Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-01-01
RETROSPECTIVE
What q Year Has Brought Forth

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 What q Year Has Brought Forth
 While not being able financially t
 indulge in the luxury Of special illus
 tFa,ed New Years edition of the IouR
 NAL MINER. 2 retrospect ef the year wil
 be found of interest, nei only to loca
 readers. but particularly so to our man,
 readers in the easteas states and Cali
 foInia, who are interested in mines
 sock ranches. esc.. in this pait of Ari
 zona The year just drawing tc elsss
 bas been one Of general prosperity ia
 nearly every branch of business. Tho
 industry experiencing the smallest de. gee of ;he general prosperity probably has been
 THE LINE STOCK INTERESTS The year opened with good prices ruling fer lat s,eck, but prices have sradualy depreciatsd. and Southern Cal l.orn;a towns. the natural market fer this portion of Arizona, has received such an iriiax of beef cattle tha; for the past few weeks there have been but tew sales made This. however, will only be temporary, and gsod prices will obtain again within the next few months. Stock has been entirely free from con tagious diseases, whiie the increase has been above the average. So that, aside from the low prices that have prevailed even this industry has been fairly pros porous. The following. rem the assess mens roll of the county. vii se found of interest: Total assessed valuation Q. all kinds ef property iu the county, Ss,- 545,ss5s4. Number of horses. r4,Irr, valued at $s5s.Iss.oo; .css&e, Ise,s7s. valued at SI,s44sss; shesp, Ioa.i7i, valued al SiSAooc,5 SO, swine, ssi. val ued at Ss,o6o.o The value Q; live stock shipped during the year has been $ioo,ooo. The principal buyers have been ]. Q. Stephens. ]. W. Sulliraa and the late C. " Beach.
 MINING.
 The mining interests have been un usually active during the year. A greater number of sales have been con- sunmalsd, and larger amount sxpend- cd in development work and improve ments in the way of building mills, stc., than during any previous year in the bis tory of the couaty. Ofth more impor- t,ni sales that have been made during the year, to szy nothing O. the numerous transfers Of small claims. may b. men tiened the Dixie group on Lynx Creek, .he Mockinsbird on Cherry Creek. tue Dan oBoYle mines CT the HGsssyamps, the Silver King and adjoining group on Groom Creek. the Black Horse on ,he Iiassayampa the Ryland mine d Min nehaha, the Del Pasco group of mines n Inc Bradshaw mountains. the Senator mine on the HAsssyampa, the Bogss md Blackberry on Big Bug, and the 1 mine a! Piacsriias.
 The year has also witnessed the build 1 ug of mill st the Congress mine al a ,osi of S6o, eco. together with other iu- provements costing fully $4e,ooo more 1 he Dixie mill costing $ao,ooo the Quartz Mountain mill costing the same he Wire Gold mill costing $Ie.coo and he Cherry Creek mill costing from $Ie.. | 'eo Ia $so,coc, and from $s,ooo 10 10000 spent in putting the Eta mil, l repair. The, Gro Bella, Crowned Sing and Ryland mills, although built ] 1888, were not started until the early art of 1889. and have all proven sue essful, and are now ranged among the aYing enterpnses of the county. The .oppeT basin snei,er IS also among the nierprises stared up during 1889, hiie the lrited Verde shelter, started 7me four or five years ago, has just dded another year to it's successful peration.
 ThE MINERAL PRODUCT or the year will reach very close to I,5oo, GOO, or an increase of about one alt over thst Of 1888. The largest l for 1889 have been the same ! duging ISSS--the Congress and Hill l de- the former having more than douh- d its product fer 1888. l. is now, I | nee ststting the mil, producing in ere I'd concentrates over $4o,ooo per onth, or on yearly basis of Ssoo. .oeo. l $ be producing power of the mine IS cs. .