Govn Fat Blackberry or Wallapat siding at SIG Fer ton, and we expect to SC, coal laid down in Mineral Park fol about $17. 50 per ton or perhaps less. Al iilig price it will be much cheaper than wood at S1O per cord and will probably suporsede it entirely.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25

There are three men at work on the Cupel nina at Stockton. It is expected that the force will shortly be increased,
 J.J. Dawson and H. Harding are work: ing on one of their claims at Stockton.
 George Dougherty will resume work on tle Indian Qneen mine again in a few days. This claim is an extension or the Alpha.
 Captain Layne is getting out fine lot. of ore at Todd Basin.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
M0HAVE COUNTY MINER.

Special notices in the reading columns of the MINER will be charged at the rate of Ten Cents per line for each insertion.
 J: Weyl. Notary Public, room 5. Bank Of Arizona Building, Prescott, is the author ized agent of the MoHAvE. COUNTY MDER ID Yavapai county.
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
Something About Goal.
Our Future CeaI Supply.

Now that the railroad is in our midst and some of our mills have already commenced to order coal for future use, in the place of the familiar cedar so long in use, few items concerning the source from whence our future supply of coal is to come frOlr may not bs amiss. The nearest coal mines to this county are at Gallup, on the line oi the Atlantic & Pacific railroad, and some l50 miles west of Albuquerque. The A. & P railroad obtains nearly all of it's coal from the mines at Gallup and in fact uses the larger portion of that produced. The following description of the coal mines, taken from recent number of the Albu- querque Democrat, will prove interesting:
 THE GALLUP COAL MINES.
 There are at present three prominent producers here. The most important and well developed one is the group of mines owned by MessTs. Pegram, MoMn han Luckey and Weaver. It is situated some two and a half miles from town, on low foot-hill formed by an upheaval of vast sandstone layers. There are four distinct veins of ccal here, being respectively of thickness of six feet, five feet, ten inches: four feet, eight inches, and four feet These veins lie from twelve to twenty feet apart from each other and are nearly horizontal. The coal is drawn by mules to the surface. The daily average shipment is about 225 tons, which can however be increased at once to much larger proportions, The pro duce is shipped all along the line as far as Albuquerque, although the Atlantic < Pa cifc road uses so far the larger portion of It. It is sold for S2.9O ton delivered at the cars, and s at retail' There are exten- sive
Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
LIZARDVIILE.
ADJOINING KINCMAN.
O@O=O P R o s P E c TT U s:

This formed for the raising Arizona lizards all varieties from the la monster downward for the pected that immigration the Kngman will be and that the population of Shenfes city will increase rapidly
 that there will not be beef enough Arizona supply the demand The principal object of this raising lizards able to updy the inhabitants Kngman dcay the shape
 lizard meat which all the properties the best beef and
 rred it. The supply Shenfcd quantities of this meat and reead make with him supply addition the the the amount of from the skins of these reptiles which they tan into leather and then make boots voous other articles clothing according the size and shape of the
 lizard In order to place the enterprise within the limits of the ordinary Arizona the Capital Company into
 ONE MILLION SHARES,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-14
IEarvesting Apples.

Nearly every grower has a way of his own
to harvest apples. Many of these methods
are neither expeditions nor profitable. A
good crop of fruit is often half wasted through
lack of good management in picking pack
ing and storing. 1t is, of course, an unprof-
table practice to knock or shake off fruit.
This is especially the case with the tender
skinned sorts, as Red Astrachan and North
ern Spy. Fruit that is not to be immediate.
ly consumed should be carefully hand picked.
The practice on one of the largest and best
apple plantations in the country is to provide
a good number of round bottomed half bush
ell handle baskets, to the handles of which
are secured light S shaped iron hooks, which
serve to hang the handle on a branch II
the basket be lined with thick cloth, it will be
better. An agile person in a well trimmed
tree will pick rapidly with these baskets. 1t
is seldom necessary to Stake off apples II
an occasional branch be out of reach, how.
ever, the apples should not be shaken off un-
til the ground under the branch is cleared of
all fruit. A small active boy, one who is not
afraid to climb, will reach nearly all the fruit
on any tree. In old apple districts we have
frequently seen boys so well trained to apple
picking as to reach very quickly every apple
on the largest and most spreading trees.
Apples should be packed in the orchard.
1t does not pay to load them into wagon
and carry them into the barn to be packed.
1t is waste of time and is, above all, inju-
rious to the fruit. 1t always pays to sort APP
pies, whether one is packing for market or
for home use. If not sorted and carefully
graded the whole barrel will very likely sell
for second class fruit The keeping quality
of the apples will not be good, and conse
quently they cannot be held for spring sale.
Care should be exercised that the fruit is
packed tight. The apples should not be
thrown in the barrel promiscuously. They
should be shaken down at intervals Fill the
barrel rounding full and squeeze them down
with screw press. Apples which are jam
med against the head of the barrel seldom
rot, especially if the head is soft wood The
contents of barrel should not rattle when
the barrel is rolled, Loosely packed fruit il
much injured in shipping After packing,
the barrels should be turned on their sides
and allowed to remain in the orchard or un
der a shed for some days previous to storing
1t is important to know just when apples
should be harvested. Winter apples are usu
| ally picked toe early. If most sorts are al
lowed to hang until after several good frost.
and the leaves have largely fallen, they will
be in much better condition for keeping OF
for sale. Rhode Island Greetings, however
especially at the West are apt to become
overripe if left too long, Baldwns, on the
other hand, ripen slowly and should be har
vested late. -1m6ricaH CultiUatOr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-14
Lightning Rods.

Two years ago writer in the Iowa Regis
ter was appointed to put lightning rod on
the new Methodist church in Des Moines. He
consulted three learned scientists connected
with as many prominent colleges all of whom
agreed very nearly as to essentials The re-
result in this case and another, with advice to
persons likely to be approached by travelling
swindlers," we condense as follows:
Security from lightning is not so much in
kind of metal as in the size continuous con.
necton and ranging deep enough in the earth
to be always damp at the lowest terminal
point. The rod on the church is inch round
iron, 1872 feet long, costing for material max
ing staples and putting up, $3.50. This
spring on finishing our residence, which has
tower, we put up 3-inch round rod 81 feet
long, costing 81. 20, or little over p cents a
foot. A good lightning.rod, safe as there ID
any need for, can be put up on a one story
house, running seven feet above the top of
the chimney and ten feet in the ground, for
about Sl45, or on a two-story house for 50
Buy your { inch rods at the hardware store,
get blacksmith to weld them together and
sharpen the upper point, then put it up your
self, mailing it fast to the house with a few
staples-no costly staples with glass or horn
insulators; such things are follies of the past.
The rod on the church has been thoroughly
tested since it was put up, as it was struck by
tremendous charge of electricity about a
year ago.
We should feel little safer without the
rod in any case, and especially if it was to he
nailed to the house without insulation, as rec
commended above; but, if we must have light
ming rods, the difference between a cost of s.
or SO and $500 or $3OO-the amount that the
lightning-rod swindlers have in some cases
taken out of our farmers-is worth saving
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-14
How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
gold watch case, and yet few people know
how a watch case is made, or the vast diff
ference in Inequality of them. InaSoLID
GOLD WATCH CASE, aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stifen and hold the engraved por-
tons in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless, but undesira-
BILE, because gold is soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and close-litting. The perfect watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient. This has been accomplished by
the James Boss Gold Watch Case -, " Ma,
which saves the WASTE of need . D
less gold, and INCREASES the soLIDTTY and
STRENGTH Of the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
Send cent stamp to Ksystons Watch Case RAstorss PhA
dsphla, Pa for Handsome illustrated showing
James BOss and Keystone Watch Cases made.
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