Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-08-10
TuEspAY's DAILY.


 Col. A. O. Brodie left this morn
 ing for the Hillside to be absent
 couple of weeks.
 Messrs. Ling, Piercy, Hill, Dr
 Lewis and an official of Prescott Jeff
 this morning for Oak creek on {
 hunting and fishing trip of two
 weeks duration.
 G. Paulsen, representing the Fra
 ger X Chalmers Co, of Denver and
 Chicago, mining machinery manu
 lecturers, is visiting Prescott, and
 leaves tomorrow for the Hillside.
 Sam Hill makes an unusually ele-
 gant and tasty display of goods and
 wares in the windows of his brick store. His various departments could not show better business judg- ment In arrangement, while the stock he has placed in each calls for much commendation from all, and particularly do strangers from large cities comment on the vastness and beauty of such a hardware and tin store in town the size of Prescott.
 The business of the Prescott post office during the past five years has maintained regularity in its re- ceipts seldom witnessed anywhere, and particularly is it's past financial standing an exception to frontier towns and where mining has been, in realty, its only support. The fs- cal year closing last June, shows the yearly receipts to be nearly 5000, varying less than hundred dollars from anyone of the three years pre- vious. The annual income of the office will have to reach but the SS,000 mark before the benefits and privileges of second-class office will he extended by the government. This favorable showing of a public institution speaks handsomely of town which has maintained itself and grown steadily on limited means, but which are now commenc- ing to be realized on to far greater degree in its prosperity than ever before in its history.
 \ we'll known resident of Mob Hill in the city, who has somewhat of hobby for plenty of water either for fire or irrigation purposes, on retiring the other night, opened the faucet of the water pipe 50 that his beautious lawn might be given a thorough wetting in case the mains got full and over flowing during the night. Water, as everybody knows, has been scarce commodity in Prescott, and in such elevated local ities as Mob Hill, the wells have fur nished the only supply. In the morning the gentleman shut of the the valve without any benefit being given to the lawn. He was somewhat blue over the prospects of losing years of labor and the handsomest lawn in town, but consoled himself on the fact of no water no pay. The city collector made his rounds and measured the meters, even on Mob Hill, which had not been blessed with even a gallon of city water. None of the meters SWtd any iiit, tAt' It OAts udt one registered 42,009 )r at the usual price per gallon an even Sl4.00. The bill was taken to the office for col lection and an obstinate refusal met the collector of hard up city. The meter was examined. It never throws race and will win any championship belt put up by Albu- querque or any other town if its 1 staying qualities are given chance. The city engineer was called in to arbitrate this diminutive Home stead trouble. He looked at the | meter and put the usual questions to the aggrieved landlord. The lat ter admitted that he had left the | valve open all night, a current of | air had struck the meter which forced | the hand on the dial around more rapidly than ten time that amount of water pressure would. The pro- lection of the city lies in its meters, water or no water-and all consum- CTS abide by the rule. He paved the Sl4.00 and only exclaimed, "I'll be ID