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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
Mount Lemon.

The caption of this item is the name of one of the highest peaks in the San ta Catalina range of mountains. It is located some 15 miles from this city in a direct line, but to reach its base requires a journey of two days on a circuitous and precipitous road and trail. The west side of this peak, by a beautiful mountain brooklet of limpid water that flows perpetually from the ice and snow that remains all the year round in some inaccess ible places, hid away from the rays of the sun, is get ting to be great place of resort and camping ground for tho people of the San Pedro and surrounding country, and Tucson and it's surrounding coun- try.
 The mountains about abound with all sorts of wild game such as deer, mountain sheep, wild turkeys, grouse, bear, rabbits, quail, etc; also in wild honey and fruit, such as strawberries, hucllleberries, wild entrants, etc, and it must indeed be a fayorite place for campers where all these conveniences and luxuries may be had from the hand of nature. A large party com posed of San Pedro and Tucson people are camping there now and are having splendid time, and there has been no time during the last month that they have not been compelled to sleep un- der blankets to shield themselves from the cool nights. The party was com posed of Col. R. C. Wood and his daughters-Misses Lena, Lotta and Annie, (who returned last Sunday af- ter staying out two weeksl, J. J. Rosl- ruge, MT. and Mrs Taylor, of the San Pedro, Mir. Stratton and family, the Peck brothers, the Dodge brothers and MT. Bruce, all of whom still remain on the camping ground and will talry there probably fer another fortnight The scenery is said to be most grand and the air truly invigorating. An other camping party is forming ir Tucson to visit Nit. Lemon for a few days, and will start some time next week.-Star.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

THE political boses are all at sea re- garding the possibilities of the coming presidential election and, to keep up the appearance of satisfaction with the outlook, both parties are Justify shout ing victory in advance and claiming the doubtful states with an air of cer- tainty that is decidedly amusing. The new principle of free trade or protec- ton implies complete reorganization of partisan adherents, and there are many individual voters who will cast their ballots in silent testimonial of their honest convictions without whisper of their preference being made public; and it is this uncertain elc
 ment that must leave the matter in doubt until the ballots are counted on the night of the sixth day of November next. The announcements made by the partisan press of democrats leav- ing their own party and afiiliating with the republicans, and vice versa, are misleading and untrue. They do not forsake their party upon the principles that have vitalized it during the past years, but they are licensed, by reason of the abandonment of all other prin- ciples to the single issue of paramount importance, to act with absolute free dom, "for this trip only" The tariff question is yet but little understood and its complex features perplex even the most conscientious thinkers. Much plausible argument is advanced upon either side and between the two the jury of the public must decide accord ing to the manner in which they re- solve the facts from their dense cloak of sophistry. The experiences of the past, under the two conditions con tended for in the present campaign, ought certainly to give ample proof of the practical workings of the oppos- ing systems, and the pictures are in- deed in strange contrast. And vet there are plenty of apparently in- telligent people who profess to prefer
 and actually invite, return of the era of hard times, misery and starvation prices for labor and its products. We candidly believe these persons are mis- led and pity their want of judgment m swallowing nunseating dose for the sake of it's tempting sugar coating. However, the politically blind and halt and weak possess an equality at the polls with the wise and strong and firm, and the voice of the majority must govern. If they doom the coun- try to a season of toll and bankruptcy 1t will still survive and the stern les son will not be lost, for the remedy will still be potent in their hands. At all events no sure forecast of the re- suit of the election can at this tilse he made and we are prepared for a sur prise upon the summing up of the hnal conclusion in November.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
cuban Surveillance Over c;r,a.

Probably no people are so rigorous iD the care and surveillance of girls as the Spanish. The idea extends to women ill many wise respects. In school, at play, in the social home gatherings, the boy and the girl are rigidly kept apart, CT, il permitted each others society. it is under the strictest espionage. A little girl can not step outside her home without pro- tector. A maiden or young lady is never seen upon the street alone. Any woman thus seen is instantly known as doubt ful person or worse. If my nina goes to school father, Q brother or a mother ac. companies. The airing is nearly always taken in carriage. In it must be a re- sponsible member of the family
 No young, unmarried woman may visit friend, attend the theatre or be seen al a reception or 8 ball, unless her parents are with her. If she have lover he must come to the house and pay his respects to her like a gentleman. His attentions arc not secret, surreptitious, dangerous. His choice is known to his friends, to hers It must be a clean business all around Her proper privileges and his under this regime, l am inclined to think, arc greater. not less. She goes as much, but the whole fansly, something as with the sensible HtIHidil people, go along alSO. 1T the lover desire an engagement to the ball or opera with hts senorita he must first propose at headquarters. Then her pleasure is sought If she accord there arc 10 nisunderstand- ings in that family. If it be ride on the Calle Ancha del Norte or the Calzade de la Reina, they are all again there If it be promenade on the Prado the whole family promenades, frequently both fam flies. The lover himself, in short, in ali these undertakings while treated with real dignity is much less an affair to be considered than other things.-Edgar L, Wakeman.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
The ships "nead Reckoning.

Finding the way ct sea depends on two methods, each of which is theoretically complete in itself-dead reckoning and astronomical observation. As observa. tion may be prevented by thick weather, the second method may fail throughout a voyage or during the critical parts of it when land is approached. Thus dead reckoning, on which in many cases the the most scientific captains may have to trust, must be considered first.
 Dead reckoning (why called s'dead" 1 do not know ncr greatly care) depends on thc determination hour by hour of the di- rection and velocity of the ships motion, and the determination thence of her posi-. ton after each days various movements. If we know a ships position at a given time, say at noon on July 1, and she sails or steams at a known rate in a determined direction for certain time, an hour, say, we can calculate her. position at the end of that hour, subject to the action of cur rents. Since the rate and direction of currents are mostly known we can take this particular cause of motion into ac- count. Thus we can mark in on our chart the position of the ship at the end of thu hour. So at the end of the next interval of time during which her course remains unchanged and so forth-till finally we determine her position at noon on July 2. This is not necessarily or probably twen- ty-four hours from noon, July 1, as in the new position now attained there is differ ent local time, earlier if the ship is west of her former position, later if she is east of it. Going on in this way day after day, the ships course can be charted in, and her position is known from day to day-or in other words, those who have her in charge thus find their way from port to port Theoretically this is all right, practically there are difficulties. The circumstances which render "dea6 reckoning" an unsatisfactory method O. navigation are unfortunately numerous. --Richard A. Proctor
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
Senator sherman,s estate at Mansfield. Q.

Senator ShernlanS estate at Mansfield, O., including stocks and other investments, is estimated at $l00,000.
 Alan Arthur, son of the late president of the United States, was presented" at the levee held by the Prince of Wales
 The vanderbilts spend enormous sums on furniture, bric-a- brac and artistic decora- tions, but comparatively little on jewelry.
 It is said that c. A. Dana's royalty of l215 per cent on each volume sold of the Ameri- can Cyclop@dia has yielded MT. Dana over Sl00000.
 Le Figaro, of Paris, announces the cleo tion of the younger NJ. Coquelin as president of the Society for the Protection of Beautiful Cravats.
 Henry Willard confirms the statement that be is about to undertake an expedition to the South Pole. Dr. Neumayer, of Hamburg, will cooperate with him
 Mrs Langry now owns 5000 acres of farm land in Lake county, Cal, and MT. Frederick Gebhardt is credited with the possession of 5000 acres more adjoining.
 Bristol cathedral in England has just been adorned with a large white marble medallion and tablet in memory of the late MT. Samuel Morley. the eminent philanthropist.
 The sultan of Zanzibar has a German wife, and by singular coincidence Germany ob- tains valuable concessions from his jnajesty's government denied to other powers.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
Attention to n.iror nrannors.

And to descend to the lowest thing about gentleman, we should remember that his minor manners must be attended to; he does not swear or smoke in the presence of women, he does not cat his dinner in a hurry, he does not crurble his bread about, making it into pills; he does not eat his soup with hissing sound or tip the plate to get the last drop; he meDdS his table manners if they ore had he dresses himself well if lis Ile;ES will allow; be he ever so poor Ee must be clean. If he commits any little error at the dinner table he must learn to be com posed; he must be deaf and blind to the errors of others in society. But etiquette never means stiffness. The best bred peo- pie are the unconscious.
 So sudden are the rises in American so- ciety that many man has been invited to dinner party to eat his dinner off the plate which he lately washed. A politi- elan may rise from being 8 waiter to being president of the United States. And he is better man and better diner out, a bet ter president, if, when he was a waiter, he had good manners and was obedient He also serves who only stands and waits 9 has greater master than the one who pays him his wages. The noble old quota tion can be read two ways. 4 man may thus be gentleman at heart even in 2 condition of scrvitude. Many an old black Uncle Tom was 8 gentleman, but it would not have been proper to thus an nounce him to his master.-M. B. w Sherwood in Philadelphia Times.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

WITHIN a month from this time the incomparable season of eight months oi lovely weather will begin and the heated term will have passed away. Nowhere else in the world can such perfection of climate be found. nos sesslng pure and dry atmosphere with.a genial range of temperature from scventy-five degrees at midday down to slight irosts at night perhaps upon a very few days at the coldest period Not a day will be found when one cannot, with comfort, remain out of doors without requiring an overcoat The farmer can place his land in con dition for his early spring crops and the invalid can enjoy the bright and genial sunshine without interruption There is practically no inclement weather to provide against and de- hghtful and even temperature always prevails.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

TIE new storage reservoir to be con s.ructed by the Florence Canal Com pany between Florence and the rail road, will enclose an area of seventeen hundred acres of land, having an ave-
 rage capacity of ten feet of water. This immense body will measure 74O,52O,0O0 cubic feet of water or, 5,539,474, ,2S5 gallons sufficient to fool 1000 acres one foot deep, or 204 900 acres one ineh deep, But this reservoir is intended only to re- ceive the surplus water during the season of plenty, for use when the sup ply from the river is diminished, and it will reach about 50,000 acres of land through the various laterals, assuring an ample supply during the dry season. When the company constructs the sill greater reservoir near the head of
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

-7IE prospectSare good for the con structien of a railroad from San Dieqo. by way of Ensenada, in Lower Califor- mia, to Yuma and thence up the Gila river with its eastern connection vet undivulged. IL is altogether probable however, that it will traverse tbe rich valley of the Gila at least to Florence and make connection with the Santa fe system at Benson and also bSwav oi the Mineral Belt road with their main line at Albuquerque, New Mexi- co. The Santa Fe has reserved tbe best portions of Arizona for its snecial held of transportation, and the con,- pietion of it's system in California will likely be followed closely by the ex- tension of its connections in this Ter ri'ory. Its fragmentary roads here must shortly become independent of 'he southern Pacific and the several Inks be united and formed into o grand trunk line. When this is done ihe valley of the Gila will be traversed by railroad that will afford a roason- able competition with the Southern racihc and prove a great blessing to the people of this valley, whose grow ing interests are already of sufficient Importance to require the most an proved means of transportation.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
From Manleyville.

MT. J. Chamberlain, of Manleyyille, on the San Pedro river was in the city yesterday. He says the floods of the San Pedro did him considerable dam age, filling up his well, washing out his ccrrals and otherwise damaging his premises. But the rain will make up in good pastures which will make beef, hence he is not complaining.
 MT. Chamberlain does complain how ever because the Manleyyille postoifice has been discontinued, as he says there is just as much business done at that office as at any time during the last five years, and besides all the patrons of the office are democrats of the old school They will all be compelled to go twelve miles for their mail.-Star
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

IT is reported that Geronimo and the Apaches sent to Florida are to be returned to Arizona and placed upon the reservation. For the sake of the Indians themselves we sincerely hope this report Is untrue and that the eastern meddlers with Indian affairs may be checkmated in their lit tie scheme to again make this Territory the scene of more bloodshed. The people of Arizona have patiently borne the red cross of this accursed inflic ton in the hope of the relief which the re moval of the Indians brought. The act of returning them will be inter preted by the people as a direct def- ance or their efforts fat self preserva- ton and the abandonment of all pro- lection by the government, whose con sequences will be the extermination of the Apaches. If they are to be re- turned and given into the custody Of the civil authorities for a trial for their crimes, but little objection can be raised They will be accorded a fair and impartial trial and, when con victed, will be hanged according to the exact provisions of the Lone Star code borrowed by our last legislative as sembly Even the Indians them selves can have no serious objections to this arrangement.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

GENERAL SHERIDAN Is dead. Just as hope was growing strong that he might recover and enjoy the declining years of a useful life. honored by grateful country and beloved by the millions of it's peaceful people, the taps were sounded from the mysterious be- yond and the light of the soldiers life was suddenly extinguished. He died at Nonquitt Mass, at 1920 o'clock Sunday night, August 5th, the long sleep coming to him as softly as the slumbers of q babe. Both houses of Congress adjourned in respect to his memory and all government buildings displayed the flag at half-mast. The funeral takes place to-day at the Ar lington cemetery. General Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Somerset, Ohio, in 1881, was educated at West Point, and was admitted to the Milf tary Academy in 1S48, where he grad uated in 1853; entering the United States Artillery, he served in Texas and Oregon until 1855, when he sailed to San Francisco, in command of an escort to a United States surveying ex- petition. From this time until 1861 he commanded body of troops among the Indian tribes, when he was pro- noted to the rank of Captain. Upon the breaking out of the civil war, he was appointed Quarter-master of the Western Department, and Colonel of the Second Michigan Volunteer Caval- ". At Bonneville, in July, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier- General of volunteers, and took com mand of the third division of the Army of the Ohio, distinguishing himself by his defense of Louisville, and again winning distinction on the banks of the Stone River, December 30th, at which time he was promoted to the rank of MajOr-General of volunteers. He was appointed in April, 1864, to the command of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac. In September, 1864, he was appointed Brigadier-Gene- ral, and in November of the same year Major-General of the United States Army He was in command of vari- ous military divisions of the Army from June 3, 1864, until September 12, 1S67 On March {, 1869, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the United States Army, and the same month took command of the military division of the Missouri He was in command of the Western Division, with headquarters at Chicago, until 1879. Sheridan succeeded Sherman as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, and month ago he was promoted to General, rank revived expressly in his honor. He is succeed ed in command of the army by Gene ral Schofeld. Peace to his ashesl
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
n be no question that in 8 .apted to the purposes. the

ve- of grapes is now and is ever likely to be very profitable in dustry In Contra Costa county, California, the assessor recently found that there were 3,150 acres devoted to vineyards. That the yield would average 31 tons to the acre, which will produce 1J0 g Hons of wine per ton of grapes, making a total of 1,653,750 gallons. At fifteen cents per gallon for new wine-a ridiculously low figure, brought about by combination of capitalists-this would amount to $248,0G2.50, an average of $79 for each acre. Here in the Salt river valley yield of from four to six tons of grapes can be safely counted upon. At the prices above quoted the net sum derived from the vineyard would be from $90 to $134 per acre. This is a most conservative estimate, but it serves to illustrate that when fruit lands sell in our valley at from $25 to $100 per acre they are really cheap as compared to grain lands at the rate of $5 to $20. Another point in the favor of fruit culture is, that from 9 to 10 acres of land is all that is necessary to possess in order to support 6 family and to lay up little money for a rainy day-Arizonan.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

IT has been demonstrated both in this valley and in Marcopa county that the mesa or table lands produce fruits of far superior quality to the bottom lands near the river. They attain larger size, are sweeter and better favored. The grapes of Mesa City cannot be excellei anywhere in the world, and the soil of that place is identical with that of the mesa south of Florence, through which the Flor ence canal meanders This broad stretch of rich land will be planted chiefly to fruits and more especially to raisin grapes, and in time it will be- come famous for the excellence of it's products.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

A NEW principle in electricity has been discovered and it has been uti- lized by Prof. Gray, of Washington, in the perfection ofan apparatus by which messages can be transmitted from one point 10 another in the sendcr's own handwriting, therby dispensing with skilled operators. This Is a long step of progress in telegraphy and it is an indication that the world is entering upon an era of wonderful achievement through the science of electricity.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11
The Citizen of the 9th says

The Citizen of the 9th says: Capt. Burgess and Mr. Simon Weller re turned from the Table Mountain cop per mines this morning after an ab- sence of nearly two weeks. They re- port the drowning of a young Mexican by name of Andreas Lopez in the San Pedro near Mammoth on Thursday last It appears that there had been horse race in the camp on the day previous, between horse owned by Lopez and another owned by man named Figuiroa, the stakes being the horses themselves and $l00, cash. Lo peg was beaten and endeavored to re turn across the river the morning follow ing, when his horse threw him and he was drowned. Repeated efforts have been made to recover the body but up to time of leaving they had not been sue cessful. Lopez was mayordomo for Col. Bill Atchley and was well thought of
 One of the significant signs of the times Is the great attention being be- slowed upon the concentration of ores throughout the southwest. No better proof of this fact can be offered than in the large amount of concentrating machinery now being erected or order ed from dealers. There are hundreds of properties in New Mexico and Ari zona now idle that if provided witt suitable plants to concentrate theil precious clements by eliminating theil base associations would be actively ex plotted and yielding steady revenue to their owners.-El Paso Bullion.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

Mir. sam Hughes returned from the San Pedro last nigat accompanied by his family. He reports that on Mon day night the San Pedro river raised six feet and on Tuesday night it rose seven feet additional, covering the entire bottom with rushing sheet of water to the depth of from two to four feet. During the last hour before MT. Hughes departure, it rose three inches and was still climbing the banks when he left. Fortunately the people warn ed by last years experience, had made preparations for just such things and but little harm will be done in conse- quence. The only real damage that is liable to occur will be the destruction of the second crop of corn and beans and melons and this IS to be feared will be total. He heard nothing about the Indians being hostile while there.-- Citizen.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-08-11

IFpresent indications can be relied upon southern Arizona will experience something in the nature of "boom" the coming fall and winter. Much Of popular prejudice against this really wonderful land has been removed through the efforts of the press and the testimony of sojourners from the cast, and the fact is beginning to be realized that this is indeed land of marvellous merit. Last winter wit messed the influx of many visitors who bore witness to the truth of the claims set up for Arizona and their gooi words will bear fruit the coming winter by a largely increased immigration. An ounce of tangible demonstration of the capabilities of our soil and climate is worth pound of empty theory and mere assertion, and the solid evidence of the fruit exports from the Salt river valley the present summer is quite sufficient to establish the reputation of the whole Gila valley as a fruit pro ducing section. The eastern farmer can now come to Arizona feeling con fident of meeting success from the start and knowing that he will engage i'll no costly experiments. The pio- neers have paved the way to easy suc- cess by achieving it and the people of the cast are fast learning the fact. The constant inquiry about the resources, the cost of lands and avariety of other information asked all leads to the con clusion that a greater interest is felt in Arizona affairs and that its dawn of prosperity is at hand