Arizona republican., 1905-11-05
CAVE CREEK NEWS
Business and Social Life in the North
 ern Hills.

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 Correspondence of The Republican.)-
 Geo. w. Pope, the bright and genial
 young prospector who has for nearly
 three years past beer developing
 group of promising gold claims near
 the Union mine in Winnifred district, realizing that he is too agreeable and companionable to waste his social qualities on the solitude of that place
 has moved his camp to this station
 and expects to spend the winter here
 except such periods as his assessment work will require. The young people here and all classes appreciate one whose bearing shows that he is at home in the best society anywhere. Mrs. Inez Rabbit, an attractive young widow, and late an attachee of
 a banking house of Union City, Mich., has settled down here in a cosy little tent house of her own construction. She comes here to enjoy long deferred vacation and to rid herself of bron- i chial ailment in it's incipient stages. This warm dry atmosphere, so unlike that from which she came, is restor- ing her to her former good health. She
 Is young lady of more than ordinary accomplishments and we are selfish enough to hope that she will have to
 
 Mr. Sheffiin, well and favorably known among the northern towns and who was here last winter as bookkeep- CT for Campbell & Francis, has taken
 a position as salesman in Houck's big store. He seems to be in much better health than last winter.
 Miss Gertrude Huber, our accom- plished young school ma'am has just completed her first month of school. | By her quiet winsome ways she has become quite popular. We are again under obligation to MT. Fulton for l placing before onr board first class
 teachers to select from. First class school ma'ams are said to be scarce in
 the territory, because they are gobbled up at once after completing their con-
 tracts and some times before. But we
 trust confidently to Miss Huber's in-
 tegrity in keeping contracts.
 Uncle Joe Fugett, one of our old
 time cattle man, came up here recent
 ly, but stayed only one night. He sold
 his cattle about eight years ago, and
 since then has made his home on little ranch near Phoenix. Houck's big
 store. warehouses and other buildings
 and invalid tent houses had made the i vicinity of the old roadside spring un-
 recognizable to him. He comes of the Il old French stock that was the ruling Il element at St. Louis in the French re- I gime succeeding the Spanish of the old \ Louisiana empire. He is far into the l seventies, and while growing feeble I physically, is as bright mentally as .I ever.
 l MT. McWade. the St. Louis mining
 expert departed last week after a
 months exhaustive explorations of this disc>-t's general mineral resources
 He has been practically the guest of Alvin s. Mills, to whose care, escort, and general aid he was consigned by the St. Louis capitalists who sent him II here. This was fortunate, as MT. Mills, Il has a general knowledge of the capac- II ity and character of all parts of the dis ttrict. He was taken to such leading and notable properties as the Mormon | Girl, Ben Hur Grand Traverse and the | Oriental, to those under superintend- | ency of MT. Marian, and also to the I Sierra Alta and other up creek mines. I He studied all, and their environment
 and thus these capitalists have an ac-
 curate general knowledge of the dis trict. Two of these capitalists came up a week ago. and under escort of
 Mills and McWade inspected some of
 the above. They already have an in 1 terest in the Oriental and probably
 will buy stock in others.
 l James Marian is here hurrying along 1 the preliminary work of the smelter.
 Stone has been hauled for the founda-
 tion, and he says the next thing is to begin hauling the machinery up here.
 Sometime this month two camps for getting out smelling ore, are to be I pSta hliShad. a 10 al lar cid nd the other at Rogers Spring. five miles
 west.
 The vicinity of Cave Creek station
 now presents such an aspect as one might expect to see in equatorial re-
 gions, simply amazing for this season, and 1t will extend through November unless we have such frost as We have never had yet. Extending two miles eastward from the creek at Houck's store, lies a belt of land averaging a
 third of a mile in width. which is cov-
 cred with golden rod, intermixed with pretty little violets. The trees are cov- cred with those vines whose bulbs re- semble cotton bolls burst open. One day I called the attention of a vener- able Mexican to them, and he remark ed "Ah stan barba de los Vie jos,'' | (beard of old men.) The belt now in- cluding the home ranches of Mr. Houck, and that of the Towards, Oate Fields ranch) is a natural mesquite park. Close under it's surface is hard pan intercepting the water, that bursts out in many springs and keeps the en- tire belt nearly as moist/as irrigated land. Formerly from the eastern end | of it.. an ancient canal,led out to water and two to four miles SouthWard.