Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-13

ter and worse since that time, is re-
 ported today by attending physicians
 as having again rallied. It is be
 lieved now that he has passed tho
 crisis of his illness, which will bt
 gladly received by his many friend.
 in this city and elsewhere.
 The Big Bug railroad branch, al
 though a short line in mileage, is
 however a gigantic undertaking in
 character of grading work. It will be
 succession of deep cuts and heavy
 fills, and when completed will be the
 means of not only affording ready
 transportation facilities to many pros
 poets along its route, but will attract the investor, who somehow nowadays does not care to look at a mine unless
 he can do so from a car window The Big Bug short line will be bless ing to Yavapai mining.
 Travel to and from Big Bug over the P. & E. and by private rigs these days, is something wonderful, consid- ering that the above section is just commencing to show mining life. Two years ago a stage would have ac- commodated all passenger traffic. The activity now of that country and the prominence of its mines, demon strates what transportation facilities will do in encouraging and building up our industrial resources.
 Bert Mayer, who has aspirations to enter the combination of this world s capitalists, and hoof around the do- minions of Big Bug as the only "Goat King of Arizona" came in yes terday to float the Prescott market with that variety of meat diet. He claims that the verdant pastures of Big Bug hills and the exhilarating ozone of the atmospheric current there propagates an article that can be more economically and benefcially used than the orthodox beef diet. He is thinking of driving his herd to the Klondike.
 Ed. Metcalf of the Bradshaw coun- try, came in today on business mat ters. He gives very good account of the mining outlook, and believes that the "old reliable" section is des- tined again to be active and prosper ous. As a result of steady develop ment work of late many mines are be- ing operated and are giving hand some returns. The Gladiator is again the scene of life and the Lincoln is yielding well. The strike in the Luke property is also leading topic in mining interest, while several minor events all tend to stimulate and encourage the future welfare of the industry.
 Harry Brown, the well known mill and mining authority of the Brad shaw region, left for the Crowned King today. He says that mining matters of that section are commenc- ing to assume decidedly active and prosperous hue, and a half dozen camps are now in operation. He is a firm and enthusiastic advocate of a extension into that country, and like many others conversant with the mineral resources of this district, believes that the project would pay from the jump, and that the only in- fuence necessary to make that min eral bed a profitable producer is facilities to handle what goes out or comes in. As MT. Brown puts it terseely, the mines are there, but under present conditions we are out in the cold.
 Sam Hubbard left today for Oak land, California. Before going he gave out the information that he would return in the spring, and felt so elated with the mining progress of this section that he would again start work on his Queen" mine in Copper Basin district. Mir. Hubbard some four years ago expended a considera- ble sum of money on the property and in the face of a universal belief among miners that mines in that sec tion would not go down. Since that time, however, steady development work has uncovered many fine looking lodges, and within a stones throw of the Queen. Mir. Hubbard naturally feels enthusiastic and stated that he would devote all his time to his prop erty and believes he has fine prop erty.
 To hear some pessimists theorize on the probable sale of the S. F., P. & P. leads one to believe that the world is coming to an abrupt jumping of place so far as Prescott figures, and that in six months thereafter every thing in the burg will be plastered 'for sale or rent" Prescott has grown so magnificently and so sub stantially in the last few years, and has such a permanent foundation in the mining background these days as to lead one to honestly believe that it is more of a probability of the near future to see more railroads centering to it, than to anticipate any evil effects from the sale of the above road. We have the only town of its size in the west, and the mineral backbone of the universe-what more does any community ask for.
 Brodie Bignall, of Crown Point, nephew of Col. A. O. Brodie, is a Prescott visitor today. He gives good account of that property and states that Colonel Brodie is now en route to the mine from the east. He says that he knows nothing, nor has he heard anything of a definite poli- tical nature from his uncle, and that gubernatorial rumors evidently have their foundation among others more interested than the principal to the recent rumors. Colonel Brodie re- turns to Arizona to reside at his mine and not to take hold of the guberna- torial whim. That much may be stated with a certainty.
 J. P. Darling is in town today from the Silver Belt mine.
 Charles Broan is in town today from his lime kilns at Cedar Glade.
 Mrs. Hugo Richards gave social entertainment last evening at her residence in East Prescott.
 Born, in Jerome, on Thursday, November ', to Mir. and Mrs. Thos, CamDbell of Jerome 9 Sou