Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23
LOCAL NEWS.


 Judge Harrison, of La Noris, IS in town.
 MT. Andrew Spinas is in from the range.
 The Barrie Libre is liveliest quarter of town after dark.
 Mir. s. Hall has returned to his mines in the Santa Cstslinss.
 There is fight of some kind every evening; either & dog fight or a man fight, and the distinction is infnitessi- nal.
 A new stone foundation has been put under the corner of E. B. Gifford's resi- dence south of the CITIZEN office.
 Mir. J. L. Clark and family are Tn the city from American Flag. The little folks came to attend the circus.
 The day of the watermelon is passing away. This morning Mexican peddled out a wogon load of large lucious fel- lows at three for quarter.
 The public library hours are as follows: On Tuesdays and Fridays, from to Il a. m.; on Wednesdays, from 2 to p. m. on Friday and Saturday evenings, from 6:30 to e:30.
 MT. W. Porter is here from St. Louis. he is the president of the Humboldt Mining Go, and will visit that camp be- fore returning.
 Mir. J. N. Mason is receiving congrst- ulstions on the birth of a son, which proud event trsnspired in Los Angeles on October 18th,
 c. J. Roskruge is expected home in a few days to prepare his matters as Grand Secretary for the Grand Lodge, F. < A. Nj which meets very soon.
 The house of John Bryson, one of the shop men of the $. F. railroad, was rob bed few days ago during his tempora- " absence, of three pairs of blankets and feather pillow.
 4 few nights ago a man stuck his head in through another mans window and was taken for a burglar. There was blood on the pavement next morning. and shivered waking cane dsbbled with sections of scalp.
 Mir. Hank Murray has leased the Bo- nsnzs Company's mill at Quijotoa and is going to start 1t up on ore from the LO- comotive mine. He sent out from Casa Grande last week eight men and sup plies. Florence Enterprise.
 The water now used by the Arctic Ice company in the manufacture of ice Is all double-distilled by new process and IS as pure as water cBn be. The next freezing will show ice as clear as the clesrest crys- | tai, and absolutely free from all impuri- ties.
 One of the best features of the Meth othodist literary and social entertain tainment at the opera house an Wednes- | 1 IA Fsnl eukn naral by Miss Della Hsrger. Her name was | unintentionslly omitted from the report | given yesterday.
 Recorder A. B. Sampson has just re- turned from sn extensive trip through | the southern part of the county. He | says that the Sopori valley has suffered | severely from the effects of heavy fall | of rain, The roads along the valley are I almost completely oblitersted and sev- erBl small farms washed away. The | roads about Davidson's cafiOn are al most impossible from the same cause.
 Parties who are now in the Ustslins mountains working the new gold washer recently invented by NIT. Sanders of Tucson, pronounce the machine B per feet success and say that It enables them 10 work st profit dirt that will not
  the statement is correct, and We have no reason to doubt It, the plBcers on the Gils above Florence could be made to pay handsomely by using this new ma chine.-Florence Enterprise.
 Loud complaints come from Globe upon the inefficiency of the mail service They say they have no mail between | Florence and Globe and the mail for the latter place now goes by way of Fort Thomas. A lot of mail Is still sup | posed to remain at Florence, awaiting | transportation. Last Saturday evening | Globe received ten sacks of mail | by private conveyance, but when | they will get another batch is an | open question.
 The books are now open and subscrip- | lions will be received to the capital | stock of the Tucson and Tsnque Verde l Express Company, which is organizing | for the transaction of business between | this ancient and honorable pueblo and | the eastern borders of Fort Lowell mili- tsry reservation, from now until after l election. Principal office at democratic | headquarters, Tucson. Fer particulars | and special information apply to Chair l man Zeckendorf, Uncle Bill Oury or | Charley Kresham.
 "Owl Heads district will be the rich 1 est district Tn Arizona one of these | days" So spoke an experienced miner | yesterday, and he echoed 8 sentiment | that has long been half asleep. For | five years the little Jessie Benton mill | has made regular monthly shipments of | silver bullion, sometimes reschIngiS6.000 | Steadily all through the summer months | oh out and shipping ore varying in value | from S200 to $500 per ton Rich beds of copper and 8 suspicion of tn oom- pose another feature of the district not | to be despised, though copper is too low st present to stimulate industry in that direction.
 The Star boys say their gsstronomIcal machinery has been out of order ever since the arrival of that box of luscious grapes which they too greedily devour- ed, having been strangers to such ex- quisite luxury. They used their eyes exclusively, to save the muscular ex- penditure necessary in the usual opera tion. and delightfully."- will the memory | of that sumptuous occasion sharpen their appetites in the dre6ry Bncertsln- ty of future years. Distance lends en- chantment," but never before had they | fully realized the absolute verscity of that antique apothegm. They were all wreathed in rsinbows of enchsntment to an excrucisting degree, and will long remember the magnanimous magnRD- imity that permitted them to so gorge their imaginations.
 Superintendent D. T. Elmore Is doing excellent work at the Owl Heads mill. The mill IS run twelve hours 8 dsy and everything about 1t is so conveniently arranged that oplv three men are re- quired to run it, and they are not kept busy. The ore now worked at the mill IS high grade, and Mir. Elmore succeeds. notwithstanding the liberal per cent of lead 1t contains, in working 1t up to ninety per cent. This IS certainly splendid result. The Jessy Benton mine looks better now than at any time since II was discovered. Water level has been reached and the character of the ore has undergone a decided change at that lo,th Tha napuna ha1our kk. l. l.