Arizona republican., 1905-01-04

NEW JANlTORS-Fred Gardner and James Ewing were yesterday appoint ed to the positions of janitor at the capitol building. The appointments seem to have been a sort of compro- mise between the factions of the Doug las club, as there were two places to fill and each man represents a differ ent faction of the club.
 A VISITING MINING MAN-F. Me Lean of London, Ontario, is in the city for a few days visit. It is his first visit to Phoenix, though he has been in Arizona several times. He is in terested in the San Francisco, Chicago and New York group of mines lying north of Wickenburg on the Hassa- yampa river, on which much work has been done and which property was purchased from Sam Powell. MT. Me Lean says it is the intention of the company to keep on bringing in money and machinery until big mine is fully developed and producing.
 ANOTHER BUSINESS CHANGE Vernon L. Clark has retired from the vehicle and implement business as member of the Clark Pratt Vehicle Co, and the firm name has been chang ed to that of the Pratt Gilbert Go. That is the original name under which Messrs. Pratt and Gilbert went into business about six years ago. About three years ago they consolidated with Lawrence & Clark. MT. Clark now retires, and the business is returned to its original name. The company has recently made many improvements in its business house and has a fine stock of up-to- date goods of all kinds and enjoys a good trade.
 nlITHLER CEOD GnI n-NaccrS C. Tovrea and W. A. Evans have bought the Eureka meat market of H. B. Crouch and will hereafter conduct it in the same place. which is a com paratively new location, and is hand somely fitted up for the purpose. Mfr. Tovrea and MT. Evans have for a long time conducted a butcher shop at Con- gress and will continue the shop there as before, running both places. Mir. Tovrea is we'll known in Phoenix, haV- ing been here more or less for the last ten years. though not q resident, hav- ing bought much of his market stock in this valley. MT. Evans is also well known as a prosperous Buckeye rancher and former resident of Phoe- nix. Both are popular young men and will undoubtedly secure their portion of the patronage of the public
  The board of trade held it's regular monthly meeting last night After transacting routine business the even ing was given over to the enjoyment of a very interesting talk on the sub ject of good roads by MT. James w. Abbott of Washington, D. C., who is a specialist on that subject. in the enn- ploy of the United States department of agriculture. The address was pure ly educational, designed to help en- courage the cause of good roads. Mir Abbott believes that Arizona could profit much by keeping her convicts employed in their construction and es- pecially when such excellent materials are at hand. He thinks the disinteg- rated granite now in use to some ex- tent would be an excellent surfacing to oiled roads made of the natural soil.
 IN A NEW FlELD-Last winter W. E. Springer and family came here from Detroit and took up their residence on an orange farm six miles northeast of Phoenix. They came primarily for the health of MT. Springer, who was con- siderably run down from close applica- tio1 to the duties of private secretary to Postmaster Dickerson of Detroit. He improved greatly and last summer was appointed an inspector of the ru- ral route service for portion of the southern district with headquarters in Texas. He is here now on a visit to his family. and is enjoying the best of health and has greatly increased in weight. Thought not visiting here in an official capacity, he naturally makes a mental note of the rural route con ditions in this vicinity and says that he knows of no routes anywhere bet