Arizona republican., 1901-05-10
NEWS OF THE N O R T H
PRESCOTT

iAtotpttt sNIiH.s hhg '--'ppNNis'A Correspondence of The Repubhcan.)- MT and Mrs. Frank Riblet and chill dren, of Cleveland, O.. who have been spending some time in the city, left recently for trip through California They spent the winter in Phoenix, and said to your correspondent just be- fore their departure for California that as Prescott was all around the best and pleasantist health resort they had enjoyed in the course of their trave's from the cast. They expected to re- turn in a few weeks to make a more heightened stay among Yavapais hills.
 Mir. Vim Hall. for many years sup erintendent at the McCabe nine. has some lots on the east side. near Mt. Vernon avenue, this city. and is tlgur- ing on putting up some rental homes on the property in the near future. This is what growing Prescott is sadly in nsed of-small houses for rental purposes-as everything in the shape of desirable rooms and houses Is spoken for before it is vacated us- ually.
 Bert Ti!ton, the popular bicycle man. Is putting In some new 700 candle power gasoline lamps about the city,
 Thc miners union of McCabe, new organization has n ball on the taps for the near future. This union mum bers some sixty members. at present, all enthusiastically earnest in their cooperation with the purpose of the organization, which is steadily grow ing in favor with the mass of the miners of the country.
 At the McCabe mine only about twenty men are employed at present, as the work being done is re-timbering the shaft, but in the course of about six weeks, when nsw machinery is ex- pected to be placed on that property. large force of men will be actively employed in and about the mines. The parties who recently visited this mine for the purpose of buying it ~~on s, W, Wells ct al. are said to have had the appearance of well-fed portly capitalists. from the Cream City of Lake Michigan. (MlwaukeeD heartily fn ke-ning with the prosperity of the pr"T'sinS mining camp of McCabe.
 Report also reaches us from the Mc- Cabe district of the anticipated sale of the highly promising prospect-the "Jim Crow mine. negotiations for which are now being entered into. This Is prospect that has furnished some exceedingly rich ore within the past few months. This Is also in the vicinity of the famous McCabe mine, which just sold of s75O,O ,OO0.
 Mrs. General Kautz and daughter spent some days in McCabe last week. looking over the field of mining in that district, Rumors are rife about the sale of their property In that dis trict. the Gopher" mine. in connection with the Henrietta" which latter the Gopher adjolns. That Is to say. par ties are negotiating for the purchase of both these properties together. The Henrietta Is too we'll known a property and it's history as an old producer is familiar with all Yavapai's population interested in mining news. to need any further mention on our part.
 Reese M. Ling. secretary and treas urer of the McCabe Extension Mining Milling company. Is now in Ohio in the interest of that cOmpany's prop erty. having spent some time in Chi cago, en route, where he had issued q very fine prospectus of their property in the Big Bug district. which Is just now coming to the front rank of Yav- apai's promising prospects.
 w. E. Moore and Burt Grove came in today from their mine on the Skull Valley slope of the Copper Basin. They brought in fourteen tons of ore. which