Year: 1879

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 Pimal County.

 The editor of the CHfzcR, having just made q trip through Florence and Picket Post, publishes the fol lowing notes of his trip:

 The Silver King company are now putting down an excellent new work ing shaft which is s,Ontly timhered with selected sawed lumber They are also erecting steam hoisting works and making every preparation for sinking their main shaft 1000 feet and opening the miEe in good shape. Only enough ore is now being eX- tracted to keep the mill running. The authorities are very exclusive and we understand that visitors are not allowed to go on the dump.

 Picket Post has improved consid- erable during the past three months Stores, offices, saloons, dwellings, etc have been built. Aaron Mason, Esq. found it necessary, since he has taken unto himself a wife, to enlarge his quarters, which he has done in very neat manner, using soft, white stone for building material. Geo. L. Mil Ter 6, Co., have put up large store and are doing

 A GOOD BUSINESS.

 Mr Miller has also erected a fine dwelling, Mr P A Brown has just completed a neat assay office. Vari- ous other improvements have been made and the town is assuming quite respectable propotions The Silver King company's mill is at work day and night and is the only real success in that line in the Territory. The '76 mill has been running on Silver King ore nearly all the time since it began operations. The mill has been at tached for taxes but it is not probable the company will allow it to be sold. The mill will be stopped April 1st The superintendent will leave with his family for California and it is not known who will succeed him. The little mill brought up from Hewitt's station by Messrs. Stone & Benson has been rcmodcled and put up on Queens Creek about mile from Picket Post and is constantly busy on custom work. The new owners have found it very

 PROFITABLE INVESTMENT

 Thus far. The recent gold discov- cry about six miles from Picket Post is claimed to be one of the wonders of southern Arizona. The ledge is said to bc over fifty feet wide and scam six feet wide shows free gold in every piece of ore taken from it. The ledge projects over the surface for a distance of over f0G0 feet. We be lieye that Mir. Elmore is the fortunate owner of the controlling interest in this claim. Judge Blair thinks that he could put up a 40-stamp mill on this claim and pay for itin sixty days from the ore now in sight. It is cer- tain that this is a very valuable prop erty

 Florence still fingers on the sunny banks of the Gila. The people com plain that the town is very dull. Evidently business is not as brisk there as it was a year ago, but it is probable that this dullness is now at its lowest ebb.

 THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK

 In that section this season is first rate. There is considerable travel to Pioneer and Globe Districts via Florence; the railroad is coming. and there is every reason to believe that the little town will again resume its accustomed activity. We were quite surprised to find the new courthouse nearly completed. This is a building of which Pinal county can justly be proud. It is built of Adobe with sol i'd rock foundation; the roof is shin gle, the wood work inside, though, plain, is in good taste and has just been neatly grained. The building will contain the courtroom, a jury room and offices for the clerk of the court and district attorney IL will be ready for the court term to be held there next month. AIr. Bilicke, the accommodating

 HOTEL PROPRIETOR,

 Has built several new rooms and 50 refted and remodeled his house that he now has as comfortable a ho- tel as can be found anywhere in Ariz- l ona. A piano has lately been added . to the parlor furniture and this room is the scene of many social gather ings. The many shade trees, the gar dens, the adjacent grain fields and . running water will always lend a charm to the pleasant little village of Florence

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