Arizona republican., 1893-10-04
TEMPE, ARIZONA, OCTOBER 4. 1898.
TEMPE ECHOES.

L. G. Bennitt, the California nursery
man, from Mesa, was in Tempe yester-
day on business trip.
A young blood from the country was
arrested on Sunday for fast driving and
vulgar language on the streets. He
gave bail for his appearance in court
and will have trial in the sweet sub
sequent.
A feeling of prosperity seems to per-
wade the atmosphere and every branch
of industry and the general outlook for
business on the South Side for the COM
ing fall and winter is indeed quite fat
tering. Money to move the immense
grain crop is beginning to show up.
Fritz Berkenkamp is back again from
the coast, where he has been with
consignment OF cattle. His sales fer
exceeded his expectations and he will
in few days take trainload to the
same market. The cattle market has
never woned during the late depres-
sion.
W. H. Merritt, OF Florence. one of
best known mining men of Arizona,
stopped over in Tempe yesterday and
visited with old time friend Fred
White, OF the Cactus factory. He
took the afternoon stage for Phoenix
where he is also we'll known in all
circles.
F. A. Hough, proprietor of the Tempe
ice works and creamery, has gone to
Chicago to make arrangements for the
sale of the dairy proceeds of the South
Side. Butter made in this valley COM
pares very favorably with that of the
outside world and will no doubt COM
mand respectable figure in the white
city.
Yesterday morning brought another
consignment of Tempe people home
from the worlds fair. Geo. Kane, the
tonsorial artist and his estimable wife,
Mrs. Dodson, wife of the gentlemanly
cashier of the Farmers & Merchants
bank; Thompson Walker and family
and Carl Hayden, who brought cousin
home with him.
The officers of the Utah Canal COM
pany held their annual meeting at
Lehi Monday afternoon and elected the
following board of directors for the en-
suing year: w. A. Daggs, f. E. Jones
and Joel Johnson. The affairs of the
canal were found to be in excellent con-
dition and the canal itself in good
state of repairs.
The city by the buttes is today one
of the most attractive locations in Ar
izona and daily a stream OF 1mmigra-
ton is pouring in as an omen OF the
good times coming. Why not? Tempe
has the balance of trade in her favor,
being the heaviest agricultural ship
ping point in the territory and pro-
duces nearly everything in the edible
line necessary for the comfort of man.
kind.
Caleb Perron, the genial shoemaker
of Tempe, has suddenly had good N2r-
tune forced upon him. He, togethA
with another party, have located d
gold mine twenty-seven miles south
east of Tempe on the Blackwater,
where gold seems more plentiful than
cacti. Although they have gone to no
depth they have two claims that lun
$65 to the ton with leads respectively
two feet and eighteen inches wide,
growing richer with depth.
Rev. ]. t. Pierce, formerly of Breck-
enridge. Mo-, but for several years a
resident of Arizona, was in Tempe on
Monday visiting with P. A. Price and
W. L. Van Horn. Rev. Pierce is now
the Methodist pastor at Flagstaff and
has large circle Of acquaintance and
friends throughout the territory. He
assembled the butte with his friends at
shutdown and made the ascent with the
agility of mountaineer When he
came to Arizona consumption had al
most won him and he walked a block
with dihiou1tu