Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-12-30
Mining Intelligence

Mining intelligence.
 W. k. Riley is putting the finish ing touches on the Providence com pany's mill, on Big Bug. He says IL is the gilt edge mill of the terri tory.
 The defunct Albuquerque Ma uionSl bank will pay up its liabilities m full January l. It has been about three years since the bank went under.
 Oil has been discovered near St. David, in Cochlse county. The dis coyery has created considerable ex- cltement in the locality, but it has not been demonstrated whether it exists m paying quantities.
 Ira P Smith, formerly commercial agent of the :. F., ?. railway at ! Phenlx and an energetic hustler, and ! popular man, has taken the position : of bookkeeper and cashier of the Phenix Electric Light company. ! Melini X Eakiu have closed their Iceberg saloon iu Prescott, and to day Mir. Eakin shipped their entire stock to Albuquerque, where they own a place. Mir Eskin, who has had charge of their Prescott house, has made many warm friends during his sojourn here.
 The ladies of the family of Vice President Crocker, of the Southern Pacific railroad. with a number of lady friends, arrived in this city yes terday morning in their private ear and were met al the depot by Hon. Whit ,law Reid, who accompanied them to his residence, where they will spend some time. -PhenIx Her aid.
 Mrs. William Murphy has re turned from Kansas City with her young son. The latter had surgi- cal operation performed on him but is now free from pain and Is bright and cheerful. It is thought that the operation may prove en- tirely successful in the removal of his trouble, cancer of the bone of hls jaws. A portion of both the upper and lower jaw was removed.
 The Prescott machine shop and boiler works are now open ready for business. The Proprietors are Louis Hlnmelreich and W. E. Williams, both of them being practical machinists. They are prepared to do all kinds of repair work on the shortest possible notice aad in the best possible manner, and will buy and soil machinery, aud put up machinery. They are agents for the best manufacturers of machinery in tbe United States.
 Herbert D. Ward, the novelist and husband of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, has written new novel, which will be the fiction feature of the La dies Home Journal during 1897. It Is a humorous story and has the unique title of The Burglar Who Moved Paradise" IL is a sequel 10 Mrs. Wards An Old Maids Para disc" the husband taking up the pen where Miss Phelps had natur- ! any iuN lt hONu NhCu Snc utNdiAlt Mrs. Ward.
 Joe Herman remarked yesterday before the game began that his father fought Indians before there was house in Phenix, and that he was a chip of the old block. Some body suggested that he would have to be the block itself; and so il proved, for before the game was over, a l3O pound Indian detached Joe from his team and carried him toward his own goal. Joe only weighs 232 pounds.-Phenix Gazs cite,
 The Temple Bar Consolidated mining company have incorporated. The properties owned by this com pany, consisting of gold bearing bars of large dimensions on the Colorado rlver, are considered by mining men who have examined them, to be the largest and the richest deposits of gold bearing l gravel on the continent and perhaps ln the world. We have taken special pains for more than a year, to get at AEe truth Ol the NaIue or these gold deposits and our research has developed the fact that they are rich beyond all that has been claimed Tor m.-Kingman Min eral Wealth.
 PhenlX papers announce that w. J. Spear has been appointed city editor of the Republican of that city. It Is safe to say that the liter ary piracy which heretofore marked the local columns of that paper will not eAist hereafter if Mir. Spear has full control of them. It has of late been the custom of the person in charge of that department of the paper to "crlb' by the quarter or even half column, news items from exchanges and transplant them bod fly in the local columns of that pa per without credit Of cours many of these appeared very ludicrous. ss happenings which occurred miles and miles away from Phenix, appear as having happened in the capital city or its immediate vicinity. Mir Spear is too 2 pod a newspaper man fn all,u- of sn,b fbiprz