Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-02-16

Prospects for Rapid Growth in the |
 Future.
 Casa Grande is now in better con dition than it ever was before. The | prospects for the future are exceeding ly good and there is a general feeling of confidence among the people The place has now about 250 population with two general stores, two hotels, two butcher shops, two barber shops. three saloons, one bakery, one black smith shop, three c0rrals, one lumber yard and one hardware store. There is a school maintained here at public expense for six months in the year There Is an average attendance of 40 scholars and the school is prosperous under the management of Miss Bessie
 Marshall. The enterprlsing people of | Casa Grande take pride in their ed ucational matters and a comfortable building has been erected for school purposes.
 The business men have nc com
 plaints to make and are doing more
 business than ever before, notwith-
 standing the fact that large amount
 of freighting that was formerly done
 between Casa Grande and Silver King
 has been suspended.
 THE STORES.
 The two stores are kept one by T.
 Tomlinson and one by ". c. Smith
 Mir. Tomlinson has splendid build
 ing just opposite the depot and has
 lately added an unusually large stock
 of goods. He has been in the mer-
 camille business at this place for seven
 years. Mr. ]. NJ. Ochoa was 8 former
 partner in this business but recently
 withdrew and left Mr Tomlinson alone. who IS well known far and near. and
 enjoys fine business He carries q
 general stock of dry goods, groceries and miners supplies.
 Mir. ". c. Smith IS at the head of a
 fine store in Casa Grande. He has also been in business long time and
 is very popular, as Is evidenced by his , recent election as a member of the , Pinal county Board of Supervisors The stock carried by him is complete | in every department and he sells g f large amount of merchandise and hi, customers are scattered from Pima and Silver King to the Vekol camp or
 the south.
 , The hotels are kept by Mrs. Drew
 and Mrs. Wood respectively and arc | first-class, the table at all times wei : provided and the rooms elegantly fur nished throughout. They enjoy s : good business, both from local an( ' transient business custom. Mrs. Jert : Fryer will, in short time, take charg, , of the hotel now kept by Mrs. Drew 2 She owns the building and is having r it refited throughout and will talk . charge next week.
 s The saloons are kept by men Wht : understand the business and the ne I cessity of keeping things neat and or : derly about their respective places. V The water used in Casa Grande 10 1 all purposes is raised from wells, b. I pumps, windmills and by hand and i > to be had in inexhaustible quan:itie L. at q depth of B to 40 feet. The rail 3 road tank at this place holds 52,00 1. gallons and many of The people hay i been allowed to lay pipes from it t
 their homes and places of bushes
 aud draw their supply of water iron r there.
 'l Mir. Arthur Elliott, the postmastel S express agent and agent for the stag T companies and formerly the Gibralta > of the "Voice of Arizona" has ftte ,,V himself up nice home and surround l. ed it with many conveniences. H
 has number of fruit trees grape a
 bor, etc., and brood of Plymoth Roe
 chickens numbering about seventy C Y eighty.
 Ie Mr. T. Hams, of Kansas City, gen, d. ral manager and vice-president of tn 'F Lela Mining Company, is now in Gas IT Grande looking after the business ( =, his company Mir. Hams thinks Ar r. zona is destined to become the for le most mining state in the union. A S. it needs is men with capital suificier f. to uncover and reduce the ore Tn 10 he is positive will be attracted sool t- What is needed is @ concerted an Df harmonious action of those intereste rs in mining property, and less of u 7s disposition that often crops out, g. meddling in sales in which they al le not Individually interested. ro ~ Mir. P. Boscha has recently opene pr livery stable and corral at this'plac re He was formerly in the same busine ra at Pinal, and was deputy sheriff thel ot under Pete Gabriel.
 la The outlook for Casa Grande
 most promising. Three mills are no
 sure to go up at the mines, 18 mil south, which will furnish work for v, large number of men and Casa GranC le will be the metropolis of what now lool SC to be one of the richest and busie c, mining camps in Arizona.-Citizen. o5
 \" Murdered by an Indian. " The fancied security from Indie