Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-04
FROM rHE FORKS.
some of the Happenings, GeasIp and Personal itsnss From the Northern
 Railroad Terminus.

| llNeiN at present.. bOth pasSougeI
 and freight traffic over the Santa
 Fe Pacific Is vcry brisk. East bound
 passenger trains are composed of from eight to ten cars, of which
 from six to seven ara passenger
 coaches and Pul!mans, all filled with
 passengers. A large proportion of
 the passengers wear badges indica- tlve of returning Christian Endaav-
 orers from California.
 West bound passenger traffic is
 also fair, though not heavy. From
 three to five freights trans each
 way pass here daily.
 One train crow is kept pretty busy
 transporting rock to Sehgman for
 the storage dam being constructed
 there, as they usa from twenty to
 thirty car loads of rocks per day.
 Engineer Bralnbridge, inventor of steel dams, who will superintendent the construction of steel dam in ' Johnson canyon, left for tho east a few days ago, and says material for the dam will commence arriving about September T.
 Notwithstanding the operations at Seligman by the Santa Fe Company preparatory to establishing a divis- lon thele many of our citizens still cling to the belief and hopo that Ash Fork is desti rod to become a division point on the road yet. This hope has been revived during the past few days by the arrival here of three men, who are reported to be railroad men, and wbo left on what is rumored to be an inspection trip for proposed road to connect with the s. F, r. & ?. here, and a north and south road which has it's ter minus now m Utah. As the story is told, ths proposed road is to skirt the Grand Canyon on the south side, so as to take in all the mining gcamps in that region, and run by the coal 6elds iu ,he northern part of the territory, thence up to rich oil fields in Utah.
 New strikes of mineral are report ed near the Bass trail iu the Grand Canyon, which, rumor says, is very rich. No new find was ever yet made anywhere, though, that was not re- ported very rich, but comparatively few keep up their reputation with development work.
 w. W. Bass, the irrepreSsible Grand Canyon stage man, is still in the field, though at present the line Is in a state of iLnocous desuetude. He entered into a co partnership m the spring with an Indiana livery stable man, intending to open the line by May 1, but for some reason or other, through difference of opinion between them, the partner ship fell through, the Hoosir re- turned to his home in the east, stages to the Grand Canyon never started, but Bass remained hero. tie l announces now that his line will cer- tainly open for business September i 1, and that he will run it all winter. He says he has already four or five parties booked for September. He l also says that he has an abundance | of good water stored in his tanks along the route and at the canyon, and with many improvements he has made during the past few months he will be able to furnish ioursts with first class accommodations.
 Among the east bound passengers passing through here today were J. V. Shepard, of Prescott, en route to Colorado for a six weeks or two business trip; F. s. Burt, also en route to Colorado, and Clar- snce s. King, tho mining engineer, en route to Chicago. MT. King stated while here that he has &C., 1uired some very valuable placer ground in Oregon, and has men sm- ployed now in constructing a ditch To carry water to operate them with.
 Rev. k. J. Harper, of Prescott, was passenger on today's west bound train for Los Angeles.
 J. T. Brownlee and family passed through today en route to Texas for , visit, and thence returns to his old nome in Missouri.
 Henry Lantry, of big firm of we'll xnown contractors, is making his headquarters here at present, and divides his time between the rock Iuarry at Rock Butte and this place md Seligman. He is the same jolly Henry as of yore, and is every ready O perpetrate . practical joke. While being a first class business nan, he manages to get as much or nore of comfort and enjoyment out f life as any man with the exten- i've interests to look after that he las. MORE ANON.