The Florence tribune., 1899-08-26
TIE NEW FLORENCE.
Florence of the Silver King
 Time.
From the Phoenix Republican.l

town yesterday morning. He IS pleased | to say that Florence, from having been | the deadest town on the western con tinent for seven years, is being resus- citated and shows signs of surpassing the liveliness of the palmy days of the Silver King. It's the mining activity that is doing it. The activity is more widespread than in the era of the Silver King, but the storm center is in the Mineral creek district. The ne- cessity of establishing some more con venient connection with railroad than exists at present has become apparent and some time ago an automobile route was surveyed from Picacho to the Ray mine. A location for a good road was found, and if it is not built it is because railroad will be built to the miae from Casa Grande. A survey for the liue is now going on. If the railroad should be constructed it will take in Florence for Typographical reasons. Florence is by no means on direct line between Casa Grande and Mineral creek, but direct line is im- practicable. The altitude of Casa Grande is about 400 feet, that of the Ray mine about l 300. On the line be- tween them and about six miles from the mine there is ridge 3,900 feet high. The drop in six miles is too precipitous for railroad building The altitude of Florence is 1,700 feet, so that road by that point could be built without any perceptible grade. A lead mine is now being worked by Tom Hailey in the Mineral creek dis ! trict which it Is believed will be de- veloped into the richest in the west, | if not the richest in the United States. Trevathen and others are opera ting a silver property, which is so rich that at the present price of silver they are taking out ore at profit.
 A ripple of excitement has lately been caused at Florence by the dis covery in the Pinal mountains of some hot springs, in which there are sup posed to be wonderful medicinal prop critics. The discoverer is Mexican of 1 Phoenix, who came after his family last Saturday, aud returned the next day to take possession of his discovery. On his way to Phoenix Mir. Bailey stopped at Tom Buchanan's and told him about the finding of the springs. MT. Buchanan said that prospector reported the discovery of some hot springs in the same neighborhood sew eral years ago, but so much of what prospectors see is only imaginary, that Mir. Buchanan thought no more of it.
 Editor Reppy of the Florence TRI- BUNE will leave today for the coast where Mrs. Reppy has been spending the summer. He will be gone about two weeks and in his absence Joseph Mulhatton will see that the pub ublication is not suspended. For weeks he has been having handsome frames con structed arou nd large illuminated mot toes consisting of the word Truth, !" with which he W i'll adorn the walls of the sanctum and composing room. If in the next two issues of the TRIBUNE an erroneous statement. however un- important, appears in its columns, the public may know that it was surrep- titiously put in by malicious parties on the way to the postofice, or else alter the papers have been entered as second-class matter.
 Earring few slight inaccuracies, hardly worth mentioning, the forego- ing interview was correctly reported by Billy Spears, of the Republican, so Colonel Steve Bailey informs us. Mir. Spears is one of the most conscien- tious newspaper men in the business, and if any of his copy appears in print which is not absolutely correct, it must be attributed to a defective merganthaler. The machine was bad ly out of order Tuesday, when the fol- lowing appeared with Spears ear marks:
 NEEDS NO PROTECTION.
 There was an unnecessary sugges- tion in the Republican yesterday morning that specimens of liars be im- ported. A sample of the Kansas liars work was placed on exhibition. The man who made the suggestion has overlooked local talent in gazing to- ward Kansas. There is Deputy Sheriff Charley Slankard, for instance, man without any special training. He just picked it up himself. Yesterday morn- ing he described his repulse of vari- ous onslaughts of mosquitoes made upA on him between p. m. and midnight of Sunday night. In the absence of L