Arizona silver belt., 1878-10-03
Terrs,oriai News

in San Francisco.
 A number of good brick buildings are being erected in Plenix
 Prescott has contributed literally to fund for the yellow fever suf- ferers in the south.
 Joseph Phy, of Phenix, has been appointed Deputy U. $ Marshal. A good appointment.
 The Senator mill is running s1ead- iily. aud thc yield 9f bullion is quite satisfactory lo lfs oTnere. Rothrock. the photographer, is iu Phoenix. He has some really besuh- l fol pictures of notable places in Ari- zona For sale
 The commanding officer at Camp Thomas is Co be held responsible for the inspection of supplies furnished the Iudians on the San Carlos reser- Iyation.
 Three thousand seven hundred and forty pounds of merchandise in four- pound packages. mostly for Tucson, was received at Yuma on the I1th of September
 The bullion shipments through Yuma for the week ending Septem- Der 18th amounted to S79,723 IS. The Silver King shipped S53 GOO of 5his amount.
 San Francisco mountain in this Territory is the second highest peak in the United States, being about 600 feet high St. Elias is the highest, being 1T ,000 feet.
 The public free school at Prescott has an average daily attendance of l60 pupils The school has three departments and nine grades Three reguiar teachers and an instructor in music are employed
 i Complaints come to us by our ex- changes from all parts of the Ter aritory, in regard to our miserable mall facilities. Cheap contractors and negligent posmasters are the cause of many good eitizens breaking l the fifth commandment.
 The new owners of the Vulnre mine are surveying and making prep laratons 10 work the same on a grand scale. Il is the op.pion of experts ] that tue vuure mine has not even I been scratched over, and that It is the i biggest thing in America.
 Kuens < Griffith, who operate the stage line between Yuma aud Tucson, had ten swell bodied. thirfeen-pas Isenger coaches shipped from Concord, IN H., August 12th. They are nicely upholstered throughout and will be 1 the best ever brought to Arizona.
 Under date of August 18th, the l Secretary of War informs General Nilieox, commander of the depart 1 ment of Arizona. that the mail scbed- uie from Fort Worth, Texas. to Fort ] Yuma, has been expedited so that ] inc running time will be 13 instead of IT days.
 Yayapai and Mohaye counsies shipped during the month of August 10 San Francisco, S160 900 in bull ] lion. The San Francisco papers do mot make much of a blow about the increased bullion shipments from Arizona but our mines talk For l themselves, and are bound to take the front rank among all other mining properties or the Pacific Coast.
 The rers that Tptop stock had gone dopin to an almosE nomlnal } figure in San Francisco has had the effect to excite inc men employed ai , the mine. Nho ought to know more about it's future prospects than any body else, that they have telegraphed to San Francesca t0 buy 5000 shares-tbe superintendent takes Z 00o and the other employees take 900.
 Tom Waters, 8 saloon-keeper at the Peck nlse, and Murphy, 8 miner, became involved in dispute relative to sn equitable division of some money Murphy had won at poker the might before. Waters had staked MurpSy, and not being able to agree on q divide, turned loose on each other with six-shooters Waters wounded in the shouldsr Murphy nn- hurt. They were arrested.
 The Prescott Miuer of tbe 12th , says The Golden Star mil, neaI Cave creek, will be ready to start up , in about 50 days At Tipbop 110 men arc Kept employed taking out ore and prospecting the mine Al