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Tol. 2. " MESA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1893. ' No. 4.
FOR SPECIAL BARGAINS!
IN
Gants' Indian’ and Children’s Shoes, Gentlemen's Gloves, Huts or
Furnishings, go to
3. F. Johnson, Sons & Co,
HEADQUARTERS for the best line of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Jn til©.City,
fUmtmber we ere giving away a GRBND FIVE OCTAVE ORGAN
—a chance with each dollar in cash.
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JJR OKAB. H. JONES,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
ABizoh*
OflM e Halaran k Qill Block. Office Hours
—a to 9 ft. u., 8 to 4 u 4 7 to 8 p. m.
|£ M. GILBERT, M. D.
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
©wnee—Over Eaaaa Oe-Oo Store.
Mesa City, A. T.
IT J. JESSur,
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PJfNTIST.
AM werk warranted'and prices very
.
Ovrew— Porter Black,
Phoenix, Arizona.
£)r. O. P. FITCH
DENTIST.
Pevaaaaeatly located in Mesa
Pjtku —Macdonald Street, Oppoa ; te
Lirary Stable.
MESA, o Arizona.
gETHUNE k McCABE
ATTORNETS-AT-LAW.
Special attention given to land,
water and mining eases,
Practice in all the courts,
TEMPS ARIZ -
E. HOLBROOK;
SURGEON DENTIST.
AU work (noTMitood and prices reasonable.
ooi - Bos. 1 ujd 8, Porter Building.
Phoenix. Arizona.
TEIPPEL & SQN.
Aw, Tnirm, Minins Engineer and
Metaiargist.
I noil b Turn, ctril Engineer Deputy Coan
*T Smrreyor and Deputy U, 8, Land Surveyor.
Do all kinds of
Architectural, Mining
and Ciuil Engineering.
Contracts taken for buildings and es
timates furnished for a’.l work. Hy
draulic and Canal work a specialty,
Pam, Pomeroy Block. MESA CITY.
11 ART HD R,
f DEALER IN
General Merohahdise,
Country produce taken and
Jufhest market price allowed,
HOCKETJH OLD STAND,
If *•'<« u< id r»ste MIMA
Mesa Free Press.
P T. POMEROY,
Notary Public & Conveyancer.
Legal papers Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakee House.
MESA CITY, - - -r - ARIZONA
\
LAWRENCE WOO DRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHI3T,
Graduate of Ilahnsetnan Medical College, Phi la
delphia, Class 1882.
Office and Residence Rooms 11, 13 and 16,
Cotton Block, Phosnix. Office Hours— J to 9 a
m., 1 to 8 and 6 to 8 p. m.
(J 1 H. SABIN, M. D
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON-
Office— Two Doors East of Postoffice
Residence—Robson Street, First Door
South of Main.
Mesa - - Arizona
jQR. H. LONGMORE,
Main Street, Mesa, Ariz.
Three doors east es postoffi
Offtox Hours.— B a. m to 5 . m.
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W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - - Ariz
ORDINANCE NO, 17, '
The Common Council of the Village cf Mesa
do ordain as follows:
Tliet Sec. Bof Art. I off Ordinance No. 7 be
amended to read as follows;
Sac. 3.—Any minor, except when in the pur.
suit of necessary business, who shall visit, bang
around, or loiter in and about any bawdy house
billiard saloon, bar or other place
. whore intoxicating liquors are kept and sold,
or who shall loiter about any street, street
corner, alley or other public highway, or who
shall prowl about or entsr any public building
or private budding without permission of the
I owner thereof on Sundays or other days
legal or local holidays, or wh o shall loiter or
hang about on the outside of any public nail,
church or other public buildiug when occupied,
shall be deemed guilty 01 a misdemeanor.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in con
flict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall be in effect from and
after its publicat’on and approval.
Passed this 7th day of September A. D. 1893,
Approvedjthis Bth day es September A. D
-1898, W. J. ÜBARON,
Attest, Mayor.
R. H. Smith,
Village Recorder,
ZeisCfl-Op.
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The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
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Which contains new, neat and
fashionable dress goods, flannels,
ladies’ and gents' furnishing goods
and everything usually found irv n
well furnished establishment.
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Our Hardware and Grocery Dep'ts
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for the
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Famous Fcatherbone Buggy
Whips and the
Unexcelled Canton Clipper
Plows.
Our lines are of the best and our
prices as low as the lowest. Special
orders given prompt attention.
cm AND SEE US.
ASSIGNEE’S SALE!!
Tlie Whole Stock: of
Patterson & Brundage Bros,
Will be sold at greatly
Reduced. Prices.
A Tremendous Cut
Will be made in the prices of
HATS, BOOTS, SHOES and Fan
cy Dry Goods.
Remember the place,
Patterson k Brundage te,
MESA CITY, Ariz.
GEO. PASSEY,
Assignee
ST. LOUIS
peer
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VALBLATZ’ LAGER BEER
ICE COLD, ON DRAUGHT.
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5 Oents.
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MESA, - - Ariz
Passey & Son®,
—Dealers in—
FRUITS.
:iuts,
AND
FRESH
CANDIES
of nil kinds,
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ICEvCQLD SOOA,
- LEMONADE, etc.
H-O
--fee In Quantities to Suit•
ICE. CREAM every Afternoon,
MESA.
The World’s Fair edition of the
I Arizona Gazette has the following
to say about Mesa and its suriomd
ing country:
I bird in importance among the
1 settlements of Maricopa county is
the town of Mi-aa City, lying a few
miles south of Salt river, eighteen
i miles east of G’la river. The name
“Mesa” is the Spanish word for
table or table land, the site for the
town having happily been chosen
upon an abruptly deflned plateau,
th&t rises about fifty feet from the
uppermost edge of the river’s en
croachment.
Mesa was settled in 1878 by a
number of Latter Day Saints, or
“Mormons,” who came thither by
wagon from Utah. Those pioneers
were good agriculturists and well
appreciated the worth of the upland
"Oil. Following the course xkf an
ancient Tol tec ditch it was not
long till the water was brought
over the mesa’s lip and to the
thirsty soil. Trees and vines were
among the first things planted and
time showed that the judgment of
the first comers was good. The
development of the section has
since been most rapid.
Today Mesa City is a neat little
town of 1,000 inhabitants in the
midst of a thickly settled agricul
tural community, The town site
embraces a square mile. This area
is a veritable garden. Nearly
every home has about it a few
hundred fruit trees and an acre or
so of grape vines, Flowers and
vines embower every cottage, while
under foot the ever green alfalfa
contributes a pleasing carpet.
The streets are laid ofi‘ regularly.
They are of exceptional width,
bordered by lines of mulberry and
cottonwood trees, small irrigating
ditches being on either side. Up
on Main street are several preten
tious brick buildings, the Co-op
erative store being the most
important. Business industries are
fairly represented, there being a
half dozen general merchandise
stores and a sprinkling of stables,
blaoksmith shops, drug stores,
butcher shops, millinery shops,
restaurants, etc. There are two
hotels to welcome the wayfarer.
Pride is taken in the local schools.
The raaiu buildiug has been but
lately occupied. It is a brick
structure set up well from the
ground and presenting a very neat
appearance. Its cost has beep
about SB,OOO. There are five
rooms, each well tilled with the
rising generation, the total enroll
ment being about 170. An acad
emy is also maintained by the
Latter Day Saints, with about sixty
attendance. On the western edge
of the townsite is another excellent
sohool building, erected by the
residents of Alma district, at a
cost of $7,000. Here is an at
tendance of 100. Lehi district, a
short distance to the north, has also
an enrollment of 100. Several
other sohools in the neighborhood
have also good quotas of pupils,
aftd provide ample educational fac
ilities, conveniently situated.
The largest church congregrtion
is that of the Latter Day Saints,
though several evangelic churches
hold Sabbath services in the halls
of the town. The Baptists have
laid the foundation for a good
structure and the Methodists an
nounce their intention of also
constructing a house of worship.
A newspaper has lately been
gotten under way, the Mesa
Weekly Free Press, and well
serves the interests of its constitu
ency. Another material addition
is the Mesa City Baud, lately
’ organized.
In the way of manufactures,
there is a well-arranged creamery
and cheese factory in the eastern
5 part of the town. Its output is of
superior quality and finds read)
1 sale,
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co. have
been running a cannery for the
’ past season, putting up 4,000 cans
1 of superior peaches, apricots and
1 grapes.
The drying of fruit engages a
large portion of the population
during the Rummer, and furnishes
the means for disposing of much of
the fruit crop.
The grapes are mainly divided
among the Muscats, Zinfandal and
Mission varieties. The first named
is the raisin grape. The others
furnish material for the making of
wine.
There are three wineries and one
distillery, engaged in the manu
facture of grape brandy. The
winemakers now seem to fully
understand how to handle their
wares to the best advantage, and
the late vintages are of a character
Well worthy of a comparison with
tjf| best of California. Especially,
has jthere been success in the mak- ,
ing wines, and the sherry,
port, abgelica are very good indeed.
The wine production of the past
season was 30,000 gallons and
4,000 gallons of brandy.
Agricultural development of the
country about Mesa has an almost
illimitable scope. Far off to the
south and east stretches a gently
sloping plain, suitable in every to
the growth of fruit or cereals, and
irrigated by a canal system not ex
celled in the West, New lands are
Leirig cleared off to the southward
by the thousands of acres. The
crops tributary to Mesa at the
present writing, irrigated by the
Mesa, Utah, Highland and Consol
idated canals, cover the following
aggregate areas: Wheat and
braley 15,000 f alfalfa 20,000. In
deciduous fruits and grapes there
are about 1,000 acres planted,
noarlV all being in small patches.
More interest is now being taken,
however, in the cultivation of other
fruits than heretofore known,
oranges being an especial favorite,
to a total acreage of over a hundred
acres. All are healthy and have
withstood well the oold weather of
the last month, They will nearly
all bear next year. About five
acres are in lemons. Almonds
have been grown with great success,
and about 100 acres of these trees
have been lately set out. Olives
grow well. McComas and Wilbur
have twenty acres and Charles
Peterson ten, besides a number of
small orchards.
Mesa City is keeping pace with
the improvements of its neighbor
hood. Upon the main street are
proiected substantial brick struct
ures that will cost in the neighbor
hood of $30,000, work being
already in progress on several of
the more important buildings,
Prof. Theo. B Oamstock, presi
i dent of the Territorial University,
, spent Monday in town. He is
visiting different parts of the Terri
tory in the interest of that excel
» lent institution and is. meeting with
good success. The University fall
i term will open Sept, 28th with a
i larger number of students than
1 ever before,—Yuma Times,
Arizona’s Coal and Timber.
i
It is prepoaierous to suppose
that Arizona is destitute of timber.
Even many in the Salt River Val
ley believe that all of Arizona is a
barren waste, and the idea that
, there is an extensive and as valu
able a pine forest in Arizona as in
Oregon and Washington is hooted
at. In the Eastern status tfie“
prevalence of the idea that Arizona
is treeless is almost universal, and
it will be a long time before that
idea can be changed, when so large
a number of our oyn people are
ignornant of the resources'of our
territory in this particular line.
Another of the resources which
will be opened and in time prove as
valuable as anything else in the
territory, is the coal iiejds *in the
northeast corner. Several thous
and square miles of bituminous
coal is encountered just north and
east of the Painted Desert region.
This coal crops out in many places
and at one point has a thickness of
twenty-three feet.
The San Carlos eoal lands lie
shuthwest of the Painted Desert
tract, and extend northeast into
Colorado and New Mexico. It
comes to the surface in many places
and as far as known consists of
three strata, the first two each
'having a thickness of four feet,
while the last and lower one of
them has a thickness of fifteen, feet,
One trouble which has prevented
be development of the San Carlos
coal measures is the fact that they
are covered by the San Carlos
Indian reservation, and unless some
measures are taken by congress no
work can be done in this line.. .
With the reservation thrown open
or the coal lands segregated from it
capital would rush in at once,
build a railroad from Flagstaff, and
and put coal of an excellent quality
into Southern Arizona at reason
able prices.—St. Johns Herald.
A press dispatch from San Diego
dated the I6th says: All work has
been stopped on the San Diego and
Phoenix railroad. This is in pur
suance of an order from President
Reed, and several circumstanoes
caused it. The main cause is at
tributed by Reed to the apathy of
the people of San Diego. As an
instance he cites the offer of one of
the prominent capitalists, who
promised to subscribe as much cash
as any one of a dozen men, and
who, when the time came, backed
up his wordjto the extent of $5
The idea of popular subscriptions
of $1 per mile was approved by
Reed, but he claimed that the total
thus far secured was less than
should have been subscribed by any
oue capitalist.
Three and one half miles of track
are laid, and grading has been com
pleted for a considerable distance
further.—Ex.
The depository scheme is a pop
ular one and receives the endorse
ment of every citizen who has
given it a thought. Let each state
issue its own currenoy based on
silver bullion deposit* The states
that do not wish to take it at par
cannot have the trade of the people
who hold it, California, Nevada,
Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Arizona
and a half dozen other states and
territories oau trade with them—
sehes and prosper far more than
they do under the present plan of
dumping the product of their labors
into the coffers of the far eastern
. Shylocks, who use their gains thus
t acquired to srush the people from
whom they acquire it.—Prospector*