Mesa free press. [volume], August 10, 1894, Image 1

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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 & Co
0 J. WILLIAMS,
"eleetie Physician and Surgeon.
ITIBMD ALL CALLS PROMPTLY.
IVOhrmU di**M** of womon ft *po»i»Hj.^f
Qrrici: Kimball House,
Bmc - * Arl ””*
%*£. - *
H. SABIK, M. D.
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON-
Ottioc —Rooms 1 and 2 Pomeroy
Block, Up Stairs-
RssidM onald Street, two
Blocks North, es Co-Op store, east
■ide* 1 / "
K MA _ - Arizona
yjr LAWRENCE WOODRUFF,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
WkiMU •! lUknauiftn M*dic*l Oollftfd, PbUft
dftlphift, Cl*** I|B2. <;?i
•Mm sad R**id*de* Room* 11, U and 16.
Cattoa Block, Ph«ix. CHRe* Hour»—l *••**
m., 1 to t and « to 8 p. m.
£R CHAS. H. JONES,
fMYMOIAN A SURGEON,
fBMTj, . - - Arizona
•Mm atTfiiniia — k Oill Black. OMc* Hour*
3 to 4 ftnd 7 U» 3 p. m.
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p T. POMEROY,
_ 3 Notary Public A Conybyancrr.
basal papar* Carefully Drawa. Opposite
H*k«* Hauaa.
MBBAOITY, - - - ARIZONA
J.JBSbOr,
DENTIST.
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AM work warrantedJand prices Tory
•asraahle.
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•prft-Perhr Block.
Phoenix, Arizona.
J. W. BAILY,
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
- £'}, PAklnr Ann TOILET ARTICLBB.
JS- •a'
SeigMt Brashes Perduiery, Ite*
MRSA. ARIZONA,
R WILSON
The only Second Hand Store in
Sosthem Arizona. Every variety
of good* sold at bed-rock prices.
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Wamlngton St.
phoenix; i - ARIZ
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Mesa Free Press.
W. J. KINGSBURY,
Attorney-at-Law
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to land cases..
TEMPE, - -ARIZ.
THE
CENCRBL MARKET
£. L. GRAY, °roprietor.
Fresh and Corned and
Pickled Meats,
Sausage, Etc, always
on hand.
SST*Meats delivered to any part
of the city and vicinity.
Pemerey Bloc Main Street,
MESA, ARIZONA.
W. > BURTON,
CONTRACTOR
-and-
BUILDER.
Estimates Furnished on Short
Notice.
MESA, - - - Ariz
A. L. FISHER’S
Ptitenii, Tempe & HesaSlages
I Making direct connections with I
j the Goldfield Stag*. j
MORNING STAGES.
L’re Phoenix 7.00 ft.n. Leave Mesa 1:30 p.u
Leave Tempe 9:00 a.tn. Leave Tempe 2.30 p.m.
Arrive Mesa 10:00 a.ra. Arrive Phoenix 4 p.m.
EVENING STAGES.
L’ea Ph®nix3:3t)pan. Leave Mesa 0.30 a.m
L’ve Tempe 4.30 p.m. Leave Tempe 7.30 a. m
Arrlf * Mesa 5.30 p.m. Ar. Phoenix 9 SO ft. m
CARRY PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS.
> Leave orders at Fashion Stable,
Commercial Hotel or Frank Phil
lips
Bucklen r a Arnica Salve.
1 The best salve in the world tor Cuts
t 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.
25 cents per box. For sale by John
; Barnett.
MESA CITY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1894.
Z6QOSCO-Q9.
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 establishmetit.
Our Hardware and Grocery Dep’ts
are stocked with the choic
est goods.
W© ar© Agents for tin©
Celebrated Myers Pumps, the
Fa m 0U 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.,
AGENTS FOR
THE OLD
Phoenix Ins, Co. of Brooklyn, N. T,
American Fire Ins* Co., of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania “ " “ “ “
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.
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THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
RAILROAD
The Great Middle Route across
the American Continent in connec
| lion 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
erib-ble, can easily be reaohed via Flagstaff,
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 Ancient Indian Civilization of La
gnna or ot Acolla, “The City of the Sky.” Visit
the Petrified Forest near Carrizo. See and
; marvel at the freak of Canon Diablo. Take a
hunting trip in the mavmflcent pine forests of
the San Francisco Mountains. Find intereet in
the ruins of the pre-historle cave and cliff
, dwellers. View the longest cantilever bridge in
America across the Colorado River
| T. R. Gabel, W.A. Bissell,
Gen’l Superintendeut Gen Pass Agent
Albuquerque, N M San Franoico and
H S VakSlyok. Albuquerque I
Gen’l Agent, Albuquerque N M
Water Storage.
Tha late strike has shaken con
fidence in railroad investments
which have hitherto been the fa
vorites of capitalists on account of
the enormous profits which could
be wrung from the people, and
they will now naturally seek other
fields where safety and profit can
be combined.
The future prosperity of Arizona
consists in the consei vance and
distribution of water. The waste
by seepage and evaporation in the
present, system reaches fully one
half, and more economical means
for the distribution of water must
be sought before the full fruition
of this prime element of prosperity
can be obtained.
In all old countries where irri
gation is practiced the water is
stored in reservoirs and hoarded as
its merits require, and this system
must be adopted in Arizona to se
cure the full benefit of the water
supply.
The erection of dams of solid
masonry will requir3 considerable
capital, and the construction of
reservoirs strong enough to im
pound water will be costly; hut no
more safe investment can be made,
as the supply of water is perpetual
and there will be ever-increasing
demand with the accretion of pop-'
ulation, as Hie population will in
crease in greater proportion than
the water supply.
The waters Salt River and the
Verde afford an ample supply for
more than double ihe land now
under cultivation, and with water
storage the supply can be rendered
more certain than is under
the present system of open canals.
Unless the water can be obtained
when the crops require it there is
not much benefit in having a water
supply at all, and the only way to
secure a certain supply of water at
the proper time is to store the wa
ter in reservoirs instead of letting
!t run to waste under the present
system of open canals.
There is not at present a system
of water storage in the whole of
Arizona, and this prodigality of the
prime necessity of prosperity in
agriculture must be amended as
soon as capital can be obtained for
the construction of dams and reser
voirs.
They are as necessary as corrals
for live stock. The water of the
country can only be diverted from
from the natural streams for some
“beneficial use,” and what could be
more beneficial than economy in
the fluid which vivifies all nature.
The construction of dams and
reservoirs is eminently worthy of
the attention of investors.—Ex.
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In the vicinity of Albuquerque
there are several old churnh ruins
i apd an old Mexican, in exploring
among them found a lot of metal
which he believed to be portions of
the gold plate used in church ser
, vice. He melted them into a brick
, and presented it to a bank in Al
buquerque for shipment to the
Denver mint. It was forwarded
to the Colorado National Bank,
with a marked value of $6,000,
and it was turned over to the mint
■ to be melted, assayed and paid for
l by the United Stales government.
J Upon assay the brick proved to be
: pure brass without a trace of gold,
and the Mexican, who expected to
' realize a handsome fortune from
| his find, awoke to a realization
that he has not only failed to be
. orae suddenly wealthy, but he will
1 °hare to pay an express bill of
' ¥7 50.
Nine-tenths of mankind is hostile
to the single gold standard. Our
70,000.000 people are unanimous
against it. Most of the great
European countries and their
governments are against it. Bouth
America rejects it. The whole of
Asia knows only silver, and India,
which contains five-sixths of the
subjects of the British crown, is as
hostile to it as ourselves. Yet the
London bankers say we muJ sub
mit, and we have submitted. So
strange a spectacle has never been
seen in our history, and argument
and compulsive proof brought hv
worldwide ruin seems to be helpless
against such an astonishing power.
What is the use of argument when
we are convinced, and when at least
nine-tenths of the civilized world
agree, England holds us by the
single gold standard by the force of
her capital alone, more despotically
than she oould hold us to her Em
pire in 1776. The mere threat of
her displeasure paralyzes mankind.
—Senator Cameron.
Out in the country from Dyers
burg, Tenn., a few miles is an apple
tree which has a strange history.
Tfc i« said to be 90 years old and
lias always been vigorous and
strong, but has never borne any
fruit and has never bloomed but
four times. The first time it
' loomed was before the war of
1 812. It bloomed again at the eve
of the outbreak of the Mexican
war, and again in 1861. It bloomed
again at the eve of the outbreak of
the Mexican war, and again in
1861. It bloomed no more until
a few days ago, and the people of
that community regard it as an
omen of another war. A peculiarity
of the blooms is that they are
round like rose buds, the petals
never opening, and in color resemb
ling big drops of blood.
Money is going begging in the
city at from four to six per cent.
Meanwhile, in a thousand promis
ing localities throughout the min
ing area of the state, are good
mines that, developed, would yield
a hundred times the investment.
Were more men able to divest their
minds of the old superstition that
there is a gamble, an uncertainty
and a universal risk about mining
investments, it would be better for
the state. Mining is now as legiti
mate and certain a form of invest
ment to the intelligent maij of
means as any other business.—
Mining and Scientific Press.
Tucson Citizen: From Governor
Murphy now in the city, it is
learned that the North and South
railtoad building from the Atlantic
and Pacific to Phoenix is being
rapidly pushed to completion. The
contracts to that point have all
been let and the steel rails bought
and paid for and sufficient money
in bank to meet all obligations.
From Phoenix the road will be
built here byway of Florence, and
from here up the river to Calabasas
or Nogales,
The Jou nal-Miuer under date
of July 27 says: “The court yester
day decided that the City of Pres
cott must puugle $l5O to the >San
Francisco Examiner for that write
up. Examiner write-ups came
pretty high, but when municipali
ties indulge iu such luxuries they
must pay for them, so says the
court. The write-up was of about
as much benefit to Prescott as a
! $l5O well in Gqqsh Flat has been,
and just dry..
Tlie Aievr Cohuljk .lull.
After long consultation ami the
study of plans, the sup< r
visors yesterday decided to accept
Architect Heinlein’s plans and
specifications for a new jail build
ing, while cells are to be furnished
by the Pauly Jail Building <fc
Manufacturing Co., of St. Louis.
The building is to be erected
about 10 feet south of the court,
house and connected therewith by
a. covered passage-way It con
sists of two parts, a two-story
structure for additional offices and
a one-story jail at the south end.
The whole will hare a stone foun -
elation upon which will be raised
walls of brick surmounted with a
tin-roof over the offices and a cor
rugated iron and steel covering for
the jail. S'one trimmings will bn
used about windows and doors.
The main or two-story building
has a frontage of 45 feet and a
depth of 31 1-2 feet. On the
tirst floor the sheriff is to be quar
tered, his offices looking toward
First avenue. Jailor’s and wit
nesses’ rooms take up the west
side of this floor. Upstairs there
are two jury rooms and two judge’s
chambers. Connection will be had
with the court room from the
second story, so that judges, jurors
and prisoners can enter without
being conducted clear through the
court room, as at present, a some -
what risky thing when an exciting
murder case, for example, is on
trial,
The jail has a frontage of 37 1-2
feet on Jefferson street, that is
within 12 feet thereof, and a length
of 52 1-2 feet. This 12 feet of
space can be utilized later for a
prisoners’ yard. Oil the north
side, and on the same floor with
the sheriff’s and jailor’s offices, is a
room for juveniles, where they can
be kept apart from more hardened
characters, and additional rooms
for jailor and storage. The main
jail is occupied by a large curridor
en the north side through the lat
tice work of which constant watch
maybe kept on the eells. Os these
latter there are two tiers of ten
each, or twenty cells in all, separ
ated by an eight foot corridor
through the center of the room.
Each cell is 6 1-2 feet by eight in
area and 7 feet high, capable of ao
coraraodaring four prisoners if
necessary. Patent folding ham
mocks are provided for, with a
water closet in eaoh cell, bath tub
and proper sinks in the :orridor.
The cells are to be made of iron
and steel specially hardened . They
are to have ample light and venti
lation, and the whole building will
be fire proof. Electric wires and
best plumbiug are speci6ed. The
cost of the building is estimated at
89,000, that of the jail at 813,000.
Bids are invited for August 20.
The whole structure will be com
pleted probably by Nov. 1.
A Phoenix man raises a howl in
the Gazette because women in that
city ride horseback astride. The
goslin’doq’t realise that in these
days of an advancing civilization
the dear ladies are permitted to
make a holy show of themselves if
they want to in any manner she.
pleases; and nobody but a crank
will object.
The South Africa fever hag;
broken out again in Prescott.
Several parties are talking qf trying
their luck in that far away ooqqfiry.
It costs about S3OO to rqake flje
trip to Johanesbura.
No. 4b;