Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-10-26

Der of calves.
 Freight from the east which was held up by the washouts has commenced tC arrive in Prescott. Three carloads arrived yesterday.
 Daniel Marques, mention of whose suicide was made in Sunday mornings Issue of the Journal Miner was buried on Sunday afternoon.
 An alarm of fire was given on Sun day afternoon, but it proved to be 8 false alarm. Some men were engaged in setting a tire near Granite Creek on Gurley street and the smoke from their fire used to heat the tire caused the alarm.
 Mrs. Julian Willard and little daughter lett on Mondays train for the east. They will go direct to St. Louis for visit with Mrs. Willard $ brother and will thence go to Phila- delph1a where they will reside in the future.
 $. s. Walstrum went to Jerome yes terday to take look at the big copper camp. He expects to go east today and after six years residence in Prescott withins sight of the smoke from the big smelter he did not want to go back east and not be able to say that he had visited the property.
 c. T. Joslin, general manager of the Model Gold Mining company at Me Cabe returned last night from his visit east. He was accompanied by Miss Alice Grifen, of Chicago, a young lady who will visit with MT. and Mrs. Joslin for few weeks.
 Fred Spadino, of St. Paul, Mime ;o- ta, brother of the late Adolph Spadino, arrived in Prescott on Sunday night and the funeral of the latter was held on Monday afternoon at } o'clock. It was attended by large number of citizens and friends of deceased.
 A young man named Ed Adams, who has been in the employ of Adams second hand store, but no relative of the proprietor, is accused of stealing S70 from Mrs. L. c. Adams, mother of James Adams, proprietor of the store. The alleged theft occurred on Sunday afternoon and MT. Adams and officials have searched in vain for the young man.
 Tho Oriental Mining company met with a severe loss last Saturday by the burning of its power house. In the building was boiler and engine, air compressor, blower, tanks and blacksmith shop, all connected with the Postmaster mine on Big Bug. Twenty men have been thrown out of employment by the accident but re- pairs will be made as promptly as pos sible.
 During his recent visit to Jerome, J. c. Heslet interested c. w. Clark in the Yavapai Oil and Mining con- pany. Some of the most prominent business men of Prescott are also in- terested in the enterprise and the company now is asurred of sufficient funds to insure the drilling of we'll. The machinery has already been con- tracted for and will be on the ground ready to start operations py January lst The we'll should be sunk 1900 feet by the first of July, and expertsswho have reported on the ground estimate that at that depth oil will be struck
 s. E. Fuller, the we'll known min ing man, has returned from visit to Mohave county and those mineral fields along the Bill Williams fork. He gives very good account of that section, and in common with the mining element generally who appre- ciate the possibilities of that old and undevelope1 field, be believes that the near future will demonstrate that some of the best paying mines will naturally result when capital is Secured. Mr. Fuller has interests in that section, and he says that several properties are under operation. A drawback to all of that section in Mohave is the lack of railroad transportation facilities, and with such there is no question but what the mineral and agricultural re- sources will create one of the most substantial communities in the entire west.
 F. M. Murphy recently purchased 160 acres of land near Phenix and inn mediately Phenix papers announced that the purchase was made for the purpose of erecting machine shops on the land and the abandonment of the Prescott shops. A ten acre tract of land uOuId oooOmmodoEo r.no1t- fo;