Mesa free press. [volume], July 19, 1894, Image 1

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Vol. 2.
To th.e Public.
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For the next Sixty Days we will sell our entire
stock of General Merchandise at cost.
Now is the time to lay in supplies, as the railroad
tie-up may continue.
All bills due the firm must be settled on or before
the Ist day of September, 1894.
Yours Truly,
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Oo
3Px««»B»Lo2a.aa Po-rAo.
£1 J. WILLIAMS,
"elsetie Physician and Surgeon.
fntL ATTEND ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
■TOhronla dluuei «l "«>»•■ *
Ajyice : K.IMBALL HOUSE,
Arizona
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fj n. SAUK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON-
Oktice —Room* 1 and 2 Pomeroy
Block, Up Staira*
Residence —Macdonald Street, two
Blocks North of Co-Op store, east
aide*
Mbsa - - Arizona
iy LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
homceopathist ,
©I H»hn»JUka Modical College, Phl»»
delphia, Claw 188*.
i»d Reeidence Rooms 11, 1* * nd 16 -
Cotton Block, l-mwix. Oft»ce Hoors-7 to 9 a
«., l Vo 3 and S to S p. »■
pR- CHAB. H. JONES,
PHYSIC®AN & SURGEON,
„ ..... Arizona
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•am siHoinomaa A Gill Block. G«ce Hour*
.4 to 9 n. m., 3 to * ond 7 to * p. m.
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P T. POMEROY,
Notary Public A Convey ancbr.
1 pftport Carefully Drown. Opposite
Hokes Hoorn.
MBBA CITY, - - - ARIZONA
j£ J. JESSOr,
DENTIST.
AU work warrantedjand prices very
——hl».
Btroa—Porter Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
JJ». J. W. BAILY,
—WALSH Ml—
~ Drugs\ Medicines, Chemicals,
FANCY ADD TOILET ARTICLES.
BwfM, Brashes Perfuierj, Ete-
MEBA. ARIZONA,
R WILSON
The only Second Hand Store in
Benihern Arizona. Every variety
of goods sold at bed-rock prices.
Give as a call.
St.
PHOENIX. - - ARIZ
Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE, - -ARIZ.
THE
CENCRKL MARKET
£. L. GRAY, °roprietor.
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Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
Meats delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pomeroy Bloc Main Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. A. BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BIJIL DE R.
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - Ariz
A. L. FISHER’S
Phoenix, Tempe & Mesa Stages
I Making direct 03nneationz with )
tbo Goldfield Stage. j
MORNING STAGES.
L’ve Phoenix 7.00 a.m. Leave Mesa 1 :S0 p .ra
Leave Tempe 9:00 a.m. Le ive Tempe 2.30 p.m.
Arrive Meaa 10:00 a.m. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
L’ao Phoenix 8:30p.m. Leave Mesa 6.30 a.m
L’vo Tempe 4.30 p.m. Leave Tempe 7.30 a. m
Arriy* Mesa 6.80 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 9 30 a.m
CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
<§TLeave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commercial Hotel or Frank Phil
lips
Backlen’e Arnica Salve.
1 The best salve in the world for Cuts
7 Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands
. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
lions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
26 ceOyS per box. For sale by John
l Barnett.
MESA CITY, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, I*9l.
ZenosGo-Oil.
p.
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 in a
well furnished establishment.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’ts
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
W© ar© Agents for tlie
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.
CALL AND SEE US.
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
—GO TO
B. P. Johnson,
Sons & Co.,
AGENTS FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins. Co. of Brooklyn, N. V.
American Fire Ins* Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania 11 “ “ “ “
Niagara “ “ • “ “
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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 Middlo 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
snbllme of Nature’s work on tho earth, indes
erib ble, can easily be reached via Flasrstaff,
Williams or Peach Springs on this road. To the
Natural Bridge of Arizona and Montezuma’s
Well you can journey most directly by this line,
observe the Aocient Indian Civilization of L<v
enna or of Acolla, “The City of the Sky.” Visit
the Petrified Forest near Carrizo. See and
I marvel at the freak of Canon Diablo. Take a
hunting trip in the m»?niflcent pine forests of
the San Fruicisco Mountains. Find internet in
l the ruins of the pre-historlc eave and cliff
> dwellers. View the longest cant lever bridge in
America p.cross the Colorado River
! T. R. Gabel, W.A. Bissell,
' Gon’l Superintendent Gen p a*B Agrut
• Albuquerque, N M San Franclco and
1 H S VakSlyck. Albuquerque
Gen’l Agent, Albuquerque N M
How In rare n Farm.
There is no question more dis
cussed nor one upon which there is
a wider range of opinion, as to the
proper amount of land that can be
handled by one man with the best
1 atnl most profitable results. No
other section shows the extreme
limits of the question so much as
* does the arid west. Here can bo
found the man who makes a failure
of farming upon a ranch of 10,000
j acres, and close by him can be
( found the man who acquires a com
j petence from the cultivation of ten
i acres.
Hundreds of farmers can be
found who will declare that they
are unable to support their families
f upon so small a ranch as 320 acres,
and hundreds of others can he met
who are convinced that a tract of
that size will prove amply sufficient
to supply wants of a couple of
dozen good-sized families. And
each will be in the rght. One has
hut to travel through the grain
growing portion of the west to see
any number of cases of semi—star
vation going on' upon ranches far
larger tli n 320 acres. There Li
many a land-gr p>, dv rancher today j
who finds it difficult to make hot’,
ends meet, one year with another
upon a thousand acres of land.
The solution of the question de
pends entirely upon the natnre of
the man who is engaged in solving
it. The 10,000-acre farmer never
can be brought down to such small
operations as the carrying on of a
“farm” of ten or twenty acres. He
thinks such work altogether be
neath his dignity, and so he goes on
year after year, running deeper and ,
deeper into debt, getting a few
good crops and a good many poor
ones, until finally the sheriff sells
him out and he is forced to go to
work for some more successful <
neighbor.
But, who ever heard of a farmer
with ten or twenty acres of good
varieties of fruit being sold out by *
the sheriff! There are no more 1
prosperous communities in the *
world than settlements in the west 1
where fruit-growing by irrigation <
is the lead'ng industry and the <
average holding does not exceed 1
twenty acres. There is plenty of 1
money and all the accompaniments <
of a prosperous state of affairs are
found in the way of good houses, <
fine horses and all those things
which go to make life enjoyable.
Ts there is any one thing which
the experience of the past twenty
years has proven beyond a doubt it
is that the small irrigating farmer,
if he be prudent, can command suc
cess, while the large farmer too
often meet with disastor. —Irriga-
tion Age.
H. W. Blaisdell, of Yuma, wa3
in the city Tuesday. He had been
to the Mohawk tnino for the pur
, pose of passing expert judgment on
the feasibility of a pipe line from
the San Pedro river to the mine.
His opinion is that it can be done
r without doubt. The elevation of
the mine is but 800 feet above the
\ river. At Cargo Muchacho mine
i in California, he pumped water
* against a 1200-foot pressure for
; fourteen miles. If the Mohawk
* company pump water to the mine
f instead of hauling ore to the water
* it will result in a saving of over a
dollar a ton. Had this been done
t at the Mammoth the mine would
d have had a profitable margin from
6 the beginning.—Citizen.
Minmoth cjutp * tv-fly
j wiped out of existence Tiles b>y
I night by a cloudburst. A heavy
| electrical and rainstorm was fol
lowed by a big cloudburst a short
distance above Mammoth. The
water struck the houses with great
force nod made a deafening roar.
For h time it looked as if every
building in the camp was doomed
destruction. The company’s cor
ral and warehouse were completely
wrecked and sand was piled higher
than the counters in the store.
Considerably more harm than this
was done. It cnnld not be learned
whether the stamp mill was dam
aged. There have also been cloud
bursts in other parts of the county
this week. Hon. Tom Davis, who
arrived early yesterday morning
from Kenilworth ranch by private
conveyance, says that s he whole
country of the old Picacho was
under two feet of water when he
passed ther n . —J’rtar.
C. H. Smith is one of the few
farmers in the Salt. River valley
that does not depend entirely on
f..*,;cl and grain for a livelihood, and
>v a result ho has a bank account.
| i'; 5 owns a quarter -section of land
fso miles from Glendale and some
t,en miles from Phoenix. H i keeps
two men employed constantly, fre
quently three or four, and these,
with himself, wife and two children,
are kept in groceries from the pro
duct of the hennery. During the
past two years he has not spent one
dollar at the stores of the city, and
he now has a credit of bank ac
count at live grocery stores. Two
hundred hens are kept and an
average of five dozen eggs a- day
sold after using a liberal amount at
home. A neat little sum is realized
from this source alone, the average
price of eggs the year around being
20 cen’s. —Review.
Advices {rom Harshaw, just over
the line in Pima county, convey
the intelligence that there is con
siderable activity in mining matters
there, with a prospect for return
of the old time prosperity of that
camp. .Seyeral Colorado parties
have been looking over some of
the mines with a view to pur
chasing, Last week Mr B. T.
Blow of Denver, a well known
expert, made an examination of
the old Mowry mine and is re
potted highly pleased with it. He
is in the interest of Colorado capi
tal, which if a deal is made, will
put up a fifty ton smelter and
prosecute work with great vigor.
Sunday evening Mr. Blow was at
Benson on his return to Denver,
and was accompanied by Mr. G. W.
Swain, tho owner of the mine, who
was on his way to Denver to close
the deal.—Oasis.
A story is going the rounds, says
the Bethany Democrat, to the ef
fect that a married lady of an ad
joining county had a birthday an
niyersary a few days since, upon
which her husband presented her
with a piano lamp. He was much
flatt.ered|when she intended to give
it his name, until he asked her
leason for so peculiar a proceeding.
“Well,” said she, “you know, dear,
it has a good deal of brass about it,
is handsome to look at, requires a
good deal of attention, is remark
ably brilliant, is sometimes un
steady on its legs, is liable to ex
plode when half full, flares up
occasionally, is always out at bed
time, and is bound to smoke,“
1.1 Pnn'ins: tSi« PMit.
• i
V 1
j Th« prosecuting attorney in the
„ j breach of pr-vniw** c«is* thought !»<•
would make life a burden 10 t
j, unfortunate young nmti wh" won
[. th“ unwilling defendant.
“Do you mean to say,” ho naked,
r after a lot or emhuMgsing questions,
I “that after you had boon ab-ent. for
. an entire month, you did not ki-s
, the plaintiff. to whom you were en -
. gag<-d to be married, when you iii-t
saw her on your return ?”
, “f do,” responded the defendant
(irmly.
‘ Will you make that statement
. to the jury 1”
“Certainly, if necessary.”
“Do you think they would be
lieve you 1”
“One of them would, I know ”
“Ah, indeed. And why should
he, pray f ’
“Banuse he was present when f
first *a•«.* her. He was at the gate
wlmn I rode up, and she stuck her
head out of the second-story win
dow, and I to'd her ‘how d’ve,' and
said I’d he hack to supper in half
:tn hour. I’m no giraffe,” and
everybody in the courtroom smiled
except the attorney. Detroit Free
Pres-.
The Kansas City Mail tells a
story of a Congressman who, h:tv -
ing submitted himself to the man
ipulation of a venerable colored,
barber in ’ Washington, was told:
“Do you know, sah, you remind ine
so much of Danil Webstah ?” Os
course the Congressman wan greatly
pleased ai the compliment, and he
smiled visibly. He would have
straightened up promptly had he
not had his head in a barbarous
chancery; so to speak. “Indeed,”
he said. “Shape of my head, I
suppose ?” This staggered the aged
colored man soinewh if. He had
not expected a question in reply
and had merely laid the foundation
for his complimentary bluff, never
thinking that there would be a call
for an explanatory superstructure.
“No sah,” he stammered in reply.
“Nob vo’ head, sah. It’s yo’ breff.’’
Advices to the Star from different
sections show that the rainstorms
of Monday night and last night
were pretty general throughout
Fima county and that stock growers
are rejoicing. The ranges were
very dry, but these late showers
will place them in fair condition
again. In the placer districts of
county the precipitation was accep
table to the miners, who of late
have not been doing much placer
ing, owing to a scarcity of
except in cases where they were
equipped with dry washers. The
indications last night were favor
able for more rain within the next
twenty-four hours.—Star.
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Twenty one acres of ground on
the ranch of Sheriff Marshal, oppo
site Pima, yielded 46 bushels of
barley to the acre, or 966 bushels
in all. At the average price of
$1 per hundred this barley is worth
$483. The straw when baled is
i worth about $8 per ton and it will
' amount to not less than one ton to
the acre or $l6B, making a total
, product from the 21 acres of $6Ol
, or s3l per acre. Iu addition to
. this the land is to be planted to
• corn which when gathered this fall
. will surely make the total product.
-of this piece of land more than 840
) per acre in a single year, Can any,
- country in the world make a, better
showing. Bulletin.
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