Arizona daily citizen., 1901-09-30
Brief News Items
Of the Town.

will give q dance at the opera house
Wednesday evening.
ID. I.usk, the naturalist, came down
from Mt. Lemon today. lie brought
with him many rare specimens.
The Ochoa mine, southwest from the
Armargosa property, is shipping consid'
cradle quantities OF ore.
Pat sullivan received the first pay
ment Saturday on the claims he recently
sold in the Canada del.Oro.
At 80 this afternoon No. was re
ported one hour and fifteen minutes
late. Number 10 was reported on time.
In the probate court today the guard
ian in the estate OF Angela del Mora
was closed and Teresa de Romero was
discharged from guardianship and her
-ureties were released.
The colony on the Rillito has been
prospecting for some time in the vicinity
OF Bear canyon and report that they
have made some valuable gold discover
les.
The concentrator for the Armargosa
mine is on the ground and will be in
operation as soon as it can be set up.
The ore is among the richest ever dis
covered in the Territory.
The Methodist Conference will hold
sessions in Tucson the latter part OF this
week. Bishop McCabe and other well
known divines are included in the list OF
speakers.
The American Mining Company,
operating near the Azurite, has about
three hundred tons ready for shipment
and expects to ship in short time. A
large amount OF rich ore has been devel-
9ped.
AL. Bernard leaves for Guaymas to
lay, where he is experimenting the
building OF railroad for the Cananea
| Co, from Guaymas to the Johnston coal
fields recently purchased by W. c.
Greene. Mrs. Bernard left for New
York this morning where she will visit
Mrs. W. c. Greene.
Mr.. Shelly, of the Elk Horn mine, To-
Gated between the San Xavier and the
Wheeler & Perry claims. while in the
East a few days since sold all OF the trea'
,ury stock authorized and secured enough
to proceed with development work on a
large scale. The company has some
eighteen claims rich in copper and with
4 favorable percentage OF gold.
- Hugh II. Price, the new surveyor-gen'
-ral, came in from Phoenix Sunday
morning and will assume his new duties
tomorrow. As all positions in the Office
are under the civil service there will be
no changes in the force. Mr.. Price will
neither affirm nor deny the report that
he will make an effort to move the office
to Phoenix.
Special Agent James A. McEnery o.
the treasury department. came up from
Nogales today where he has been acting
as custom collector since the dismissa
OF IToey. When the new collector
Frank Doane arrived from the east, Mr.
McEnery relinquished the position tt
him and is now en- route to FL Pas'
where he is stationed and where ht
made his home before the Nogalei
scandal.
The derrick for the drill OF the Sabine
Canon Oil Company will be completed
this evening and the work of erecting
the drill be Immediately begun. 1t il
expected that drilling will be commence
by Saturday. Mr.. Wilson, secr,t.ry o
the company WAS on the ground yestei-
day and shovelled some OF the sand OF
the fire and boiled his coffee pot in the
blaze that resulted. The only question
being as to the quantity.
r. H. Richardson Of Hancock. Mich
and w. A. Holt OF Calumet, came in last
night from the camp of the Eureka De.
velopment Co. in the Canada del Oro
they have been inspecting the work in
the interest OF the stockholders the ma
jority of whom live at Calumet. Their
report together with that of s. A. Par
nall. the expert who recently visited the
property will determine whether the
work shall proceed. Both men left for
the East this morning.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes is in receipt OF a
Seattle paper OF recent date giving the
intelligence that his old partner in the
hardware business in this city, W. +.
| Stevens, is about to build in that place
the finest hotel In the Northern Pacific
coast. He pal 10000 in cash for the
site, and the building will cost in the
neighborhood OF 5000, 900 more. Evil
IDENTIFY dame fortune has used the old
Tucson pioneer kindly since he left here.
Messrs. Bayless 4 Barkeley are just
completing the task OF shearing their
immense herd Of sheep for the second
time this season. There are six thou
sand in the flock and the tleeces run
about five pounds each. This is proba-
bly, the best graded flock in the Terri
tory, all the males being of the best
strain Of Spanish Merino, and the wool,
when that staple is worth anything in
the eastern market, bring good price.
Just now the price 10 the lowest that IL