Mohave County miner., 1888-06-30
TERRIToRIAL ITEMS.

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probably get well.
Nearly every town in Arizona win cele
brate the Fourth Of July.
The Daggs Bros, Of flagstaff, are th,
largest wool shippers in Arizona.
The Gila River at Duncan il very low
and unless rain comes soon ii will dry d,
entirely.
The Atlantic a Pacific Railroad is as
sessed at the rate Of 7,2s2. .O3 per mile in
the Territory,
Prof. A. Il. Foote, mineralogist O
national reputation, ia inspecting tbs
mines in the Silver District, Yuma county
The handsome residence OF Alonzo
Bailey, at Globe, was recently destroyed
by fire. Loss $1,000 with no insurance.
The citizens Of Globe will celebrate the
Fourth OF July in grand style, and the
display Of fireworks will be unusually
fine.
The Yuma Sentinel says: The steamer
Gila has been hauled up on the ways and
viii be repaired, painted, and in fact
completely renovated.
II 10 said the Grand Central Mining
Company, OF Tombstone, is clearing up
profit of one llIndred thousand dollars
per month. The ore is all taken from
above the water level.
Joseph Costa, miner at the Silver
King, who attempted to jump into the
ascending cage, failed, was caught be-
tween the cage and timbers and his head
crushed, causing instant death.
A large Wild eat entered the yard OF
George Dnnning at Walnut Creek, Yava-
pai county, aud bit two Of his children
quite severely. II also attacked him in a
savage manner. but he finally killed it.
G. w. Rumble and Geo. w. Sanders,
saws the Tucson Star, have started to
work clearing out the old Ccrro Colorado
mine between Tucson and Arivaca. II
has yielded some remarkably rich ore
in the past.
The spring crop OF young colts in the
valley this spring, says the Phoenix Ari-
zonan, is very large, perhaps one thon.
sand five hundred or two thousand, and
from this valley few years from now
will come world heater,
1t is said that the new hotel about 10 be
built here will be erected on top Of Senti-
mel Hill, just outside OF the town limits.
The proposed site possesses many advan-
tages and win probably be selected for
winter hotel and sanitarium. Yuma
Sentinel.
The prices Of Tempe town property are
rapidly advancing. A gentleman told us
a few days ago that he had refused one
thousand eight hundred dollars for two
corner lots which he paid one thousand
one hundred dollars for less than six
months ago.-News.
A herd OF cattle on the trail from Teast |
Canyon creek, crossed the Little Colorado |
River at the meadows, few miles below
St. Johns, during last week. When the
herd started it had one thousand nine
hundred head. Through loss it then had
only one thousand one hundred head.
The Clifton Clarion gives an account Of |
4 shooting scrape at Morenci, Graham |
county, on Tuesday night Of last week,
between Pete Spence and Mexican
named Martinez. The Mexican was killed |
and Spence received several wounds, but |
none OF them are considered dangerous.
&. Douglas Brown came in recently
rom near Wickenburg, where he has
been engaged, with others. in sinking a
well. He found plenty Of water 412 feet
below the surface and thinks that by go
ing little deeper he will have artesian
water, When first struck the water rose
10 height Of sixty feet.--PrescottC Courier. |
Trains Of the Southern Pacific Railroad
passed over the new work on the Cienegs
Sunday, for the first time since the wash |
put last September. The trains have been
running on temporary and cribbing work.
The work has kept one thousand two
hundred men employed since it was be- |
gun and has cost three hundred thousand |
dollars.
Last week at Prescott in the District |
Court Patrick Ford and his son Jerome
we're convicted for burning the house
belonging TO the estate Of C. r. Stanton. |
The testimony developed in the trial
shows that Ford was Public Administrator |
md appointed his son keeper of the
house, with instructions to burn it be-
ore the first OF last March, as the insur-
.nce expired then.
At last the contract has been let for
grading and building the roadbed Of the
3isbee & Fairbank Railroad. Messrs.
Ward and Courtney, old railroad contrsc-
ors, have assumed the responsibility and
will push the work with all possible
apidity. They have large force of
cams, laborers, etc, at Fairbank, and
expect to break ground next Monday
tombstone Epitsph,
The many old-timers who remember
ohm III. Marion, editor Of the Courier, as
me Of Arizona's pioneers who early in the
sos blazed out the way for civilization TO
ollow, will regret to learn that President
Cleveland has vetoed the bill recently
,assed by both Houses of Congress to
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