Weekly journal-miner., 1918-12-25
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 (From Sundays Daily.) Mining Business.
 Marshall Stoddard, one of the best known mining men of the Mayer country, was in the city yesterday on business.
 Holiday Shopping.
 Mrs. James Muse, wife of Kirk land Valley rangeman, was in the city yesterday visiting with friends and to do holiday shopping. i Week-End Visitors.
 Mrs. w. R. Ehle and sister, Mrs B. ]. McNicholl, of Jerome Junction visited in the city yesterday with friends, returning home in auto last night.
 Rural Visitor.
 P. w. Farrell, farming in William son valley, was in the city yesterday. reporting successful season, and another year ahead with good out | look. Back From Oatnan.
 Charles Edward Major, the geolo- gist and mining engineer, has return ed to Prescott after having spent the. past three weeks at Oatman and Chloride in the examination of sev- eral mining properties for a large eastern syndicate. Holiday Trip.
 Attorney T. C. Norris left yester- day for Los Angeles. to meet clients and also enjoy Christmas witi' friends.
 Here From Holbrook.
 Walter Hanson and F. I. Hastings of Holbrook are in Prescott for 2 stay of a few days to look after some. business matters
 Flu Fades Away.
 ]. A. Stapp was a visitor yester day from Skull Valley, reporting dull times on the ranch and range and even the flu had vanished as the las topic of discussion.
 Business Trip.
 Fred O. Grain. editor of the Bull letin of Oil and Mines, a local maga zine devoted to Arizona industrials along the lines mentioned, is in Je- rome this week looking after the in terests of his publication. Back to Dry Land.
 Ernest Martinez. who had been filling an engagement in the navy a Mare Island. son of Mir. and Mrs A. A. Martinez, of this city, has re- turned home, having been honorably discharged from the service. Wet Country.
 w. l. DeArmond, farming in Skull Valley was in the city yesterday and reported heavy snow as falling on Friday night which will be of great benefit in the future to his business as well as to all rangemen. A Sturdy Farmer.
 R. s. Buckingham, who has aban- doned the tripod for the blow, was a visitor yesterday from his holding near Jerome Junction. He states he may resume his civil engineering duties later, and says the farming business has made him quite wealthy during the past season. Winter on Desert.
 Mir. and Mrs. Horatio Charleton are in the city for a few days, coming from the Jerome section, and are en route to a mining camp near Vicks- burg. on the desert, to remain for the winter. A brother of Mrs. Charle- ton has started to operate in the above field.
 Burning Brick.
 T. F. Fitzsimmons has arrived from Phoenix, and will resume brick making at his yard in Miller Valley, firing up kilns to a capacity of over 100000. The 1918 supply of half million was consumed in this city last summer, and to meet new demands in building is the cause of his return in mid-winter. Back to the Range.
 Shorty" King arrived yesterday from Camp Lewis, Washington, and is getting ready to throw off the khaki to don the schaperojos, for work on the range He has an honor able discharge from the army and will get in the saddle again 10 round