Arizona citizen., 1874-05-23

between the canine and human races in this town is inevitable and it cannot come too soon. We have either got to go to the dogs or the latter must leave for parts un- known. There is not particle of doubt that the dogs in town consume more food than the children of the poorer classes consume. We don't get this from statis- tics and perhaps it would not have been admitted as evidence on late court trial, which stands alone in law, unique, origin al, and at the feet of whose ingenious con- clusiOns the highest court in chriStendOm might we'll sit and learn thing or two of which it never before entered into the heart of man to conceive. But to return to the dogs, and the transition is so easy that one makes it with vague impression that he is presenting the same subject in different lights, there have been people here who have lived in Constantinople and are perfectly familiar with every part of it and they say, without hesitation, that Tucson has been very much wrOnged by the claim ConstantinOple has always set up, and maintained too, to having more dogs than any other burg. We ven- ture to say that there are alleys in this town in which there are more dogs than COnstantinople or any other place ever saw. Of course we don't as yet know what Livingstone discovered in the heart of Afri- ca, and 1t would be unfair to take advan- tage of us on that account. Now this is very serious matter. It is as unsafe tC go down one of our streets at night as to run between the lines of opposing armies. To be sure one don't very often want to go
 town them, especially late at night, but woe to him if sickness in his family or other necessity compels. He gets to the end Of his trip feeling cOwed and nervous and profane in every fibre of his body, and if he has Spanish wife and son named Jesus, he repeats that boys name until the latter looks upon him with "grave suspicion"
 4 The preservation of the morals of this community. charity for the poor, the se- curing to every man his inalienable right Ito asound nights sleep, everything calls l1s>ta Jus to suppress this dog nuisance.
 #{L6 jeannot be suppressed by law. Don't 5j{< <t8{ any more dog laws. Tucson is
 4S &nder and sore on that subject. Sug- Se5* 1{{ig every street in town and the fE{f8$1tE <I1H of gas and water-works and tho eanI&az{on of a fire department with steam e1x 6rgo to the utmost limit of extraF565 ma move for floor in the court-h6}<56 nl this corporation will smile with T1t<4 <44t Resignation, but don't suggest an9 1D6fe dog laws. Innocent enough in themselves and as long as they are allowed to quietly adorn the statute book, you have but to try their enforce
 nent if you wish to be led a lively pace. Let there be organized dog vigilance committee, and with a suitable eXpendi- ture for strychnine and proper admins tration thereof, we believe that the dogs could be reduced in number to a working capital. We must do something. Several nights of this past week it has been inn possible to sleep at all.
 REAL estate is not very lively in Tucson. atleast that portion of it forming perma- nently located lots. J. S. Mansfield pur- chased the large lot, with improvements Camp-st., this week for the sum of Si50. AS in all other towns, the value of proper ty in Tucson shifts and changes material ly at different periods. A few years ago the lot spoken of could not have been bought for double the money, and few years hence it may more than regain it's original value. Real estate is very dull. Why just look at the difficulty had in dis posing of vacant lots in Tucson at a mere ly nominal price, some time ago. Most earth would have made eligible sites for Summer residences. If we could be as- sured that the cratic genius who made that part of The Chronicle gift map repre- senting Arizona had not bent the line of the Texas Pacific railroad without due au- thority and sent it curving through Tue son simply to relieve the monOtony of an otherwise straight line, we would buy corner lot or two ourselves. But while we are perfectly willing to give The Chronicle man credit for brilliancy Of imagination, in the presence of which that of the early geOgrapher who sent the Skiff of the un- SuSpecting stranger in at the mouth of the Hudson and foated him into the Pacific, is draped in everlasting night, still we confess that our faith is too weak to follow his eagle flights.
 A. BRICHTA, the ingenious manipulator of the Recorders office of this county, having read the late Act of Congress in regard to timber culture, has been eXperi- menting on the growing of trees so as to get the entire benefit of said Act in the fulness of time. Dissatisfied with the te- dious and effete processes of raising trees from seeds and young saplings, and with an am bition which if not blasted by early disappointment will eventually raise it's to an enviable fame, MT. Brichta procured some incipient saw logs and in corresponding number of holes deposited quanty of oats, which the con- tract price has rendered almost vaiueless for anything but experiments. Upon this bed of oats he planted his timber and fill ed in with compost: the oats grew, attached to and pressed against the porous bottom of the posts, and thus vegetable life was infused into the latter and the oat sprouts formed themselves into roots and the many leaved branches sprang from the posts and every thing was love- ly.
 Our informant suggested that this was playing roots on the trees; which it was, but the levity with which the suggestion was made was uncalled for in speaking of this great experiment in natural science.
 E. N. FISH has been absent for the last here and If we did not dislike to make a personal reference we would call attention to our miserable failure as local in not knowing of this absence of one of our