Weekly Journal-Miner from Prescott, Arizona • Page 2

HZ ARfZONAJOtitNAIrSIKER WEDNESDAY mm 23, 1S97 C. MARTIX, Editor aud rrdinriaror THE NKW WATKll A propositiou, as is pretty well known, is ou foot to bond tfeo city for an additional $100,000 to experiment further in securing water supply for Prescott, The city engineer has been engaged for several weeks in making surreys and 'lias submitted a very elaborate report as-to the dimensions aud cost of' a dam aud pipe line, area covered by the dam, together with the rovenuo which the city will rooaive from it when it has attained a population of 7,000. These Cgures read with as smooth a rythm as the rippling waters of a brook over its pebbly bod. Every reader of the Jqcrnal-Miner has read just such arrayed figures and calculations, made to demonstrate profits in other avenues of business, but how many 'have i ever seen practical result equal these theoretical calculations? It is not necessary though, to go outside of Prescott or digress from a water proposition to demonstrate that theories and practical rosnlts do not dovetail together. Thirtoon years ago whau Prescott first water system was inaugurated, figures were produced to show that it would yield an ample and abund aut supply or water and th city would make a profit selling it.

How nearly this has come to every citizen of Prescott knows. The experiment cost the city in bonds, and we are still paying iu-tarest on them. The city receives S100 annual rental now from that dam. A few years afterward, when the inadequacy of tho witter system was when through mismanagement, the system was made still more inadequate, now water prophets arose in our midst with new figures, and a new base for a water supply. Water was promised in abundance, and tho cost was to be but a trifle.

Tho proposition was taken up. This experiment, instead of costing a few hundred dollars as promised, cost the city 20,000 in round numbers, and stiU tho nromised supply and and promised revenue has failed to materialize. Now comes the present scheme and there is uothiug modost about itftither. Its cost is estimatod at $100,000 aud its incorao noarly bi enough to pay alt the running ex penses of the city. hat does it amount to when simmered down to a plain proposition? Simply this 'Tar pavers of Prescott.

vou bavo spent all the way from SS.000 to S100.000 experimenting on water theories, now blow yourselves in to the tune of 8100,000 more and try another experiment." After yon have figured out tho rainfall in gallons, tho mud dam in cubic inches, the pressure in pounds, the force in horsepowers, "aud the revenue in dollars and cents, you have still loft the unsolved problem of practical results, and the whole question resolves itself down to one of experiment. A JIBSAOKTO UFK ANl FKOt'KKTV While tho committeo of financiers and ougineors aro gottiug ready to porform tho duties imposed on them by tho citizens' meeting, to examine into tho feasibility of that mud dam nOO.OOO wator proposition tax wyers of Prescott can bo exercising their prerogative as American citizens by discussing tho question amoug themselves. Ex-Mayor Wm. Kelly, inn-recent communication, offers a vorysorious objection to tho proposed mud dam proposition, aud one which furnishes food for thought, in which ho says: "Another and by no means tho least matter to bo taken iuto con sideration is the liability to accident to a dam so constructed in a water eourso subject to floods by olotid burst. "Tho city eugiueor in his roport says the proposed dam upon which he makes an estimate, is not in tended as an overflow dam but do pends upon a waste way to carry off the surplus after it raises 'above a certain point five feet be- low the top of the dam.

"Wo will suppose a case. Sup i posing tnat at a time wnen tne aam is full of wator to the safety point (five feet below tho top as above) and a heavy cloud burst should oc cur above tho dam and tho water A MATHEMATICAL lXACUItACT. The mathematician- who figures the revenue to be derived from tho 63 horee power which that $100,000 mud dam scheme contemplates furnishing, does not arrive at anything like an exact approximate ostimato of the revenue which would accrue to the city from it. The figures aro too modest entirely. There are a whole lot of features of hydrography which the Journal-Mixer is not posted on, but when it comts to estimating the cost of water pBr "hoss" power, it is expert authoiity on the subjecl.

Its large store house of knowledge on the subject was not obtained from any abstract hy-drographic theories, but from actual experience, in paying out cold cash in exchango for "horse power." The paper was a patrou of the city water works for a number of years, using it to secure power to propel its press, through tho medium of a water motor. The aotua running time was about eight hour per week or thirty-two hours per month, but to be as liberal as other water mathematicians, and for the purpose of this article, it will bo placed at forty hours. Fur this ser-rice a monthly fee of $20 was paid. The motor used was two-horse power one. This, it will be readily seen, was a cost of fifty cents par hour, or twenty-five cents per hour for each horse power.

For ten hours per day this would be S2.50; per annum of 312 days, leaving out Sundays, and wo have a total rev enue per annum, per horeo power of $730 for sixty-three horse power a total per annum of Cut that down one third on account of gettiug water by gravity instead of by pumping and it still loaves a not revenue in round numbers of per annum. These are no fancy figures, but cau be verified by tho records of tho city. Now tbu, all that is roquired to make that dam pay big revenue is to get enough newspapers started in the town to use tho whole sixty-three horse power furnished, at two thirds of the former rates charged and it is one of tho finest schemes ever presented to an overbordeued taxpaying public. The coal oil trust would not be in it with tha wrter works. i came down loaded as it generally is undor such circumstances, with logs, stumps, brush, gravil, what would bo tho result? Tho chances aro more than over, that the accumulating trash would ledge in the wastoway form a seud the witer over the top of dam and it in the twinkling of an eve and permit the pent-up wa tors to'; go untrammeled death and destruction followiug in its wake.

1 do not think our people want anv Johnstowu flood here." Aside from tho fact that the prop ositiou ouly offers another opportu nity for our people to experiment on the water question at a cost $100,000, there is no doubt of tho danger aud menace it would offer to tho property and lives of our citizens. Thoro is no engineer on the face of tho earth, or any combination of them who cau figure cu either tho volume or forco of the wator contained in a cloudburst. And overyouo who has lived here any longth of timo knows that cloudbursts aro liable to happen at any frequently happeu in the mountains in this section, when a solid bod of water several feet iu height is sent down the water courses, sweeping everything before it- Ice formed in Prescott on day evening. The Solomonvilie Bulletin says that "Col. Wilson is a democrat deserving tho respect and confidence of his party; ho isone of the party's workers who never rests when campaign work is needed; ho goes on the highways and byways aud huuts for battles with republican enemies at every sound or the party bugle call." If Col.

"Wilson deservos the respect and confidence of his party, we know a whole lot of democrats in this county who are derelict iu in their duty as they openly say that Col. Wilson got into a fight when no democratic bugle called him. In fact they state that this democratic warior looted his own bugle. But after all it cauuot be charged that he was not fighting for a principle. A man who holds two offices and draws two salaries uudor tho presont administration is naturally pretty well pleased with himself aud with the administration which provides so bountifully for him trying to got a change of gov ernors postponed aslongaspossiblo Col.

Wilson was only obeying nature's law of self preservation in oftice. The Nogales Oasis, speaking of the fight urged against McCord savs: "There cau bo but one con- elusion and the only one drawu from a fight so dirty, so malignant and so porsistent, aud that is that finrornur McCord's induction iuto office would bo followed by an ex posure of official malfeasauce which would bo daugerous to some people in Pheuix. Tho old crowd who have controlled matters there building uublic structures, etc. are not so 1 iutousely patriotic and public spirit ed that tboy would oppose so stren uously tho selection of a corrupt official on account of his corruption. 'There is no use in tho putting on a pious air; wo all know It is the exposure of their own laches which they fear." Cuptain Boycott, from whom tho term "boycott" originated, has just died in Ireland aged 55 years.

Captaiu Boycott was land agent in 1SS1 in Counomanauia section of tho county of Mayo, whore he col lected routs. He made a speech in which ho urged the people of Iro-laud to abstain from agrarian crimes aud adopt instead the policy of sending harsh landlords, agents and balifis to "inventory" an old term for boycotting. Eveuts so shaped thomselvos that he was tho first man tho Irish experimented on in this connection. Secretary Sherman is tho last member of the-cabinet who has, ac-uording to tho sensation mougors of the press, made up his mind to resign. Haviug now guessed them all the sensationalists will say (tL told you so" should any member of the cabinet retire before March 4, 1901, and this is what "yellow journal ism" calls "enterprise." Bnruey Baruato, who committed suicido tho other day, was reputed to one of the wealthiest men in the world.

Svan jyealth is not all-satisfviug. i It is remarkable how very pro gressive some peoplo are, and how glibly they can tak progress when they cau get the other follow to put up for it. The latest is that Mr. Bryan has boen converted to the "reincarna tion" theorv, aud believes himself to haye the soul of Thomas Jeffer son. Tho Queen's jubilee to colobrato tho sixtieth aunivorsary of tho reign of Queen Victoria is now iu progress.

It is beiug participated iu by uoar- ly all the nations of thn world. It is surprising to note how quiet some of the loudest howlers against large government appropriations can becomo whou an appropriation is made to be expended iu thoir immediate vicinity. It seems that tho adoptiou of a protective tariff by Cauada was tho first step towards tho abandonment of free trade bj England. Now lot tho Amoricau free trad.o mourners prepare to shed tears. It is a slight mistake to say that Queen Victoria has ruiou ever Great Britain for sixty years, or for for any other period, as everybody who kuows tho British government al svstem knows that the Queen's rule is cf tho figure-head variety.

The Suuday Examiner "Magazine" does not sport as highly a colored cover, as tho so-called Now York Sunday Magazines, but what its cover lacks is more than compon sated for in tho color of its litera ture. If that $100,000 mud dam should happen to bo built, aud the dam should afterwards be washed awav which is not an unlikely supposition, those dam bonds would not have to be paid, eh? Vido Y. C. It. U.

alias P. A. C. Ii. It bonds.

A legitimato water proposition would bo entitled to serious consideration and discussion. A scheme to foist a dobt of $100,000 on au already ovor burdened taxpaying community, to simply oxporiment for a wator supply, with chances agaiust its success, is worthy of ridicule only. Graham couutv's supervisors employed three guards at a salary of seventy-five dollars per mouth to watch tho jad at Solomonvilie io prevent the fscapo of Murderer Chacon. It ha discovered since that they vu-ro nil ex policemen and were consequently asleep when the Mexican cut his way to liberty. Tho Turkish Sultau seems to bo lettiug tho powers do all tho talkiug in tho peace while ho keeps "sawing wood," by strengthening his positions.

It look as though tho wily old heathen will have something to say though after the othors get through. MINING INTEbbKaENCE Weekly Collection of News Nuggets From Our Mining Camps of interest to Miners. What Prospectors ami Miners ar Doing to Increase the World's Supply of Precious Metals. "Will somo one kitidly get up a report on a water proposition, based on existing conditions iu this town, and givo facts as they find them at present, and givo us an eatimato of cost and revo me. Utopian schemes and assuming things which do not now exist, and which thoro is no certaintv ever will exist, is not a practical or business way of dealing with tho subject.

Senator Pettigrew has introduced a bill providing lor submitting two very important measures to a vote of tho peoplo next year. They aro as follows: "Shall at once enact a law providiug for the imme diate free and unlimited coiuago of silver and gold at the ratio of 1G to "Shall tho Constitution of tho United States bo so amuuded as to provide for tho election of United States Senators, and tho President aud Vice-Proeideut by direct vo'o of tho people?" The Denver Post says: "Tho last session of tho Colorado legislature has furnished positive evidence of tho fact that bodies of this kind are but human. The only question loft unsolved or in doubt is as to whether they aro vttrelablo or animal. It is said that oven law passed will be a failure in ono way or another." The last Arizona leg islature passed one law, at least, which is not a failure. It turned from ono to threo score murderers out of tho jails of tho territory.

There is one subject on which tho citizens of Prescott are a unit. That is the need of a water supply for tho city. A proposition that would promise success iu this directiou would receive tlie unanimous support of tax payer. But the fact -that every body wants wator is no raasou that they should jump at ovory proposition that offers itself. It is no reason, hecaugo they want water, that they should bo willing to add au additional burden of to i heir shoulders just to experiment on tho subject, with the chances of failure at least equal to those of success.

If that $100,000 mud dam bond ing proposition is such a good thing, why would uot two dams, two reservoirs aud two pipo linos, be a bettor thing. It is just as easy to assume a population of 11,000 for Prescott as it is to assume that of half that number, and then just think what a rovenuo it would pro duce. After all shrinkago for evaporation, seepage, etcetra, ore de ducted, aud then anothor big slice thrown off for good luck, it would produce a rovenuo of $32,000. Gome to think of it more seriously, if we could only haro threo dams, wo might obtain wator froo and bo able to cleclare a dividend every quarter to water consumers. It would bo no troublo whatever to produce figures to demonstrate it.

Minnehaha Flat and surrounding country is reported active, tho For-tuna ground particularly forging ahead rapidly. It. M. Dougherty has sold his Charleston mitring" claim in tho Bradshaw mountains to tho Gladiator Mining company. Tho claim is an oxtontion of tho Crowned Kiug aud shows up Troll in ore.

The Swallow Mining Company of Castle Creek is preparing to move their plaut from Bnggs to tho mino three miles above. Work will soon be started on tho mino aud the satno operated pormauontly. Tho price at whioh tho Standard group of claims on tho Santa Maria were sold was $75,000 instead of SoO.000. as previously reported in those columns. Dau Thorno, tho sellor of tho property, tso'informs'us.

Lester Jackson returned yesterday from a two weeks' trip to Tonto Basin on mining business. Ho says that irenerallv tho outlook thore. is good and with further devolopmout work many claims will uiiGOuutocny provoto bo steady and profitable producers. Charles Born, who with othors is interested in a group of mining ol.iimn uear Wickoubunr iu Black Bock district, loft today for Denver, whore a trausfer of tho property will bo made for a sum run nine into tho thousands, lie speaks well of that section aud believo3 it has an excellent future. Three deods havo beon filed for record from W.

F. Roberts to E. W. Fisher. Ono trausfers title to the Copper bar mining claims, castlo creek district, the consideration being $500.

Another transfers title to tho Coppor Queen claims, same district, for $100. and tho third another mining claim for S30. Another body of freo milling gold oro has beon encountered in tho Little Jessie mino at a depth of 100 feet. This is in the old working of the miuu where it was worked undor lease, aud Superiutendont A. J.

Do-rau cross cutted tho ledge striking a twolvo-inch body of ore on the hanging wall. The ore is very rich, ruuuiug from $200 to $300 per ton. An old mining man said to tho Star yesterday: "Why is it that minors aud prospectors deliberately deceive themsolvcs and then turn arouud aud try to deceive others, and bring men thousands of miles to see a prospect which is not one-tenth as good as described, and all the troublo is for nauuht? Don't theso men know that thoy cannot substantiate their grossly exaggerated statements, and that both time and money are lost?" Tho Star replied there is too much of that kind of business, but it is tho result of enthusiasm. They dou't mean to misrepresent. They simply can't help it.

It is tho bigness of their hopes agitating thoir imaginations, that is all, but it don't sell mines all tho same Tucson Star. Brief mention was mado in tho Journal-Mined of the sale of tho Thorno mine in tho Santa Ma ria district, by D. C. Thome. The sale was mado through J.

C. Ran kin, who also negotiatod tho sale of the Waters mine in tho same dis trict. Tho purchasers wore J. B. Greeuhut, a millionaire capitalist of Poria, Illinois, well known all over the United States, on account of his connection with tho whisky tru9t, Sumner Clark, another millionaire of Peoria, and Chauucoy D.

Clark, a a capitalist formerly of Peoria but for several years prominently iden tified with this territory. Tho pur chasers of this property aro also the owners of tho Waters mine and this investment means much for that district and for tho territory. W. H. Ferguson has recently mado somo discoveries about twolve or fourteen miles southwest of town which ho thinks is tho biggest of anv ever made by him.

He has lo cated eight claims on tho ledge. He says tho led go is from four to eight feet wido aud while he has had no onsays mado of tho ore, ho says it horn spoons well and thinks it will up in tho hundreds of dollars per ton. Ho mado the locations this week and as yet hp has done no work whatevor, his samples being obtained from tho surface. Ho has named the claims the Gold King, Revenue, Dividend, Fair View, Mammoth, Loviathan, Gopher and Contact, il proposes to com inence work immediately doing tho ten loot ot work required before re cording tho location uoticos. Au instrument consisting of ovor i i wurua huu iuo iocs ioc recording which amounted to over beon filed for record in the office of the county recorder.

The instrument is a mortgago executed by the Arizona Onyx companv of New Jer sey, to tho Continental Trust company of Nw York Citjr, and covers tho Big Bug cmvx claims recentlv sold by Joseph Mayor and othors, and is intended to secure the first mortgage bonds of the aforesaid couioauv. tho amount bainc $2Kf). 00. Tho mortgago bears tho date of April 1, at which timo the bonds are supposou to havo been issued, aua irom which dato they boar in ml loresc. xne numuor oi nonus are 250, of tho value of $1,000 oach, tho raiu oi interest oeing per cont.

Tho bonds, both principal aud in terest. are payable in gold, tho principal being payable in ton years, out redeemable at tho option oi the companv after tho expiration of threo years. Under the conditions of tho mortgago tho company is required to keep tho property free of all liens and incumbrances, during tno mo oi the mortgage. As the purchase price of theso claims amounted to only $70,000 in cash, tho balance being paid in stock of tho company, to tho original own ers, tho terras of this mortgago leaves thp company with a nice sum for working capital, of about $180r 000. Tho Crown Point group of gold claims, situated near Walnut.

Grove I 1 and which aro being oporatod undor tbo suporintondenoy of CoJonel A. O.Brodie, aro showing up finely. As depth is reached the load not oniv is widening, but tho grado of is likewiao richer and gives every indicatinn of per-manenoy. The original or old working shaft is down 60 feat, but work tneroiu us uuuu new and hotter sito selected 100 feet west where a depth of over 150 feot has been reaohed add wnoro aiso tho property shows up so admirably. Thn lead is of immense 6ize, meas uring eight feet across, and lays w11r of lthul" eranite.

Tho dump has not a pound of waste aud so far is freo milling, not a trace of sulphurets as yet boing noticeable in anv nf the worxinirs. oomi hnlfui aro seon at other points on the vein and a crosscut tunnol is now uudor hoadway to tap tho lead at greater aorjtu. -lo ornnniniFB of thlS niinO CSH bo seen for miles, and tho beliof is generally expressed among miners that notwithstanding tho prejudice thoro exists to tho granite tnoory in Ari-rnna. cold mining, tho Crown Pnint claims sot asido tho beliof hat nothing can live in that com position. Tho proportyis to bo thoroughly devoloped and when fffAater donth is reaohod a mill will be placed on it, probably inside of hit months.

xweivo men aro ai. work at presont, and as soon as ground is broken, tho number will ho increased accordingly. Thomas Dowd, well known as a miner of ability all over tn couniy, is in chargo as foreman. There is a placer mining district lying in Yavapai and Maricopa counties known as San Domingo which is run on tho principle of principality or us own. ho men who make tip its existence soem to i ii uu uanaeci togetner iu tiesoisecresy and have isolated themselves in sphere of their own and not gener ally known.

They dry wash and send their gold quietly to various point 8 for sale. Tho complexion of thq placo makes it au undesirable center for tho wandering prospector to camp in for more than a few days at a time, owing to a lack of water aud also a lack of hospitality from thoso who hold tho whip hand of its life. Several miners of late it is said havo gono there and staked off ground, only to be gently reminded that they wore intruding, when thoy pulled out. Tho placets made up of a floating population of Mexicans and a half dozen white men, aud when the weather is cool numbers at times 150 peoplo. Not a claim is on record from that section, and it seems to be concealed in its lifo behind the veil of a fraternal duty.

Tbo impression prevails that it is rich in iloat gold, and is rated along with tbeWoaver diggings. Interest in this place is manifested somewhat keonly by a roport that a ruby, measuring seven-eights of an inch long and one-half an inch wide, was washed out recently and which was sold to Tiffany of New York for tho sum of $1,000. There is but one store, ono place to procure water, and one idea of tho peoplo of that section, and that is they havo tho "cinch" aud intond to keep it. Isaac T. Stoddard, who recently returned from trip east, says that whilo there seems to be a general stagnation in business there, monoy is abundant seeking investment.

Capital is unable to secure avenues for safe investment, even at tho low rato of threo per cent per annum. As a consequence, ho says that moneyed men are commencing more than over to make inquiry for good gold and copper properties and that Arizona is looked upon as a favorabla fiold for operations of this kind. In conversation with anothor gentleman, who has had considerable experience in negotiating the sale of mining properties, principally in Chicago, ho says that vuo saiuu cuuuiueu oi auairs exist there. He says that a great troublo about placing Arizona properties is that sufficient timo as a rule cannot bo. scoured on thorn.

A thirty, sixty or even ninety days bond is too short to carry a deal through, as no matter how eager a man may be to invest he will take timo to thoroughly iy investigate ooioro uoiug so, California, Utah and Colorado are all iu the field with long timo and easy termed bonds and intending or prospectivo investors will take hold of properties of this kind instead of thoso requiring an im media to large cash paymept. It is uot an unusual thiug for Colorado properties to be placed on a two years' bond and lease and somo are known which run for five years, A well developed divideud paving property, of course, is different, but this applies to prop-orties which are yet in tho develop ment stage, a man may be willing lo Jrisk money in prospecting and uuveioping a property with a view of purchasing, but, not willing to put up i pot cash for what its owner may think it ia worth. The gentle man named nas placed somo good properties, in tho territory, in this way, and says that in Chicago, Ari-zoua mines stands high and all that is needed ia favorable torms to secure purchasers. Qur oontemporary says that "tho Joorjial-Miner has timo and again ridiculed tho Goose Flat idea of obtaining wator," The Miner not only ridiculed, but ac tively opposed the removal of tho water pumping plant from its original location to its present one, claiming that it was only experimental in its charaoter, and that there was no evidence that there would be any improvement in tho supply of water. Even our con tomporary will probably admit that it was correct.

The oxporiment cost the city a $14,000 city hall. Parties seem confident that an underground flow of water exists in a certain locality in Gooso Flat. Tho gentlo- men in question havo had more experienco than tho Journal-Miner in this particular line of experiments, and may bo correct. They claim that $500 or $1,000 will dem onstrate the correctness or error of thoir theory. Wo would prefer an experiment costing that amount to ono posting $100,000, and wo believo 11 All tunimoreis jubc as many chances, or more, in favor of tho Gooso Flat theory than thoro is in tho water storage proposition, More About: fljen KHen I'ark.

nr Vninvn. T-hnvo been out thero and am especially interested that boo hivo Bhapeu duuo, oi wmuu jw wroto last wookr and which one sees so plainly from Nob hill, or on a drivo from Wlupplo into rrescott, also fino views of it aro had from Km ninr.n. nnd from tho south door of tho court houso this butto soems so near, so ruguun outline, a mound defonso. What is it? Tt is truly the gateway to Glen Elleu Park. Don't you seo Quartz mountain just beyond it, with a cool flowing spring bursting from its baso? A stranger camo to town, a real live stranger, who appreciated what other peoplo havo, aud in a tono of true interest, asked mo tho name of this butto.

I looked sido ways, cross ways and felt like a fool, then had to toll him: "Why, wo havo no name "Well," savs ho, as if inhopo that tho majestic crag of rosks over to tho west of us must have an interesting name, "what's the namo of that point?" "Ob, yes?" says glad to got at somo point of relief, "Wo call, yes, wo really call that point Thumb Butte." "lndoed," says tho strongor, and ho scorned pained as ho gazed with respectful interest at that towering rockr, ns if trying to got tho idea of its namo through him in that shape, ho turned about without comment, took a view of the town, and said, "This is a beautiful ham-lot "By tho way," says he, "where is tho law office of John Howard, that old pioneer, who, after having passed his seventy-fifth year, was elected four consocutivo times to tho office of mayor!" I was struck with tho stranger's desire to find a word of praiso for ovory thing aud porsou in our town. With this feeling, I answered without a thought, "Johu Howard's law ollico is in Gooso Flat." I turned to look at tho strangor, as ho seemed to bo wiping tho cold sweat from his faco. "Pardon mo," said ho. "What namest Such names! That goose is too much for me." Let us think about appropriate nnmn fnr nnr nlnpos of intarpst- Shall we allow that bee hive shaped mountain to be called Bee Hivo Butto, becauso it is tho intention to mako it a perfect hivo for fun by making the road which now leads to tho top of it wide and smooth for carriago travel, by perfecting the pond, which lies for 225 feet along its northern base, to bo used for Better a plain wrapper with Pride of Japan (Tree) Tea therein than a costly covering filled with rubbish. PrMe of Jipn clean unadulterated properly cured at place of crovtb, retains full flavor and aroma.

No money wasted on ex- penilve packages the value 's In the tea. M. J. Brandessteis Co. San Prantfico Yokohama Ji-J.

af afri yovr grocers boating and bathing? By connect ing tho summit of tho butto with tho pond at its base, so as to havo a safo slide up and down tho bntte, by placing bars and swings on top for the boys and girls and a pavil-lion for tho loungers? Certainly no ono in town will object to having a porfect hivo of fun out there, for tho top of the butte and all of iis northern slope is private property, and any resort on top of it or around its baso will be run in tho interest of decency, or it will not bo run at all. All tho protest I havo to offer is that tho butto shall havo a proper name. Any name that tho people of Prescott may claim as their own. But in naming places of interest, do wo want to follow tho custom which soems to bo tho guide for Mexicans, of naming places from somo peculiarity found in them? I want to see somo approval or protest in the Prescott papora of the above question. I seo in tho Courier that certain ladies havo raised a protest against the namo of uooso ial.

Let the good work go on. The road to tho top of the butto in its present condition i nnlv mended to those who may wish to go ou norso oacK. xet teams havo cone oyer the road, and will nnn. tinuo to go over it occasionally, as horsemen will find it a3 easy ridtn; as they will find on any other roa' loadinir into tho mountainR. Remember, when you aro taking your evening ride, that you can rid to tho top of this butto in a few minutes, and have a better view than you could havo on the government road less than seven miles out, or on tho Senator road less than twelve miles out.

Lot us not forgot that strangers cum more oi seeing our town and its surroundings than we do. Some of them como to seo. Perhaps more of them would stay if wo had a convenient way of showine thom what wo have. A ride from Prnsnnf f. to Whipple, by Mulvenon's ico fac- tory, ana return- by the VJitizens' cemetery, thenco out to Mil ler valley, and, by a trip to that nameless butte, at sun set, will give a strangor a fair idea of all parts of j-rescoti ana us surroundings, with a view of Northern Arizona thrown in, by tho light of tho setting sun, reflected from thmmnnr? im somo of which are a hundred miles awav.

Th Water Schrmr. Tho mass meeting held in tho court house last evening to discuss that $100,000 water proposition was presided over by the City Recorder Shultz acted in the capacity of secretary. Tho proposition was disoussod at some longth. the sentiment appearing to be adverse to the scheme and it was finally agreed to appoint committees to investigate tho feasibility of the scheme and report at a future meeting, to bo oalled by tho mayor. A committeo of five engineers was appointed, as follows: R.

B. Burns, T. G. Barlow-Massicks, J.F. Blandy, W.

A. Drake and Henry Eousor. Finance oonimittee-r-F. M. )hy, E.

W. Wells, W. N. Kelly, R. T.

RYfiflnrinL-n nnrl Snn -w-w xxJk Born. June 15. at Chanarral. Mr. and Mrs.

Jacob WohW daughter. THJI ILL. nothing BUTTHE GENUINE Yaa wlltjfind ona oona Jni-l6 each two ounce bag Biul two coupons Inside fuurouuee DngofBlackwcll'a Durham. Buy a bag of thu celebrated tobacco mdraa the coupon which gire list of valuable presents wtf uoTvtogetthem. Diamonds! I buv direct from Importers.

Mv custom ers are benefitted in price and- GEO. EL COOK. JEWEjLER, PJKESOOTT, ALtliiOiSrl. Ch ili 1 1 Celebration PRESCOTT, -AJEtTZ. JULY 3-5-6.

Kacos, Cow Boy Tournament, Arizona Charlie's Wild West SSiw Miner's Tournament, $1600 in Prizes. Kiow hoy Tournament. wild west snow, xnreo jifrnts or a jjiim Sunning liace on July d. $150 Cash Best Rooer. $50 Cash Second Best Eoper, $50 Cash Beat Broncho Buster, $50 Cash Cowboy Obstacle Race, 150 Thrw.

Eighths Mile Running Race. $400 Miners Drilling Contest. Committee BEN BELCHER, P. KASTNER, M.J.HICKEY, W. i TTT I Hl'l." I 111 ii ift am kf -sr-- mi 4th of July i .13 Con "WANTED SEVEItAL FAITHFUL MEN OR bouM in Arizona.

Hilary $780, parabla $15 weekly and expense. Poltton permanent, lleferonce. Knolnso self-addressed stamped en Telope. The National. Star, Boildin, Cafcago.

BUT WE ABE HEEE! Eeady to Meet Tour Wants For the Time of the Celebration Everything you may desiro with which to make yourselves, look Neat and Pretty for tho Celebration, can be had at our Establishment. OUB PRICES IRE LOW. OUR WARES ARE THE BEST. An Inspection or trial purchase will convince vou of these facts. Hero axe a few of tho SPECIAL BARGAINS for the time previous to the Celebration: Boy's Long and Knee Pant Suits, all ages, off Usual Price.

Boy's Knee Pant Suits, ail ages, off- Usual Price. Boy's Straw Hats, ail ages, off Usual Price. Ladies' 60c Satin Tecks for 25c. A Good Quality Ladies' Fast Black Hose For 12c. If You Canuot Come in, Send Your Orders by Mail and they will receive the Proper Attention All G-oods Sent "by Mail andi not Satisfactory, are Returnable.

Look at Onr Trimmed Hals for Ladies and Mi AT $1.00, 1.25, $1.50, 1.75 AND S2.C0 EACH. The Prices Cannot he Beat. All Styles of Ladies' Sailor Hafe' NO-TO-BAC -w wrirm fi rs KA31T 'UP Ml 11 W3r OrerljOOOJOrabaxMKAiii.smmnmnto mmtiu i ln tti0 totM- Stany traiB ti) pounds tn 10 dars and it nertt raws to make toe weak Impotent xnaastronc.vbtoronsAmt manrnAitf. Jnsttrra tmr. TouiUt 4f written iroaraatcc sua.

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