Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-05-03
Territorial News.
Florence Enterprise.

|
 J.D. Thomas, who returned this week from trip to the Mineral Hill district, reports considerable activity at the Pinal Consolidated mine, now owned by J. | Champion. Nine men are employed and | they are making good headway and de- yeloping the mine in systematic man. her. This property is showing up hand somely and is very promising property. The ore IS assorted, sacked and packed to Reymert and shipped from that point 1 by team to the railroad at Casa Grande, and it runs from a hundred to four hundred ounces in silver. There is a large body of splendid ore in sight in the mine.
 The case of the Territory against the Zulick prison commissioners came up in district court at Yuma last Monday, be- fore Judge Kibbey. The defendants raised the question of the jurisdiction of the court to hear the cases at Yuma, pending decision upon which briefs will be filed by the respective attorneys. The court expressed its willingness to give defendants a proper record upon which to perfect an appeal and had they waived the technicality of jurisdiction 
 | tion by the supreme court of the United States could be reached. It now looks as though they are in no hurry to bring the matter to a final issue.
 Owners of cattle ranging southwest of town pay but little heed to the com plaints of the settlers who suffer from their depredations. The feed upon the mesa IS growing scarce and there is no fence of wire that can keep the animals out of the tempting fields of grain and alfalfa. Some settlers who have started in with small improvement are about discouraged and unless the owners of the stock remove their predatory herds they may have recourse to more desperate and summary measures for protecting their fields. The law for bids cattle running at large in this, non-fence district, and if stock owners give no heed to its provisions, they will receive but little sympathy if the settlers wage war upon them and their herds.
 John Nichol and wife have returned east. MT. Nichols is one of the con tractors for the construction of the new storage reservoir sof the Florence canal, which is rapidly nearing completion. Charles MacRitchie now assumes sole charge of the work at the reservoir.
 Tim Curry, who was so severely in jured by an accident in the Silver King mine about a year ago that his life was despaired of for several months, has re- turned from California. He Is now able to walk about with the aid of cane, and Is daily gaining strength. His many friends in this vicinity express the hope that he will speedy recover the full use of his limbs.
 Jas A. Elder came down from his Riverside mines last Saturday. The de- velopments of the past few months have been of most satisfactory character, and show the properties to possess great value. A group of claims in which he holds a large interest has been bonded to an English Company and sale will probably be effected.
 Stockman.
 Norton & Co. have been awarded the contract for the transportation of gov ernment freight to and from Wilcox, Fort Thomas and San Carlos during the next fiscal year. H. c. Slavins, of Kan sas City, gets the contract for transport ation to Fort Grant, and Wickersham & Co. from Bowie station to Fit. Bowie.
 Pedro P Preciado, one of Fall < Soto Brothers efficient young clerks, has be- come a Benedict. He was married at Tucson on Monday last, his bride being Miss Lillie Haines, a charming young lady, who is sister of the wife of Sheriff Whelan, of Graham county. NIT. and Mrs. Preciado arrived in Wilcox, which is to be their home, Tuesday evening, and Pedro is again at his post in the store and doubly attentive to his busi- ness. The young couple have the best wishes of many friends, for prosperous and happy welded life.