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Newspaper
Phoenix Weekly Herald
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1882
Page
1
The issue lists subscriptions for Herald and Daily Messenger, notes office hours and distribution, and mentions editorial staff including Sditor and Manager NORPARD. It reports political shifts, candidates for speaker, Senate and House party estimates, and local interest in sugar, sorghum, mining, and new publications in Mohave County. It closes with a tribute to John Howard Payne and a proposal to honor his remains.
A new Phoenix area district in the Cave Creek Basin hosts the Red Mower mine with 2.00 to 35,900 per ton silver ore, and promising belt extensions to Cram Mountain. Nearby Myerim District shows Gunsight as the premier property with a 200 foot shaft, 400 feet of drift, and ore visible at 150 feet. multiple mines like Silver Girt, Eastern, Morning Star, Red Buck, Julia, and Mineral Bed show lodes ranging from 10 to 175 dollars per ton with plans for hoisting, stamping, and expansion.
Report details mining prospects about 15 miles north of Phenia in Wissifred District. Principal mine deeper by shaft to 315 feet with a veined 3.15 feet wide showing assays around 50 dollars per ton. 20-foot shaft indicates limited development. Gila Monster shaft 40 feet deep with a 210-foot wide vein. Other prospects include Mogul, San Diego, and Red Dog. Ore reduced by a stamp mill on the canal four miles north of the site.
A note urges timely underdraining of wet meadow areas to ensure proper water flow. It emphasizes drainage is effective only when performed correctly and consistently to keep fields dry and usable.
The third edition of Copp's Settler's Guide, a popular exposition of the public land system, is before us. Edited by Henry N. Copp of Washington, D. C., the well known author. It is priced at 25 cents in paper and 73 cents in cloth.
San Francisco reports about 105000 dollars in Nicaragua Ship Canal stock subscribed locally as merchants show support for the project amid expected Will passage by Congress next month. New York financiers also take gains, offering stock to reflect broad merchant endorsement.
A marriage occurred on Monday the 15th at the Phanix Hotel, Mesculte. J. W. Clark and Mrs. E. Thompson were joined in matrimony, with Rev. G. M. F. Herritt officiating.
Ed Williams, accused of fatally slaying Ziegler in Tombstone a week earlier, was arrested in Benson after a Mexico to California journey. Deputy Lt. L. Collins identified him from a description, and Williams claims self defense for the crime.
Town notices call for street repairs and openings as bags and signs appear about town. Authorities urge action to make streets usable and ornamental, urging leaders to take practical steps to fix the conditions.
An advertisement promises a free cure for ailments described as errors of youth and nervous weakness. It alleges a remedy found by a missionary in South America and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to Key 105EP Tinman Station, New York City for details.
Colman's Rural World reports Champaign sugar works producing consistent sugar from sorghum. About 30 barrels daily, price ten cents per pound, comparable to New Orleans sugar. Process uses lime neutralization and defecation, vacuum pan, filtering, and careful crystallization with no dangerous chemicals. Industry could boost local income, keep money at home, and diversify crops away from wheat.
The article extols Phoenix as a winter residence with mild climate and affordable living. It notes hotels and restaurants offering six dollars per week for board and about eleven dollars weekly for lodging. It praises agricultural surroundings and fruits, and urges town authorities to improve streets for better public works and healthful outdoor activity.
Tobacco uses coil with lime and potash as main demand. The leading western fairs will host seventy herds of Oxford duws sheep from Eueland for exhibition, signaling a notable livestock display and regional agricultural activity.
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