Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-12
City NeOs In Brief
1u-sday's Daily.)

city for a few days fial''Hs friends.
 Concludes Visit.
 Mrs w. L. Richards, wife of the Local merchant, has returned home from Phoenix after visiting with rel atres for a few weeks. Ash Fork Visitors.
 Conductor J. G. Gregg, Of the ;. |. p & P. at Ash Fork, and wife, were arrivals yesterday to remain for few days visiting with friends in the city Homeseekers Here.
 Mir and Mrs. Franklin Meers, of Las Vegas, x. M, are recent arriv- als and are looking over the country to seek location to reside, and en- gage in business.
 Visiting Friends.
 Miss Lulu Cleaves, of Casa Grande, is in the city for a brief visit, being en route to Holbrook where relatives reside, and may conclude to remain there to engage in instrumental music instruction.
 From the Bradshaws.
 Henry Braun is in the city from Crown King. and states the blockade out of that town to the mines as yet has not been lifted, deep snow pre-. vailing. Mining activity at present is at a standstill except in few in stances.
 Returns From Coast
 Miss NJ. C. Jones, after an extend ed visit to San Diego, Cal, returned yesterday and leaves today for the Union mine, Chapparral, to join her brother, Jesse T. Jones, to remain indefinitely.
 More Laborers Arrive.
 Yesterday another contingent of laborers arrived at Fort Whipple for construction work, making in the az gregate about 300 of this class to be brought in during the past ten days. They were from the coast. Country Visitors.
 NIT. and Mrs. J, H. Lee, pioneers of Oak Creek, were in the city yes terday on business and to visit with friends. Also from that locality was William Loy, a farmer and stock raiser.
 From The Country.
 Harry J. Crane, who sold recently his farming interests on Walnut Creek, was a visitor yesterday, and stated he will continue to be Has sayamper, and not leave the country Good Outlook.
 John Morris and Fred LaJeunness' farmers of Skull Valley, were wis itors yesterday and reported an ex- cellennt outlook in that line, soil conditions being fhe best ever known for this tithe of the year. Country Openned.
 ]. H. Cross is in the city from his mining camp in Crook Canyon, and states wagon roads are again open to travelling, and several properties are getting ready to swing into ac- tivity
 Visiting Lawyef.
 While legal business also has slow ed down in Jerome by the coppers closing and people leaving, Judge (. R Rutherford, U. s. Court Commis- sioner, is paying friends in this city visit for few days. He says the tide will soon turn, and they'll come back
 Country Land Deal.
 A. M. Rork, the Camp Verde drug gist formerly of this city, was vis> itor yesterday to close the deal for his tract of about 40 acres of farming land in Skull Valley, The deal was consummated, Minnie NJ. Follings- head buying. The consideration was given at a nominal sum. Range in Good Shape.
 Walter Cline, foreman of the L. l. Harmon range, motored to the city yesterday from Camp Wood, and br' ings news of a fine situation in the cattle business, due to good grazing Wagon roads into the country arc again in use for the first time in near lv two months.
 Called to Phoenix.
 Mrs. C. E. Bartley is in the cltl from tne Bumblebee country, an< left this morning for Phoenix, re ceiving news of the serious illness O a daughter, attending public school influenza, it is presumed, being thu affliction.
 Big Farming Begins.
 I. L. Bates, experimenting tha big farming movement for eastcrI investors near and north of the Poin of Rocks, visited the city yesterda! and said field work had been started