Arizona republican., 1897-11-16


 bro ught me 10 MoCabe camp wlnsGe l lad an hour for dinn I and business. This is the Chapparal coun ny. Tue McCabe has existed about three years 1 and is growing to be one of wide di- | m nslons. New houses are going up 1 [ housh businsss is rath.r over done. Besides the company boarding house | kert by Mrs. Ma -icn Befn there B @ thrSe e others, Widow Arnold s, Hudg- ems and Sam Lees. B. s. McROb- i erts, who came fem the Verde. Fred F'lsmmer and Harry Miller ke5p gen. sr7l meroh2n is F. H. Shin CT late of Prescott, deals in a little O. eve V thing Jolln Rivers is the b lTber. Jake Wetbe- Qate of Presccrt) T. H. Me- Carthy are the blacksmiths and John St l we'll the butchar You can "wet ycur .whis le' ait A:kaw & Hudgins' or in old man McCarty's, Hank Bri- eitos' or with W. Wilkins. There are probably two hundi ed pso-1e in tho vicinity Of the McCabe mine and mill. Beyol d, two miles, is Big Bug c eek and the stage g es up to deliver mall at Boggs-the postofffca. We turn and go down the cre'ek five miles 1eav ing he Hueston ccmpany custom mill on tDe left and the Cmomercial com ra1y's mine and mill to the right The lai CT is idle at preEent. A mile fur ther on is Mayer stage station, and the vast onyx fl dds. Here we dis mount and take up quantels at May CTS where you are made to fesl At home.
 MT Joe Mayer, though resident of this locali y sa0tean years, hss nos fallen into the rut. He is awake and the naw store building and hotel is off, feH-ed in support of this statement. This building covens s ground spa cs of 4Ox60 fe it. The lower floor is cu- pied as a gene al merchan isa store and saloon adjacent, a hall sepa' a5 ing. On the upper floor six s coping rooms and hall, the latter 14x40. A veramda was built in frorH and this is a pleasant place to ta' e an airing. There are several dwellings (CWned by MT. Mayer) opposite the old stand The lattsr will be wholly devoted to dining room in flu ure, present quar- ters being inadequate. Aoross the ere k is the Arizona Onyx company's office and machine shcp. Of the onyx fieIis and operations, besides gold and copper propositions seen and heard of
 
 letter.
 Mayors is the ta1minal po:nt of The future spur of the north d south road and had n1t this enterprising corporation taken up the matter it is p city certain the Arizona Onyx com- pany would have dome so b fore the heated term of 1898. The estimate of Chief Engine,r Drake are in Chi ergo, where they are under examina- tion prior to fulfil ma n tthGo -gh the direction of the local b b-ard of the s. F. P. & F., which is to meet in Pres colt this month. President Frank M. Murphy wiI be present. to submit a l statement relative to the Big Bug branch, and the field to be covered 1 will offer fund of inform on tha. i is SUITE to engage attention. As this will not be made public at once I will vanture an advar ce survey of the i route as I gathered it in mucl less than a days travel and a sojourn of twenIy-four hours at Mayors.
 The surveyed route u,s eess of Hhe s age road. It vii bake its course from the Point of Rocks, five miles east of Prescott. Then it will run in a southerly direction t'-e entire dis tance to Mayer, twenty-five miles from Point of Rocks, being easily covered. Flew long bridg3s and little heavy grading are found necessary to r7ach the termiaal of the p esent per iod. Though no one at cou t seems to be in a position to give out facts, but it would appear to any intelli gent person that trains will be flying through Ohspparal and Big Bug to this placs long before Prescott's an+ nual-a Fourth of July celebration. Whats to feed the branch? now comes up. To start with, there are ranches at beginning and finish Lynx creek, on which are numerous gold min ng propositions and Massick's hydraulic first comics in view. In the Chaparrel country is the widely known Little Jessie, the McCabe and others, and contingent ;of people who have To- cated small towns. Further on is Brinley, formerly of Mesa, who has a good thing in the Copper Gulch, and then we have tha upper Big Bug with the Henrietta, Annie and Lottie ,th, s trio of fair sisters in themselves splen- did feeders to any railroad. There are others further up, and our old friend Boggs will ride down the Big Bug. The Houston company custom mill over on the Agua Fra, and the Com mercial mine will furnish ther quota ard above all the great onyx fields, of which Miss Mamie Mayer (who is yet in her teens) has written but recently Southwest is the now famous Crowned } King mine, the Gladiator and Peck To the east is the Copper Mountain ) which has shipped trainloads of matte ito Ash Fork. and later to Prescott Richinbar, the new and prem sing gold mining camp, twenty miles south of here, and Squaw Creek, thirty-five , miles out, a fine outlook, will shiI , and neceive, and we might go on in definitely. Mayors is splendid site for a terminus and it would net be ) surprising to see a town .spring up il this basin. The above is only a brie. outline, but is sufficient in itself tt l give the eXpectant an idea of what i: } tO emma On Onp Of my Snri0o tri Ds