Arizona republican., 1892-08-14
FROM YUMA. The Republicans Week.
 ly lnStallment. The Good Things in Store For Yuma. Local, Social and Political Hap
 penings of a Week.
A Rumor of the Rsdisoovery of the "Frenchman's Lost Mine"
 Near Eagle Tail,

II. W. Blaidsell has returned frou
 Boston and has secured $50. 900 and q
 goodly share of that amount is going tC
 to be spent in Yuma in putting in cleo
 tric lights, water works, building uI
 Orange avenue, and the new town oi
 Yuma Heights two miles south of old
 una. The town is all agog. Harry
 Nsvins' labor association, the loan
 and building association, the board ot
 trade, and our people generally are
 most deeply interested. To start with,
 Mir. Blaidsell is in earnest, means what
 he says, makes no false moves, puts on
 no style and will carry out his plans.
 | is well laid, on good foundation and
 will fill his pockets in the end. His
 Cargo Muchacha mine is the best ar
 ranged mine on the Pacific coast, pot
 excepting any. With it's fine pumping
 system of water, thrown up hlll seven
 miles with its arrangements to use this
 water over and over again, with it's
 magnificent electric lights and it's fine
 machinery. Mir. Blaidsell proposes to
 put in the best water worKs and electric
 light plant that has ever been put up.
 As for music, Yuma can rank with
 any town in Arizona. First the Cath
 Ouc church has very fine chorus of
 gris' voices that is uot very easily eX-
 cviied. The choir ol the M. r.. church,
 led by Mrs, T. E. Wilkinson, Is d credit
 tu the place. The soius, duets and
 cAoruses as sung ly ,he different mem.
 brrs Ol the choir ate very Gue.
 such was the pressure brought Co
 bar upon uur hoaId of supervisors hat
 "l their meeting mst Mouday they re- dGCcd the raise in assessments back tu
 where iEe assessuI had placed them
 Hnd lu one Ortwo eases even lowered
 his figures. Just how this was done tEe iiarry Neryin's Laboring Club has
 not been able to ascertain, nither has
 the Cyclone UratOress" of Kansas Club. some say it was because of the pressure" brought to beaFupon them
 by the representatives oi the mining and canal interests, others because they saw a cyclone breeding in future cleo tiOnS, others say because of the eternal
 kicking, but your correspondent be. liayes that lt was because they are honest men and want to do what IS right, and that they saw that what they had done was not just 10 all concerned, and to remedy the evil they thought best to wlpe out the whole raise at one sweep.
 The voters in our school district will have a chance soon to vote "Yes" or No" on a $4,000 school house. If they vote yes, then the board of trus- tees will talk about hiring a teacher. I house no teacher. Nice state of affairs in school district that has 2UO child Ten, in territory that has a compnl- sUry school law. But tho trustees are right. Some, very few of our people. Act as fl they had rather have their i children learn to chew tobacco, smoke cisaretts, drink, row around nights, aud become it hoodIum candidates for tie Hotel de Mclnernay on Prison Hill, | than to learn anything useful and to be- come honorable and honest men.
 The visit ot President A. G. Hubbard O. the Bonanza mill, at llarqua Hala, in | Yuma county, has awakened still more interest in that rich gold section, and l tue Tact that he has arranged to add ten | more stamps to the present twenty. ! | amp mill has convinced the skeptical | that he at least has perfect confidence | III the future of the mines of that sec | ton or he would not go to work and | spend $5O,OlO more in the erection of ] more machinery. He intends to put in | larger pumps, larger pump line from | tDe river, where he gets his water. | down to the mil, to put in large elec- ! tic pIaut that will light the mine, mil | ld town, and to greatly improve the | present plant at the mine, and ali this l work to be done immediately. The D eSent mill crushes sixty tons in tYenty-four hours and averages to turn ont about $4O,O00 in gold per month, which makes the ore average about $22 per ton. But it must be taken to ac- count that much of the ore run through Tn the past few months was refuse ore.
 The finding of the "Frenchman's Lost Mine, as reported from Harqua Hala IS regarded here as ot great importance, a there has always been those who be- lleIed the story, now old enough almost to become legend. The fact that $S,- OJO Tn gold dust was brought in here and sold to the old and reliable firm oi Hooper Co. when there was not q lartz mill running in Arizona, could not but convince even the most skepti- c1l that gold did exist in the region of Eagle Tail mountains. No placers near here ever produced any such amount in solid lots. Then as the three French men who brought in the gold and sold It came from and went back to Acua Caliente, and left there and went to- wards Eagle Tail immediately after sell ng their gold. Many were convinced that in that unknown section of Yuma county were hidden the pacers from which this gold came. The old miners md prOspectors have never changed heir minds. The coming fall and win er will see scores at work looking for he bonanza, lost by the Frenchman, in he Eagle Tail and other mountains i'm hat vicinity.
 In referring to our musical talent 1 cit out, or rather forgot to mention. band, which is one of the . seeming fixtures on Main street, and me ot those little things which SO nice qulet the nerves on these lovely sum- , ner nights in strains SO soft and low. ] n those sweet and lower notes, in the " eiralns of the lower chords, one can = 'lrely hear them across the street. but 'hen the trombone and heavy base totes are thrown in, the echo does not all to reach four or i've blocks, The ca shore and mountains have drawn IeaviIy on the band, but soon with the eturn Of autumn's harvest moons. the 'ree7e will catch up the thrilling strains ld wait them across the Rincon, up illa street across Maiden Lane over ladlson avenue and on to Mob Hill. 1 'here they will die out as they pass yer the great river plain to the EncO- ih' or bust up" against the cragged 'cks oi Castle Dome, the Picacho and llot hnoo. There's music in the air.