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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
2
Pacific Coast Bullion reports broad mining news across the coast from Los Angeles. It notes Mesa pamphlet release, local option forecast for saloon licenses, and new engineering journals. Arizona rail and road projects in Tempe and Phoenix drive hopes for homesteads and mills. Mesa seeks way to support the road extension with subscriptions.
J W Spainhower reports wheat yields of thirty to forty bushels per acre on his nearby farm before turning to corn. A volunteer wheat crop now ripens after the corn was laid by. Mesa visitors Prof Carl G Maeser and Geo Goddard plan Sunday School and Y M I meetings. Co op stockholders elected directors J A Stewart H J Harper W A Macdonald H S Phelps Geo W Lewis J S Allen W J LeBaron with Macdonald named president Lewis vice president LeBaron treasurer and manager.
The record lists disbursements for 1894 including licenses rents marshal’s salary census and disinfection costs printing and recording fees office expenses and legal options. It also notes road improvements election costs cemetery work jail care and general village expenses with cash on hand at year end and a certification by Village Recorder JH Fossus.
Co owners of an undivided one half interest in the Amazon mining claim in Maricopa County Arizona warn that if TP Cook and co owners do not pay fifty dollars plus costs within ninety days of first publication their half will forfeit to the remaining co owners. The notice, dated January 31 1895, appears in the Mesa Free Press.
Joseph Riley Morse of Mesa City Maricopa County Arizona seeks a patent for 1500 feet of the Wasp lode bearing gold with 600 feet surface ground in the Superstition Mining District Pinal County. Adjoining claims are Annex Mammoth Montezuma and Aztec. Adverse claimants must file within sixty days. first publication December 21.
Prospective buyers are urged to secure twenty or forty acre tracts of Mesa orange land. The text claims Mesa oranges surpass California Florida and Hermosillo varieties in quality, urging action to acquire prime citrus property.
The notice proclaims the season's stock taking ending and a Spring Summer clearance with slaughter prices to close a large stock of shoes and other goods.
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