Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-11-18
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Snow is on the Pinal mountains, in plain view of Globe.
 There .rc but two prisoners in the Mari cops county jail
 All kinds of skilled and unskiilea labor is in good demaud at Globe.
 Travel over the Southern Pacific road is said to be rapidly increasing.
 Tucson clamors for paper mill; like wise mining and stock exchange.
 Sol Earth has been elected to the terri- torial council from Apache county.
 The mail route between Fort Thomas and Fort Apache, has been discontinued.
 An excursion to Guaymas will be given some time this month by the Santa Fe road.
 Judge Pinney has purchased farm near Phenix and proposes to Gect residence thereon.
 E. Downer ha. recently been appointed postmaster at Greaterville, in the Santa Rita mountains.
 Two hundred wagons are reported on the road from Wilcox to Globe, freighted with coke and merchandise.
 Bremen's saw.mill has been forced to stop work in consequence of tbe heavy fall of snow on Pinal mountain.
 Dr. Pool is manufacturing sirup from cane raised in the Santa Cruz valley. It is said to be of excellent quality.
 Ice was to be found in considerable quantities on Sunday morning, on still ponds of water in and around Phenix.
 Jim McClintock, the stage driver, who was shot by Agent Coslson at Gillette a few days ago, is HOW on fair road to re- covery.
 The maln shaft of the Mack Morris mine, in Gila county, is down 7S5 feet. It IS one of the deepest shafts in the terri- tory.
 The Prescott Courier charges that 70 votes were given for Porter at Holbrook, in Apache county, where only 40 were registered.
 It is reported that United States District Attorney Zabrskic has been called to Washington to assist the prose cution in the star! oute cases.
 Thomas Newland, Of Graham county, has already branded 400 calves this season, and will probably brand so more between now and January.
 The races at the Prescott diving p9rk will commence December and continue four days. Nearly all the territorial flyers will be in attendance.
 Hon. John Ireland, formerly of the su- preme bench of Texas has been elected governor of that state. He is an uncle of Move Wicks, of Tucson.
 The Belle and Belle Extension mines, situated near the head of Bigbug creek, Yavapai county, were recently sold to a Boston company for $75,OOo. | The 'Old Dominion company shipped last week 100000 pounds of copper bul. lior. The company's total product to date is 100000 pounds, valued at $240,. 900.
 Arizona butchers have lately been send- ing agents into San Beinardino county to purchase sheep and cattlo, but the supply there is hardly sufficient for the local de- mand.
 Rev. J. F. Berry, of Tucson, will soon begin the publication of the Arizona Guar terly, handsome magazine of somt thirty pages, devoted to the material snd social interests of the territory.
 Colonel Sykes is hard at work on hi Tucson and Calabasas railroad project He calculates to have everything in read mess to break ground by January 1, 1883 Wells, Fargo & Co. have established their offices along the line of the Sonor; reilroad, and are now selling franked en velopes over their California and Mexican coast routes. It is reported upon good authority tha department headquarters will be remove' to Fort Grant just as soon as the necessar
 buildings can be erected to accommodat the various officers. F Frank Purce.la, one of tke early settler , Of Phcnix and widely known throughou
 the territory, died on the 18th instant. H had been sick for several months, but va { not confined to his room until recently. = There are lots of fish at Phenix, but tn people complain that the Indians cate e them by dlschars,ng giant cartridges i 1t Salt river, which kill both large an !. small fishes, md will not leave any O; th
 finny ttibe for the next generation s breal 1T fast.
 d The Omaha Smelling and Refining C. p are putting up smelling works in Mojay y county. The machinery is en the groun' y and in a few days will be up and ready ft IS work A new town has been laid outne' 9, Bcale Spring called Kingman, where thc' e works are being erected. l. The fare on the New Mexico X Arizor o railroad from Benson to the line of Me IL ico is ten cents q mile, and from the Me