Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-07-31

Even IeueI couslueIS the pOpullst party dead; he is advocating the for nation of a new party.
 All Missouri journalists have come out boldly and de6antly for free silver, irrespective of party.
 Dave" Hill has put in a stiff bid for the support of the drinking ele- ment of the democratic party.
 A Phenix justice has decided that stealing water melons is a crime. It has heretofore been considered joke.
 Blackburn is desperate. Knowing himself to be doomed any way, he may conclude to play the Sampson dodge on the Kentucky democrats.
 Tucson's city council is wrestling with the water proposition as earn estly as Prescott is. The only differ ence between the two communities is that Tucson as a municipal cor poration wants the cinch, while Prescott will give away everything if the problem of a permanent sup ply is settled. One of the many propositions submitted to the Tue son city council, reads as follows: "If the city will give nothing but tte right to lay pipes in the streets, We will try to move the plant in here and compete with all corners. We ask no exclusive right. Simply the right to exist. If the city will contract to pay an agreed sum per month for a number of years for 8 given number of hydrants, then we will contract and bind ourselves to ! give desired pressure. If the city desires, we will sell the city the ] plant, and take the obligation of the city to pay for it. The more water plants in a city, the better. The railroad plant proved very use ful the other night and its use of the streets harms nobody. Neither will another. Respectfully submitted W. H. BARNES, for himself and asso- ! ciateS."
 Prescott should have mining bureau with a permanent exhibit of its mineral resources. Mining is the main industry of our county and to induce capital to come here it is necessary we should make some showing of our products. It would not entail very much expense on our merchants to provide such an ex- hibit, as the material is already at hand, and the benefit derived there from would more than offset the ex- penses. We have a splendid collec- ton of mineral specimens stored away in some dark cellar, where it is as useless as if hidden a thousand feet underground. Why not bring it to light and show strangers visit ing our city that we have some en- terprise, and can back up the asser- l tions made about our mines. Yava- pal county certainly has the most varied supply of mineral wealth of any spot in the world, and what we want to do is to get it before those who come here so they can see with their own eyes. This matter should be taken hold of immediately, and no rest given until the exhibit is here to speak for itself.
 One of the most delightful mutual admiration societies ever witnessed has recently sprung up between the Phenix Gazette and Republican. The manifestations of affection shown by Damon and Pythiss sink into insigniiicance when compared with that of WolAey for Burnett, and vice versa. The compliment tary mention of each of the ability possessed by the other, and of the unswerving devotion for the people-th dear people-leads one to believe that two of the most brilliant minds of the present cen tury are located iii Phenix. After all, 1t is rather refreshing to witness such an exhibition of brotherly love, and it is certainly much better and more creditable to newspaper edi- tors to vie with each other in saying complimentary things rather than trying to see who can write the meanest things about the other. It is not only more pleasant reading than the latter, but is more eleVat- ing, and, besides, gives 8 better inn pression abroad. Keep up your lick, gentlemen.
 The recent rich strikes at great depth in some of our leading mines within the past month, is fast dis polling the false ideas which mining men and capitalists have entertain, d for many years concerning Arizona mines. The reports of bonanza finds have come in from a dozen different quarters and have been of such a nature as from now on to utterly disprove the statements that our mines do not go down. How this untruth came to be first bruited abroad can easily be understood by those who have watched the mining interests of the territory since the first discovery of gold, but to the outsider it is about time the truth of the matter should be properly set forth. It is as simple as it is brief. In the early days of mining here gold was so plentiful in the