Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-02-25
Local Items.

in town this week.
 Six excursion trains passed Casa Gran de for California on Tu esday.
 Mir. w. E. Miller and w. P. Bam- rick Ill ade trip to Picacho this week. Mart Moloney, of Tucson, is in town visiting his friends and acquaintances here.
 A gentle but copious rainfall on Tues day night was blessing the farmers en- joyed.
 A train of loaded teams from Casa Grande went up to the Reymert mines this week.
 The new railroad agent and telegoap operator al Casa Grande is named MT. D avidson.
 Mir. J. P. Slavan is up from Casa Grande purchasing lot of fruit and or namental trees.
 MT. J. G. Hammels will take out a force of men to work on his claims at the Owl Heads.
 Gen. W. E. Hobson left Casa Grande on Thursday for Kentucky, and will be absent couple of months.
 MT. J. G. Heating left yesterday for Fort Smith, Arkansas, to visit a brother who is on the point of death.
 Mir. Chas c. Lewis returned from the Silver King on Wednesday and will remain here for a short time.
 Mir. c. w. Culver has purchased the interest of his pa rtner, Mir. Roemer, in the Silver King freighting trains.
 The chain gang gave the streets thorough cleaning under the direction of Deputy Sheriff James Thomas, th;s week Mir. c. w. Fuller has cleared, broken and plan ted to grain about seventy acres of his new land under the Florence canal this season.
 Mir. w. N. Crandall, Manager of the Florence canal, arrived last Sunday and will attend at once to the construction work of the canal.
 Dr. P. c. Warner is erecting new cottage q few blocks north of the school house. It will contain three rooms and will make cosy residence.
 Mir. P R. Brady, Jr., has been in town this week from the Owl Heads. He is interested in several very promising min ing properties in that district
 Mir James Dillabsw came in from Mineral Hill Thursday evening with a quantity ot selected ore which he ship ped to Fl Paso for red uction.
 Rev. U. Gregory. D. D., will hold services at the Court House tomorrow at II a. m. and D. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Everybody invited.
 A pleasant hop was given on Tuesday evening instead of Wednesday evening, to accommodate those who desired to at tend the Select Knights ball in Pinal. The Florence Canal Company will run tele phone line along the canal from it's office in town, and will manage its affairs by this speedy means of communication Dir. AL McGrath was down from the Ray camp at Riverside on Saturday. Re gardiug the rumors that the Ray mine is to resume operations, he was as mum as ah oyster.
 Messrs. w. C.. Smith & Co.'s store at this place is now provided with private telegraph office as we'll as a telephone. Mir r. B. Maldonado manipulates the instrument.
 Mir. w. H. Merritt came down from the Reymert on Wednesday with four bars of bullion. This mine IS HOW a steady producer under Judge J. D.. Walkers management.
 The road overseer Is making arrange ments with the freighters to haul gravel for the repair of the Casa Grsnde road at McLellans we'll, short distance this side the Half Way House.
 Mir. A. E. Campbell arrived from the east on Tuesday to visit his brother, Mir. Geo. w. Campbell. Mir. Campbell was formerly a resident of Clifton and finds mu ch to admire in Arizona.
 T he Pittsburg Daily Press and other east srn papers have copied from the Kansas City News Mir. F. E. McCrary s interview OH Arizona and good words are being said for the Territory.
 The Phenix papers estimate that 12,- OO0, ,O00 pounds of grain will be shipped by the Maricopa & Phenix railroad from Sacaton switch next fall-all raised by the Pima and Maricopa Indians.
 Mir. A. T. Colton has ordered ditch inc machine for the purpose of excavat- ing supply ditches on tracts to be irri gated. The machine will build ditcl about as rapidly as the team can haul it
 Mir. Thomas Love has resigned the agency of the Southern Pacific railroad at Casa Grande to accept position witt Mir W. c. Smith at that place. Hi, successor took charge of the office las week.
 The first real thunder shower of tn, season occurred on Tuesday, Februarl 21st. Several mutterings of thunder were heard few weeks ago at distance but no rain accompanied the electrica disturbance.
 The new school house bell preserves an eloquent silence. A slight flaw wal discovered in it when it was received and this has developed into true ifs sure and, like George Francis Train the thing is badly cracked.
 Mir. D. H. Snyder was iu from River side on Saturday and Sunday. He is in terested in some very valua ble coppe claims in that district and it will not b. surprising if he should make a very ad vantageous sale of them before long.
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