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The Arizona sentinel., 1873-08-09

of wheat at $500, 900 lbs. This
does not, include j. the crops at
Pueblo ViejO, on the upper ella,
at which point several hundred
acres of corn have been planted.
The yield Of barley on Salt river
is estimated at 4, SOC, 600 lbs, and
of wheat at 800, 900 lbs. A small
quantity has been sold on the
ella for cash at 1c. per h., and
also Phenix at He. per ib. Mel.
chants receive barley on the Gila
on debts due and for goods at &c.
per lb., and on Salt river at q. A
careful estimate shows that bar.
ley cannot be raised in these val
leys for less than 2se. per ib. It
WAS evident, therefore. that farm.
ers this year will not only lose
their labor but considerable of
their original capital, and will not
be able to pay the merchants the
amount due.....There is a general
feeling of distrust and dislike at
the way DR.. j. Williams manages
things on the Verde reservation,
which contains 1900 reds. They
had slung the metallic checks
by which they are kept in place,
in the faces of the counting.party.
The Indians on the Verde have
never been disarmed, and carry
their weapons constantly, on and
DIFF the reserve; they are growing
more naughty and insolent every
lay; have threatened employees
md settlers at various times, with
guns in hand, and settlers be.
,ween Verde and Prescott are in
state of constant alarm lest they
Freak out in a bOdy.-..TWo school
eachers coming from Cambridge,
Massachusetts,, to Arizona...."
settlements are being rapidly
made on the Little Colorado, just
Dove fifty Mormon families......
Judge Tweed on Salt river, will
ry to civilize an Apache boy......
sergeant at Fort Whipple sui
ided on the 10Th ult.....JOse was
orcibly elected chief of the Mari
opas, vice Juan Chivari, com.
elled to resign..... The Miner had
eceived new job material. land
had rained at Prescott. ~
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-08-09
Territorial News News.
From the Tucson Citizen, I'D inst.


i and three Mexicans had bee
killed in a recent fight on Sal
river......D. C. > Thompson is tax
ing out rich ore from his min,
above Florence ...... Conception
and an Apache, are now on theil
! way to Fort Yuma, where they
will be confined as prisoners. 80,
Corn and pumpkin and other
crops are a total failure about Flo.
rence......Ore is to be brought in
soon from the different mines in
the Tucson country and sent into
Frisco to be tested. The school
building at San Xavier is soon te
be finished, and in it the Sisters
of st. Joseph will teach the Papa
go children......Rain enough had
fallen on the Santa Cruz to save
the corn crops; potatoes would
yield well. Tucson Council had
ordered paid, bills amounting to
$2,316 SO; the Board of Supervi-
sors had disburSed $3.50 %; and
the tax levy made on each S1CO
rated thus: For Territorial gene
raj fund 25c., territorial school
fund 25c.. county general fued ST.
70, county school fund 25c., coun-
tyl road fund &C., making q total
levy of 81 As, the; tax collector to
receive 6 per cent. on all collec.
tons Oh the tax roll..... July Is,
Natchul, drunk at Camp Apache,
Juan and tried. to shoot
him, when Juan stabbed and
killed him. Monday. 2Sth ult., |
Is PapagOes, drunk with mescal,
stole melons from a ranch near \
Florence, the owner objected, |
which made the Indians mad, so |
hey broke into his house, stole !
so. provisions and other things
md almost tore the building to |
pieces, shooting promiscuously |
he while and wounding one of
heir number. They then went
mother house, the owner of
which fastened into Florence and
aised a posse of citizens, who
leard a deal Of firing, but saw no
indians. This mescal was un-
lOubtedly purchased of snug
'lers from Sonora, as there is
zone for sale on the ella or Salt
iYers. - ,
From the Prescott Miner, July 26.
Mr.. Buel, Of Los Angeles, had
invested $50, 200 in mines in the
,edar Valley and Aubrey dis.
ricts, Mojave county......Indian
upplies are said to be very short
t Camp Apache, and trouble is
nticipated in Consequence.
apt. Byrne's administration of
fairs at Camp Beale Springs is
D be investigated, at his request
....At Mineral Park increased
developments show better ores
....R. w. Groom says, that "a
trip ofcountry 40 to so miles long
nd Is to 20 miles wide, including
yallapai, Maynard, Aubrey and
edar Valley districts, contains
lore wealth in silver ores than [
ny similar area yet discovered
4 the wOr,d". ..Cinnabar ore
as lately been discovered in the !
orthern portion of Mojave Co...
10000 has been raised in Frisco
, resume work on the Benjamin
Il DsAL l. |
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-08-09
YUMA TOWNSHIP.

mond has come to his senses. Over
a year ago he refused tn give
patent for the town-site of Yuma
on the grounds that a portion OF
the land claimed for said site was
in dispute between California and
Arizona. The truth of the mat
ter is there was no dispute about
it at all. 1t is true that for seve-
raj years after the organization of
the Territory, San Diego did col
lect taxes from residents Oh tho
said strip of land; but the mo-
ment the Yuma county authori-
ties interfered, those of San
Diego desisted, and not word
was said in the matter. The con-
stitution of California, under
which it was admitted into the
Union as a State, clearly defines
its boundary as the centre of the
Colorado river, and we were as
tonished at the refusal of Mr..
Drummond to grant the patent
upon that ground. However, we
are extremely glad to see that
this gentleman has seen fit, by |
the interposition Of Delegate Nc.
Cormick, to look into the matter |
a second time, and to take a bet
ter view of it. A Geographic dis.
patch, dated August I'd, says:
commissioner Drummond de-
cides that the disputed tract of
land at Fort Yuma is under the
jurisdiction Of the Surveyor
General of Arizona"
All that remains to do now, is
for our City Fathers to go to work
with diligence, and within six
months, we have no doubt they
will be blessed with sight of
that long-looked and hard-worked
for "Patent to the town of Yuma"
To our county magnates we
would whisper a word. You are
anxious to "get the county out of
debt" Now is your time. From
1863 70 1871. San Diego county,
California, has been collecting
taxes from the inhabitants of
YOUR. county, which amount to
some $4,000 or $4,000. That
money can be recovered in any I
court of jurisdiction, and we hope
YOU will take the proper steps to
recover the same without loss of
time. It is true that by SO doing
we will Je deprived of the pleas
ure Of donating our labor to the
county, but we think the Board
aEd SENTINEL can stand is. Il
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-08-09
TELEGRAPH TO YUMA.

1
At length telegraph matter
. have assumed definite shape
After having for so lebg a tim,
been without means of communi
cation with the great State o
California save by monthly steam
er or tri-weekly coach, we are
soon to be placed in telegraphic
communication with the great
throbbing world west of US, and
through it with the vast sis
terhood of States beyond. We
have not been SO long isolated but
what we can appreciate to the
full the countless advantages the
completion Of the Arizona Tele-
graph will ensure to the strug-
Cling people of this Territory
the first fruits of which will be
to settle, with its invaluable aux
Hilary aid, the vexed Apache
question, and hand our fertile,
grass, timber and ore sections over
to the emigrant. Above all,
the telegraph will bring our busy
present population into instan-
taneous correspondence with
capitalists. With this line fin
ished, a connecting line north
ward with the capital Of New |
Mexico, will become an urgent
necessity, as we'll closing of the
great gap between Texas and
Arizona. .ral |
Concerning the route between
Yuma and San Diego, the Union
says "The main difficulty has
been to avoid Mexican territory.
This has been nearly overcome,
excepting a few miles from CO.
vote to Emery's; and it is thought
the line can be built north of this
but it will be at consid-
erable increase Of labor and ex.
oense. Total length of line be-
,ween the two points mentioned,
L65 miles; total length of the. en-.
ire line of telegraph, 500 miles.
There are ten different contract
ng parties, and in each case the
do their work and
lave their own teams to deliver
he poles. There are no middle
men, and in this feature of the
is the secret of what
most persons think are very cheap
,oles-$1 40 apiece. The poles are
provided for the entire
;po,1 -,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
PREPARING GROUND FOR WHEAT

PREPARING GROUND FOR WHEAT.
August is good time to kill briers,
bushes, weeds aUd grass, and clean land
thoroughly for seeding to wheat. Wheat
ground receives less attention in close and
careful blowing, narrowing, grubbing, pick
ing up and burning ell rash, than the i'm
portsnce of The crop demands. If the
plants were cultivated like corn and cotton,
after they are up and while growing, less
harm would re ult from defective prepare.
ton Of the soil before seeding; but 10 sf.er
tillage of any kind comes to tie assistance
of feeble wheat plants, when partly starved
and partly shaded by grass, weeds, or bush
es. Not only shoald al enemies Of this
character be put out Of the way, but
the earth should be deeply and finely
pulverizei to develop the maximum Of food
for the benefit Of the expected grain. The
harvest cannot well exceed the pains taken
to produce i. Early blowing has many ad
vantsges. Il gives time for important
chemical changes to take place, and renders
agricultural salts available to support the
crop that would come too late, or not at all
If the ground be broken month or six
weeks later. Al the North, wheat land is
broken in June, rarely so late as July, IN
less in clover lept for moving
or pasture. We notice many foul
wheat fields from bad management.
No one should raise cookie, cheat, garlic, or
weeds of any kind in crop Of wheat, oats
or barley. Have clean land and perfectly
pure seed, washed in strong brine to kill
smu. germs, and one can then haTgesi clean
wheat. If ali the farmers in a county
would sgree to mike a Common cause
against all weeds, and substitute clover for
weeds when grown for the improvement of
land, the yield of wheat might be rgely
increased, while the labor Of subduing
weeds would be reduced. Neat, tidy farm
ing pays the best aud looks the best. New
er SOW seed of cookie, cheat or rye with
wheat.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
PERUVIAN GUaNO.

The British consul at Gallo, in his re-
port this year, takes OCCASION to contradict
exaggerated rumors of further discoveries of
guano deposits. He states that, guano be-
ing, since its discovery ia 1886, the princi-
pal source Of Peruvian wealth, be has done
all IN bis power TO sseerts In the probable
smoHAt OF future supplies. He has made
very cautious inquiries at the Guanape and
Macabee islands, and has been informed
that the former are calculated to possess
still about 100000, snd the later 10 rave
approximately 750 coo tons. This iufor-
nation is down to November last, at which
time the'e were at Guanape Al vessels load
ing at the rate of 600 tons per day, and Is
ships at Macabee loading at the rate of
over 800 tons per day He is assured on
the best authority, that the guano on the
Lobos Islands, which are situated
further north, does not exceed 100000
tons. Some absurd rumors, the Consul
says, were got upi Lima last year about
discoveries in the neighborhood of Pisca,
nearly opposite the Chincha islands, but he
ssceItained on inquiry, that the rumors
were entirely without foundation; and be
considers it his duty to give most emphat-
ic contradiction to the statement that the
Peruvian Government has still available
f700 000, 900 worth of guano-a statement
which be pronouuces enormously mislead-
ing. The whole exportable guano which
Peru possesses may, he says, be safely est
ma ed as under 5000, 900 tons. That guam
tity would supply the demand for only a
very few years. The Consul adds that the
large number of seals and sea liens witch
frequent the place where gusno is found
makes 1t extremely probable that this de-
post Is made by these a. finals as much as
by birds, and that he is corroborated In III 8
belief by Mr.. Steere, hard-workipg travel
er from the University of michigan, who
has collected, bottled up and analysed some
specimens which be knows to have been
deposited by seals, and which ere perfectly
analogous TO the guano of commerce.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
wICKEDNEss AND ROMANCE.

Several merchants and tradesmen of At
lants, Ga, are mourning over the disappear
ance o. Charles II. Pla t., a clerk in the
house of Plat q Co. Young Plat req re-
sented himself as member Of the rich firm
Of Plat & Co where's he was only a sala-
ried clerk. He got credit on the name of
the firm, and never paid. Then he Dor
rOwed $500 diamonds and $500 watches to
take home for his wife to look at and decide
upon, and forgo; to return these things or
render an 60 Iivalent. Then he disap cared
one dsy and bis numerous creditors cannot
ascertain where be is. The telegrs ph don't
know and the dectives trying to get on his
tack cannot fad any trace OF him. The
Atlanta papers say he is the only one OF the
Platls who ever did such things as these.
The family is high toned and highly re-
spectacle, aud rated high in the commercial
world. - ..., ...-.r 3D.. sd.
10 connec ion With this affair, the papers
tell E little story about Charles II. Platt's
early life in which there is 8 pleasant favor
Of romance. He travelled in EuroPe and
became ensmored Of lady Of great beauty.
He won her i've, AID on the eve Of the mar
risge she died very suddenly without any
preparatory illress, and young Plat was in
ueeP oespa!f' DC pun ecu theo ala oitS va
excesses and dissipation, and travelled over
Europe six years seeking forgetfulness but
could not find it. lie finally returned, and
on the street in New York be saw young
girl the very image of the one he had lost
six years before. He lost no time in max
ing her acquaintance and found she was a
poor sewing girl. He told the story of his
love and she understood bis object in seek
irg her for wife. She tuaily consented
and the couple were married. They have
lived in Atlanta in perfecs harmony and
happiness, and have born to them two child
rem, the las, one only few days old. The
affair is therefore peculiarly distressing upon
the young wife and mother. The Plat
family, however, it is said, will never let the
poor lady and her helpless little ones suffer
for want Of care and attention.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
sYPsUn AS a rERIILIsER.

A general flc5 it may be stated that
gypsum, or land plaster is the cheapest
ard best fertillser that can be bought in this
country. 1t not only supplies two elem ants
found IL all crops (sulphur aud lime) but it
aids in the solution Of insoluble salts of
potash AID magnesia in the soil, which
would be unavailable as plant food without
the assistsLca Of this salt Of lime. In Ness.
ler's experiments gySsum had an excellent
ef,ct on the burning q1ality Of tobacco
raised under is application, an effect attri-
butabI', he believes, to the fact that this
fertiliser often libcrates potash in
the soil as Liebiy and Daherain have de-
monstr4ted; ii is equivalent to tie applicl-
ton Of potash, if any exists in tho sell.
A great deal of common sand consists Of
flint combined chemically with potash, as
in common window glass. In that cordi-
ton the alksli is not available as pant food.
Rostiug stable durg, or any decaying vese-
tables yielding carboDic acid gas, Hberates
alkales from flint, called silicic acid. Weak
solutions OF common salt and land plaster
have the same eff Ct on the silicates of
potash, soda, magnasis ana lime, 10 the soil
al of which are iRsoluble in pure water.
The thoughtful reader will please bear in
mind the fact that some len million pounds
of rain water fall on every acre CT ground in
a year; and if all The clements that form
plants we're as easily dissolved as common
salt, they would be washed at once OF very
soon Into rivers and the ocean, making all
land bar en-. 1, is for a wise and benef-
cent purpose that plant food is adjusted TO
the uses of universal vegetation In the mat
ter of solu' ility in rain water. Il takes
over 400 pounds of water TO diss'lve enc
pound Of gypsum; yet it does not remain
lJ3g in the soil where one applies
large CXc3sss IS an expS riment.
This fertilizer is used 10 New York by the
hunered Thousand tons, because it is so
plenty in Madison, Onondags, Cayuga and
other counties, that farmers buy it ground
al from three to four dollars ton. Gypsum
end clover are the means most relied on &c
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quotations in New York and Liverpool

quotations in New York and Liverpool
during the day:
LTvERpooL, Aug. 6, l:o0.-Cotton
Quiet and steady. hi;ddling uplands
| SD; middiing Orleans 95sd Sales Today
| 1900 bales, of which 5000 bales are for
export and speculation.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 10:20.-Cotton-
Futures quiet. August delivery 1910 l.
Ice; September 1908 Ice; October
II 11-16017.c; November 17aMl7 9-16c;
December II 7-160l7ic.
New YORK, Aug. 6, 1o:40.-Cotton-
Market quiet. Ordinary 1441c; good ordi-
nary nc; strict good ordinary 1ssc; low
middling l9sc; middling 20sc; Alabama
20sc; Orleans 205c; Texas &C.
New YORK, Aug. o, 12:05.-Cotton-
Market irregular. Futures strong. Ordi-
NARY 142c; good ordinary 17ac; strict good
ordinary 1875; low middling 1g1c; middiing
20!c; Alabama 201c; Orleans 201c; Texas
&C. Sales for exports 10 bales; for con-
sumption % bales; last evening for exports
100 bales; for consumption 90 bales.
NEW YORK, Aug. o, 12:40.-Cotton-
Futures weak. August delivery 1sa61Sfc;
September 1S01S Lice; October 17sc; No
yeInber 179-16c. Sales 400 bales.
NLw' YORK, Aug. 3, 1:20.-Cotton-
Futures quiet. September delivery Slice;
October I72c; November II 9-16617sc.
Sales 1880 bales.
New YORK, Aug. 8, 2:05.-Cotton-
Market irregular. Ordinary 14Sc; good Or
binary 173c; strict good ordinary SIC; low
middiing 1916; middling 204c; Alabama
20Ic; Orleans 201c; Texas &C. Sales on
spot estimated at 500 bales.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2:4O.-Cotton-
Futures steady. august delivery 1870;
September 1Ssc; October f7ac. Sales g.
500 bales.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, S:15.-Cotton-
Market weak acd irregular. Ordinary
1455c; good ordinary 175c; strict good ordi-
nary 1910; low middl1ng 1915; middling
20se; Alabama 201c; Orleans 201c; Texas
&C. Sales fer exports - bales; for con-
sumption 655 bales; for speculation
bales; 10 arrive included in the above 220
bales.
New YORK, AUG. 6, S:35.-Co.ton-
Unofficial market weak. Ordinary 141lc;
good ordinary 1890; strict good ordinary 1,sc;
low nliddling 19c; middling zoe; Alabam
zoe; Orleans 2C4c.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 4:00.-Cottoa-
Futures steady. August delivery Is 1916
6185c; September 1916; October 1736l75;
November II 9-166l7sc; December 17a6
17sc. Sales 1880 bales.
New YORK, Aug. S.-Net receipts
SAIL bales; exports to Great Britain II 1865
bales; to the continent 2, 116 bales; stock
163, 1885 haiss.
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THE HUMMING-BIRD.
Ry JAMES MAURJCF THOMPSON

Poised in a sheeny mist
OF the dust of bloom,
Clasped to the poppy's breast and kissed,
Baptized in ools of violet perfume,
From foot to plume!
Zephyr loves thy wings
Above all lvoaple things,
And brings them gifts with rapturous murmur-
ings;
Thine is the golden reach of blooming hours,
Spirit of fiowersi
Music follows thee,
And continually,
Thy life is changed and sweetened happily,
Having no more than Tose-leaf shade OF gloom,
Bird Of Bloom!
Thou art a winged thought
OF tropical hours,
With al the tropics rare bloom-splendor fraught
Surcharged with Beauty indefinable powers,
Angel of flowers?
LippincotfS MdgdSine.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
lowing GRASS SEED.

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man, says: II SOW timothy seed On wheat
as soon as the latter is narrowed and drag
ged, or about the 10Th 10 middle of Sep.
tember, then SOW clover seed across the
field in March, at right angles to the former
sowing, thus avoiding making any strips
which make field look unfarmerlike. L
always SOW broadcast, using II bushels of
each on ten acres, and invariably have a
good stand OF both timothy and clover.
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recuperate land run down by cultivation
or In meadows. Its serious misfortune
that We have no cheap commsrciai fertilizer
In Tennessee. So FIR as we can learn,
nothing has been done to remedy this great
evil. How many years should enterprising
farmers wait before moyirg in this matterP
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-07
BasnvlIIe FIour ana sra,a Nsrsss.

FLoUR-Demand fair IS follows: Super
fine $5.2566.00; single x S5.7566.25; Xxx
16.5067.25; Xxx $7.2567.75; family
S7.756S. rs; choice feznily S8.256S.50.
COIN EEAL-Market stiff. We quote
at 67a670c per bushel for unbolted ard
bolted, sacked and delivered in depot.
CoRN-We report shipments to-day of
$50 bushels st Csc sacked and delivered in
depot.
WHEAT-Sales of 1880 bushels to-day
at prices ranging from $1.306140 per
bustel.
OATs-We quote at SOC, sacked and
delivered in depot.
BRAN-We quote at Sl30 par tor,
Loose in bulk. and $1,000 Per ton sacked
and delivered in depot.
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Few York Dry GOO0s zsazkes.

New York, Aug. 6.-Dry goods
The market for staple cotton goods was ac-
tive at firm prices. Standard sheetings are
quiet at 13c and there is good demand for
! fine and medium brown bleached. Shirt
iDgs steady and in good packing request,
Nessacumson shifting is up to 53c; old
brown sheeting are advance to &c. Prints
| selling freely. Cotton ard wool flanDeIs
brisk on first hands. Blankets more active.
| Black beavers, fine cassimeres and fel.ed
goods in moderate request. JObhiDg trade
| dull,