Arizona republican., 1893-10-08
TEMPE ECHOES.

W. H. MCQUEEN, of Casa Grande, is
in Tempe were he intends to locate.
G. L. Montgomery, of the Maricopa
& Phoenix railway, was in Tempe on
business yesterday.
Mrs. Perry Wildman returned yester-
day morning from an extended visit to
the coast. She was accompanied on
the return trip by Mrs. 7. D. Ham
mond, OF Phoenix, who was also return
ing from the summer outing.
&C. Israel, one of the leading attor-
neys of Phoenix, passed through Tempe
Yesterday morning bound for Mesa.
He was accompanied fIom this place by
E. Angleman, the gentlemanly man
ager of E. CAMS wholesale house.
They returned to Tempe in the after
noon.
M. H. Williams, district attorney,
and formidable candidate for Judge in
the Fourth district. was in Tempe yes
terday to attend meeting of the stock
holders under the three leading
branches of the Tempe canal, viz, the
West, the South, and Mckinney &
Kirkland branches.
W. L. Pinney, with ancient overalls
an greasy blouse, might be seen the
last few days rustling with Fred White
endeavoring to place the Cactus factory
in the line of producers. Among all
the exhibits at Chicago the cactus dis
play is the most interesting and it has
been an impossibility to supply the de-
mand for duplicate exhibits. The fac
tory will soon be able to turn out every
thing IN quantities.
The business portion of Tempe is
kept well sprinkled at all times. Every
one on Fourth street and the entire
business row on Mill avenue as far up
as Third street, contribute to its SUD-
port. Above this there is but little
business except that of G. T. Hayden,
the antediluvian merchant, who be-
lleves in no style of public improve
ment, and even opposed the Normal
school appropriation made by the late
legislature, on the ground that it was
too liberal as one-third the amount
would suffice. Luckily Tempe has but
few such firms to gum the wheels of pro-
gress.
While the mill at the Mammoth in
the Superstition camp is daily turning
out the gllttering metal by the hun
dreds and thousands of dollars and
other parties are now on the coast to
order material and machinery for au-
other mill of equal or larger proper
lions that will probably be placed be-
fore the holidays, smaller device has
made its appearance in the camp that
may be an important factor in develop
ing the rich placer claims with which
the district is said to abound. The man
with the innovation is A. j. Ritter, of
Ton bstone, eX-county treasurer of Co
chise county. He left Tempe yester-
day morning for Goldield to begin
work on a claim owned by Ed Jones of
Mesa, which plot is located two miles
above the town. Here during few
days when there was freshet some
$4G0 in the yellow metal was washed
out and sent to the mint in San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Ritter is the inventor of a
dry washer that saves every particle OF
gold that escapes the vision of the
naked eye and during the past two
weeks one of these machines has been
constructed in Tempe by the inventive
genius who proposes to defy the usually
requisite element of water, so necessary
in placer mining, and he says if the gold
is there he will get it as long as they
can import sufficient drinking water for
the man at the wheel. The Super
stition camp has always been supposed
on the surface to carry plenty OF placer
gold, as does many other places in Ari-
iona where water Is at premium, and
If Mr., Ritter makes q success he is in
deed benefactor.