Weekly journal-miner., 1919-12-17
Pioneer III.
(From Tuesdays Daily.l From Humboldt

Joe Bochetti, proprietor of the | movie theatre Of Humboldt, was . Prescott visitor yesterday
 Mining Business. w. H. Morrison, mining in the Mayer section, is in the city on g business trip for few days.
 Country Visitor.
 Mrs. Henry Ritte, of Kirkland val ley, is in the city on holiday shop ping trip and to visit with friends.
 Visiting Lawyer
 Attorney H. NJ. Globes, of Jerome is in the city conducting a trial before the Superior court, as well is he visit ing with many Prescott friends. Back From the Rrange. Joe H. Drew has returned to the city after an absence Of several weeks in the Williamson Valley country on the range of Fen S. Hildreth.
 Visiting Old Home.
 L. N. Wombacher. the mining mar of Cherry Creek district, left yester. lay for Iowa, to be away during the holidays with relatives at the old home.
 Home tor Holidays.
 Charles McCash, son of Mir. and Mrs. I. (. McCash, has returned home from the Los Angeles Poly technic school to spend the holidays with relatives and friends.
 Active Copper
 Frank Thornton, president of the Big Bug Copper Co.,, was a brief visitor yesterday on business. report ing three shifts at work, and condi- tions were better than was antici- pated
 Oil Man Here.
 Jack Warden, prominently known in oil circles of the Holbrook field, is in the city, and gives a generally good report of exploration, with determin- ations at the depth reached indicating success ultimately.
 Goes Into Field
 Assistant Engineer Earl H. Parker and crew left yesterday for Skull Valley to begin a preliminary survey to the county boundary line near Wickenburg, and later will be follow ed by the highway commission who will make observations. Traffic Resumed.
 Sam Pemberton was in the city yesterday from Mint valley, and stat ed roads are again passable and bringing in of produce has started The above country had been shut out of communication for nearly one month by storms.
 Holidays at Home.
 Miss Grace McCrackin, popularly known in this community, an attache of the military at Whipple Barracks, has been granted thirty days leave of absence, which she will spend at her old home, Indianapolis, visiting with her mother and other relatives returning after the holidays. High Water Mark.
 Alfred Chartz, the Walnut Grove rangeman, is in the city, and states the big rain of a few weeks ago sent the Hassayampa river to the highest mark ever known, according to old time residents for the past so years He anticipates that grazing next spring will be the best i'll many years | Roads In Good Shape.
 H. C. Wood, county road foreman in the Oak Creek division, visited the city yesterday, and reported the dam age done by the big storms of two weeks ago as repaired, and travelling | again was normal He also stated | the downpour was the worst in the | history of that region, so old-timers stated
 Mine Inspection.
 John w. Dougherty, who is in the city from San Diego, has returned | from an inspection of his mining in- terests in Eureka district, and states his associate, Alex Lucey, continues de~e1opment;--favorable conditions i prevailing This. holding embraces 50 claims, is situated between the Bag dad and the Copper King, and has been in action for many years.