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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1894
Page
1
The Finest Line Ever Opened in Mesa offers new dress goods flannels and furnishings in the dry goods department while hardware and grocery depots stock choice goods. Agents for Myers Pumps Featherbone Buggy Whips and Canton Clipper Plows. Lines are best and prices low with prompt special orders.
Local undertaker advertises imported coffins and caskets ready for order with short notice. Also offers furniture repair and job work at affordable prices under the "live and let live" motto.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad proclaims the Great Middle Route across the American Continent linking with the Santa Fe Route railways.
A promotional travel note touts Liberal Management Superior Facilities and picturesque scenery. It highlights the Grand Canyon accessible via Flagstaff Williams or Peach Springs, and mentions Natural Bridge of Arizona Montezuma's Well Petrified Forest and San Francisco Mountains. Names listed include T R Gabel W A Bissell and S Vansyck with agents in Albuquerque New Mexico.
The Zer line notes a Babylonian legend from around 260 B C describing darkness and water birthing strange creatures, a ruling woman Omorka, and Belus splitting her to form heavens and earth. He creates man from mixed blood and earth, then crafts stars sun and planets.
Specimens from the Black Oak mine displayed in Prescott show large rock with abundant yellow metal visible from all angles. The 75 foot deep vein is three feet wide. Bradley located the mine May 23 and has twenty tons of ore ready for reduction at Harlan's mill. The rock also carries tellurium valued at about five dollars per pound.
A cave six miles south of Flagstaff in Coconino county reveals a cliff side entrance and a deep chamber with hanging icicles and joined ice stalagmites. The nearly pure meltwater may be used commercially as exploration continues. Dr Comstock reports major geological breaks from Durango to Colorado Canyon linking artesian water supply.
The Prospector denounces moving troops to protect urban wealth as a severe step toward centralized authority. It warns that shielding millionaire fortunes at the cost of frontier law risks widening inequality and eroding liberty. Abdul Hamid plans to exploit the Dead Sea’s minerals and waters for revenue.
The Prospect notes Skinner, contesting a Graham county legislature seat, once quipped that only one in six read newspapers and is described as a railroad advocate who traveled to Phoenix by buckboard. Critics question his re-nomination, urging a slate of more intelligent leaders while detailing bank statements showing mixed changes in reserves loans and deposits.
J L Pritchard, an experienced mine man formerly of Colorado, cites Arizona as rich in minerals. He notes a major deal near Phoenix with Hearst and Wilson taking a 900 day bond on the Arica group 35 miles west of Ehrenburg, for 1750000 total, with 125000 to Hiller and Gray and 50000 to Gray and Teeters. He says 500 feet of work have exposed free gold ore in a well defined lode, and a mill and water plant will require about 100000 more.
Cattlemen tracing a lost two men and two burros found a delirious young miner near a six foot sand grave and a second delirious miner cradled by brackish water. Both men survived after a few days of care at a ranch while their companions perished and mummified remains warned of desert dangers. The Asiatic war may impact ports and spur American industrial energy.
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