Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-11
Territo, iaI News.

the Department OOmlnanOeI tO nave all the Yuma Indians vaccmated.
 The bullion shipments from Casa Grande average one car load per day now, besides the regular ore shipments.
 4 hotel with forty-thres foot front is being built at Kingman, the prospective town of the Atlantic < Pacific m Mohave county.
 The highest place on the A. P. is BellemOnt, which has an elevation of 7,l72 feet. The lowest point Is at Powell, Cal, 491 feet.
 4 Mexican paper-full fedged and a credit to the town, will be started III PhenIx Tn couple of weeks, by two ex- perienced Mexican printers.
 So far this season, in the upper part of Salt River Valley at least, irrigation has been unnecessary, owing to the regular ity and extent of the rainfall.
 They estimate the copper in sight in Copper Basin, Yavapai county, by the hundreds of billions of tons. Twenty two claims are bonded for S3,5OO,OO0.
 Dr. Taggart of Yuma, is informed by Prof. Baird that another lot of the carp has been placed at his disposition. Due notice will be given of their arrival.
 Jack Neley brought down to Yuma 13 beaver hides last week. Together with bis partner has taken over 300 beavers this season, and the trapping still con- tinues good.
 Two hundred Mormon families are expected to arrive in Smlthville in a few weeks. They are all coming to stay, and ere long we will have valley of small farms well tiled.
 The Silver King and Florence tele- graph company have declared a divl- dend of p cents per share, payable on the 18th of April, and will pay quarterly dividends from that time on.
 On Monday morning the Takoma smelter yielded one bar of copper bull iion weighing over 300 pounds, to every three pots of slag. In SIX hours 1t turned out three tons of copper.
 The epidemic in Yuma is rapidly abating, and will soon be wholly ex- terminated The warm weather we have blessed with during the last few days has had decidedly salutary effect.
 Mir. Chas. Thiessen is in Yuma, from ms new discovery, near Eureka, and has some magnificent ore, to show. Charley
 avs he has big ledge of the ore which IS very near pure carbonate of silver.
 An extensive ranch in Yuma county
 will be operated near the big bend of
 he Gila river the coming season. This section would prove very profitable, If planted m cotton and ramle, which 'hrives in this latitude.
 Sentinel: Just as we go to press we earn that the Commander at Fort Yuma nas received orders that the Military Post at thls place is to be abandoned. We have not room for the particulars, out we will give them next week.
 Parties who have lived west of the Missouri river for years declare that the number of freight teams on the Clifton road at present exceed in number any ever seen before, excepting on the Leadyille road It the time of the excite ment.
 The outgoing Globe stage was stopped Friday night between Cane Springs and he first summit south of the Dripping Springs valley, and tho express taken m. No passenger was molested. Mir. Reed, Of the Long Island Copper Company, vas on the ,ta,e.
 Henry Orme, of PhenIx, has just con- yieted setting out, for the present sea- SOD, 250 fruit trees; 300 grape shoots, and 2,500 grape cuttings. Fruit culture aud viticulture are both attracting con- siderable attention, and planting like this Is not unusual
 Messrs. ". 4. Jackson, of Hillsboro, Texas, and 5. D. JacOby, of Clarksyille, Missouri, We're on the GIla this week. They are looking for q good range on which to place 5000 head of cattle which they propose bringing to the Territory from Hill county, Texas.
 Peach Springs, Mohave county, since the Atlantic < Pacific entered 1t, has become a town of considerable im- portance. IL has a population of three hundred and fifty people, dwelling and houses, saloons, etc, and shows every sign of permanence.
 The following are the names of sta tions on the A. P. from Williams west to he Colorado river: Supi, Fairview. Ash Fork, Pine Neia. PicachO. Chino, Ambray, Yayapai, Peach Springs, Tux lon. Blackberry, Hualapai, Beal Springs, Sacramento, Yacca, PalO Verde and Colorado river. winch covers a distance of 1SS miles.
 Thursday evening a party of about fifty MormOus, composing train of twelve wagons, arrived Tn Phenix direcv rom Rockville, Washington county, Utah. They left that town on January }0th, and had a pleasant trip. encounter ng but four storms. They left Friday Tor Mesa City, where the greater portion lf the party contemplate locating.
 Shipments from Old Dominion since ast report, S2,03O pounds; total to date, 1,572040 pounds; on hand l39,0O0 pounds. The Old Globe smelter, No. i, ,losed down Friday for want of coke. This Is the first suspension of smelting ,peratIons since the 29th of last Octo- per, except three days in November.
 The Stonewall Jackson mine, one of he richest in the Territory, which was -irtually abandoned by it's non-enter- ,rising owners, will soon be started up gain. While 1t may never yield as 1t 1 lid when tons of native silver were be- l ng shipped from 1t, 1t will certainly | field large returns if iDtelligently | handled. As MT. Smith will be in l harge. the latter goes without saying.
 Blackberry, Mohave county, is said to | ,e alive with excitement and business. ! The railroad has reached a point within | K miles of the town. and on its com jletIon a large influx of people IS ex- | ,ected from the East. Work on the | and Crescent mines has been | esumed, and as soon as coal can be | procured. thousands of tons of which | Iave been contracted for, the Blackberry | nil will start up.
 The Assure character of the veins in ilobe District is fully proven by an ex- minatiOn of the Tskoma company's 'roperties. At polnts 200 feet apart, n the same vein, and at intervals be- ween, are the same striations, the same haractsr of ore, and of the same condl- ions having existed at the time of the Drmation of the vein. Besides, the yer ical development reaches 45O feet and till the same proof offers itself We 'ant to enforce this idea. because this aper has always maintained that Globe eins were unmlstakable Assures. It ] only the superficial student of the dis net who thinks otherwise.