The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-18
Matters of General Interest
from Arizona
WATER AND NINE MATTERS
The Market Improving for all Grades
Of Copper
Activity Prevailing In All the Industrial
Affairs-Matters About People
and Events


Messrs. Il. Hetherington, J. Dougherty
and J. Duke were appointed a committee
to visit the different mining districts and
ascertain the nature and amount of ore
which mine owners would agree to furn-
ish to the proposed smelter for that place.
The latest report from Nevada to the
effect that there will be no cattle for sale
in that state, Oregon, or that portion of
California lying east of the Sierras, gives
better feeling among the cattlemen
The board OF control has about COM
pleted egotiations for the stone founda
ton under the asylum building at Tucson
and for the erection of two porches
around the south and west sides. 1t is
now negotiating for the construction of q
sewer from the asylum down to the river.
: Plans have been completed for $4,000
residence for W. II. Smith, - be erected
in the Capitol addition.
Ellis Clark, the mining engineer has
erected fve.stamp custom mill at Wick
enburg for the reduction of gold ore from
the surrounding mines.
The water company at Noages is put
ting in this week new Smith Vail
pump, with a capacity of 225 600 gallons,
which will double their supply.
J. ]. Donahue, according to the Flag
staff Sun, has completed arrangements
for the erection of the largest and finest
hotel in Northern Arizona. The struc-
ture will cost about $50, 600.
h. e. Ford is building an addition to
his chemical and analytical laboratory.
He will put in u new and larger furnace.
j. r. Aculf of New England Ga, who
spent last summer near Jerome, has asso-
ciated with himself number of his town
people in forming a fund of $4,000 in an
irrigating project which will bring under
cultivation at least TO- 90, acres of the best
land in the Verde. They are going to
1.~,,, .,,t foh Il,,x t1,n
Verde river which will run to Jerome. AS
soon as the enterprises is completed at
least twenty families from Mr.. Aculf's
home will form colony in that neigh
borhood
The contract for the new building of
kutchier in Jerome has been let to
Brown & Winsor.
The surveying party of the Flagstaff,
Durango and San Diego railroad has left
Jerome in cuarge of Chief Engineer
Charles Lee and Superintendent A. Doyle.
The Jerome Chronicle reports that a
large business has been doing this week
in all grades of copper except casting
brands. Large orders have been placed
for Lake copper for May. June and July
shipment, at 81. and for electroytic cop
per bars at 9A49.32, delivered, at which
prices hardly any sellers remain over. A
good demand existed for export, but
prices were not up to the idea of sellers,
and hardly any business resulted in this
direction. The exports of copper, how
ever, are large, and are likely to continue
SO, this being copper contracted for about
the middle Of April. The accumulation
of Lake copper produced during the close
of navigation may now be said to be all
marketed. This greatly relieves the
market, and it looks as though prices
would harden further
f. M. Moreno OF Moreno Bros, No
gales, has returned from Guaymas, where
he made arrangements to have their fish
shipped alive in tanks. To that end a
large copper-lined tank will be con-
structed for their market in Nogaes.
where the fish will be kept alive until
sold to their customers.
The school census marshal's report
shows that Nogales has 734 children be-
tween two and seventeen years and 1918
adults, making total population Of
1852. The population of the two cities is
about $500.
featuring ice in Prescott. The machine
will have capacity of three tons per
day.
Sealed proposals for the construction of
a building for the fire department OF
Prescott will be received by r. Nj. Ling.
city clerk, until April Goth, according
to plans and specifications on file with
II. ID. AItken, chief engineer of the fir.
department.
The loan commissioners of Arizona at
their last meeting concluded an exchange
of $76, 600 of past due territorial bonds for
five per cent funding bonds, thus saving
in interest $500 per annum.
Toohey u George have secured the con-
tract for excavating the second section of
the Aqua Fria canal, distance of about
eight miles. This section will be fifty
ieet wide on top, twenty feet in width at
the bottom and ten feet in depth. A
force of seyent five or hundred teams
will commence work today. The division
dam is now up to the thirtyfoot level for
$50 feet. and both dam and canal can be
completed by the middle of September
The company will thus be prepared to
deliver water to farmers by the middle of
October.
Antilles of incorporation have been filed
for the Admiral Gold Mining company
of Prescott
The Salt River Valley Produce company
of this city has been organized by Geroge
Buxton, formerly of Hurley's butcher
establishment. and Henry Montgomery,
late of Goldman & Co. In their special
correspondence from Mnas Prletas.
Sonora, Mexico. the Nogalcs Oasis notes
that Pedro Negro has let contract for IL
10O0.foot shaft on his location north of
La Verde; that Frank Howard has
the contract for the new pipe line to La
Verde; that engineers are now in the field
surveying a line for IA railroad between
Torres and La Colorado and Prictas, and
this fall that the shaft of La Verde mine
has been completed to the lO0-foot level
and new pump will shortly be put INTO
the mine.
Messrs. Sisty and Clark have fifteen men
developing the Shelton miles recently
bonded by them. They have ordered two
hoists to facilitate the work.
W. S. Morse, OF the Lynx Creek Mining
and Milling company, is putting IN 40
horse power boiler and Il No. Cameron
pump at the Pine Mountain, owned by
the company. Besides the pump steam
hoist will also be run by this boiler.
The Atlantic and Pacific company is
about to commence the erection OF cattle
yards just east of Winslow. which will
be large enough to hold and feed forty
carloads of cattle at one time.
W. q. Green passed through Nogales
last week from the San Domingo placer
mines. He is working forty men and
has developed a bed OF gravel ten feet in
thickness that carries ten cents per pan
OF coarse gold. His claims cover over
eleven miles of that section.
According to the Tombstone Prospec.
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