19 Apr 1895
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1895
Page
1
Removals sale announces moving to a new store with stock reduced to cash. Assorted table fruit two dollars per dozen, tomatoes one fifty per dozen, corn same, sugar fourteen pounds for one dollar, bacon fifteen cents, salt pork per pound, Burbank potatoes two dollars twenty five cents per sack, everything else in proportion.
The A O U W Record of Denver lauds the Grand Lodge visit to Phoenix and the Salt River valley last month. It recounts a special eight mile trip to Tempe and Mesa with lavish banquets, orchards, vineyards, and a prosperous landscape. Mesa and Tempe are praised for hospitality and potential future fruitfulness. The piece also notes Tucson using photography for land grant cases and magnification revealing forgeries, with land court cases heading to the U S Supreme Court.
The exchange says land owners and manufacturers in England back silver. President Hill of the Great Northern Railroad reports France and Germany favor an international silver friendly conference, with British merchants joining the pro silver cause. He adds that if Congress leaves silver alone, Britain’s commercial balance may tilt toward silver rehabilitation.
The census shows over half a million almond trees bearing in the United States and hundreds of thousands of bearing coconut and banana plants. It reports about a quarter million olive trees, four million orange trees, twenty-one million pineapple plants, and two hundred thousand lemon trees with tropical fruits under the American flag valued near twenty million dollars.
The donor supplies 80-acre Lancer tract adjacent to Florence for the Odd Fellows Home. Mr O B Taft, Florence Canal’s largest owner, offers a water right valued at $30 per acre. If accepted, the gift enables a self sustaining home and fulfills the Tribune’s expectation of a robust facility.
A 19th century Prospectors paper from Arizona declares opposition to any paper advocating a presidential candidate who opposes silver. The quote emphasizes silver first, politics second as the correct stance for territory loyalty.
The Rural Californian notes Arizona’s transition from mining to livestock and then horticulture. Irrigation has opened large tracts to cultivation, with fruit farming expanding in Salt River Valley Maricopa County. Alfalfa cereal crops advance, replacing grazing land as population grows and agriculture diversifies.
The Territorial Board of Control inspected Yuma prison and proposed improvements for economical management. They will build an embankment to protect the prison farm from overflow and create a self-sustaining, profitable regime. A manufacturing branch for boots clothing and Arizona onyx polishing is planned.
A movement by Gallup business men urges conference with St Johns residents to establish a wagon road from St Johns to Gallup. The aim is to give Colorado valley farmers a local cash market, boost town business, and keep money from leaving the region. The Winslow Mail endorses the effort.
The article notes that on Good Friday in 1895 the sun’s surrounding bodies align identically to their positions on the crucifixion day. It claims this reoccurs after 1862 years, the 33rd year of the Christian era since Christ’s birth.
Summary of legal positions on homestead patent transfer upon death of both entryman and widow, abandonment by heirs, protest against looe claim for non-discovery, and invalid placer location for building stone. Includes notes on heirs both adult and minor, conduct of residency and cultivation, and standards for placer validation.
A Pioche man who recently wed wrote to a Milford stage agent asking for a visit pass for his mother in law. He urged returning coupons. The agent replied that return coupons were not neglected and the pass is limited to three days.
The text argues that digestibility determines a food’s true worth rather than its chemical composition. Half a pound of cheese nourishes less for ordinary folks than the same amount of beef due to its poorer digestibility.
Henry M Loud of Detroit begins an extensive 600 acre orchard at Pomona California. He plans many varieties with grape fruit as the main crop. Once processing costs for table use are understood here as in abroad, an overstocked fruit market will not occur.
The court leaves loopholes allowing property owners and trust companies in cities earning from rents and state municipal bonds to escape taxes, while small traders and salaried workers remain taxed.
The United Verde Copper company provides jobs for about three hundred men at its Jerome mines. Nearly half work on adjacent claims, keeping Jerome one of Arizona’s liveliest mining camps.
The Kansas City Star suggests that if Mrs. Lease is elected mayor of Wichita her husband would be named police matron inferences.
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