The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-05-15

] most popular citizens in Forthern Ari.on. } arrived last evening with nearly s. ,OO
 gold dust and nuggets taken out of th
 Weaver plaesrs sincs the recent rains.
 l E. J. Austin, who recently returned iron
 the Peck, stasss that W. C. Daves is meet
 ing with great success in reducing the tail
 ings of that mine, and that if present indi.
 catiens are to bs relied or he will clean u,
 in the neighborhood of s20, 600 on the en-
 tsrprise.
 The uniform agreed on by the rejuvena-
 ted Rifles is to be of . very dark blue with
 white facings, the coat to be . cut away
 frock, with white spauletts and cross and
 waist belta The head gear will be cap of the regulation pattern with pompon. The
 coss will bs $35 per suit. The company ex
 pects to bs able to have them here in time
 to appear in the Fourth of July parade.
 Thomas Teller, . German, confined in
 the county jail, ~as examined before Pro
 bate Judge Hswkins to day and pronoun-
 ced so insane as to require his incarceration
 at Clark < Langdon's asylum at Stockton.
 Under . law passed by the last Legisla- ture, the Board of Supervisors are re- quired to advertise for proposals for his transportation and delivery st the asylum named. This presents an opportunity for some enserprising citizen to turn an honest penny and as the same time enjoy the pleasure of trip to California.
 Competent judges place the value of gold dust taken from the placer, of Ysvspai county during the winter which has jus. passed, ss between e50, 900 and e6O, 600, and this valuation is not st all over- -estima- ted. When the small area of available ground worked is considered in connection with the yield, it needs no scientists' state- ments to convince one that there are mill. ions yet untouched in what are commonly nov conaidersd e the waste places of Ari- .ona, and that the day when the desert will be called on to yield up its treasures is not '1 distant,
 Reports from all portions of the county 're of the most desirsble description, and cave but little ground for doubt that 1885 sill be one of the most prosperous years Ever enjoyed by Northern Arizona. Farm 'rs unanimously agree that . larger area of and has been placed under cultivation dur ng the present spring than ever before, while the outlook is excellent for an ua- usually large yield of every descrip ioo of cereals and fruits. The pros. 'ects for stockmen are sad to be as en- Iiable as those of the farmer. The mhd , winter and absence of heavy snows has re- ulted in unusually large number of calves 'eing branded at the rojeos now m pro .ress, while the presence of numerous beef surveyors for the California market has re- ulted in the establishment of good prices which will doubtless be maintained, as there , no indication of any decrease in the de- aand. The mining outlook bears an qually rosy tint. More mines are being pened than ever before, with better pros scts of success, as the method adopted for heir working partaies more of the prac.i- al than the preten:ious operations which ave heretofore been diguihed q extensive mining developments.
 Of tae many who but few weeks ago 'ere on the ragged edges of expectation nd longing for bonanzas in the shape of ontrscts for supplying flour tothe different 'ilitary posts in Arizona, no one was more esirous of being favored with the Govern lent patronage than Charley Goldman, an Id Prescotsite. and at present leading 'erchant of Phenix. In putting in his ids, Charely, % far a the peice was con- erned, struck 1t right, aud would doubt .ss have been awarded the contract had it ( ot been for . lucky mishap, for which ouis wolIenberg is responsible. In put . ng in his proposals, Mir. Goldman failed ) furnish the sample of -four required by . .gulasion to accompany each bid, and iscoverins the omission On the morning of ,e day sst for opening the proposals, tele- /. 'aphed to Mr. Wollenberg to attend to it. eing busily engaged himself, Mr. Vol nburS delegated this task to an assistant ho by mistake furnished samples of flosr lat had been damaged in transit from heni1. which resulted In the rejection of r. Goldman's bids, which had they been . sarded to him would have resulted in his sing between 6. GOO and sl0.OoO during e year, a wheat in the Salt Rive. Valley . since then experienced an up ard tendency sufficient to make that diff { renee. .