Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-08-19


on account Of being laid up for repairs
On the lower San Pedro, SAYS 2. G
Mckinney, 10 from there, grass is start
ing well, though more rain is needed
From Crittenden comes report one
and fifty-five hundredths inches of rain
fell Sunday MS hit. About the same
rainfall occurred at ATizola.
The Santa Cruz was but little raised
! by the heavy rain OF Sunday, indicating
that the rams DID not extend far south
OF town.
Buchanan, the photographer today
changed the photographs at his street
door, making a fine showing. Some ex-
cellent work is displayed in the new set
of pictures
The pay car is reported TO have left
San Francisco to-day, which would
bring it to Tucson about eight days
hence, or the sd. 1t will be more than
welcome, particularly to the merchants.
The Maricopa 81 Phoenix road is again
cut up by washouts. Trains were de-
| layed Sunday night and yesterday. It
was expected this moraing that by late
today the road would be opened.
Mr.. Kelly, son of L. A. Kelly, has
taken charge Of the Silver lake hotel.
| lie expects TO do fair business when
duck shooting on the lake gets well
under way.
The last chance for free pictures of
| Arizona babies is now at hand. The
bonanza" picture, of thousands of
Arizona babies, will be made next week.
Mothers should at once bring in their
cherubs to be photographed. The
picture will be sent to the Worlds fair
in about ten days.
The Tucson sampling works yester-
day received, sampled aud purchased
| nineteen tOns of silver-lead ore from
| Harshaw. This is the first time that
| ore III car loads has been shipped 10
this city from that section. More ship
ments Will be made right along
Enough water has run down the Little
| Colorado since the rains commenced to
| irrigate half Apache cou ty if if could
| be stored. 1t is a shame to Sc this
| water running 10 waste when it would
| benefit the country so much if properly
| handled.-St. Johns Herald.
| Several members of the boundary
survey hive purchased land at the new
| town of Arizola. Col. Barlow bought
LOO acres and several lots. 1t is under
stood the new purchases will soon be
| under cultivation.
Indians from Casa Grande and beyond
are bringing considerable money to
town from the sale OF their wheat
| Every cent they get is expended, princi-
pally for cheap. bright dry goods for the
| women and saddles for the men. 4 few
days ago an Indian boy made $40 out
lay for fine saddle.
Hon. Tom Driscoll. of Maish & Dris-
coll, reports that the WORK at Canoa will
yet take months, even though water
has been developed. Three TO four
miles of ditch will be required at once
to put the water on the land for cultiva-
tlon. The work on the dam will take
some time. The excavating on the
canal proper has not yet been com
pleted.
Relative to the probable coming
court martial of Eaymaster Wham. at
Vancouver, Major Neustatter, lately
Wham's clerk, said that Wham had not
he was with the paymaster. 4 letter
from Vancouver says Wham is very I'M
popular there. Neustatter will probably
be q witness il the court martial.
The fall term OF the territorial uni
versity opens Septem Der 81. Short va
cations Will be taken at the end of each
term. The first vacation will be from
December % to January 4. The vaca-
tion at the end of the winter term Will
be for week. No examinations Will be
held after another year, class work only
being the guide of student work. iris
the faculty regard as more fair than ex-
anil lions.
The school law provides that all
money apportioned for school districts
after July shall apply on expenses of the
school for the year following. After
the school year is ended any money
remaining shall apply on previous years. |
From this enactment teachers have
money due from over half the country
districts In Pima county. Ia one case
warrant of that description has been |
Outstanding and unpaid for four years.
CAPTAIN Burgess says & at if the Can
ada del Ora company resume operations |
at Silver Bell. he will stop operations |
until amounts due him are paid. tie |
says the works have al been removed |
from Cana3a del Orc to Silver Bell. |
The Silver Bell mine, he says. be decided |
to the company, consideration $4,000. |
He says cablegrams will show the prom !
ise to pay therefor. This Is due him as |
well as S2l 600 in stock advanced by |
him to further work aad to organize the |
company in England.
At Harshaw Captain Burgess and
others have nine men at work taking /
out lead silver ore for shipment. The |
ore is of good grade. It is now being |
pied up awaiting thu reopening of |
wagon roads to Crittenden. The mines |
worked are the Trench, Extension and |
Humboldt. The Humboldt is the |
property formerly owned by w. Ii.
Harrington, who lost his life ia it, being
blown to pieces by blast he supposed
had gone out He would work the
property a month or two and get out ore
and concentrates to the amount of a
carload. This he would sell and 60 to
California or elsewhere and have a good
time on the proceeds till it was gone,
when he would return ana get out an
other carload.
Five-thousand-dollSr ore has been
struck by Messrs. Sampson Il Bent IN
one property OF their Grant group, four
miles from Ariyaca. This morning NJ.
Bent made a horn-spoon sample of
about an ounce OF rock. The result
astonished him. From the ounce
of ore be got nearly half a tsaspoontul
of the beautiful yellow graius that make
glad the heart of the miner Three
assays from the grou0 returned totals of
S59S.93. sos 70 and Sc H. 4 mill will
probably be put up on the group.
i small hole hardly wider than the
track washed out under a little bridge
near Demipg surprised the repair gangs.
1t contained water. into which they
threw g0nny sacks of sand. They had
2000 sacks along. These we're all filed
and went in with deep splashes. None