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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1893
Page
1
A description of a new shop highlighting its fashionable dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishing goods and comprehensive stock. Hardware and Grocery departments boast choice goods with top quality lines and low prices. Special orders receive prompt attention.
The Prescott Courier urges welcoming the congressional committee to Prescott as Athens and mining hub of Arizona. It argues gold dominates local mines, crime is low, and native-born citizens deserve self-government, while contrasting U S colonial critiques with frontier pioneers. It also reports 1893 trade figures, cattle receipts in Chicago, and upcoming irrigation meeting in Phoenix.
The Herald notes a surge in Arizona mining as low silver prices spur gold production. Harqua Hala district and Superstition mountains gain momentum, with revived output from Vulture Vekol Peck and new White Hills prospects. Experts predict four to five times last year’s totals, foreseeing a world changing rise in Arizona's mineral output.
Early in the week Harley Fy began a trip through the Aubrey district visiting the Sandy mines and returned with gold silver and copper ore specimens. The Copperhead mine owned by Dr E W Smith Ed Williams and Ed Murvine continues to produce rich ore with samples previously sold at over 500 per ton and another lot out. E Ogden and John Barnes take 150 gold ore from the Ben Butler mine for processing in an arastra. John B Whitfield strikes ore at the Compulsion mine worth about 1680 per ton. A rich body of ore was found near the Horn Silver old workings. MecWrights mill is closed pending sale to Chicago interests. The Aubrey district is urged to attract miners to realize full potential.
Dr A J Chandler led a survey party from the Butte reservoir site reporting a large water store feasible with a dam 200 feet across. The plan would back up water for 19 miles to irrigate the Gila valley with two canals on opposite river sides feeding Casa Grande and Mesa City areas. An editorial protests the US proposal to coin silver domestically and attacks national patriotism.
The article notes heavy cattle losses in Utah after a long cold winter. Cattle arrived thin in spring as pastures lag six weeks, highlighting livestock as a pivotal U.S. industry with widespread farmer dependence on cattle, sheep, and hogs.
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