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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1894
Page
1
The advertisement touts a new Mesa store offering dress goods flannels ladies and gents furnishing goods and related items. It highlights hardware and grocery departments stocked with choice goods and lists Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips Canton Clipper Plows as agents. Prices claimed as low as the lowest with prompt attention to special orders.
Tables supply the best market fruits and vegetables available with produce in season.
The Atlantic and Pacific Rail Road promotes a grand corridor across the continent, connecting with the Santa Fe Route to form a continuous western rail system. The emphasis is on uniting key lines to speed commerce and travel from coast to coast.
A travel tout lists routes via Flagstaff Williams and Peach Springs to the Grand Canyon. It highlights Natural Bridge of Arizona Montezuma’s Well Laeuna Acolla Petrified Forest and Diablo Canyon with pine forests ruins and a cantilever bridge in the Colorado River area.
The Treasury’s August 1894 circulation totals $1,646,671,481 with an estimated population of 68,642,000 giving $23.99 per person. Compared with September 1893’s $25.01 per capita, the figure is about a dollar lower, though the current level is the highest in years.
W T Ferguson reports water and a high grade 10 inch vein at Jersey Lily mine near Prescott with eight men employed at 3 50 per day. A large pack train moves ore and supplies between Prescott and the mine. Railroad track expected to reach Hassayampa box canyon by December 1 and Phoenix by February. Surveyor Drummond notes harsh mountain surveying in Northern Arizona. Gila Valley Globe and Northern railroad nearing Pima. coal bins rising at Pima. right of way across the San Carlos reservation unsettled. Lieut J B Aleshire of Fort Grant, cattleman, notes 1400 lb cattle on Chicago market last week at 69 per head.
Reports say the Golden Treasure Mining and Milling Co will start erecting a new mill on its Goldfield property within weeks once funding arrives from the east. The developed property shows strong potential and the Mammoth mine may soon have a rival as a leading gold producer.
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