Arizona citizen., 1877-04-07

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 to rhe City Council.
 Following message was delivered to the City Council last evening:
 GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMON CoUN- GIL In compliance with law, I here with submit statement of receipts and disbursements from the date of our present organization-7th of February to April 1st, and recommend certain measures for your careful censidera- ton.
 February. '. Cash on hand...............s II 75 Received from street tax.........-........ SIP co Received from 40 co
 10 'J
 DISBURSEMENTS.
 For cleaning and repairing streets. sl56 $ For services Street Commissioner,
 C. G. Jones OC For services City Marshal and Dep
 uty Commissloner........... 60 OC For books Of record, journal and ac-
 counts..................................... 25 co For bookcase and chest for village
 20 OC For copying 20 54 OC For recording deed.............. ............. lC For services Of City Recorder c. H.
 F 5 For printing. sIl.32; work on plaza.
 s6.5O.............. r g. For redemption Of all village war
 rants issued prior 10 February 7..... lS9 O5
 Total dIsbursements.......................s553 ,. Balance cash on hand April Ist...sl9O B
 Our revenue has hitherto been de rived chiefly by tax on merchants trades and various occupations; prop erty has paid no revenue to the city I would recommend that any addition al revenue that may be required for the remainder of the year be derived from property tax.
 HEALTH OF THE CITY.
 From January lSt to April 1st iherC have been three cases of smallpox; on' proved fatal; two recovered. Neither originated in the city. There have been no deaths from natural cause: among the American or European pop ulation residing here for the last thre, months, and but two in the County O Pima.
 In the the report of the State BoarC of Health of California, published a the close of the year 1873, page B the population of Arizona is stated tc be 9,656 and the death rate to b' 2.6l-100 per cent. This statement is |; monstrous error. It does not only in justice 10 the Territory, but great in justice to the emigrant who Is seeking for himself and family a home in a new country. Health 10 them is the frs consideration, and when the high au thority above quoted, gives our deatl rate 61-100 per cent higher (as IL does than in any other Stale or Territory il the United States, it necessarily deter considerale man from coming here The population of Arizona in May 1 1872, as per census returns, was 10, 15t At the date of the report above referred to, our population must have been 15, GOO, for in June, 1876, the census It turns give 3O,20O. The Miner in Yay apai county, The Sentinel in Yum county and THE CITIZEN in Pim county, publish the deaths that occG among the American and European population of their respective counties and a careful examination of the file of these papers shows the deatl rate, from natural causes, to be fOu and a fraction in one thousand pc annum, omiting those that have die of the scarletina in Prescott the las month.
 A permanent supply of good wate now demands our attention. 1 direc ed preliminary survey to be mad from Stone Avenue to the Santa Cru river, and the report of the engineer l herewith submitted. The survey com menced on Stone Avenue and intel sects the Santa Cruz at Capt. NJ C Gays ranch, four miles above tn city. Some six arroyos will requir flumlng, and the entire cost will b about'$2, 900. A proposition is her' with submitted to do the work for tha sum. In the minds of some it is queS tionable whether a good supply of wa ! ter can be had from that source, but careful consideration Of the geologica . formation of the surrounding cOuntr and the geographical position of tn city and of the pf int referred to, wi 1 lead us 10 favorable conclusions.
 The Santa Catalina mountains mort of us. and five miles distant. and tn Rincon mountain have their numerou llttle streams running into the valley and, further east, the Cienega, thirt miles away, furnishes its unfailin stream, while on the south lhe Sant Rita mountains, forty miles distant pour their numerous and ever runnin streams into the valley. Still furlhe south the Sonoita, fifty miles distant