Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-17
WILCOX.
A GENERAL ROUNDUP OF STOCK
 AND OTHER NEWS.
Heavy Cattle Shipments---The Aravaipa 1Iines---COke for the Globe Mines---
 Accident---Other Items.

Heavy Cattle Shtpm ents---The AraVa1pa
 NIines---Coke for the Globe Mines---
 Accident---Other Items.
 The largest number of cattle ever sent forward from here in one week have been shipped since our last issue. The total was 3,O37 head Following were the shippers:
 J. NJ. Holt, consigned to himself at Wendover, Wyoming, 2,00l steers. They were purchased from D. Mark ham, Gardner X Roarke, John Ken nedy and Buckalew, and were all San Pedro cattle.
 Carpenter X Wright, consigned to V. B. Wright, Emporia Kansas, 3SS steers, all fine cattle. Purchased from Wm. Atchley, s. w. Finley, J. Clark and other San Pedro stockmen.
 Sierra Bonita Stock Company, con signed to M. w. Stewart at Eskridge. Kansas, CAT two-year-old steers. Ed. R. Hooker accompanied this shipment. It was remarkably fine lot of high grade young steers. They are to be sold to feeders on arriving in Kansas. The Sierra Bonita Company will ship about 300 need more to that State.
 Dr. A. Trippel Superintendent of the Aravaipa Mining Company, and John Heard, Jr., a leading stockholder and director of the company, arrived from the mines Sunday. Road build ing and other improvements continue, and satisfactory development work is progressing in the Nina mine. Mir. Heard left for California Sunday even ing. This gentlemen is an author of ability, and is a regular contributor to the Harper publications, the Century magazine, and other periodicals of the first rank. Dr. Trippel went from here to Globe to look after his mining interests in that camp.
 Some idea of the amount of coke that is handled in Wilcox by J. Lib erman X Go. for the Old Dominion Copper Company may be formed when it is stated that 43 cars-over a million and half pounds-of that commodity arrived here during the past week, and that over two million pounds of coke are now on hand. A small "army of teams" is kept con stantly employed hauling this coke to Globe, and returning with copper bull lion.
 The lecture by Colonel J. A. Za briskie, of Tucson, at the Methodist Church here on Thursday evening was well attended by an appreciative audience. Judge Nichols introduced the lecturer. The Colonel is a very interesting and polished speaker, and treated his subject-"The Conquest o1 of Mexico"-in most entertaining and instructive manner. We regrei that want of space precludes giving the lecture extended mention.
 G. W. Sanderson, of the soldier Holes Cattle Company, was in towr early ill the week. He went iron here to his company's range in the Animas valley, New Mexico, to de velop the water supply. It is the in tention of the company to move { good many of their cattle from thei Sulphur valley range to the Animas Feed is very short in the Soldier Hole country, and some cattle are dying
 J. G. Leitch and A. J. Nisbet re turned from Tucson on Friday even
 ing of last week. They purchases about 30 head of high grade yearlinl Hereford bulls from the Thoroughbre'
 CattleC o, (Morgan X Treat), to be de livered at Eureka Springs about Ma 20th. These gentleman say Messr;
 Morgan < Treat have the first her of cattle they have seen in the Terr tory.
 Sherman Cox, the competent fore man of the Smythe Cattle Company had one of his legs broken betwee the knee and the ankle on Frida
 evening of last week. He was cora ing steers at Bowie station, when hi horse fell with him, with result g ! stated. He was taken to the hospits at Tucson for treatment. MT. Cox : friends regret his misfortune and hop . for his early recovery.
 Max Meyer received a letter fror l w. H. McKittrick in which he state s that he and George Frisk got throug = in good shape with the cattle the
 drove from here. They took thel n to Silver City instead of Denim e owing to scarcity of water between tl y latter place and Lordsburg. Whe r Mir. McKittrick wrote-May 5th-tl d steers were being held at Silver Gil e awaiting cars for shipment.
 If The Mexicans who held up Il l Bowie stage last week got nothing bl d the mails. The robbers are general D. believed to be Geronimo and Federic is and we learn that they passed by tl e Hot Springs both on going and I g turning from the scene of the robber y- The Postoffice Department offers a I Ie ward of $1,0OO for their arrest al e conviction.
 al J. E. Follett, indicted last Fall ( IS the charge of attempting to intimida v- witnesses during the progress of t n, trial of the parties accused of t 1t Wham robbery, was tried at Tucs'
 the other day and acquitted.
 The Chiricahua Cattle Compa
 have sold 800 steers to MT. Jones, IT. buyer from Kansas. The cattle 6
 now en route here from the compan
 Graham county range, and will
 shipped the coming week.