Arizona republican., 1907-10-06
MIR. o'eRIEN's CLOSE CALL.
Nearly Blew Himself and the Goddard ,- Mining Company Up.

| Wickenburg. Oct. 3.-(Special core spondence of The ReDublican.)-J. J. iO'Brien, who is working for the God dard Mining Co, had as near an es- cape from the grim reaper as anyone ever had, bct only a few external
 bruises are the onl:' results. | While sharpening steel in tke black smith shop he let one piece of steel get too hot and the sparks from the metal lflew and ignited some gunny sacks that covered eleven sticks of dynamite, (which went off and blew the shop to lpieces. A few stones were thrown down the shaft, one of them in its descent touching tie rim of miners hat
 | w. P Dykema passed through the icity Monday on his way to Salome. He Twill take charge os the assa-' office of lthe Haggott- Grand CO, at that place. A. C. Mcqueen os Mesa, livestock lagent of the Santa Fe railroad. was in town on business for the company.
 Miss Marguerite Hughes teacher of Ithe Wickenburs school, came uo on Tuesday morning from Phoenix. She lnow has % scholars enrolled.
 Mrs. Huntsinger and daughter Helen,
  lthat Helen could attend school.
 MT. Lowther. representing the Ari- lzona Mining Supply Co. of Prescott. lis here for few days transacting bus mess with local mining men.
 MT. Perritt, brakeman on the A. & C.. lrailroad, got a piece of clinker in his
 specialist.
 sra lstation or Fr.da-. = ' Miss Ella Smith arrived on Sunday lfrom Texas. The young lady has been jengsged to teach private school at
 Wickenburg ti:is winter.
 w. McAllister was in Friday from the Black Rock mine.
 Judge Wren was in town on his way Ito Phoenix The judge says 1t was jbusiness that called him there, not IRingling's show.
 Play ball now boys. you have got the material for good nine here.
 | Doctor and Mrs. Jones are in Phoe- mix for few days on business and Ipleasure.
 Matt Garfield was in from the Bur !son camp Monday. Matt has not been Ihere for so long that he was surprised lat the progress the town had made. He purchased a lot the first of the lyear and he says he would not now take $500 for it.
 MT and Mrs. Chas. Goddard returned lhome from months visit to Pitts
 burg. the former home of Mrs. God
 dard.
 II Louis Carr, manager of the Pitts
 burg and Harqua Hala Mining CO. was
 in town OF business Wednesday. Young MT. Mott .s in town for a
 couple of da:-s from the Eagle Copper CO, Black Rock district. He says they have the water out of the shaft
 now and are sinking. Since the fight among the stockholders is settled they 1 Intend to push development work to
 see whether they have a mine or not. Otis Young and two sons were in from Wenden Tuesday of last week. F.. \. Rudd, who has been the man. lager for the Interior Mining and Trust Co, for the last three years. has re- signed his position and is now enjoy ing a well earned rest.
 | R. c. Hourtienne, who is in the real estate and insurance business at Pasa- dena. Cal. was in town for couple of da.-s last week. MT. Hourtienne came in from the Fort Henry mine. He is president of the company and very enthusiastic about the future of the Fort Henry company. This is one of the brightest prospects in the Castle Creek district. The:- are SD situated now that they can go ahead and put the property on the producing list The only drawback MT. Hourtienne says they have is the need of wagon road. The only road they have now is down Castle Creek to Hot Springs Junction. distance of 3S miles. If they could get a road into Wickenburg it would be 16 miles shorter. HASSAYAMPER.