Arizona republican., 1904-11-28
CAVE CREEK NEWS
Gossip From the Hills of Both Social
 and Business Interest.

Cave Creek, Ariz., Nov. 26.-Special Correspondence of The Republican)- Mr. Withey of the Marquette and ATiZ- ona mine has been here for month
 Until the machinery for a power hoist arrives, but a small force will be at work there. The programme this winter. is large one.
 The sheep men have taken up a leis- urely march this way, and HO1ch's people are getting ready for them. This time they can get closer, as the abundant rains Of last summer have made plenty Of feed this side Of the Verde.
 During the first week in October John Os5orn was inquiring if arTanse-' ments had been made for a school here. The school. as well as the Ben Hur, is waiting for him. This time our school had 10 swipe the New York store cashier for a teacher of the high grade required here. Miss wills fits the re- quirements. and is much beloved by her pupils and popular @-nong the p-O- pie. -J%
 The Mormon Girl will have been in steady operation day and night foc more than two weeks. The ore is sen down to the crC=-ler and from there carried by elevator to a hve-sta-np battery; thence the pulp goes to Q rotary amalgGmator, used in place of plates, and thence i,o a fve-foot Hunt ington mill. and thence goes to a free burner. There is amalgamauon at three stages, and after the taflings have passed from the concentration they flow over old horszshoes and scrap iron, that catches the last elusive min eraI value. There are swo boilers and two engines coupled together, and the whole system has worked perfectly from the start, because no chances were taken on anything. The scheme is to utilize every minute of time and catch in the mill somewhere every grain Of value. Repeated and long continued tests have to be made to catch even a trace of gold in the tail ] inss.
 The Davies family have heretofore successfully depended on results for their repUtation as miImen. Fortu- nately, their water supply is abundant for econst1nt work. The intention is to keep on running for an indefinite time. | Quite a large force of men is employed at the mine and mill.
 A Texas corporation has the Elem 1 ing group of mines in charge now. Mir. | George w. Fleming, heretofore mana g. | ing, on account of physical infrmit5es | due to old age, will remain for a while in an assistant capacity of some Eoit His wife returned to the coast last week
 On Thanksgiving day more than | three -fourtEs Of our people united in a i splendid dinner provided by Mrs. Jas D. Houck and her son Moses. At least fifty people sat down at the long .abla in the great dining room, near the | store. Mrs. Houck, for a delicate little
 woman and mother of a large family
 is a wonderful dynamo of energy a1t
 enterprise. But she had much to be
 thankful for. Her sons are fine looking young fellows and her daughters a.
 pretty as girls can be. And her familj
 answered &t roll lzalI "Here!" includ
 ing her old man. And he is a mic
 enough old man, tOo" sle said. Be
 sides her pretty daughter, Miss Doc.a
 had come home from the Tempe Nor
 nal school. There are two other a. pretty girls up here who ought to gt
 away a while so the world can se
 them. It is a pity and wrong to tn
 girls 10 waste so mUch sweetness or
 this desert air. Miss Rosa Davies an
 her sister-in-law. Mrs Walter. don
 stay here except when they are needle 7 at Father Davies cabin as insDirers
 At the Thanksgiving dinner, invalid F were not barred, as in Phoenix. Mrs Houck and Nose, and everybody els
 up here knows that God protects goo
 samaritans who do and dare in behal
 of the unfortunate It is a just dis
 pensat!on of Divine Justice that thos
 who shy at the shadows Of peril ar
 those whom infection most ofte . clutches In the absence of Rev . Flening and Alvin $. Mills. Nose HoucG a-ted ss chaplain of the occa
 sion. Mosey looks young and act young, when a certain blonde beauty
 in his vicinity. but at other times, i l business matters, he seems to be yer, . very old and sed7te. By the way, tn f lest time We saw the Rev. Alvin
 Mnls We understood he was waiting a