Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-04-26
rrom Lower Arua Fria.

LOWER ERnE, APih IroR JOURNAL -MNER:-Thls settle ment is called Lower Verde, for the reason that it is the lower settle ment on the Verde river m Iava- pal county, and embraces all that portion of country below the north ern boundary of the old Fort Verde military reservation, and is one of the best farming and fruit sections in northern Arizona, is situated 10 miles east of Prescott and 75 miles south of Flagstaff. The elevation is about $500 feet. The climate is mild and very healthy, although the first settlers here were subject to chills and fever
 Our population is made up of people from all parts of the United States, and a few foreigners.
 The stock interests have suffered fearful loss in these parts. Fully one-half of all the range stock have dled during the past two years, and the increase has been less than twenty-five per cent of former years. Horses are as cheap as they were in California twenty years ago. The range mustang must 20. The "broncho buster" and cowboy" will ere long be a thing of the past.
 Hay is scarce, and selling at SIP to Sl4 per ton tag weight, which means twelve to fourteen dollars for about seventeen or eighteen hun dred pounds for weighed hay. It is an imposition on the dumb ami mals, to say nothing about the bad influence on the growing generation of young, honest farmers.
 The dam in the river for the Verde IrrigaSng Canal is about completed, and there will be plenty of water for irrigating purposes on the west side of the lower Verde. Eaman and Co.'S new canal, on the east side, will be completed in two or three weeks. and will cover about one thousand acres of land. It will be a great benefit to the settlements on the east side.
 Quite a lot of fencing has been done the past winter. The fences are being put on the surveyors line, and roads are being changed. the result is that quite a lot of kicking is being iudulged in. For the iufor- nation of the public in general, and the "kicker" in particular, they are referred to paragraph 1850. section l5 .tpage i95) Revised Statutes of Arizona.
 Our school closed yesterday, after a highly successful term of seven months, with basket picnic. The closing exercises were very enter taining, and showed that the teacher, Miss Sarah B. Hewett, graduate of the State Normal school of Bridgewater, Mass, had done her part well toward the youngsters. Although it is a hard matter for teacher to please everybody, Miss Hewett has come as near filling the bill as any teacher in Arizona.
 The death of Miss Jennie Lay, in Prescott, April ,, 1893, took from us one of our most lovely and best girls. She was the only child of Mir. and Mrs. John Lay, and was almost worshiped by her kind parents, and universal favorite with all her acquaintances. About two or three weeks before her daugh- ter's death. Mrs. Lay was taken sick. and was for several days not very far from deaths door herself, dur ing which time the condition of the mother was kept from the daughter, as well as the failing con dition of the daughter was kept from the mother, for fear of the worry of each other Hoping to nurse them through their sickness so they could meet again, but it seems fate had deemed otherwise. What it is to sustain such loss they know best who have had such ex- perience. Mrs. Lays condition was such she could not go to Prescott % attend the funeral. Taking it all in all it was a sad affair, and the rela- tives and friends of the deceased feel very gratful to the good people of Prescott for their many kind ao'e during the sickness, and tho
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 neral health of the valley s good. The feed for stock is fair ,n all the ranges in this section. Several parties are living in the old post, and good many are expect ng to invest in land when the reser- ration is sold.
 MT. F. NJ. Ayers the cattle buyer is among us interviewing the cattle men to buy steers. There will be plenty of fruit in the valley this year; all the fruit trees are heavily loaded. Times are rather corky financially | speaking. Quite a number of men | are working in the mines in the l Sduaw Peak mountains, on all kinds | of lodges gold, silver, copper, iron, l onyx and Photographic stone. Hope l they will all strike it rich and start 1 up a town down this way. l know l of several ranches down this way that would work up into good town lots. Very truly, GEO. W. HANCE.
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