Arizona citizen., 1877-08-25
Yuma Items.
From the Sentinel of August Is:

D- -NOAhi tAlo N1CN SALf LfPNO ApfppN pounds of citizen freight by Ward. | teams.
 The robust form of Judge Ira Nab bett now graces the court house, where he presides as Under Sheriff.
 The route between Yuma and Ehren berg has been discontinued. Hereaf ter mails for up river will be sent by rail to Dos Palmas, and from thence by stage to Ehrenberg
 Fifty thousand lailroad ties are pill ed up at Wilmington and 10000 more are on the way down there They arc all destined for laying track in Arizona The Carga Muchaco district Is now stepping to the front again. Late work by Van Arsdale & Co. has made fine developments of rich ore Ten tons are sacked and ready for shipment One hundred tons will be shipped to San Francisco and worked The re- suit will determine the erection of ma chiuery.
 An idea is entertained, by the Board of Supervisors, of building county hospital. In the present state of the county finances thIs proposition should be discussed with care. From all parts of California come murmurs of the ter rble expense of public hospitals. They are always fruitful urces of Un- necessary expenditure. If indigent sick are here in such numbers as to re- quire a building for theIr accommOda- IiOn, It is possible that one can be rent ed for less money than the interest on the cost of one erected by the county.
 MT. II. $. Fitzgerald proposes to re sign his position as Supervisor. This intention was formed some time ago and was induced by the unpleasant scenes occurring at several sessions of the Board As Mir Sdmter resigned for the same reason, Fitzgerald was persuaded to grin and bear it until all business then pending was dispos- ed of. The last vacancy was filled by appointment of MT. A. LOrelte.
 Steamer Gila has arrived from Au- brey and way landings with the fol lowing freight and passengers for San Francisco: 102 sacks of ore from Ce- dar Valley district supposed to be rich ; 290 hides from Ehren berg; thirty eight bales of wool; and about two tons mer- chandise, Wells, Fargo * Co. having five bars of McCrackIn bullion, valued at SS,000 The passengers were J. Nc Crackin, \. W. Robinson, D. $. Lusk and five deck passengers. Steamer Co cOpah has arrived from EhrenbeTg, bringing down 9, ,34 pounds of wool.
 Lusk and Robinson, having secured large interests in the Moreno and Apa.- che Chief mines, near Ehrenberg, are going to develop them this winter. Work begins next month, and a shaft of l50 feet depth will be sunk on each of them, preliminary to such further operations as development may justi- fy.
 Rate of taxation on present aSStss- ment is fixed as follows, on each one hundred dollars:
 For Territorial purposes. ........S .25
 
 For Territorial schools. ......... 10 For County schools. ............. .35 For County buildings. ...... 50 For Territorial Prison. ........... 10
 Total. ....-....--.-. SO.,j0
 Gen Banning went up the road this week to the vicinity of Teamsters' Camp, on the Gila, where he has sev- eral thousand sheep. He proposes to shear them there if he can get shearers ; otherwise he will have them driven OF toward Tucson to be sheared there. Mesquit beans are now ripe and falling and his sheep are reported as having got very fat on them.
 The PicachO mill is now running more successfully than ever. The new apparatus saves enough of the gold tO satisfy the owners, though some chang es are sull in contemplation. The sup ply of ore is unlimited, and as soon as present experiments are completed, the present battery of five stamps will give place 10 a first class ten stamp mill.