Arizona republican., 1898-12-16
Arizona Day by Day
 Live News Taken From Territorial Exchanges

I News from nearIy a-i the mining camps in this southwestern region con tinuas to be O. an encouraging char ac.er The lack of early rains is inter- Ifering in some places with placer min ing, but does not to any appreciable exten- interfere with quartz workings.
 From southern California, Arizona and
 Lower California come beth reports
 and results which go to show that the gold output of this great southwestern
 region fer the year 1899 will be more i than double thal of the present year and that that increase will be but an indication of the increases he succeed ing years will show.
 At the Ray copper mines on Mineral creek the new operators have cleaned out ard ,,imbered the 100-foot shaft of the PUOrman claim and sunk it fifty feet deeper and crosscut. Report says this crosscut pleases the new people.
 In the Ray mine the shafts have been cleaned out and retimbered The
 ground required timbering in these
 mines. From the first Of December all
 work at the Ray will be by contract and the contractors will have to furnish
 everything. Experienced men who
 have lately examined other copper
 property in the district say the show ing is good for the work done.-Globe
 Times
 Mir. Joe Terrill, tie engineer of the
 Commonwealth company at Paarce, is
 in the city. MT. Terrill is under s, ,0G0
 bonds to answer to the grand jury on the charge Of killing Henry Marquard, the particulars of which are familiar to Prospector readers. MT Terrin has some stlunch friends who are standing
 by him and assert the provoked cir cumstances preceding the tragedy will
 mitigate in his favor.-TombstOne ProspectOr.
 The mining camp at Chloride, in MohaVe county, is attracting much and deserved attention. E. E. Chilson Of Los Angeles, who has just returned home from there. and who has taken with him some very handsome speci- mems of chloride ore, says it is now one of the liveliest camps in the territory, and that where but a year ago there was only a few individuals there now exists a prosperous community of about one thousand people. The ores are chiefly lead and silver, and running about S20 in gold per ton. In addition to the mills already in operation there are nov il course of construction two concentrators of two tons capacity each. MT. Chilson says Chloride will
  road has been surveyed.
 Joseph R. Watts Of the Tucson Water has now force of about forty men engaged in laying the pipe for the city water supply. Abcut l 100 feet of eight-inch pipe is being laid along Stone avenue and 1000 feet Of twelve inch pipe up Eighteenth street, eu.end- ing to Fourth avenue. where the stand pipe is to be. The work attracts con siderable attention, all good citizens feeling a lively interest in the compile tion Cf the work which is to give our city an abunuant supply Of good water | The pipes are connected and calked | with melted lead and i, is claimed by ! the company that the calking is capa- | ble of Tithstanding 800 pounds Of pres sure. The work Of laying the pipe was commenced last week and will probably i require two months to fully complete { the work-Tucson Citizen |
 The social event Of this season will ! lnquestionably be the Franklin-Her- | ring nuptials, announced for Wednes- | lay evening, December fl, at the home )f Colonel and Mrs. William Herring, 3n North Main street. The contract ng parties are so prominent and so fla 7Orably known in this community, il is leedless to introduce them extensively here. Miss Etta Herring has won more hearts than MT. Franklin's by her Lmiable disposition and her many other inc human lOvable traits, and she has )een a favoriJe in society ever since her lrrival in Tucson. MT s. M Frank in has for many years been one Of Tue on's leading legal lights and he has earned that distinction and that posi- ion by downright hard, persistent ef- Crts and steady grinding work. He is what is known as a safe" lawyer-a most comprehensive term to the legal nd the business mind. Colonel and 1rs. Herring are among the most hos itable people in Arizona and their modest, unpretantious, self-enjoying 1 will crowd the spa ! E 1a g.