Arizona republican., 1909-03-15
NOExCitement There Over the
 Gold Strike HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
Getting Ready For the School Election-The Sale of the Red Bird Consoli- dated Mine--Visitors to and From That Vicinity.

Wenden1ale, March 34-(Speclai Correspondence of The Republican.)-- /James E. Burson of Phoenix was in town last week. He was accompanied by J B. Alexander and another man. who visited his mining claims north of here in the Harqua Varas.
 Parker Cunningham Of New Castle. Pa. one of the stockholders of the Co., roma Copper company. who has visited the mine and region generally for the past ten days. departed for the east Tuesday.
 The Rcd Bird Consolidated, owned by NJ M Briggs. R F. Briggs and J. F. Rodgers. has been sold to the Min nie Bell Mining and Development com pany The main office Of the com pany is located in Phoenix.
 Rowland Bancroft of Washington. D C.. the junior geologist of the Unit ed States government. has been in this locality for the past week taking ele vatiOns and gathering data on the geological formation of the country. He is also visiting the larger mines in this section. He accompanied Messrs. Pressler and Smith to the Corona in the company's new auto truck. We understand that l.. B. Carr is escorting him to the other mines in his auto mobile
 John R. Hoyt, treasurer of the C. r. C company. left Friday for his home in New York.
 Harold Baxter. who has been in Phoenix for about ten days. returned home the first of the week We are glad 10 have him back. We miss the cheerful sound of his chOo-choo car when he IS away and of course. Mir. Baxter as we'll.
 J. A. Doyle. the agent at Vicksburg. came in town Friday to consult pr. Cartmell
 C. H. Long. manager for the Parker Commercial company. left this morn ing for a business trip of several days to Phoenix.
 A very enjoyable dance was given on last Saturday evening at the school house. There was a large attendance and every one present reports fine time. The music was furnished by the Mexican orchestra. Senors Carlos Ol- ivaris and Nacho Corrella-
 Johnson Reid & Co. have just re- ceived a carload of canned goods. and the Parker Commercial company is expecting a car soon We wish we could ship in a carload of canned news that could be served out to our readers any time ye reporter gets too busy or too lazy to chase around for the fresh variety
 The new auto truck belonging to the Corona Copper company Is proving a decided ST ccess. They have made numerous trips into town from camp with 1t, and have travelled all through the Bill W1lliams> country to Fuller's dam and the Signal mine. A portion of the way has been on roads very little used, which soon get into bad because of the heavy Febru- ary, July and December rains. Yet the chauffeur has experienced very little difficulty with the machine one the trips. We are pleased to know that it Is making good"
 Frank Lucas spent several days in Rouse the first of the week
 Notices are posted for the school election to be held March 27 for the election of two trustees. one for three years and one to fill out an unexpired | term of two years.
 Lamar Walker of Phoenix, repre- senting the Wakelin Grocery company. was in town Thursday Mir Walker was so filled up with news of the great gold strike near the old Desert mine, | four miles from Vicksburg. that he nearly burst; he even forgot to talk | groceries. He claimed to have come in on the train with one of the part ners. who was carrying several thou sand dollars. worth of gold ore in his | pockets. or course, we people in this l section of Arizona are accustomed to coming in every now and l then with the pockets of their jeans loaded with a small fortune in golden nuggets, and so we don't get particu- larly excited over a little thing like | that. But we understand from a num- Der Of sources that the strike near Vicksburg is a big thing and likely to 1 cause a great rush into this section The fine ore was found on the claims belonging to Messrs. Alger and Bar ker. Adjoining claims are being To- cated as fast as possible by men now in this region.
 J. A. Reid. proprietor of the Wen den hotel. came in from his Harris burg ranch on Friday. He was on his way to the ranch owned by himself and Reilly Johnston on the Bill Will Hams river. Mir. Reid tells us that their new canal, with which they will carry on extensive irrigation. will soon be completed and in running order.
 Benton P. Richardson, who has been visiting his sister. Mrs. F.. w Ballert. left on Monday for Mexico.
 The many Wenden friends of Drs. | O. E. Plath and E. P. Palmer of Phoe- nix will be glad to learn of the safe arrivals of the new babies born in their families recently. Though these gentlemen are associated together in l