Goldfield Rising Mining Camp On The Horizon
Local items note Arbor Day plantings and shade trees for the school grounds. Travelers and businessmen including Prof. Netherton and H C Boone visit Mesa and Yuma on territorial business. Local firms advertise cash prices for butter eggs and chickens and promote bargains in dry goods groceries and shoes. The desert well at Rappeleye and Raver is abandoned as Goldfield grows cosmopolitan and asserted as a future mining camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich
C. S. Rodgen
Prof. Netherton
Yuma
Territorial
H. C. Boone
Mesa
Basket Social at Mesa Lodge Elects Officers for Term
The Mesa Lodge held a grand basket social last Friday with over forty baskets in auction led by Brother Keeley. Baskets sold for as much as five dollars amid spirited bidding and social games, as officers were elected and will be installed tomorrow night with public invitation extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa Lodge
P Shewman
W T
Fay Newell
Lee
Nellie Clark
Geo Schornick
Treas
Rogers
F J Netherton
Maude Clark
C B Lewis
Sentinel
E. Keeley
Mary Clark
Prescott mining men in town visit Goldfield and invest in properties
Prominent Prescott figures including Joe Maier J R Stack Frank McCabe and George C Waddell visit Phoenix then plan to tour Goldfield mines and likely invest. Maier and Stack recently sold the Henrietta mine for 40000. McCabe owns the Gladstone Mine. Waddell served on Arizona's World Fair commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Maier
J. R. Stack
Frank McCabe
George C. Waddell
Prescott
Phoenix
Henrietta
Yavapai County
McCabe
Gladstone
Mr. Waddell
Arizona
Death by own action of John Bunyan Burton at 35
John Bunyan Burton died last Sunday night from an overdose of tincture of opium taken in a personal crisis. He had been in Mesa off and on two or three months, working with Hudson Reservoir Co. surveyors and residing near Dr Peters. A coroner's inquest found the cause as stated. He left a letter to Mrs Gusan Harrison Burton and Robert C Burton of Baltimore and Harrison W Burton of Corsicana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. St. John Gaylord
Eidy
New Mexico
Wesley Trevette
Josiah Oldt
Elias Fritzinger
Robin Hare
Hermosa Tract
Tempe
Mesa
Mr. Holmes
Phoenix
Goldberg Bros
B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co
Southside
PD. T. Johnson
Columbia
Tenn
C. L. Hall
Mr. Hall
Denver
Kimball House
John Bunyan Burton
Hudson Reservoir Co
Peters
St. Louis Beer Hall
Sabin
Bunyan Burrton
Mesa Nursery Co. Offers Low Prices on Trees
Since 1888, fraudsters have sold trees at high prices, but the Mesa Nursery Co. pledges honest sales of fruit, shade, and ornamental trees and vines at very low prices with a satisfaction guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa Nursery Co
Desert Land Final Proof Public Publication
Matts R Button of Colton San Bernardino County California filed notice of intention to make final proof on desert land claim No 1629 for the whole of Section 9 No 2 SB 5E before the Clerk of the District Court at Phoenix Arizona on February 24 1894. Witnesses to prove irrigation and reclamation are Charles W Barnett and George S Barnett of Mesa Arizona Ransom Reynolds and George B Norton of Phoenix Arizona Faang W Walls. First public Jan 18 1884 Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matts R Button
Colton
San Bernardino County
California
District Court
Phoenix
Arizona
Charles W Barnett
George S Barnett
Mesa Arizona
Ransom Reynolds
George B Norton
Phoenix Arizona
Faang W Walls
Register
Tucson
David F. Watkins
Mesa
Maricopa County
George Schornick
Tom Mets
Henry Desmond
Frank Marksberry
All
Maricopa Co
Phoenis
Vis
Joop L Biddleceme
Mewa
Galt
Joseph An
Arisons
Harsert Brown
Rio Bonito Nursery Agent Promises Quality Trees in Phoenix Ad
Frank M Hammon of Rio Bonito Nursery Co announces plans to supply plums prunes almonds apricots apples pears cherries and more from 12 to 15 cents per tree. He assures No.1 quality with inspector certificates and a health guarantee. Catalogs available by mail from Phoenix Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Hammon
Agt
Rio Bonito Nurseries
Cal
Lum
Phoenix Ariz
Frank M Hammon
Rio Bonito Nursery Co
True Texas Umbrella Trees At Mesa Nursery
Mesa Nursery Co promotes true Texas Umbrella trees that speak for themselves and invites customers to visit the theme nursery to see them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesa Nursery Co
Texas
Enterprising prospects featured in Mesa column
The article notes promising resources in the Mesa area including fruit crops and mining, plus a visit by professors to inspect an experiment station. It mentions a community meeting for Mesa schools on Feb 9 at Social Hall and reviews dredging progress on a canal project. E L Dunn sells Washington Navel orange trees and olive trees, with Bettler the horticultural inspector emphasizing pest control vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof. Netherton
Prof. Gully
C. m. Bruce
Mr. Tenney
Mesa
Kimball House
Yuma
E. L. Dunn
Washington
Tempe
Carl Schumann Opens Mesa Photo Gallery Stand
Carl Schumann opens a photo gallery in Mesa opposite Pomeroy block offering cabinet photographs at three dollars per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Schumann
Mesa
Pomeroy Block
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Mesa Free Press
Tuvassar
Fesavang
Hunsaker
A. Hovengas
M.G. Line
Mgr M
P.R.R
Attorneys-At-Law
D. Morton
Morton & Shewman
Ca.lestions
Ape
Vernon & Spragg
Grippe
B.F. Johnson, Sons & Co
Rappeleye
Raver
Spainhower
Hittle
Thé Basket Social
J. M. Damron
J. W. Crenshaw
Goldfield
Damron & Crenshaw
Capt. Crenshaw
Mr. Damron
M. J. Forster
Mike
Ed. Lewis
W. 8. Johnson
The
Mr. Johnson
Frank Pomeroy
Frank
Amelia Eisenmayer
Illinois
Mrs. L.C. Toney
Desert
United States Land Office
Frank W. Walls
B. F. Johnson
Phoenix Ins. Co. of
Brooklyn, N. Y
American Fire Ins. Co
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Niagara
Nix
Goldberg Bros. Clothing
Fr. M. Yornen
Baxter MecGrr
Real Estate
Arizona and
Salt River Valley
Dovt
Hambrook & Schorr
POR
Arizona Hardware Co
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