Mesa free press. [volume], July 05, 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.
unr ™ lEiD i
0 *
No such baragains heard of as are offered by
B. F. JOHNSON, SONS & CO
o
A large and carefully selected stock of summer
goods just in.
Shoes for all, and a choice line of Family Groceries
constantly on hand.
Come one, come all and be convinced.
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co
7rofaaal3&i>l Caxia.
q J- WILLIAMS,
~eJ*etic Physician and Surgeon.
WILL ATTEND ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
WPCVxronio dUawea of women » specify
Office : Kimball House,
Arizona
FM.
B. SABIN, M.. D.
FHYSICIAN & SURGEON*
{ygpica —Two Doors East of Postoffiee
incidence —Robson Street, First Door
South at Main.
Mesa Arizona
W Lawrence woodruff,
HO MCEOPATHIST,
.aeadeate of HAiM •* • Medial C'ilexe, Phii
delphia, Claae 1882.
•flee and Reeidence RoObm 11, U “ d 1 6 .
Cotton Block, Fhchux. Oflee Hour*—J to # a
m., I to S and e to 8 p. *.
Mill !■■■ ■ ~~
gR- CHAS. H. JONES,
PHYSICIANS SURGEON,
Fbmps, .••••> Arizona
Oflee atHeineman A Gill Block. Office Hours
_8 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m.
P T # POMEROY,
Notary Public & Cpnveyancer.
f papere Carefully Drawn. Opposite
Hakes House.
MMA TOTY, - - - ARIZONA
jj J.JESSOr,
DENTIST.
All work warranted’and prices very
•aaonable.
Qvren —Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
J)R. J. W. BAILY,
y —BSJLLKR I*—
Drags, Medicines, Chemicals.
FANCY AIID TOILET ARTICLES.
gmges, Broshes Perrnm ry, Kte*
MESA, ARIZONA,
R. WILSON
The only Second Hand Store ir
Southern Arizona. Every variety
4'*' -W r - v' "
of goods Bold at bed-rock prices.
Give us & call.
Watnington St.
PHOENIX. - - ARI 2
Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE, - -ARIZ.
THE
GENERAL MARK IT
E. L GRAY, °roprietor.
Fresh and domed and
Pickled Meats.
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pomeroy Bloc Main Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDE R.
. j
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - - Ariz
A. L. FISHER’S
Pltenix, Tenpe & Mesa Stages
I Making direct connections with )
the Goldfield Stage. f
MOR TONG STAGES.
L’ve Phoenix 7.00 a.m. Leave Mesa 1:80 p .m
Leave Tempe 9:00 a.m. Leave Tempe 2.30 p.m.
Arrive Mesa 10:00 a.m. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
IL’ve Phcenix 3:30p.m. Leave Mesa 6.30 a.m
L’ve Tempe 4.30 p.m. Leave Tempe 7.30 a. m
Arriye Mesa 5.30 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 9.30 a.m
'* CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
- Leave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commercial Hotel or Frank Phil
lips
n "" -
y NOTICE.
All persons knowing themselves
to be indebted to Gray <fc Weiler
are requested to call and settle at
Z once.
MESA CITY, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1894.
ZenosCo-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,
ladies’ and gents’ furnishing goods
and everything usually found in a
well furnished establishment.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’ts
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
We are Agents for thie
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Fa mo U 8 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.
CALL AND SEE US.
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
—GO TO
B. F. Johnson,
Sons & Co.,
AGENT'S FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins. 00. of Brooklyn, N. Y.
American Fire Ins* Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ “ “ “ “
Niagara “ “ * “ “
1 —o—
FARM INSURANCE A SPECIALTY.
•
J H. BARNETT.
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
RAILROAD
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
sublime of Nature’s work on the earth, indes
crib ble, can easily be reached via Flagstaff,
Williams or Peach Springs on this road. To the
Natural Bridge of Arizona and Montezuma’s
Well you can j mruey most directly by this line.
< ibserve tha A ieient In iian Civilization of La
gnna or ot Acoila, “The City of th * Sky.” Visit
the Petrified Forest near Oarrizo. See and
marvel at the freak of Canon Diablo. Take a
hunting trip in the magnificent pine forests of
the San Francisco Mountains. Find interest in
the ruins of the pre-historic cave and cliff
dwellers. View the longest cant lever bridge in
j America across the Colorado River
T. R. Gabel, W.A. Bissell,
Gon’l Superintendent Gen ea«s Agent
Albuquerque, N M San Francico and
H 8 VanSltck. Albuquerque
Gen’l Agent, Albuquerque N M
’k' 'wo Railroad Builder*.
We are pleased to give indorse
ment to the following:
of June 26:
“Foreman Trainor moved Mon
day to mile LO6 on the S. F. P. &
P. grade or to mile 46 south of
Prescott. Contractor Hughes will
move forward this week to mile
108 or i<> within sixteen miles of
the Congress mine. The work now
is comparatively light until the
Hassayampa canyon is reached.”
It hardly seems worth while to
J publish such items. The public
ought to be by this time perfectly
assured that the long desired rail
road connection with Present* and
the Atlantic <fe Pacific railroad is
as certain as the advent of the next
new year, and we will not insult
popular intelligence by reiterating
that fact
But perhaps it is not altogether
inappropriate to dwell upon the
persistent efforts of thsse who have
finally caused this great factor in
Arizona’s speedy development to
assume definite and material pro
portions. Great public works are
inaugurated with hurrahs and en
thusiasm from the masses. That
does not carry them by any means
to completion, however. There
still remain months of struggle,
discouragement and opposition, in
spite of the most fl ittering send off
And upon the shoulder of two or
three patient, unflinching, tireless
plulanthropists this burd n must
rest.
President Frank Murphy and his
brother Oikes, the ex-governor,
are two of these unwearied workers
to whom will be due, as muoli as to
any others, the establishment of
the S. F., P. <fc P. railroad upon a
solid, practicable basis. Through
their fertile financial resources
money has been forthcoming to
conquer the natural obstacles of
mountains, gulches and waterways.
By their serene confidence doubts
have been dispelled. With the
liberal, broad-minded principles
preached by them sectional jeal
ousies have slunk shamefacedly
into seclusion, and now all Arizona
rejoices that an era of prosperity
opens through the unswerving de
termination of these Murphy
brothers to push this north and
south road through, no matter what
happens. They are two sons of
whom this young commonwealth
may feel justly proud.—Gazette.
The telephone system now in
vogue in Frence is to be introduced
in this country by a syndicate of
Philadelphia capitalists, who have
purchased the American patent
rights from the French iuyentor
If the expectations of the purchasers
are realized the system will revo
lutionize one branch of the tele
phone business in the United
States. The prime übjact of the
iucorporators is to introduce the
French system in hotels, apartment
houses, country residences and rail
road service. It is hoped that the
use of the new telephones will
enable many of the large railroad
l I companies to do away altogether
with their private telegraph service.
I The Silver City Sentinel is
| authority for the following: Some
t 20,000 head of cattle from Arizona
\ Ranges are preparing to drive across
| New Mexico to Clayton for ship
r ment to Dakota and Montana
ranges. Thirty thousand other
t cattle are this season to be driven
II down from Arizona to the pan
°( handle in Texas.
| Professor Blount, of tin New
Mexico Experimental Station, was
asked the other day this question:
“What is the duty of water V That
is, how many inches of wate* is
. needed to irrigate an aere of land
p every year? The Professor’s reply
I was “that is a question which no
, one man answer. Different soils
: vary as to the amount of water
they require, andfso different plants.
, Eyen in the same vicinity, soils
vary considerably in this respect.
: Then, of course the amount of
, natural rainfall must be taken into!
consideration. It is a problem
which each individual must solve
for himself. Experience only can
teach us how much water is needed
on the various soils and by the
various plants. One thing, how
ever, Prof. Blount is quite certain
about and that is, that in almost
all cases a great deal more wat >r is
used than is necessary.
A New Way to Retort Gold.
We recently asked a miner who
was getting tine gold by sluicing
how he saved it. “I use silver,”
he said, and “squeeze it thro Igb
calico, and when I have got the
amalgam as hard as I can—” “You
retort it,” we said. “No, I don’t
and yes Indo—l don’t as you mein
retort, but I do as I mean it my
self. I get a potato cut off one ond
scoop out a cavity in it large
enough to take in my ball of amal
gam. I next take a spade or piece
of flat iron and place that over the
firej and then upon that I place the
potato with the cut side dowu. As
the amalgam gets hot the silvnr
evaporates and goes ail through the
potato; but it can’t get through the
skin, and neither can it eseape by
the iron, for the spud is stuck to
the spade. When it is done I tike
the spade off the fire and let it get
cool, and th *n I have my gold in a
button on the spa ie and my silver
all in fine globules in I
break that potato up under water
and I have all my silver. Many
persons don’t believe this can be
done, but I tell you it can, sir, and
I tell you also, that I don’t know
how it is but my gold is always of
a good color* and I’ve often won
dered if the juices of the potato
hare anything to do with that.”—
Australian Mining Standard.
Relayed Shipments.
O. N. Woelker, the fruit packer,
is decidedly interested in the sus
: pension of train service on the
transcontinental liues. Wednes
day he shipped east, via the Santa
Fe route, a carload of 32,000 lbs.
j of the finest dried apricots, with
the understanding that as soon as
the car left Deming it was to go
I to Chicago by passenger train ser
, vice. Now it is probable that
, somewhere near Raton that car of
f apricots is standing on the side
track, while the price in Chicago
a steadily declines through receipts
I from California. The frutl shipped*
j is of the brightest and highest
r standard in the eastern market and
will not fail to attract -attention to
the excellence of the product of
Arizona’s orchards.—Gazette.
s
>
i Reports from Duncan, Graham
s county, say the cattle are quite
- thin but thus far few have died,
i There is very little water in the
r river, and some of the ditches have
n none. Crops have not suffered
- much yet, but will soon if the
present dry season continues.
A True Statement.
1 Chief Justice A. 0. Baker in an
; ex ten Jed interview published in the
' Los Angeles Times of a recent date
speaks of our .prosperity as -follow#
and names a number of onr mining
and canal enterprise*, which we
omit for wa it ot room.
‘ The Salt Biver valley is vary
prosperous just now. Indeed it is
more prosperous, to tell the truth,
than it has ever been. I assure
you that the Coxey army gathered
no recruits in Arizona. Everybody
is just os busy-jss can be, and the
Territory was always a poor place
far loafers.
* * * # #
“Never before in the history of
the Salt River valley have such
crops been heard of as this year
Whj, the yield of grain and fruit
is something extraordinary. This
year we have shipped hay and
grain to California and the eastern
states for the first time since Phoe
nix has been in existence. The
wheat crop is immense. We are
now shipping aprieots, peaches and.
plums in abundance to eastern
points and Chicago. The grape
crop is just coming in. That is
certainly a boast that California
cannot yet make. The railroads
have finally concluded to give us as
low rates—also the first time on
record? We have to thank- the
Southern Pacific in a great measure
for this boon.
* # * #
44 Our people are in receipt of
assurances from Washington which
we consider very trustworthy, that
as soon as the Senate has disposed
of the tariff bill, the matter of ad
mitting Arizona to Statehood will
be taken up. The House passed
the bill aud the great hope exists
among Arizonians that the Senate
will likewise pass it without demur.
“Yea sir, Arizona is today in a
condition of prosperity which out
siders cannot realize, but it is
nevertheless a faet that her future
has never seemed brighter, even to
those who are inclined to pessimis
tic views, than it is today.”
An old womau who owned half
an acre of ground at Nenagh,
county of Tipperary, Irelaud, died
recently without leaving a relative
or specifying an heir. Soon after
thirty men fought with scythes and
pitchforks around her hut. Even
tually they broke down the door,
upset the body and be*t R-»ch other
with the candles whieh had stood
around the body. When the fight
was ended two men lay dead at the
door-step and Gve others were too
seriously wounded to walk from the
scene of the conflict.
Miss Nellie Cash man, who is
known in almost every camp front
British Columbia to Lower Cali
fornia, haying followed many nam
ing excitements on the coast, has •
just arrived in Prescott from
Idaho. Many a prospector has she
staked, and many a charitable act
has she performed which never be
came publicly known. Notwith
standing tht rough life she has led,
not a breath has ever tarnished her
fair name. She has always-been'a
noble Christian woman.—Courier.
The work of a year is represented
in a new map of this country,
Canada, Mexico, and a part of the
West Indies, being issued by the
general land office. The map is
deemed the most complete yet is
sued, and over 14,000 copies will
be distributed:' It shows the ex
‘ tent of public surveys, Indian, mili
tary and forest reservations, rail
» roads, canals, and private land
claims. ,
No. 451.