The Arizona champion., 1884-01-12
tie, the chances are in favor of their getting there. OLD STYLE.
Ash Fork.

non iONN, n. A.t y"h' 'tJ ioo4' EDITOR CHAMPIoN:--A public school has recently been established in Ash Fork. with Miss Susie Tyghe as teach CT. Messrs A. G. Oliver: Major l.. Wood and Micheal Mcdonald are the trustees.
 Yesterday in the sun the thermom eter registered tio degrees.
 MT. Marshall Wood has sold out his store to Messrs. Halloran X Frank.
 Mir. H. ". Klein has sold his resi- dence to MT. ]. Forsyth Harrison.
 MT. H. w. Klein has sold out the Ash Fork Hotel to Mir. John T. Allen.
 An immense freight business is done at this station, both received and shipped.
 Messrs. Oliver x Go. are doing an immense business both in the merCan- tile and forwarding line.
 Rev. Pierce, of the William, circuit of the Methodist church, was among friends the past week Tn our town.
 It Is rumored that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company is seeking a western terminus of their road, by way of St. Louis and Albuquerque, thence to San Francisco.
 Mr. Carr who has the freight con. tract with the United Verde Copper Company, of the Black Hills, IS in town to day. He reports the outloo!; for the future as good.
 It is also rumored that another ef- fort will be made to obtain arteslan water at Ash Fork, and that we will have the terminus of two of the At lantic and Pacific R. R. Co.'S di. visions.
 The Government is building tele graph line from Ash Fork to Prescott, and will have 1t in operation by the Ist of February. The work Is under the direction of Lieutenant Mlrrs, who IS an efficent and popular officer.
 We chronicle as news item of the leap year, that upto date, we have had with Us six brides and groOmS, among the number Col. C. P. Head, Dr. F. K. Ainsworth, J. F. Harrison and John T. Allen.
 Judge Van Arnam, the Territorial Secretary, passed through our town this week, enroute toNew York and Washington, D. C. The Judge re- ports the future of Arizona as bright and encouraging.
 Governor Tritle has recently re turned from an inspection Of his min ing interests in the Black Hills. A recent discovery of almost pure silver on hs company's property will make the Governor one of the bonanza kings of the Pacific slope.
 The Atlantic..& Pacifc R. R. our Gall the year route" IS daily becom- ing more popular and appreciated by the travelling public. 50 mote it be. Messrs. Wood and Slinger are the popular hotel people ot Ash Fork, and, as a matter of course, subscribe for the CHAMPION.
 It is currently rumored that Mr. C. C. Bean, of Prescott, has sold hlS mineral interests in Arizona, (the Copper MoYtaln), to party of En- glish capitalists for the sum of s.. 900, 900, and that railroad will be constructed from Ash Fork to the Copper Mountain
 Hon. Henry G. DlviS, Ex United States Senator, of West Virginia, his brother, Col. Thos. B. Davis and the Hon. Sthphen B, Elklns, of New York, formerlA a delegate to congress from New Mexico, and a party of eastern capitalists propose making an extended pleasure trip to Colorado, New Mexico, Arizoa and old Mexico. Whilst on said trip these gentlemen will make an examination of the coal fields of the country named above Let our people give them d true west ern welcome.
 Au revoir. ASH FORK.