Arizona republican., 1898-12-12


 the winter.
 RODE A HIGH WHEEL.-The h1gf
 wheel. which has been aRtiquated since
 the advent of the safety, is ukely ke
 serve neW Use if MT MufpRy, 2
 plumber employed by Percy Seoviile, Is
 a true prophet Yesterday afternoon
 people passing along Washington stFeet
 saw Mir Murphy riding 52-inch whes
 down the street through the mud and
 water pools as though he was riding
 over as2halt pavements. T am moi
 kicking up much dust" he said t9 I lpasser-by on the sidewalk, as the whee1
 tore through mud six inches deep, but
 I am afraid I will have to roll up my pants if the mud gets any deeper down
 the street,
 SUNDAY sERVICEs.-Th usual
 Sunday services were held in tbe Pres byterian church, but owing t6 the threatening clouds and the mud the alt tendance for the day was comparative
 ly small. The special music consisted
 of the anthem "The way is long and dreary, rendered by the regular quar- tet, and an offertoire solo, Just as l am,' by Miss Roslyn Sargent Six new members were added to the church, five being received by letters from other churches and one on pro- fession of faith. It was a day of the administration of the Lords Supper, and the thought of the sermon was in direct line with that sacrament.
 A BORDER EARTHQUAKE.-O the 18th of last month the residents Of Lerdo, the old Blythe colony. seventy five miles below Yuma and fifty miles inside the Mexican border, were terror ized by thirteen earthquake shocks, which came in rapid succession. Build ings swayed, wagons danced, and the waves of the river rolled high. People rushed forth to escape the danger which could not be seen, but their fears were useless. Inc peril had passed. Ra- mon Ortego, Dick Wilson and Jose Rios, Of Yuma, were down Ehere on q fishing trip, and immediately decided that they wanted no more fish and re- turned to Yuma, where they have in- terested their friends by relating their experiences during the shaking-up.
 CULTIVATION OF DATES.-Prof. Tourney, of the United States agricul- tura1 station at Tucson, devotes consid- erable space in a recent bulletin to the of dates. The San Francisco Post contained a Iong editorial on the value of his bulletin on the date palm to Arizona The Post concludes: "If Prof. Tourney succeeds in demonstrat- ing the adaptability of the arid regions to the cultivation of the date palm, he will give impulse to a new and profita- Ole industry, admirably supplemental to the citrus fruit culture Of our semi tropical areas. If he can induce cap- tal to embark in this enterprise as 1t las been invested in the reclamation of other desert regions for the cultivation 1f the orange and the lemon, he will partially solve the problem that has so ong occupied the attention of agricul- -urists interested in tanning the vast vaterless empire of the southwest to he civilized uses of mankind
 COPPER MOUNTAIN COUNTRY-I Nr M. Bailey, mining man who has spent several years in Arizona, is in he city preparing to return to the Cop ger Mountain mining district in Yuma | .ounty, where he has been doing some ! development work on a number of | laims. MT. Bailey believes that Yuma | county is the future gold-producing i ounty of the territory but ,4e Copper | Mountain region, twenty miles south | If Tacna, a station on. the Southern | Pacific railroad, he considers one of the | 'est for prospectors in the entire coun- y. MT. Bailey last winter located | 'laim which he has just begun to de- | -elcp, and with twenty feet of work he | las produced three tons of high-grade | re. "The assays I had made returned | wo ounces in gold, fifty-six ounces of | liver values and thirty-one per cent. | f copper" said MT. Bailey to a Repub- lcan reporter. And I have three tons | # such ore on the dump,' he contin- led. T expect to fully develop this | nine, and 1 am confident that you will | lear of the opening Of good mining properties in the Copper Mountain | ounltry this winter It is located but | wenty miles from railroad, but has all ways been an uninviting field to pro pectors owing to the rugged condition | If the mountains and the undesirable | ormation of granite which predomi- lates. There is scarcely any develop nent there, and with rich outcroppings nd excellent surface indications throughout the district, cannot under tand why it has ben left so severely lone by prOspectors. I am the only | nan working there at the present time. | 'ut l predict that I will have many eighbors in a short time''
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