Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-01

Purdy joins her mother today. com ing from Flagstaff, where she haC been taking Summer course in thu Northern Arizona Normal school. To the Coast.
 Miss Eva Bickford left yesterday
 for San Diego to visit for a few
 weeks with her sister. Mrs. Hughe,
 Street, a former resident of this city
 Returns Home.
 Mrs. Asa Bozarth, who had beer
 visiting with relatives in the city fo,
 the past two weeks, returned to her
 range home near Hillside yesterday
 Health Restored.
 l J. F. Sweeney, proprietor Of Hotel
 Head barber shop, returned yesterday
 from Murietta Springs, Cal, where
 he had been under treatment for
 rheumatism. His health as been fully restored
 Come to Reside.
 AIr and Mrs. r. A. Reid, of Selig-
 man, the former a principal of the Reid-Cashion Cattle Co.,, have moved from the range to make Prescott their Summer home and are occupy ing until November lst, the F. s. Wright residence on Pleasant street. Visitors Leave.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. c. Taggart. who had been visiting Rev. andlMrs. Joel Hcdgpeth for the past three weeks, returned to Pecos, Texas, yesterday. Mrs. David Butler, Of Camp Verde, a sister of Mrs. Taggart, accompanied them. Mrs. Hedgpeth and Mrs. Tag gart also are sisters.
 From Mexico.
 Gilbert Matthews, a miner who had been in Mexico for the past three years, returned during the week and has gone back to Jerome. Four oth- CTS were with him. He states some American companies are resuming, but scores remain at a standstilI, ow- ing to the excessive tax on bullion output
 Drouth Ends.
 Rufus Baldwin, a rangeman of Walnut Grove, was a visitor yester- day, and stated there was much re- joicing among ranchers and cattle men over the long drouth coming to an end, several rains occurring this week. The outlook is again encourag- ing for normal conditions and the crisis has passed on the range. Rangemen Visitors.
 Alex Searles, of Mckinley county, New Mexico, and J. c. Blair, of Greenlee county, Arizona, were ar rivals yesterday from the north, and will look over range conditions in the eastern section of this county. It is stated they are here on an offer made to sell a large cattle outfit, which they will investigate.
 Pleased With Climate.
 Charles Hayward of the San Pedro country, in Pima county, with his daughters, Mrs. C. T. Boyd and Miss Gertrude Hayward, are recent arrivals in auto, and are so favorably impress cd with the climate that they have deferred returning home until late next month. Their outing was in tended for few weeks only, when they first arrived
 San Diego Visitors.
 Mir. and Mrs. Grant Harding, the | former a resident of this county sev- eral years ago, with guests, Mr. and | Mrs. James Byington, arrived from San Diego Tuesday in auto to remain for a few weeks. Mir. Harding retains an interest in a mine near McCabe, and also has interests on Humbug | creek. Mir. and Mrs. Byington are looking over the country for the health of the latter, and may remain. Eastern Visitors.
 Thomas and Benjamin Sterrett, of | Oswego, N. Y., and Miss Emily and Charles Burbank, of Buffalo, N. Y., are in the city in auto, coming from the Grand Canyon. They are en route to Los Angeles, and the side trip to Prescott is taken for Mir. Bur bank to look over the mining situa- ton near Jerome, he being a stock holder in company. They leave to- day for the above city. Visited Copper Camp.
 Attorney ]. F. Morrison, interested in the Navajo Copper Co.,, which has holdings in Coconino county, 100 miles north of Flagstaff, passed the city for Phoenix on We'd nesday, and expressed himself enthu- siastically over the outlook. He stat ed that six huge caterpillar trucks are