Mesa free press. [volume], May 17, 1894, Image 1

About Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901

Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ

                
Vol. 2.
STILL IN THE LEAD I
0
No such haragains heard of as are offered by
B. F. JOHNSON, SONS & CO
o
v A large and darefuUy selected stock of summer
goo4S. jdst ie > ’
Shoes fortill, and a choice line of Family Groceries
constantly on hand. *
Come one, come all and be convinced.
\ B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co
Carl*.
J. WILLIAMS,
'clectic Physician and Surgeon.
ytjll attend am cALLB promptly.
iirChroai* diHtM of women a aperinlty.^CV
Office: Kimball House,
Warn. * • Ar/aeoa
fj H. SABIN, M. D.
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
OFFICE—Two Door 4 Blast of Postoffice
Residence—Robson Street, First Door
Sooth oi Main.
Mbba ~ - Arizona
LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
jttinM *f U ,bnan»u Medical College, Phil-*
delpbia, CUs* lsßi.
Mies sad Kesidence Bwmm 11, 1? Mid 16.
CaMsa Block, pßsnn. Offic* Honrs—l *o • a
■i.,l to taad • to • p. as.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Fempe, Arizona
•See at Hcincman A Oill Block. Office Honrs
—B tela, m., 3to 4 and 7 toB p. m.
P T. POMEROY,
Notary Public A Conveyancer.
Logal papers Carefully Drawn. Oppoeite
Hakes Honse.
MBBA CITY, - - - ARIZONA
|J J. JESSOr,
DENTIST,
All work warranted And prices very
BBsonable.
: OFF**—Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
■. r~ * ■ •* * -
|jETHUNE A McCABE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Special attention Riven to land,
water and mining cases,
Practice in all tbe courts,
FEMPE ARIZ.
J. W. BAILY,
—PSALBK I>—
Drugs , Medicines. Chemicals .
FANCY AnD TOILET ARTICLES.
iHfM, IruhM PerfiM rj, Ktr
MESA, - - ARIZONA.
Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-aULau)
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEM PE, - -ARIZ
I M.j'j ■■■ ■' * *
THE
CENCTkI market
OR AY A WE HER, °roprietors
Tresh and Qorned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
Meats delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Poaieroy Bloc Main Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUTLDER.
Estimates Famished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - - Ariz
W. P. MORTON. A. P. RHEWMAN.
MORTON A SHEWMAN
Attorneys-at-Law.
Mesa, - - Arizona.
WPI pra'sf lc* In %11 the C<>nrt«of *h»iTerritory,
orernment land business a specialty. Col
ctisns promptly made
Or Orr ca—ln Vernon A Spragg’d Real Estate
Agency.
R. WILSON
The only Second Hand Store in
Southern Arizona. Ever) variety
of goods sold at bed-rock prices.
Give u* a cal).
Wasnlngton St.
► • '• ■ 1
PHOENIX. - - AEIZ
MESA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1894.
Z6DOSCo-Op.
«-■■■
The Finest Line Ever Opened in
Mesa can be Seen in Our
Dry Goods Dep’t,
-■ »■-
Which contains new, neat and
fashionable dress goods, flannels,
1 ladies* and gents’ furnishing goods
and usually found in a
well furnished establishment.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’t*
are stocked with tbe choic
est goods.
Wo ar© Agents for tire
Celebrated Myers Pumpß, the
FamoUß F*.atherbone 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.
t
CALL AND SEE US.
3»
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
—GO TO
B. F. Johnson,
Sons & Co.-/
AGEN l'S FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins. Co. of Brooklyn, N. V.
American Fire Ins* Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ “ “ •• ••
Niagara •• " • " “
—o—
FARM INSURANCE A SPECIALTY.
Dealer in
Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Glass, etc.;
Perfumery, Fancy goods,
Stationery, Toilet Articles
and Tobacco.
Mesa. Arizona.
MESA
Feed & Livery Stable.
P. METS, Proprietor.
THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
RAILRO A. U
The Great Middle Route across
the American Continent in connec
tion with the railways of the “Santa
Fe Route.”
Liberal Management
Superior Facilities
Picturesque Scenery
The Grand Canon of the Colorado, the most
siibdmeof Nature s w-rk oi the earth, hide -
erin.ble, can eas lv he reached v>a Flagstaff,
W Jltauie nr Peach Spring on this r -ad. To the
Nantral Brl-'tre of Arisen* and Montezuma’s j
"ell y*u cut jouruev most di *ectly by this line.
< bs rve the A icion* In lian Civiiiz».tin*i *>f L»-
trnna or of Auolla, -‘The City of th Sky.” Visit
the Petrified F-rest near Carrizo. S*e and
marvel at the freak of Cano Diablo. T*»ke a
hunting trip in the mvrn fleent p ne forests of
the San Fr noise > M uritains. Fmd inte-ert in
tbe -u'ns of ths p-e-histo-ic cave and cliff
dwellets. Vi tw tie lon rest cant lev tr bridge in
Amerca across the Colorad • River
T. R Gabel, W.A. Bissell,
Ge ’I HuiwrintenHent Gen “*•• »grut
Albuquerque, N M Sab Franclco and
H S VanSlyck. Albuque-que
Geu’l Agent, Albuquerque N M
' I
■low to Irrigate Fruit Tree*
• ——
The old Mexican method is to set
the trees in a ditch and run in
water until the land is water
logged. Then the sun pours down
ts rays and bakes the soil into an
adohie brick. A few days later tbe
ground opens in wide cracks,
through which the moisture evap
orates from the roots, which are
• hen scorched up by the sun.
Furthermore the trunk of the tree
will usually he found to lie suu
scaldi d just as high up as the water
reached. N>w a totally .„ different
plan is . pursued by our scientitic
neighbors in California and has been
successively practiced in New Mex
ico Experimental College at Las
Cruces. This method is open a
furrow on each side of the tree and
,is n»nr to it as the horses can go
without iujury to the branches. In
the case of quire young trees this
will be about 2 feet from the trunks
and the case of trees three year old
4or 5 ft-et from the trunks. Cross
furrow 8 are also made so that the
tees are surrounded by a water
furrow on all sides. With older
trees two or in ire furrows are also
run between tire row*. •
A small head of water is then run
on slowly, so that it lias time to
sink down to the roots. By (hi .
method the ground around the tree
is left dry and pliable at the top
and easily kept free of weeds. As
soon as tile the land is dry enough,
a cultivator is run between and
across the rows and the entire sur
face left in a tilth until the next
irrigation. The result of this sys
tem is that less water is needed and
less often and in event of a scarcity
if water the trees will stand longer
sp II of drouth than by old inuthu!
•'f flooding. Thf scientitic reasons
for this will be given in a future
issue.
It would be rish to attempt to
forecast the advance which Arizon t
will make in agriculture in the next
decade. But from the energy put.
forth in supplying the country with
mean* of irrigation, we may con
clude that the soil productions of
hat territory will rival those of
some of our most fertile states at
the present time. That the vast
commerce that will spring up from
the agricultural, mining and other
industries o* that territory and New
Mexico will require such an ocean
outlet as can be secured at the head
of the Gulf of California, cannot lie
denied. And it would be an act of
lasting credit to Cleveland’s admin
istration if it should succeed in
prevailing upon the government of
Mexico to consent to a str lighten
ing the boundary line between the
two eojntres so as to reach the
Pacific ocean about sixty miles
south of San Diego. Whatever
concession of Mexican territory
would be included within the new
line would of course, be paid for by
an agreed sum, the same as the ter
ritory included in the Gidsden
purchase was paid for. The success
of such a scheme would raise Ari
zona to the tap notch of prosperity.
—Los Angeles Herald.
It is announced that the Wash
ington authorities have asked for
detectives to be sent to the capital
from a’l the large cities to watch
thieves among the 0 ixeyites. Big
ger thieves than any of the Cox**y
ites are, have b**en loafing around
the capital for years.
A rabbit drive near B-kersfield
Ca)., the other day resulted in the
killing of 7650 rabbits.
t
From Our Animal Friends: An
officer of the police detail said re
cently : “When I was a mounted
policeman I learned of a most hu
mane and kind method of curing a
balky horse. It not only never fails,
but it does not give the slightest
pain to the animal. When the
horse refuses to go take the froi t
foot by the fetlock and bend the
leg ac the knee joint. Hold it thus
for three minutes and let it down
and the horse will go. The only
in which. I can account f or this ef
fective mastery of the horse is that
he can thiuk of hut one thing at a
time, and having made up his miud
not to go, my theory . y is that the
bending of the leg takes his mind
from the original thought. There
h ive some barbarously cruel meth •
ods resored to to make a balky
horse go its way, such as tilling its
mouth with sand, severely beating
the horse, or, as in one recent case,
cutting out his tongue. The hu r
mane societies would have their
hands full to care for all these cru
elties to aiiiui tls. If they only
knew, th** owners of horses would
ad »pt my m *thod, and there would
lie no-trouble with the erstwhile
troublesome baikv hor-e.**
So far as k town* the most exten
sive orchardist in the world is Judge
Fred Wei I house of Topeka. He has
about 1,700 acres of orchards i i this
state. Last week he planted about
270 acres to apple trees in Leaven
worth county. The stock for this
planting was grown in his own
nurseries and consisted of 25,000
two year old trees of only three
varieties These were propor
lioned as follows: Twenty five acres
in Jonathan, seventy five in Ben
DayiKAiid 170 acres in G ino.
The planting was made in rows
thirty-two feet apart and sixteen
feet apart in the rows. The entire
25,000 trees were taken from the
nursery aed set in the orchard in
three days by thirty men and the
time from the lifting of a tree in
the nursery until it was planted in
the orchard was only ten to twenty
minutes. The orchard ground was
marked out by deep furrows both
ways, the trees were planted in place
by hand and enough soil placed
around them to hold them in posi
tion and protect the roots and, the
remainder of the tilling was done
with the plow.—Kansas Farmer.
The Arizona Citizen says: On
July 1 the new money order system
will go into tflfeot by which loth
large and small sums can be trans
mitted by letter with absolute sife
ty and at much less rates than are
charged at present. With the is
suance of the new money order the
postal note will be abolished, as
there will be no longer any need
for it. The fees charged for the
new orders will be as follows: For
$2.50 or less, 3 cents; $2 50 to $5,
5 cents; §5 to $lO, 8 cen s; $lO to
S2O. 10 cents; S2O to S3O, 12 cents;
S3O to S4O, 15 cents; S4O to SSO,
18 c**nts; SSO to S6O, 20 cents; S6O
to $75, 25 cents; $75 to SIOO, 30
cents.
The Congress mine is running
twenty stamps only. The full ca
oioity of the mill is f >rty stamps.
A lii.e of freight wagons is on the
road hauling ore and concentrates
to skull valley station, on the S F.
P A P. r til road, had hauling sup
plies from there to the camp.
The admission to the Mid-winter
fair has been reduced t7. 25 cents
on certain days. The fair will j
probably close about July Ist.
Is Fruit tirowlug m Flnuutial
Duron 7
The Southwestern Farm and
Orchard says it is in New Mexico.
We know of a peach orchard that
yielded over S6OO worth of fruit
per acre, and four year old peach
orchard land changed bauds at the
rate of $750 per acre cash down
Fruit farming, however, needsaotu-«
capital and a great deal of p4tieuc>.
With SIO,OOO cash in hand a man
can buy 40 acres of land, build hi*o
self a house, buy team* and trnpli -
ments, and by raising vegetables
and corn between the trees liv«*
comfortably until hit orchard oorue*
into faring, which anil at the
end of 4 to 6 years according to the
vari.-ty of fruit. A forty acre or
chard would secure a safe income
of SB,OOO a year and we do not
know of any other trade or pro
fession by which a similar result
can be obtained by the same outlay
of capital. Moreover it is a picas,
ant and healthful occupation, and
many a man who is breaking down
with the strain of city life would
find his heabh recuperated ar.d him
self another man, if he would come
out and live on a fruit ranch in
Colorado, New Mexico or Arizona.
The past five years have been the
most notable in the history of Mart
copa county, The expectations of
the most sanguine are being real
ized. Property has increased in
value rapidly in all sections, in
many cases doubling up over and
over again, until the owners have
found ‘hemselves rich because of
the holdings that were ten or fif
teen years ago counted for very lit
tle. Shrewd men were investing
heavily in property and great east
ern corporations are figuring on in
vestment of surplus capital, which
placed any where else would pay less
than half the profits to be secured
here.—Gazette,
The people of Solomonvil’e are
expecting a boom at the completion
of the railroad through that town
and already are beginning to feel an
impetus that bids fair to carry them
on to a great degree of prosperity.
A railroad has never yet been
known to injure a town it passed
through and always brings with it
more or less of prosperity. This.
Terrifoty cannot havi too many
iron horses traversing our plains
and connecting our cities close to
gether in commerce —Herald.
-»»«
The dry weather throughout the
whole of Arizona in affecting the
range conditions, and' in some sec
tions enough to cause an uneasiness.
Generally speaking, however, the
average condition of the cattle is
good, and large numbers are being
sold or moved to eastern or north
ern feeding grounds, as is the annu
al custom.—Southern Stockmen,
The German Emperor is a genu
ine wine-grower, as prince Bismark
is a dealer in alcohol and lumber
from his proper* ies. The vine
yards of William If are situated
in the most renowned localities
along the Rhine, like Hockheim,
Erbaeh and Hatteinheim.
The Mormon tabernacle in Salt
Lake City is the must perfect whis
pering gallery in the World. The
dropping of a pin into a silk hat. at
one end of the huge structure is
distinctly heard at the other end.
Hie time for the registration of •
the Chinese has expired. An effort
j is being made to again extend the
I time.
No. 36.