Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-07-19


 The prices at which Messrs. Ell
 6 Co. are selling their goods, ar
 really wonderful for their cheap
 ness. Yesterday they sold two case.
 of boois. all at retail, and sll at al
 most one half the usual price IT
 Phoenix. Keep on selling that way
 Jim, and VIC will all get gooi
 outfit"
 Mr Maurice Fleishman received
 a telegram yesl erday evening from
 MT. James Vaughn of Truekee. Gal, asking for particulars in regard to the death of his son, Daniel Vaughn whose funeral took place yesterday afternoon. The telegram also states ! that the remains will be removed to l Truckee. during the wiater.
 Our friend. Geo. Hamlin, started to-day for Reno Mountain to rusti- 1 cate for few weeks. He has been very successful here in the livery lusines, but owing 10 bad health, he was compellei to rellnquish it. He hopeE to recuperate on this moun~ tain trip and return among us new man.
 We are in receipt of ;Ae Duly PlyDeo.,th Mercury, an eight-colum n daily, fiftrcn ems to the column, set mostly s0Iid in minion and non p&reil. Americans who tackle the New York Herald and papers If that make up in this coontry are long lived, evidently, but if al. our news- papers were of the style of the Mer cur,, we fear the day would come when Americans would become an illiterate natier.
 At the saloon of Tom Sherman may be seen the most interesting collection Of Arizona minerals, which can be found in the Territory. Among the rarer varieties of ore, there are spcci@ens of gypsum from the Four Peaks, mIca, or isinglass, from our own county. coal from the San Carlos reservation. lovely speci4 mems of gnld quartz from the Vul- ture, Cave Creek and Tento Bassn; wonderful pieces of silver from thr Si yer King, Tip Top an1 Siohewall mines; beautiful variegated speci- mems of malachite azurite aud oxide from the Cave Creek country and the Red Rover; and some fine pieces oi cinnabar ore from California. This last is & very rare mineral, and has not yet been fnand in Arizona. In some of the specimens from the Silver King mine are rubies, ,garacts and emeraids. als" back and white silver in profusion. It is worth any onrs while to go and see this co Ices ton, for this Territory cannot show 8 better one. Those who have never seen cinnabar, tQuicksilver) or as bestos in it's nstive state, should i'm. prove this opportunity to examine 1 theal
 Mir. s. ". Johnston, of Cave l Creek, locator and owner of the Home Stake and Silver Reef mines, let with us yesterday eve ing 0f metaliiferous rock, taken from the Silver Reef at depth of l 23 feet, which IS quite unusual in | and carries B metal 1 winch puzzles local experts. An as- say of the rock by Lenhart of San Francisco gave 9 particle over S4S | in silver and ether unusual and uny retaiis. gFhe sample lcif With us is apparently eT .alco si ,tt i with slight admixt.-e or scale of | rock. The whole l mass i> occasionally 1ecked with a copper Stdifl, anu LSIS d Ha q 1 speck of 9alene, a:d through it all. running With the laminea and be- tween them, is a vein of greyish metal which so far has been undet- l ermined. The general conclusion IS that it is tin. If this be so it is a new but not strange departure for multi-metalliferous reglon kIown IS Cave Greek. So far that section has turned out samples of almos, ] every metal save tin and quicksii- yer, and it IS pretty straight guess that MT. Johnson kas struck cf tin. If therc Is any quan> ity of it the mine will be very val> lable indeed. The principal l sources of our supply Of tin are Sin> sapore on the Straighas ot Malacca and Aus ralia. It is quoted on the market at inc present time at 22 | cents