24 May 1895
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1895
Page
1
The fragmented text mentions meals and market activity with unclear context. It hints at seasonal meals or offerings and notes a bustling market environment. Specific events, dates, or entities are not clearly readable.
The Secretary Carlisle will remain a Democrat and vote the Democratic ticket even if his views on public finances meet with rebuke. He will stand firm in Democratic principles and continue to present abstract Democratic doctrine. The article also notes mining developments at Congress mine and local weather observations explaining cooler summers by verdant surroundings.
Charles Cowles and W Millar report an large onyx deposit beneath Yuma in Sonora Mexico. They returned with about a ton of slabs three to four feet square and say larger pieces could have been taken but not packed to the sea shore. The stone is highly polished with vivid veins and superior to O Neill mine onyx in Yavapai county.
The Prospector predicts a great season for mining in Cochise with active prospecting and opening new districts. Prospectors reclaiming long ignored ground and old abandoned mines are now being worked again, signaling renewed effort in the region.
Reliable figures show marketable beef cattle in the western feeding states are forty percent below last year while range stock shortages amount to twenty five percent.
An unwritten history of betrayal and stigma unfolds as a betrayed woman faces community hostility while a sacred mercy is urged by a Denver News editorial. The irrigation congress in Albuquerque on September 18 aims to showcase New Mexico and Arizona resources to attract homeseekers from the east and boost immigration.
President Wilson Hamilton W A Clarke and Thomas Bullock met in New York with many capitalists to discuss the Durango Flagstaff and San Diego Railroad. Eastern railroad men and Chicago financiers express support and funds are assured once preliminary steps are completed. D M Riordan in Chicago plans to join the New York group when ready to begin active construction.
The Pima county immigration commissioner announces active collection of statistical information on county resources and invites suggestions to boost development and attract immigration. The notice urges public support for a revival of business and capital inflow into mines irrigation and related resources. The Star notes no response yet from the commissioner.
Information from Oasis reports Yaqui workers around Minas Prietas buying arms and ammunition as they prepare for a major confrontation with Mexican forces. The note suggests imminent action and rising tension in the region.
The Prospector asserts silver recoinage is portrayed as a sectional cry by money power. It claims the South and West push free coinage while a small New England faction champions the single gold standard and labels the matter as regional.
The Prospector argues free coinage of gold and silver is the only salvation for workers. He says the nation is low in spirits and will stay so until monetary conditions change. He states people will not endure empty stomachs and warns men may fight if the ballot fails.
Rumor of Indians at Siggins ranch on Mogollon road denied. Several reliable witnesses have tracked Indian trails on the western Mogollons slope over the past ten days, per the Silver City Sentinel.
A reporter viewing ore frame near the water level in the Mc Cabe mine noted a gold bespangled specimen. An assayer lamented that such ore would boost the assay business and that plentiful ore alarms miners with its easily recognized value, suggesting a rush of similar finds.
Reports indicate an old fashioned grasshopper year with Colorado and Kansas heavily affected. Farmers have tried poisons on hoed crops and are pleased with the results, according to the Review.
A clever alteration enlarges a standard poker deck to sixty cards by adding an eleven and a twelve to each suit. This expansion seats eight players, deals everyone a hand, and leaves twenty cards in the pack for draws.
The season will see 135 carloads of fruits and vegetables shipped from Phoenix in refrigerator cars. This estimate highlights the scale of regional produce movement and the use of refrigerated transport.
In Salt Lake a grand silver convention gathers full western and southern representation with delegates arriving from Arizona amid the bustle and discussion of the event.
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