The Pick and drill. [volume], October 16, 1897, Page 6, Image 6

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NOTICE.
If you have a mine to sell: or if you
desire to lease a mine ; or if you wish
to bond your mine ; or if you want to
obtain a'mine on bond ; or if you have
any wants, of whatever character,
which it is desirable that people should
know, then advertise the same in The
Pick and Drill, and watch for the
results of a judicious advertisement.
New York Quotations.
The following are closing prices for
the week:
Silver $0.57%
Lead 4.17%
Copper 11.25
Zinc
O = All parties receiving mail through
the general delivery should ask for the
Pick and Drill. t
The roads are bad.
The rains still continue.
Mever monkey with a buzz-saw.
Try Schilling’s Best tea and baking powder.
The coming year will be a good one
for Yavapai dry ranchers.
“Yellow Jack’s’’ deadliest enemy is
now a nightly visitor in Prescott.
Eli Puntenney, of Simmons, was
seen on the streets last Friday.
Best, coldest and cheapest beer in
Prescott at Headquarters saloon. 25tf
Irve Saunders with his big team
returned from Crowned King yester
day.
Miss Laura DeWitt who has been
traveling in the east returned home
last Sunday.
Did you ever notice with what alac
rity the “knowing one’’ always hops
into the “pinching shoe?’’
For good, cold beer go to Head
quarters saloon, where you get the
cheapest and best. 25-ts.
Subscribe for the Pick and Drill,
and in so doing you “lay up that
which repays for a good action here.’’
This office turned out a nice lot of
job work this week. If you need a job
you get only the best at the Pick and
Drill.
Hereafter this paper will be pub
lished Tuesdays instead of Saturdays
as it is now, and thus avoid lying
over Sunday in the postoffice.
Read our clubbing rates and select
what you desire. This is a splendid
chance to get good reading matter
dirt cheap. Don’t delay as our club
bing offers will not be for a long time.
We are sorry to hear such bad re
ports against our old friend Fred G.
Hughes. Perhaps time will prove
them not quite so bad as they now ap
pear to be. This is our hope at least.
Dr. J. W. Coleman was in from
Crowned King this week. The Doctor
is a genial good fellow, a first-class
physician and has lots of friends in
Prescott who are always glad to see
him.
The genial George Smith of the
Headquarters Saloon has a new and
enlarged “long talk’’ to the public in
this issue of the Pick and Drill.
George means just what he says. Go
see if he don’t.
T. W. Johnson Esq., returned last
Tuesday from Show Low, Navajo
county. Mr. Johnson started for St.
Johns, Apache county, to attend the
District court but suddenly falling ill
at Show Low. was prevented from at
tending court.
Col. Rogers, editor and proprietor
of the Prescott Daily Courier, is a lit
tle under the weather.
Jos. W. Wilson carries the largest
stock of gents’ furnishing goods of
any house in the city. If you need
good clothing give this house a call,
and don’t allow yourself to be bun
coed into purchasing Chatham street
“sheep cloddings. ”
George Wooste’s new store on the
east side of the square is the place to
purchase any sort of stationery, books,
music etc., etc. Don’t forget the new
store forpthere you can buy cheaper
and better goods in his line than you
buy elsewhere in town. See his ad
vertisement on first page of this
paper.
Dr. Miller, president of the Anti
quarian Association, informs us and
the general public through the Pick
and Drill that the third annual ses
sion of that association will be held at
Flagstaff on Saturday, October 23rd.
As business of much importance will
wijl come up, a jull attendance is very
desirable at the forthcoming session.
To run smelters coke is necessary.
It is better the railroad should freight
in coke than to freight out ores. Our
miners could well afford to pay more
—aye, even double —on a ton of coke
than on a ton of ore; they would then
be saving money. Under existing
conditions the miner nets about 33%
per cent. By the other way he would
net (paying double freight on coke)
66% per cent.
True, it is not good to “kill ofl" one
proposition in order to eetablish an
other. Nevertheless, it is not “good
form” to use the “old one’’ as a lever
to prevent a new one from being’ es
tablished. Perhaps those outside par
ties having in view the erection of re
duction works at Prescott could be in
duced to absorb “our’’ ‘saniplifl^
works, paying a “fair” valuation
therefor in “non-assessable stock.’’
This would perhaps cut the Gordian
knot.
Prof. Blandy, secretary of the Pres
cott Mining Exchange, is in receipt of
a letter from parties at Los Angeles
submitting a proposition to erect a
smelter at, or near Prescott. Their
proposition appears on the face of it
to be fair and practicable. The main
object is to get a smelter in operation
and time itself will build up the enter
prise.
Miss Becker No Longer.
Miss Mabelle Becker, or rather
Mrs. Frank Gilstrap, left Saturday
night for Calico in San Bernardino
county, to visit her mother, Mrs.
Shuey, for a while. She will then go
to Prescott, Arizona, which will be
her home.
It was not generally known even to
her intimate friends, that Miss Becker
had changed her name. They were
married in Los Angeles. It was
agreed between them that he should
go to Prescott, where he had a ‘po
sition offered him, while she would re
turn to Visalia for a month. This was
done, and hence the surprise that Mrs.
Gilstrap springs upon her friends.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gilstrap
have many friends here who wish
them great happiness. Mrs. Gilstrap
has for a number of years been the
typewriter and shorthand reporter in
the law office of Bradley & Farns
worth. She filled that position with
great ability, and her quick eye and
careful hand will be greatly missed
from the documents in that office. —
Visalia (Cai.) Times.
Mrs. Gilstrap will arrive here Sun
day where she will make her home
with her husband who has a position
on the Pick and Drill.
THE PICK AND DRILL.
That Smelter Proposition.
In a recent issue of this paper we
mildly criticised the misfeance, non
teasanoe or malfeasance, of the Pres
cott Mining Exchange. The news
paper (not a personal organ) endeav
ors always to voice the sentiment of
the people; which sentiment or, cur
rent opinion is concentrated or “boil
ed down’’ by the editor, and given
public expression as he hears and un
derstands it. -Since the publication of
the article aforementioned we have
had interviews with several of our
most reputable citizens, claiming
membership as “directors” of the P.
M. Ex. These gentlemen disclaim
any knowledge of, or any connection
with certain “deviousness” said to
characterize the methods of certain of
its members. In justice to those gen
tlemen, and we believe them to be
truthful and honorable men, it is meet
that we say, and do say it publicly.
But, notwithstanding all that has
beed said pro and con. the fact still
stands boldly in relief, with but few
to gainsay it, that the “Exchange”
has accomplished no tangible results.
It has seen fit, however wise or un
wise, t© follow its own plans, circum
locutory though they bat in order to
accomplish certain results; but to the
average citizen, its methods begin in
“circumlocution” and end in—“cir
cumlocution.” And we reiterate,
without fear of successful contradic
tion, that a smelter —even a ten-ton
smelter —would do more for the better
ment of Prescott and of Yavapai coun
ty in one month’s successful operation
than all the solicitious letter-writing
the Mining Exchange has done since
its inception. However, so plain a
proposition needs no amplification as
it is too self-evident.
Some years since a small smelting
plant was established at El Paso,
Texas. That plant has grown year
.by year, until today it treats over 400
tons of ore each day. Now, here in
Prescott, the very center and hub of
one of the richest mining- sections in
the southwest, is daily witnessed the
anomalous condition—that of our min
ers shipping their ores to El Paso for
treatment. A reputable miner from
Big Bug says: “Myself and partner
now have on our dump not less than
six hundred tons of $25 smelting ore,
which is practically no better to us
than so much waste, for we cannot af
ford to ship it.” There are hundreds
of miners throughout the Territory
that are in the same predicament as is
our friend of Big Bug.
The methous by which the P. M. Ex.
would secure reduction works for
Prescott (writing solicitous letters),
reminds us of the fable of the farmer
and the lark. The lark had her nest
in a wheat field. Returning to it one
day she found her little ones all ex
citement. “What is the trouble,”
said the mother lark. “Oh,” said the
little ones, “we overheard the farmer
say to his son, ‘this wheat must be
cut, we will call in the neighbors and
cut it on the morrow.’ ” “Pooh! pooh!
my children,” replied the mother,
“there is no cause for alarm so long
as the farmer depends on his neigh
bors; the wheat will not be cut.” A
couple of days thereafter the mother
returned to her nest and found the lit
tle ones in a state of great excitement.
“What is the matter this time, heard
the farmer talking again?” “Yes
mama the farmer said to his son, ‘this
wheat is dead ripe; the neighbors will
not help; we must cut it ourselves on
the morrow.’” This is really bad
news,” replied the mother lark, “the
wheat will now be cut and we must
move at once.”
Our readers can apply the moral.
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