Salt River herald., 1878-12-21

or the rallrOau line. CpOn us con- pletion we will then have two sepa- rate lines of telegraph to Tucson, the other being the government line and run under the direction of the signal | service.
 Some 4O,315 pounds of machinery for the Tiger mine arrived at Yuma
 Wednesday, December II.
 Sheriff F. F. Bowers, of Yavapai county, has bought the Dudley house and saloon, at Prescott.
 It takes beef to build and run rail
 roads. The Trinidad Ne,cs says that
 the operatives of the Atchison, Tope-
 ka and Santa railroad have consumed
 upwards of 2,O0O head of beef cattle
 in the last SIX months.
 Gov A K Stafford and Miss Mar
 garita Grijalva were married in Tue
 son on the 11th inst, by the Rev J.
 E. Anderson. The governor has hosts
 of friends in Arizona who wish him
 unalloyed happiness in his marital
 relations.
 Passengers and express matter now
 leave Tucson on Mondays and Thurs
 days for Altar, in Sonora, going
 through in forty hours The fare is
 ten dollars, and eating stations have
 been established along the route. The
 line passes near the Cerro Colorado,
 Arivaca and Orc Blanco mining dis
 trietS of Arizona Mir. Demetrio Ve-
 lasco, the agent, is well known, and is
 always ready to give information to
 those desiring it.
 Hon. J. A. Williamson, United
 States land commissioner, aud party,
 passed through Yuma last week, en
 route for Florence, where Mr. Was
 son, of Tucson, will meet them. They
 will pay their respects to Mir. c. D.
 Poston, at that place.
 MT. Charles Baker has been ap- pointed to fill the vacancy caused in the board of supervisors of Yuma
 county, by the resignation of David Balz. This is good appointment; he has served on the board before, : and has left a good record. , Track laying is again in progress on the southern extension of the Atch- . ison, Topeka and Santa Fe road. Will low Springs, thirty miles south of Trinidad, will be the next important station, and they cannot be far from : there now. For construction pur- poses a temporary track will be laid over the range, and the road pushed on to Las Vegas while the tunnel is being finished.-Aldmosa Ne,os. There seems to be no question now
 but the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad will be built as far as Las l Vegas, New Mexico, sometime early - in the coming year, and by that time !, the California and Southern Pacific
 railroad will have reached as far east l. as Maricopa Wells, leaving an unfin- l. ished gap of about five hundred miles l through New Mexico and Arizona to be closed up, when an all rail route : from ocean to ocean through the low Hest country on the continent will be u in operation.-Nec MertcO poper.
 Citizen: In order to divide the pa. e tronage fairly, Prescott was given the t headquarters of the army which was d worth half dozen capitals, but they
 were not satisfied and by fraud sue l. ceeded in capturing the capital. Now Il comes the punishment as it surely al- ,. ways comes for wrong doing. To az 1T grandize Prescott, county debt has st been contracted that is sapping the e last drop of life blood from the peo- n pie. The debt we greatly fear will l. eventually be repudiated, although r. we hope for the credit of the territory 'f this will not occur.
 e The following extract of a letter,
 written by Bishop George Lake, dat l, ed at Brigham City, Yavapai county, $ November 5th, is reproduced from t. the Salt Lake Deseret Nens: The n health of the saints in this part is n good, and good spirit prevails. Our O crops are all gathered, and we are
 now busy putting in our fall wheat, Il etc. We have good force of hands c running the saw-mill; our dairy has c done good business the past season.
 We are organized in companies with l. suitable foremer, viz: farming, car ', penters, wagon shop, blacksmith, pot 1t tery, teamsters, etc, all of which work
 for one common interest. Sunset and g this place have just sent teams to a Nephi, Utah, for carding machine, Il which we expect to have running. d We have a nice flock of sheep, and e we hope to be able to clothe the nak- 1T ed and feed the hungry. Our crops If were good, and had it not been for Tt the late flood we would have had a
 great surplus, but as it is we are post T. ed as to the high water marks, and it Il will be Of lasting worth to us. We T, Lave near 300 souls in this ward; we