Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-17

motive, he plays the same system to-
 day that he did twenty years ago,
 giving the best that money can buy
 and never gets red in the face when
 held up or stood of. He has become
 so famous as host that he can have
 anything he wants in Yavapai, on the
 democratic or republican tickets, and
 all he has to do is to shy his castor
 into the arena. While Mir. Mayer
 has preempted tract of land, be is
 by no means a baron. On the ether
 hand his iberality is of an expand
 ing nature and in that respect he is
 building up what promises to be a
 strong commercial center, and there
 is but little doubt that with the con-
 templated improvements, the town
 that bears his name will become
 prominently identified to this section of Arizona, situated as it is in the center of a mining region of unques- toned richness. A fact in favor of the future prominence of Mayer may
 be mentioned; the water supply that it enjoys. It has system of pipe lines from the mountains adjacent that furnishes six miners inches, thereby giving to mining plants and home enterprises an induc ement to here locate.
 The Arizona Power company, a corporation that proposes to utilize the waters of Fossil creek for electri- cal purposes, and furnish all eastern points in Yavapai with power for any mechanical purpose, have decided to locate their main distributing station at Mayer. An immense derrick will be built and from it is contemplated the many lines will be laid.
 Mayer is at present the shipping station on the Bradshaw railroad, and is busy scene in railroading and travelling. The road has reached a distance of about eight miles, and owing to the heavy work in cuts and fills has made but little progress in the past thirty days. The building of this road is eagerly watched all along the route it is to travel, mining men knowing that through its infu- ence the same consideration will be extended their interests as is enjoyed by others where the road has been built.
 The Mayer Placer company, under the superintendency of Mir. Lester, is preparing to resume work. They have been operating on the mesas a mile from town with a steam shovel, but owing to the frail construction of the machine have from time to time met with unsatisfactory returns owing to delays in breakage and other disadvantages in the light weight makeup of their appliances. They have en route, however, an en- tirely new machine and when placed on the ground there is no doubt that the enterprise will yield handsomely. It is said the company will have three shovels in operation. The gold that is mined by this process lies in the higher mesas adjacent to Big Bug creek, and up to the present has not been successfully handled, owing tO d SCdIClb1 Ol WdbCl duu Id lDS do it does in heavy clay formation that the amalgamator cannot separate. This disadvantage has been overcome by experience, and there is general belief that under new mechanical such as are now said to be perfected by MT. Lester, the ground will prove bonanza.
 Very many mining and commercial are contemplated at May CT, and with their inauguration there is no doubt but what the place should assume prominence in the future. One enterprise may be here men, toned, and that is the building of a brick yard having a capacity of 1,000,- 900 brick. The product it is said will be used in the upbuilding of the town, MT. Mayer having decided to erect a new store building 50xl00 feet, while other houses are also to go up.