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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
Stop My Paper.

After you get angry and make up your mind to stop your paper to make the editor feel humiliated, just poke your finger into cup of water and then look for the hole. Then you know how sadly you are missed. The man who thinks a paper cannot survive without his support, ought to go of and stay awhile When he comes back he will find out that half of his friends didn't know he WAS gone. The other half didn't care a cent, and the world at large hadn't kept any account of his movements whatever. You will find things you can not endorse in every paper. Even the Bible is rather plain and hits some hard licks. If you were to get mad and burn your Bible, the hundreds of presses would still go on printing them; and if you were to stop your paper and call the editor all sorts of ugly names the paper would still be published. And what is more you'll sneak around and borrow copy every week from your neighbor. It would be much better to keep your subscrip- ton paid year in advance.-N. Y. Star.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

THE secretary of the Navy says the state department has reached the end of its authority in the Samvon diff culty and the matter now rests with Congress which alone has power to de clare war. We smote Hayti very promptly for good cause, but the form of the Iron Chancellor looms up be- hind the Samvon matter and the United States does not want to knock the German empire out of the ring on account of little game of hog it is trying to play on an insignificant island in the Pacific Ocean.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
The Public Schools.

Through the advance sheets of the biennial report of Superintendent ] Strauss fEHl5wing infsrmation as the number Of schools, the receiptsSsn disbursements in each of the counties of Arizona for 1888 is given.
 Apache-1S schools, receipts II ,405,- 99, disbursements SIG, ,255.35. Receipts in excess of disbursements $240.64.
 Cochise-22 schools, receipts $20,- sos. 48, disbursements $1S,923.75. Receipts in excess of disbursements $1 ,S3475.
 Gila-9 schools. receipts, $4 ,669 dis bursements, S4 ,329.51; receipts ill ex- cess of disbursements $449.T9. Mohave-7 schools, receipts, $5 ,082- S8, disbursements $4,521.76; receipts in excess of disbursements $56I l3
 Maricopa-32 schools, receipts $2S,- 014 98, disbursements $22, ,56001; re- ceipts in excess of disbursements $2,- 454 97.
 Graham-l6 schools; receipts $14J- 09S,9 ,97, disbursements $11, ,343.91, re- ceipts in excess of disbursements $1,- 1 75506.
 Pima-23 schools, receipts $26, 6,590.- 39, disbursements $21 ,OO2 .24; receipts in excess of disbursements $5.58815.
 Pinal-11 schools, receipts $13, 3,125.- 99, disbursements $9,92O92; receipts in excess of disbursements, $3,205.- or.
 Yavapai-40 schools, receipts $28,- 360.97, disbursements, $22,715.91 re- ceipts in excess of disbursements $5,- 65506.
 Yuma-6 schools, receipts $5, ,239. IT, disbursements, $4, 4,63S.8S; receipts in excess of disbursements 5000 29.
 Total receipts $157, TOT 03, total dis. purse ments $130212 14. Total re- ceipts in excess of expenditures $27, 494 99.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

tion Thos Stanield was appointed road over as,. ,;;issfict No. for the year 1889 and the Clerk instructed to notify him and that he would be required to give good and sui fcient bond in the penal sum of S100O with in ten days.
 The petitions of Geo. R. Finch,T ". D. Kuykendal, R. Van Buskirk, L. W. Halliday District No. f. were taken up.
 On motion W. D. Kuykendal was appoint ed Road Overseer of District No. and the Clerk instructed to notify him of his appoint ment and that he would be required to file a good and sufficient bond in the sum of 5000 within 10 days
 The petitions of Geo. Acton, J. Schneider, D. c. Sellick and c. O. Dell, for Road Over seer of District No. were taken up. l On motion Geo. Acton was appointed Road l Overseer for District No. and the Clerk in stlucted to notify him of his appointment and that he would be required to file good and sufficient bond in the sum of S10oO within 1C days.
 On motion the office of Road Overseer ot District No. 2 was declared vacant
 On motion the office of Road Overseer oi District No. $ was declared vacant.
 On motion J. F. Mayhew was appointed Road Overseer in Road District No anc the Clerk instructed to notify him of his ap pointment and that he would be required tt give good and sufficient bond within ter days.
 On motion it was ordered that that portion of the county road in Dist rict No. 1, iron Oneda's station to one mile east of McLellanf well is hereby cut of of District No anc made part of District No. g.
 On motion the County Surveyor was re quested to make survey of the road 8 McLellan's well and make estimate of neces sary repairs.
 On motion the petition asking for new road from the north end of the Gila rive bridge wa s taken up and was referred bacl to petitioners for right of way
 On motion an allowance of s4 per montl was made in favor of the County Surveyor to pay office rent.
 On motion the Board adjourned until te morrow at 8 a. m. Attest W. c. SMITH
 VIM. E. GUILD Chairman Clerk
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
Social Life of Ancient Egyptians.

Guests who were invited to private house rode thither in their chariots or in sedan chairs carried by their servants, and like those now used in India and elsewhere. If the day was hot the cha riot or sedan chair was furnished with an umbrella to keep off the sun. An Egyptian gentleman often drove his own chariot, but servants attended him to help him to alight and to take charge of his team and chariot. While they were awaiting the announcement of dinner music was provided, and the principal features of the house were pointed out to the guests and, as with us, good man. ners constrained them to praise all they saw, and especially any curios shown to them. If visitors desired to wash their feet or hands before dinner, servants at tended on them, and in palaces the water pitcher and basin were of gold. Serv- ants also, as sign of welcome, poured from an alabaster or metal box sweet ointment upon the heads of the visitors and brought garlands of flowers. To each guest was also given a lotus flower, which he held in his hand while he re- mained in the hosts house. Wine was then brought round and both ladies and men paTtook of it, using cups of gold, silver or porcelain. The poor contented themselves with cups of earthenware or of some cheap metal.
 While the guests were being enter tained with music and dancing, dinner was being prepared, the meats including beef, goats flesh and venison; while ducks, geese, teal, quail and other birds were also provided. Mutton was not eaten. Great quantities of fish and veg etables were also served, the feast being exceedingly plentiful, and the dishes very various. Each dish was placed in the center of the table, and the guests dipped pieces of bread into it. When the host gave the sign, it was removed and another introduced. The poor could not, of course, secure such abundance as this, but lived largely on vegetables milk, cheese and fruit. At later period the Egyptians love of the table seems tC have increased, so that the mode of life of the higher classes was described as ever luxurious and even prohigate.-A | Inkersley in San Francisco Chronicle,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

THE special election in Graham county, held last Saturday. resulted in the choice of Hon. Geo. H. Stevens as member of the Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mir. Pomeroy. Mir Stevens will hold certificate of election and by virtue thereof participate in the organization of the House and practically sit in judgment upon his own case should the legality of his election be made the subject of inquiry. As the House is the sole judge of the qualifications of it's members there will doubtless be no objection raised to MT Stevens taking his seat as the member from Graham county.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

SENATOR STEWART has prepared substitute for the mining bill that pass cd the Senate last April, bas. on the criticisms made by the press and min ing men upon the bill, in which many changes are introduced. The limit of claim is fixed at fifteen hundred feet as by the present law and only that length can be located upon single vein by any person whether it be in one claim or many. The claims must be distinctly marked by posts or monu- ments so that it's boundary can be readily traced; work is required on the claim until the payment of pur- chase money and issuance of a certifi- cate of entry, $500 worth of work be- ing necessary before applying for a patent The beginning of the year for the annual assessment work amount ing to $50, is fixed at noon on the first day of October for all claims located prior to the first day of March, and on all claims located later than that date the assessment work is not due until enc year from the first day of the fol- lowing October. A company or asso- citation owning several adjoining claims can perform 5000 worth of work on one claim to apply upon all the others. It is provided also that an affidavit ol the performance of assessment work be filed with the county or district re. corder. The method of forfeiture by e co-owrer for nor-coltribution of his share Of .he assessment is practically the same as in the present law. There are other minor changes made in the substitute which was unanimously adopted by the committee and will be reported to the House for action at the first opportunity. While the law prohibits the location of more than one full claim by one person there is no restriction to any one obtaining any number of adjacent claims by pur chase, which fact suggests an easy evasion of the law through few ac commodating locators who may frs perfect their claims and then transfe by deed to the real party in interest Altogether the substitute is yer, good bill, even though the annual as sessment work is reduced so greatly and it will be great improvement upon the present imperfect law.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
Concerning the Tucson smelter.

It is now generally known that the final papers were sealed, signed and delivered one day last week, transfer ring the entire plant of the shelter and site in this city to NIT. Geist, of Pueblo, Colorado, who has been negotiating for it since last fall, and that he will commence the work of making the needed repairs soon, to put 1t in operation. Arrangements have already been made for putting in switch from the railroad to the shelter. MT. Geist has secured the San Xavier mine and will carry on the work there in the future All this means that the shelter will be put to work soon and that it will be the means of infusing new life not only into the mining interests in this imme- diate vicinity but throughout southern Arizona.-Citizen
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

REPORTS are brought from the liar qua-Hala gold fields that are not so rosy as the previous stories told of the richness of those mines. If they are as truthful as the character of the gentlemen giving them naturally i'm plies, the bubble will speedily collapse and the excitement soon pass away The big strike is said to be but rich pocket of ore and the adjacent lodges of low grade ore sampling from $10 to $40 per ton. Several assays made from the so-called carbonate ores give no valuable result.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

CAPTAIN DUTToN, of the geological survey, has come to Arizona, visited the towns to which he was invited and returned to the east without having set foot on the Gila valley at this place. Perhaps the difIident Captain felt that it would be an unpardonable intrusion upon our privacy to come amongst us without an invitation and make preparations to spend portion of the government app opriation here. It would have done no harm, but per haps considerable good, had he been visited by delegation of our people and persuaded to visit this valley He would have seen something more of the importance of the work in which he is engaged and imbibed encour- agement in the grand opportunity that here exists for the exercise of his scientific duties.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19


 Repeal the law creating the office of the Commissioner of Immigration for Arizona-a position that costs the tax payers of the territory $4000 annually and benefits. no one save the Commits sioner and his friends who may have axes to grind at the public expense.
 Repeal the law creating the office of Territorial Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction, because it takes $4 900 annually from lhe school fund of Ari- zona to benefit no one but some worn out political hack to whom the office is given for past services, while it de priyes the children of the Territory of money that Is justly and sacredly theirs.
 Repeal the law creating the Terri | torial Board of Equalization, for the reason that said Board is neither use i ful nor ornamental, although expen- sive; and for the further reason that, during its two years Of existence, it has | lessened the amount of taxable prop erty to Arizona more than Five Mil lions of dollars by lowering the assess ment of the several railroads of the Territory.
 Repeal the law increasing the poll tax from $2 to $2.50 per annum, be cause the same is excessive, and bears most heavily on the poorest classes oi citizens.
 Repeal the law increasing the road tax from g to S4 per year, for the reason that said tax is excessive and unjust, as residents of cities are ex empt while residents of the country only pay it.
 Repeal the law raising the rate oI interest on county warrants from eight to ten per cent per annum, because il benefits no one except professional money lenders and warrant grabbers
 Repeal all laws granting subsidie: regardless of the purposes for whicf the same were granted.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
A Lake of Hair Dye.

Mono Lake in Nevada constitutes the greatest natural deposits of hair dye in the known world. A white haired old Bodie man who went down to the lake this summer, was so pleas ed with the bathing to be had there, that he went in for a swlm regularly every evening af CT finishing his days work. He was down at the lake two weeks, and his friends hardly knew him when he got back He left Bodie a white-haired old man, and he came back a golden blonde and ap- parently man of only middle age.
 All who bathe in the waters of that lake become blondes, and if the bath ing is persisted in for any length of time, they get to be red-headed. A man last spring rented the Levining ranch on the north side of the lake. He has three strapping daughters. As soon as the water became warm enough, the girls went daily bathing in the lake, taking for their mermaid gambols time when all the linen folks" were on the ranch at work. At the time they began taking their dips in the lake, the girls were brown haired, but they soon found themselves becoming blondes. This so delighted them that they began bathing twice a day, and between times washed theil heads in water from the lake.-Boston | Traveller.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

THE output of Arizona in gold, sil- yer, ores and base bullion, during the year 1888, is given by the general manager of Wells, Fargo & Co.,, al $5,123,S6S. The datum upon which this computation is based was obtain ed solely from the company's books, and the railroad reports and does not fully represent the actual production for the reason that the ores shipped have been estimated as to their value and there are many other ways in which the product of the mines has escaped record.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
OFFICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS l
OF FINAL COUNTY, FLORENCE, A. T., Jan. g 1859.

FLORENCE, A T., Jan 1Se9
 The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present Chairman W. c. Smith, Supervisors E. W. Childs A. J. Doran, and Wm. E. Guild, Clerk.
 The minutes of yesterdays meeting were read and approved.
 On motion the Clerk was instructed to ad- vertise for sealed proposals fer building a branch jail at Casa Grande as per specified tions on file with the Clerk
 The account of J. c. Harris, for care of the Florence cemetery and burying paupers, amounting to S232 was taken up audited and the Clerk instructed to draw warrant on the general fund for the amount.
 On motion the office of S perintendent of the Florence Cemetery is hereby declared vacant,
 The Probate Judge audited the accounts of the Supervise as follows E. w. Childs, mileage and per diem 47 co A. J. Doran. '' s' '' :. 19 co w. c. Smith, ,' " 9 40 The minutes of the above meeting were read and approved.
 On motion the Board adjourned until Feb. ruary, 8, 1889.
 Attest. ". C. SMITH
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
A Panic to Come.

Samuel Benner, the well-known New York prophet, prints in the Real Estate Record his forecasts for 1889, 1890 and 1891. Among other things he says:
 "The year 1889 opens with cheerful hopes. Our crops during the past year have been abundant. The pros poets of an increased foreign demand for our surplus grain and provisions at advanced prices gives the farmers renewed energy. With fair early crops business and prices will show consid- erable improvement in the spring months. We are at the beginning of prosperous period, and the outlook is for decided improvement and ad- vance in the price of iron, railroad stocks and all other manufactured commodities. 1 predict that the price of iron will be advanced and that the average price of 'S9 will be higher than the average for 'SS, and that there will be a wonderful advance in the price of iron stocks and all iron products and commodities in 1890. All busi- will be prosperous. It will be good year for crops and boom year.
 "In the beginning of 1891 business will be at its night. There will be a great business infation Pig iron will bring $50 per ton. I predict thai there will be panic in 1891. This panic will be commercial and fnan cial revolution, and will be followed by a long downward sweep of prices"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

=egst~drd would imagine that scarcely more than twenty miles to the north ward, stretching a distance of two hundred and fifty miles parallel with the railroad, broad and fertile valley exists whose magnihcence Is destined to be the pride of the far west; val ley that nature has endowed with every essential resource for mans prosperity and happiness; a valley where pretty towns and fine farms may be seen, and all the small, decidu ous and citrus fruits mature with a perfection nowhere else attained This wonderful valley of the ( fla is capable of supporting in aiiluence population of more than quarter of million people and the entire valley will be- come a succession of beautiful gardens and fruitful orchards. The casual traveller sees nothing of these attrac- tions on his journey by rail through the Territory.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
The Cuyamaca Railroad.

The reporter learns through private advices that the Cuyamaca and east ern railroad, leading out of San Diego, is now employing 1000 Chinese grad CTS, and that work is being pushed rapidly. This road was recently sold by the original company, Governor Watteman, of California being at its head, to an eastern company, whose name was not known. It is now pretty thoroughly settled that the purchaser was the Chicago and Rock Island rail road company, which is now pushing westward to Albuquerque, and is anx- ious to have terminus on the Pacific seaboard. The information received by us is to the effect that western road-the Cuyamaca-will be showed eastward as fast as possible, and that the Salt River valley is It's present ob- jective point. From here to Albuquer- que connections, through the most direct route, could easily be made, and another trans-continental line of travel established. Judging from the efforts now being made by the several Atlantic and Pacific railroad lines, there can be little doubt that the Rock Island schemes will be rapidly pushed forward, and Phenix will, dur ing the present year, enjoy the benefits of being station on a trunk line- ArlZOnan.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

 setation few months ago. A few thousands of acres of new land will be under crop this spring and be- fore another year arrives nearly one hundred thousand acres of new land will be added to the productive ca pacity of this valley. It is essentially fruit land, all of it, and 1t will be plant ed largely to raisin grapes with gen eral assortment of fruits for home use. The orange and lemon can be grown successfully upon these lands and will eventually add considerably to the desirabiiity of homes in this section, and nearly every fruit of the temperate and semi-tropical zone will flourish here. These lands but recently .en- tered under the land laws of the United States, will possess value within the next five years of from one hundred to five hundred dollars peI acre, and they will be cheap at the latter price
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19
Notice.

Sealed proposals for county printing. bury ing paupers, and boarding prisoners in cOen-, ty jail (per meal, two meals day. easak
 tract for the year 1889 will be received by the Board of Supervisors until February Sth. Ths Board reserves the right to reject any CT all bids. All envelopes enclosing bids mnst have marked on outside what the bid is for and bs in the hands of the Clerk on or before Eel ru- ary Sth. Wv. E. GUILD, Clerk.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-19

4NIIzlll5 .,,is' rec Tzsolic upon the proposed government aid to the arid regions by the construction of storage reservoirs, that displays the most woe full ignorance of the subject under dis cussion that we can remember having seen in a metropolitan journal for many years. It treats the appropri- ation for the survey of these lands as a big steal from the treasury and the whole scheme as direct attack upon the land values in the Middle and Western States. Its comparison of the production of these arid lands, when irrigated, with those of Missouri is indeed amusing to any one at all acquainted with the capabilities of tha soil of Arizona which comes un- der the ban of the Republics argu- ment. The ague lands of Missouri bear no comparison in value to any of the reclaimed lands of this Terri tory.
 So far as the policy of applying gov ernment aid to these lands is concern ed, it is but part of the general pol icy of internal improvements that has prevailed for many years. The annu- al appropriation of large sums of mon ey from the national treasury for the improvement of sun-shower creeks and mud sloughs is undoubtedly of questionable value, while the modest sum required for the aid asked in making the vast tracts of rich but arid lands habitable, will be more than re- imbursed by the direct sale of these desirable tracts to actual settlers, to say nothing of the hundreds of thous- ands of happy homes that will be ere ated in climate that has no equal anywhere in the world.
 The Republic does gross injustice to portion of the great west that is deserving of consideration at the hands of the government. In Arizona the communities that have grown up from the efforts of individual enterprise in the way of water development con tribute to the public exchequer largely in excess of all sums received in main taining the form of government i'm posed upon them, and with the aid SO Ecited in developing the natural advan tages of the Territory for storing tht surplus water for use during the dry season, it would increase its contribu tions in a wonderful ratio.
 But the animus of the Republic' tirade of abuse is readily seen in the inference that the arid region is ab sorbing all the desirable immigration to the exclusion of the older states particularly Missouri. This circum .sience is but the natural result of tho superioiQG Glyantages this arid country possesses when water for irrigation has been developed, and among ou ranehmen are many good people iron Missouri who could not be induced {, return to the toll and the ague the, endured before coming to Arizona.
 If the Republic can be induced t give the subject an impartial investi gation we feel sure it would change it biased opinions concerning the ari regions and be found among the warm est advocates of the system of propo: ed government aid in their behalf