Weekly journal-miner., 1916-04-26
City Nevs In Brief
(From Thursdays Daily.) Country Visitors.

? (From Thursdays Daily)
 Country Visitors.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. NJ. Cook. of Heager canyon. were arrivals during the week to visit with friends.
 Back From East.
 The many friends in Prescott of Mir. and Mrs. T. c. Norris will be in terested to learn that they have re turned from the East.
 Buys Ford.
 Thomas Drain. a business man of Seligman. was a visitor yesterday and purchased a Ford auto from the Hill Hardware Co.,. returning home later behind the wheel.
 Shaping Up to Resume.
 Harry ]. Eckert ot the Prince AL bert Mining Co.,. of Groom creek. was a business visitor yesterday and stat cd the property would resume in . few weeks. the lower levels having been unwatered short time ago. Mining Business.
 l. N. Layman, principal Of the recently organized Verde Combina- ton Copper Co.,, which is shaping up to begin operating near the United Verde. passed through the city yes teriay from Phoenix for Jerome. Plant in Action.
 J. L. Deming. president of the Sara toga Mining Co.,. was an arrival Mon day from the camp near Crown King. and reported the Marathon mill as running steadily, treating over 100 tons of ore per day. Returns, he stated, are satisfactory.
 Range Visitors.
 Major and Mrs. w. w. Midgley, of the. Valinda Rancho IT Williamson valley. were visitors for a few days this week with Prescott friends. The former stated the cattle situation is excellent. range feed being abundant everywhere and the country well watered
 Mining Business.
 Mike Mcbride. interested with [. ]. McNulty, in copper mines of Copper creek. near the Commercial, was an arrival this week from San Diego, to look over the holdings, and to con tinue development that mas been un- der headway for several months. Back From Fossil
 Joe R. Warrack. after an absence of several weeks on Fossil creek as mechanic of the Arizona Power Co. returned Tuesday. and IS to take charge of the five auto trucks of the Ruth mine. in hauling ore and con- centrates to this city, this service be ginning later in the month. Back From Coast
 Joe H. Stephens. and son, Bud Stephens, returned yesterday from Los Angeles. The former stated that his daughter, Mrs: Thomas Koontz. who was recently operated upon for appendicitis. was making rapid head way toward recovery. She will return in few weeks. with her mother. From the Mines.
 John Brady. who is developing his mines near Kirkland, is i1 the city, and while giving a favorable report Of his holdings. also states more de- velopment is going On than in many years. with shipping from Zonia cop pers as attracting attention. Engin eers are also coming in and it is quite | probable deals will soon be closed. Closing Cattle Sale.
 F. A. Reid. Of the big cattle firm of Reid-Cashion Co.,, arrived from Phoe- nix in auto, en route to his range hold ings near Seligman to begin round ing up several hundred head Of year lings, sold to ]. L. Wago1er. a Los Angeles buyer. This is the first big deal made for range stock since the first of the year. Range Arrivals.
 Granville Fain, of tde Verde range country. AL B. Kellogg. of the Horseshoe ranch; King Brothers. oi Big Chino valley, and H. N. and J. W. Cook, of Lower Agua Fria, were visitors Tuesday, all reporting the cattle situation as exceptionally good for this time of the year. Fain, how ever, stated that grass was getting high, and the price of range beef also was again going upward, S32 for year lings being offered and refused few days ago. One bunch of this class sold for S33 few days ago.