Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 What do you think of the news from the railroad front?
 The Bank of England holds Sl2l,- 6S7,SS in gold in its banks.
 The democratic press of southern Arizona is against 4-timer Smith, but he will get there just the same.
 What is the matter with the de mocracy that Objector Holman's name has not been mentioned as a candidate for president.
 This portion of Arizona will stride onward henceforth, and the build ing of the new railroad will stimu- late every industry.
 A canvass of the democratic House shows a two-third vote in favor of free and unlimited coinage. This will be about the extent of it.
 Reavis has bohbed up again, and is preparing to advance his claims before the Land Court at Tucson, for half of the land of the sunny south.
 A generel war on Christ, who is anxious to ascend the Minneapolis Temple, in June next. is noticeable in the press generally in southern Arizona.
 Weather Prophet Foster predicts droughts for the coming season, but is unable to locate them per manently yet. He says they will be irregular
 Historical Posten has his Aztec armor on, aud will wage an exter- minating war on the young army of Hassayampers who recently organ ized in this city.
 Bosses and Bossism is the political event at present going on, and will be factor in the political fight this year in Yavapai of considerable strife to overcome.
 Along with commercial progress, this section is also being girdled with political thoroughfares by an army of young and ambitious would-be office holders.
 
 NIT. Zeckendorf has written let ter to the Tucson Citizen, in which he states that he does not propose to be fired from the Worlds Fair Commission. Mir. Zeckendorf is a stayer.
 The printers up in Cheyenne have agreed to raise a fund, by tax ing themselves so much per month, to be used to give their weaker brethren the benefit of the Keeley cure.
 J. W. Collins, the defaulting San Diego banker, committed suicide the other day. The cashier of a Wyoming bank, in which he was also interested, committed suicide some time since.
 There are very few Arizona miners that follow prospecting who care to locate what they call a depre- ciated deposit. Gold mines are uni versally sought after, though they arc harder to find and more diff cult to work.
 The Edmunds act is in full bloom before the |. $. court at Albu- querque, and the regulation of ma rital relations by it is causing wholesale and thrifty lot of ''bene- diets" to spring up in that Sodom.
 The total amount af silver coined in the United States since January, 1892, is given at S2,OOO,OO0. For the same period, gold is given at over S5.O00.O0O. This shows what the de- preciation of the silver dollar is doing.
 Frank Cox is building substantial delegate fences every day out of Maricopa timber, while Mark Smith is laying back sweetly in the shade with a tight grasp ou the Mormon delerates in three counties of the territory controlled by the Saints.
 The American Onyx Company has been incorporate in Chicago, with a capital of S250,000. If there Is anything in name we should in- fer from such that they have an eye on Arizona properties, as we have the only genuine stuff in sufficient quantities of that article at Big Bug.
 At every sampling works in the West. the receipts of ore show gold rock to be three to one greater than that of silver. It is also noticea- ble fact in this section, that unless running up into the hundreds of dollars, silver rock is permitted to lie on the dumps. With fair valu- ation on it, the output of silver in Navapai would be many more thou sands of dollars greater than can now be claimed.