The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-07-31
From Mondays Daily.

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 From Mondays Daily. r
 Plenty os water in the city reservoir. l Tind niils are pushed with tu.ines nov
 dsys
 Mrs. Judge Brooks has abcau,:ful f over
 garje.,, f..s Ariz ,lA l All of Prescott churches hsla services
 yesterday. i.'@- -. John MAr, of Aeua Fria, who owns good
 minii.g property, 10 m tO~n.
 The average price paid by the govern 1 msnt for beef in the department of ( rizona
 is about eight ceais per pound. Jack La~ler has gone east to look at the country near the Verde where he expects to ind good stock range. Many ladies and gentlemen of Prescott
 si-i'ed whipple ycsserdsy evening to wit
 ness dress parade.
 The somber hue that characterized the
 hills around Prescott is rapidly changing to
 z be~u'ifuli green sincs the refreshing
 rain of last week.
 Csp.ain Weston. of the commissary de partment, is one uf the meat pleasant officers in the Department of ArisonA He is also good prsvider for hs tro-ps.
 If weather prophets of Prescott shared the same fate as those of the Nile. what de- crease there would be In ths mossbAck -els- ment. IT.. going to rain.
 An Ice Cream Social by the ladies ard friends of the Methvdiss Crurch, West Prescott, will be given at Howey Hall, next Thursday evening. July Both.
 Adjutanf General Barber has heard noth ing from t,oops operating in the Sierra Madre Mountaina. When ncws does come from tha: quarter we expect to hear of . large number of Indians being made good.
 Mother Monica, founder of the Hospital If the Sisters of S:. Joseph, than whom Arizona has not a more energetic, intelli- gent and Christisnlike lady, is ou visit to Prescott, where her friends are legion.
 The Prescott Grays had their usual weekly target practice yesterday afternoon The weather was very unforable for rfs practice, the wind being very high. Pri- vate Th"rnhill succeeded in making the beat score-I5 out of 2 possible 9, at POO yards 1
 X banquet is to be given the Toughs by WAh on next Thursday evening. it being the occasion of his initiation into their l ranks, and of course y,u know the boys xant to stand solid. Charley Morgan is 1 he acting ''Mogul."
 Lester Jackson this week puts force to | ~ork on the Bullwhaker extracting ore for -eduction- The property looks we'll and ,ives good indications of making its owners ,one the warse of for the expenditure of ] few hundred dollars.
 The Dude hose team were somewhat ! hagrined to-day during the parade of the roughs and their elegan. carriage. One ollo yer of the first named team fesbly | ugsetted that the seven foot wheels of one he freight wagons at present in our city be ,rocured in the hope of making some eff set
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 John Holmes. the irreprcs.i5le pros- 'ector and miner of Lynx Creek, arrived n town yesterday with another lot of fine liver ore from Turkey Creek. H. has ow in store several tons of high grade ore rom the same section, which he will soon hip to Colorado for treatment. This shows hat reduction works are much needed at ome.
 The new hose and running cart of tie 'oughs put in its welcome appearance tc- sy. Its mechanical beauty and shows killed workmanship, both in ornamental i esign and durability. The boys and their | ct are on top again and say they will to. . Ioro~ issue challenge for . similar race , that run and won by the Dudes las, pril. backing sheir challenge by a.y mount of stuff from . marble to the oldest '.hun."
 Some of the lady members and friends of le NJ. E. Church, West Prescott, have cen engaged to-day in soliciting ccntribu- cns for an ice cream festival, to be given
 Howey Hall, on Thursday evening next. IT. Langsson has been very modest during $ psstora.e over the church here, this .ing the first time, 1e believe, that he has ven his consent fJr the members to solicit 2 his church. and we hope . hearty re- onse will be given by our citizens, in a:- nding the sncial next Thursday evening. If one-baif the nonied men of this ci,y! splayed one rquarter ths enterprise that en comparatively without cent do in de- loping mines. you would not hear that snd wornout expression of dull times so ten uttered. Nearly every sack of ore st has passed through Prescott in tine last sr has found it's Way to Colorado reduction rks solely through the toil and hard earu- ,s of the mine owner. There Is of course . ne risk attached to mining. more so, per- .e ps than any other branch of business, but V1 , expenditure of few dollars will soon .n non ,trate | mines worth, and encourage in