Weekly journal-miner., 1920-01-07
City NerOs Tn Brief
(From Thursdays Dailyl

city to welcome in the New Year
 with friends.
 Range Visitors.
 Wayne Ritter, manager of the Ari- zona Cattle Co.,, and his range fore man, Ezra Jackson, are in the city from Hillside on official business.
 Business Trip.
 w. L. Crosette, accountant of the Binghamton Commercial Co., visited the city yesterday on business mat ters, returning home later.
 Country in Good Shape.
 s. w. Holder, the Kirkland valley rangemaH, visited the city yesterday. reporting grazing conditions as with out a parallel for this time of the year.
 Long Siege in Army.
 Jay T. Mann, oi the forestry corps, returned to Prescott during the weel, after an absence of nearly two years in the spruce timber country of Washington, where he had been or extra duty as patrolman in his divis- ion. He is going into the Jerome country to locate, ad will resume his vocation as a mine timbcrman. New Year Call
 Mr. and Mrs. A. Emanuel left yes terday for Jerome to spend New Years day with Mir and Mrs. James | Laudenslager, the latter their daugh- ter. Humboldt Visitor.
 w. E. Pate, a well known resident of Humboldt, visited the city yester- day on business, reporting the cop per town as shaping up for another year of good times.
 Country Arrival.
 Ed Ritter, farming in Kirkland val ley, visited the city yesterday, giving a good report of the industry since soil conditions were improved by big rains recently.
 Old-T Timer Returns.
 Albert (. Ryan, formerly of Je- rome, has returned to the country from California after an absence of over ten years, and has gone back to the old camp to resume mining. Visitor From Range.
 R. ]. Cannon, well known in range circles, is in the city from his hold ings on the Santa Maria river, report ing feed as abundant and water plen- tiful, the cattle situation in that re- zion being the best ever known. Not Big Loss.
 Joe Young, manager of the Will iamson Valley Land & Cattle Co.,, visited the city yesterday, and report ed the hay fire loss as greatly below that reported, and will not exceed about 5000.
 Business Trip. l.
 Mrs. H. K. Behn visiten the city yesterday from Phoenix to look after her realty interests, returning home later MT. Behn still retains his war work position at Washington, and writes that he will enter one of the departments permanently.
 More Cars Bought.
 Nelson Puntenney, og Big Chino, and Ed Rucker, the Jerome mining man operating the old Mark Twain near this city, begin the new year by riding in new automobiles, purchased yesterday from w. J. Lowthian, of this city
 Prosperous Region.
 Major Midgley, of Oak Creek, is in the city to attend the final meeting of the board of supervisors for 1919 { and get official machinery in action l for the incoming year. He states that | his home country is prospering, every l industry going ahead. New Year Visit.
 Elias E. Purdy, of Visalia, Cali fornia, many years ago a farmer em- ployed in Skull valley, passed through yesterday to renew old associations at the above place, this being his first trip to the country since leaving in ' 1888 Brief Furlough.
 In the city yesterday en route to f the Mayer country was Thomas L. Manning, a youth who enlisted in the navy last year, and he is given a ten day furlough from the San Diego sta ton. He stated he will stick" to the I job for another year at least. Lion Photographed. {
 The large crowd in front of the i Bate studio yesterday was due to an l effort to take picture of Patterson's lion kitten, which was accomplished :, after patiently waiting for the little creature to pose for a few seconds. It . was caught in several positions, and | later the pictures will be exhibited. Eastern Visitors. C
 Mrs. J. J. Warren and cousin, Miss I Josephine Corbelaine, of New York r city, recent arrivals, have gone to the I Baumann Copper Co. camp for the \ novelty of spending their first New c Year among the mines. It is stated '. that Mrs. Warren is heavily interest ed in the property and later leaves ' for the coast, to return in a short I time. | A,o+ber Hsceayar,rar d