Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-08


plete. During his absence there hi:
wife will remain at the Grand Canyon
Hon. Morris Goldwater, mayor o.
Prescott, was initiated into the Elks
lodge Wednesday night. b. P. o. E.
No. $50 has been adding steadily to it!
membership and by the time their new
hall in the theatre building is ready
for occupancy it promises to have the
strongest membership of any organiza
tion in the city.
Ed Wingfield was in town yesterday
having just delivered thirty head oil
fat steers to VeDator and Scholey al
Huron. He received little over SO
per head for the entire lot. Mr..
Wingfield has some of the choicest cat
tie IN the county. He has some that
are even larger than those sold to the
Huron butchers.
According to the monthly bulltein
issued by the weather bureau from
Phoenix, the rainfall id February var
led from three to ten inches in differ
ent parts of the territory. In Phoenix
it amounted to AGA inches for the
month and 7.95 inches for the months
of January and February as against
u. 20 inches in Prescott.
E. E. Breed has been taking a re-
cord of the weather in the Mt. Union
section and reports the rainfall there
for January and February as being
"A. 80 inches of which s. s. inches fell
in January and l6. o. in February. He
says that the total rainfall there since
last July was 43. 80 and the total snow
fall during this winter Sc inches.
Four car loads of structural steel
for the ella bridge on the Phoenix &
Eastern railroad have arrived in Pres
colt, two of them being forwarded to
the front the other two cars remain
ing in the yards here. This is the
advance shipment Of about sixteen or
twenty car loads which will be requir-
ed for the bridge.
Messrs. o. E. Jones, of Troy, New
York, and W. V. Jones, of Pickett,
Wisconsin, who have been in this Sec
ton for several days on mining bust
ness left yesterday for their homes in
the east. The latter had been here
some time ago and became interested
in a mining venture but it was the
first visit of o. E. Jones. He came
here as skeptic, but left with very
favorable impression of the country
generally and of its mining possibili-
ties in particular. After thorough
he came to the conclus-
ion that there are great possibilities
Tor mining here; that there is an
abundance of ore and all that is need
ID is systematic and careful business
to make mining Fay.
D. Carl Kurtz, of McCabe, arrived
IN last nights Crown King train, and
registered at Hotel Burke, modestly
skiing for the best room in the house
lie was accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
). 7. Joslin, and one or two other
riends and shortly after their arrival
he party went ont of the hotel togeth-
IT. After some time had elapsed,
riend of Mr.. Kurtz put in an appear
nee and after Mr.. Kurtz's name or
he register added the words "and
wife,. On the return of the others of
he party Mr.. Kurtz was accompanied
y a charming bride, but the newspa-
Ter inquisitor was unable to learn her
maiden name or the name of the per-
on performing the ceremony.
S. F. Dennison, formerly of Jerome,
nd who for several years managed
he jerome Lumber Co., has taken |
he local management for the DeMund |
lumber Co., and assumed his new
osition on March 1st. A. L. De- |
lund, who has had charge of the !
BUSINESS in this city has moved to
'hoenix and will remain with the
ompany at that point. DeMund has
zen one of our live, energetic bust
ess men and We regret to lose him.
)ennison, the new manager is we'll |
nd favorably known in Prescott and |
country and requires no /
to our business men. |
lis place as manager of the Jerome
BUSINESS is taken by Horace q. Mer-
ill.
c. ". Platt came up from Wicken-
urg yesterday, where he is in charge |
f the Monarch Copper company's
mining operations. The property is
nown as the Ryland mines, having
cen owned and worked for years by
he late Frank Ryland and after his
cath by his widow. They have
plendid reputation and Mr.. PIatt
avs that they have shown up we'll I'M
er the development done by his COM
any. He has just added compressor
liant and the ore now in sight and