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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
"Shot Gun" Smith
solomonviile Bulletln.

The Bulletin editor had the pleasure Of meeting ''Shot Gun" Smith at Grant this week. Mir. Smith is pleasant and interest," ing gentlemen, intelligent and has not the wild and woody appearance that his nick name wOald suggest. He came to Ari- zona as a Lieutenant in the army in the early days, bat qut the government service, so that he might have full swing in a new country. He has been engaged in mining mostly ever since, and now has a cabin and few cattle in picturesque cailon in the foothills of the Graham mountains, where be lives alone, except when extending hospitality to sojourning prospectors and cowboys who chance to pass his way. Several times in the past his place has been attacked by Indians and few red skins have been sent to the happy hunting grounds by his steady nerve and correct aim, and although never scratched himself, he has buried two or three mining partners who were sent to the other side by Apache bullets
 Twenty years ago he was in Tucson when red hot newspaper war came on duringa campaign. He had been driven from camp to town by maraudmg Indians and was out of a job. One of the candi- dates for congress, backed by gang of desparadoes and rustlers, who were num- erous at that time in the old pueblo, had threatened to destroy the old Arizonan office, and Smith was employed to guard and protect the property for S10 per night; he marched to and fro in front of that newspaper office, with shot gun on his shoulder, nightly for more than a week, depositing his gun, drawing his
 pay, and taking a cocktail in Charley Browns saloon every morning before breakfast. Since that time he has been 1 known as "Shot Gun" Smith.
 He now owns several valuable mines ir
 the Clark mining district between For 1 Grant and Cedar Springs, but is desirous
 of selling out. so that he may take trip l to ths states.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
Pnenix BroOms.
Phenix Gazette.

The Salt river valley is fast becoming noted for it's varied productions and the last, but by no means the least, is first class broom factory G. B. Norton, who settled in this valley about four years ago, purchased the Dr. Jones farm, one half mile southwest of Phenix, and he soon ascertained that tie country was wonder fully adapted to growing broom corn.
 He sampled some that grew on his farm and found 1t to be of admirable quality, and he at once set to work to inaugurate factory for the manufacture of brooms. Captain Norton the present year planted % acres to broom corn and raised two crops year. The yield is about one-half ton to the acre and is worth from $80 to S175 per ton. So il will be seen that it is q profitable crop to cultivate.
 The factory i- now turning out l8 dog ems per week and find ready market 1T this county, but Captain Norton informs us that he will increase his facilities and supply the territory. His brooms art i tine best we have seen and there is nt reason why be should not succee &A hi business.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
SOLD FOk A SONG.
How Pueblo, Man Secured tho ''Sevei
 Claims" Copper Mine for s ioo.

The Pueblo, Colorado, correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat dishes up bit of stale Arizona news under date of December 10th. in the following faulty style:
 At Bisbee, Ariz, are the copper mines of the Copper Queen Mining Company, with capital stock of $2,500,000. mostly held in New York City. During the time that copper was advancing So rapidly. as a result of the m1nipulations of the cop per syndicate, the Copper Queen Com pany derived all immense fortune from its property. which it had developed to a large extent. Adjoining this property were several mining claims known as the "Seven Claims owned by one James Daly, absolute sort of chap. He made no effort to develop his property further than to keep up the work necessary to hold his claim. The Queen Company made him several offers bat Daily refused to sell.
 One day Daily quarreled with a Mexi- can in the employ of the Copper Queen Mining Company and inflicted several bad wounds with pick. When the Constable. named Hawthorne, approached Daly's cabin to arrest him the latter drew his Winchester rife to luis shoulder killing Hawthorne, instantly. Daly escaped and the Copper Queen Company offered re- ward of $450o for his capture. Thinking he would escape to Mexico, the company spent large sums of money seeking there for him. Public sentiment was strong against Daly, and had he been captured he would have been lynohed.
 On September Andrew Mehan, a former resident of Bisbee, met Daly on Union avenue in Pueblo, and instantly recognized him. Mehan was once a Dep uty Sheriff in Bisbee, and Daly at once jumped to the conclusion that Mehan was after him. Tbe result of their meeting was proposal from Daly to sell his min ing property to AIehan. Mehan had no money, but secarei. through a lawyer friend, sufficient cash to close the trade. The records show that the consideration was $l00 for nine mining claims, situated by the side of the Copper Queen Com pany. Another claim adjoining the Daly property recently sold at Sheriff sale for ! SS0,000 so that there is no doubt of the A value of the Seven Claims"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
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carry the work to a successful end. They are, for the most part among the earliest settlers of Arizona, and are justly entitled to the wealth that will be theirs when this work shall be accomplish ed.
 Several thousands acres of the land to be irrigated is believed to be especially adapted to the cultivation of citrus fruits, and all of it can be reckoned as among the best fruit land in the world. 4 very large portion of it equally>good for the cereals, alfalfa, sugar beets and. sugar cane.
 The north and south railroad will trav- erse this belt of land, by whichever route it may be built
 Phenix, and the whole of Maricopa county should experience some life dur ing the expenditure of this large amount of money, and the north and south rail- road, as well as when these thousands of acres are covered with thrifty farms, and the railroad has opened the markets in the northern part of our Territory and the great northwest for our semi-tropical and other fruitS
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
To Ills Final Rest,
Wilcox Stockmsn

On Thursday morning telegram was received announcing the sorrowful news of the death. the night previous, of D. N. Hunsaker, The Stockman's editor. It is blow that will be forever felt by his relatives, friends and acquaintanees every where, by all of whom he was loved and honored.
 He was an honored member of Wilcox Lodge No. II, 4 O. U. w. since Feb ruary 23, 1889, and during this time held important offices in our lodge. and at the time of his death was Junior Past Master, and for the devoted and con- scientious performance of his duties to the lodge and it's members he was model fl i for all to copy after
 He was born in Martinez, Contra Costa county, California, in 1857, thus making him but 33 years of age. At the age ol II he entered the office of the San Diego World, conducted by Ben Truman, and there learned .sSeaxinter's trade, and aftel serving his. a9 ;ceship, held importan same cif e.ms to Arizon' m and iocl '||Ill5 Iz .s5 ,ssse Sc cured a =. !. |st satti' bueine pen
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27


 of shipping before the crop came in from other sources. Still we had good mar ket and realized eleven cents pound for peas. This year the shipments have been heavier A short while ago, in re- sponse to letter I sent to New York commission firm. l received letter ask ing me to send the names of several com mission houses here in the city. l did SC and correspondence was struck up which resulted in the New York firm ordering a shipment Of ten pounds of diff fcrent kinds of fruits and vegetables. { This was sent and immediately an order was telegraphed to ship twenty boxes. and this was followed by an order for a ton of vegetables, which we shipped last week.
 We are now shipping from thirty to forty crates of strawberries day, and the appearances are that the shipments will grow heavier.
 Telegraph advices from Chicago in l form me that peas and beans there bring $6 to SS per bushel, and d 15-pound lot 1 of tomatoes brings S2.50. Shipments oi crates of thirty boxes of strawberries have | netted S16 in Kansas City and Sl4 in l Chicago. Shipments were made to Den yer and Pueblo. Colorado, which brought 36 cents per quart. The shipments are made by express direct from the grower to the purchaser without the interven ton of middle man. Our rates are ( cents pound to Chicago and 715 cents to New York.
 We expect a brisk business in this line i but there are two classes of people whC must first be educated to secure an ex tensiyeness of shipping g-that is, first. th' growers must know they car sell thei produce of this season in the East. ant the Eastern people mast become awar' that such produce will appear in thei markets from Southern California"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
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ducing immigration to Arizoua In addition to the above mentioned amount received from the government by an act passed by Congress during Sep tember, the territory has received S15,O00 for the establishment and maintenance of an
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
 This college will be located in the Uni versity building at Tucson. and running under the same managing board of con trol as the school of mines and the exper- mental stations This amount has now been made available and in the early spring the college will be opened for stu dents. A limited curriculum has been adopted, eomprehending the study of the higher mathematics, botany, chemis- try, mineralogy, and agricultural sci ences, taking the pupil as he graduates from our grammar schools and carrying him forward in the above mentioned studies.
 APPARATUS | To the amount of S3.000 has been ordered and will be here about February next The greater portion of this comes from i abroad. and importing in this manner 1t is admitted free of duty, thus saving 1 the profit of the middlemen. The labora ! tOA VI O AaAlbON CAtCuL, WILL DC- III ODCI- ation by January first. The university grounds
 1 HAVE BEEN LAID OUT After the most approved fashion, sites being reserved for dwelling houses fol the faculty immediately to the north oi the present building, and dor1nitory l for the scholars south and west of the college building; wide drive leading to the main entrance of the building iron the west, another encircling the greater 1 portion of the grounds. The ground: are now being plowed and
 TREE PLANTING
 Will begin as soon as they arrive iron California, from where they have beer ordered.
 The territory is receiving great bene fit from this government act and thu board should be encouraged and helped by the good will of the citizens of th' territory, as this is all the compensation they receive for the handling of thos, large sums of money.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

that time the Queen Company offered them S50000 for the property which is now owned as follows: D. c. Turner, of Pue- bio, one-half interest; L. W. Chandler, one-third, and Andrew Mehan, one-sixth interest. A recent assay made in Pueblo of a sample rock from these claims re- suited in showing 3 per cent gold and 2z per cent copper. But the owners lack capital to properly develop their mines and are looking for a purchaser. or one who will assist them to develop the mines Last week gentleman from Bisbee was in the city, and rumor at once was start ed that the Copper Queen company had sent an agent to buy the mines.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
Officers Explain Why Indi2ns
 Depredations in Spite of the q
Phenix Herald

Expectations in Spite of the A,7
 Phenix Herald
 "Yes.'' said Lieut.. Kirby, ..the torial press seems to be getting afu because We can't catch every In6i the reservation. any more than c. could kill all the mice in doze1 cribs.'
 .The truth Is. Mir. Herald rel continued he, tits a physical iln1 : to cover the whole field with tzs forces at our disposal l know. Clark, who is blamed by the Ton coroner's jury because Robinsd Bridger were ambuscaded on the alupe last week. He is a model and I am sure he did lis falldst1 policemen can absolutely prev glary in towns, numerous and piled as they are, then it may be ask a handful of troops to taI guard country that really nee5 corps almost for the purpose
 Further talk with Lieutena and Anderson, who happened tJ disclosed the military opinion til extra troops now massed in the F and Standing Rock country Dakota, are just about equal a similar force of Indians, on own ground as they are and mans peculiar style of warff The conversation brough1 stance of soIdierly fidelity, VI Anderson, of Fort Mcdowell, ing baggage train from Sad Ft. Wingate. A six-mule teaI| and. rather than delay the soldiers harnessed themselv> ' n !
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

Tombstone ProspeS
 The service of Rev. DoTS dead body of John Bridges contained some interesting p practical nature. Lack ofspac, its entire publication. Allua cause. he said: Before us | remains of an immortal
 come to an untimely deaL3 cruelty murdered and then those notorious red tiends ON tains and forests. Murdered Murdered for gunl An inly forced into eternity for funl S deeds can not be pictured. YcS have to dip your brush in the ! pitch of the lowest pit of the Inf3 gions to do justice to such CT have been in Arizona over five VI know something of these deeds. <
 An innocent freighter on tbe la San Carlos to Globe. was shot .4 the heart some months ago and ! ed his funeral sermon the next ds
 Shot down for a Winchester nl
 l have been exposed more thayl dred times in and around (1lot
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

come swar. ming across the plains, from the blizzard Ssriisen localities of the north west, men aod women seeking homes where the air is rich with perfume of health, and healing, and where prosperity ahides
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
Woman shota clifton

Solomonyille Bulletin, 4 News reached here yesterday cSs& fortunate shooting affair at Clift1 Charley Stevens is reported come engaged in a wordy war M Kirchner, at whom she took a ing the intended victim, ha shooting a Mexican girl tia ill the hand. or arn
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
BERRIES AND PEAS.
Find Ready Winter Market in the East
 ern States.
los Angeles Express.

"There is a steady and ready market for out of-season fruits and vegetables in
 the East" said s. A. Butler, agent of the Wells-Fargo Express Company. ''There have been considerable shipments of strawberries, tomatoes, peas and beans to these markets, and they have all netted the shippers good prices. It is q new thing for us 10 ship these things from Southern California in the winter season. There have bea. considerable shipments ! lrl,iner fhe sxs,nfar fra1n thA nnrtherr1 ma rt
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
CATTLE TRAIL.
Work Ordered to be Commenced on if at
 Once.

Work Ordered to be Commenced on if at
 Once.
 Tucson Citizen.
 Several meetings of the South Western Live Stock Association have been held lately and new names enrolled.
 At a. meeting held Dec. 11th, 1t was de- cided to make an offer to the Southern Pacific railroad to abandon the building of the trail on condition that the present rates of shipment of cattle be reduced one third. The proposal was handed to Mir. O. M Burkhalter, agent for the Southern Pacific railroad. and he forwarded the proposition to General Freight Agent C.. F. Smurr. An adverse answer from Mir. Smurr at once settled the matter, and orders have been given for work to. be at once commenced on the trail, and for the building of boat with which to ferry cat
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
AT CLIFTON.
ONE OF THE LTyELiEsT cAsIPI
 THE TERRITORY.
s5O Tons of Copper Per Month are ped by One Company-4.i61T i61Tf; e--N :, 2, P;ctp-ssqu,s Hamlet, and One that has Future. 4 Few
 Hurried Notes
Corr. Tucson Citizen

CLIFTON, Dec. IA. We are at e tonight. Most if not quite all renders are familiar with Clifton, ana stories of its rich mines. Yet owing | position, somewhat back from the highways of travel, Clifton is not Vi so often as 1t would be otherwise; is safe to say that the first visit Is the last-divine providence peTmi
 MISS NOBODY FROM NowHEnE. Archie Gunter's latest novel takes ton of its plot and descriptions] Clifton and the vicinity Conn ranch where the flair English lady butchered by Apaches: the box can the Gila that protected dear Mir. and the golden haired orphan that day became his wife; the hotel at burg, where Garvey compelled the ed philanthropodist' to act as 7e5u1 jury are familiar scenes within paratiye short raaioiis of Clifton
 An author could scarcely choose 3 5 romantic spot about which to wea2M story Dame nature in all he vagaries, has seldom outdid the , her hands up and down tine San f'f river. Scott is applicable when ! 1( The rocky summit split and rent
 Tone'd turred, dome or battiement, Or seemed fantcaliy set
 With cupola or minaret,
 Crest-wild as pagod ever deckcd
 Or mosque or eastern architect
 SOUTH OF CLIFTON.
 On precipice overlooking the ysi and plain for leagues are the ruined tifications of what was once a popul Indian city. The road to this lmpregni height by Is dizzy path on the Side the cliff to three successive mesas. third and highest is surrounded by
 .orks of rock and lava aatter inside are number of small pits " capacity of several men each. The gr within the fortress is strewn with osn flint, broken arrow heads, crude m and fragments of household utensils NJ. J. Egan has recently superinte some excavations among the. debris and we shall expect to hear Of some able and curious finds.
 CONCERNING THE BUSIN Ess interests of Clifton the brief space al l,ara will ,,fs4..x.ar.z.st .... s.z....ss-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

 present, that Clifton is the most tioz ing mining camp which the writer visited in the territory. Every making money and of eourse ever happy.
 nla.s Arizona Copper Compan! shipping an average Of :zsJs;-yr,lis oT per month in addition to large lad of matte. The company which I English and Scotch syndicate has q yestment of S7,0O0,0D0, and the st dous plan of the outlay IS q magn monument to sturdy Scotch entel and perseverance. l
 Gen. Manager Shennanis of the that the price of copper will stead crease till spring. The general fiji depression has much to do with this. !: the outlook of Arizona copper prGnl
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
Storage Rcssrvoirs.
Phenix Herald.

The reservoir system about to be es- tablshed on the Agua Fria, a detailed account of which we give in another column to-day, Is matter of great import ance to this valley and the country con tiguous on the north. The volume of water coming down that stream in the rainy seasons is enormous and surely sufficient to irrigate all the lands it can be brought onto north of tho Arizona ca nal. It is important in this, that the pro- ject in no way interferes with the waters of the Verde and Salt rivers but utilizes a vast body of water that now is entirely lost; the project adds. that much more water to our reseF and brings that much moro lanH '}s54z elltivation that would not bod <SSpur present water supply. < !. >.> <<hed by the Agua Fria proposls 1'1 3z{ M &zNpng the 1 finest fruit lands in v .zE2aa and 1 the area of this land y " <ely
 not less than 10000 acfea< E z ;a | Of the lower dam Is especld3;
 and nature seems to have d0h@ E< " to invite the industry of man t0S
 vantage of the situation. We El3
 no more available and favorable locaS
 in Arizona to carry out an irrigating all
 reservoir proposition successfully and
 cheaply and we have no doubt this en-
 terprise will now go forward with energy
 till accomplished, as it happens to be one that need have no legal interference ot : any kind Its waters and lands are bctl outside of our general valley system O irrigation and at the same time will, wher completed, constitute portion of them : It is one of the most feasible proposition n that offers in Arizona. and the only won der isthat it has n1sas aENas2,e been un
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
"A oosrLY oLERICAL MANAoHR.


 2 Then came the crash. The superin- T teudent asked-fsF- -S50,0O0 more to com " Splete his plans. In three weeks he drew for an additional S30,000. That broke the Philadelphia eompanys heart.f They IN dropped the whole business and grand A litigation squabble apslled between f mortgages, mechanics 'lienA., unpaid employees and the army of creditors that such an enterprise lad created while f money was flowing westward from the 3 Quaker City lavishlg. y4 q The superintendentwh who preached be- i kE,Eeen times in the chief synagogues of .r F fizona, while hastening this Black Fri .ay wreck. disappeared and Missouri f. company took hold. They gave their " 'nInager S20000 with which to put the pfoperty into working order He bought ~ r,ore machinery on time pnd IS said to .|.Hnve really spent S6,00O of this capital. ihe mill was run about one day; hatful Yl.f amalgam oozed out of the settling Inns at nightfall. IL lies in the retortiug s1 tyliDder now, with Q shingle inlienting
 to be the first mill run, as t was like tFise the ldst. That settled the milling Ekperimeut and everything else. The en- serprisinR superintendent etherealized H'ith Sl4,O00 unaccounted for. and count Iess bills for machinery, supplies and 1bQr re4ewed 10 the cold charities of q 14t #,f less world.
 'L WHAT cH1oRIDERs CLEANED UP.
 .Xt1 this culminated about four years >Since then sheriffs have sold some et+he personal property; some has been . |lrIen. The great bulk of the plant, how EIfr remains intact. Defrauded miners 11'e exacted a sort of abstract justice by
 herring or ehloriding among the old |@.'kings and securing enough high grade
 to make them whole. Possibly men |. al ofr oI, 1aH DY7f . a&|Iere the mineral mass is SO enormous, tse irregnaSea isl. - lIIals other peo- Nbpany's benefit. They established a , ord for rich minerals which encourages 4Nergetic development under more care ttTIfl economical and able management 11 t.f 5ome results obtained by the chlor l,.tsrs are as follows: One man within - the past two years found an eighty pound lump of nearly pure, native silver whos' --- -az,racs be computed by the marke X...I1 1}a6rs. Another miner received IT t foT POO pounds of ore. Maio
 ..a a> former owner. last summe
 ||4o 4out a ton of ore on the dump tha .. .,lI. .| S3i0 Thirteen sacks sold by sti
 . miner returned S650 A wis
 ...< remembered, when operation
 AM under the old management
 " Small pocket of mineral lay i
 < flne from which he realized betwee z,,E and 26O00. An ex-empioy X .rf6t ted the four tons he had catched i
 Hunp. while working for the Philade
 .. , company, and cleaned up $2.6O VA choicest lot seems to have been thos
 lsacks for which yet different chlo
 '.sk got S3 per pound. or at the rate ( .<.| p0 per ton.
 tsides the discoverers' first shipmel
 <s00 before mentioned, they sold
 nse,d lot of ore that returned $500 D. - ..,E. Ahird of 115 tons for $500; fourt
 sh astd sixth at S300, $700 and $500 P "a resb bectivsly. The last sale induce
 biladeIphiana to buy the property
 ss6NRaSsS AN OLD EotrSr
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
THE APACHE VICTIMS.
Strong Arraignment of the Government
 by g Coroner's Jury.
Prosneetor.

ProspectoF,
 The bodies of Robinson and Bridger, the latest victims of Apache ferocity, were bought to Tombstone and Coro- ner's jury empanelled, with the following membership: E. B. Gage, foreman; C. ". Cheyney, secretary; Mike Gray, r. Hare, William Plaster, Max Marks, E. j. Roberts, J. ". Bartholomew and D. A
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
MILLIONS OF ORE IN SIGHT

Tho Silver Ght Mining Company has here an undoubtedly 'great property. Their two overlapping claims, the Gun sight and the Silver Girt are patented. thus securing 2 acres of surface ground
 by Government title. The Eastward b.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

While in Tueson call ron Boss Levin .A near the conrt house, sss
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

6u l6fe WILL nc upon that. If article to devo
 portant topic,3 do justice to q lI,sn nnnoA H.