Arizona silver belt., 1885-03-07
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i ANS NilAVhW Softf'Nk NpAAPuAhf " IGlifton, for tue week ending February alst, 1884, shipped ll5Sls pounds oi black copper
 Tue phmnix Gazette says The date of the departure of the thira cav airy for their new statlon in Texas has been fixed March 9th.
 Verde valley, for mili.s ana miles, is { planted to wheat, barley and aIfalfa, winch "erops, Vt are told, arc grow ing finely Courier
 The Atlantic < Pacific are building great number of stock chutes and small stock yards along the line oi their road, Champion,
 A fire at Prescott, on the 2d inst, destroyed the drug store owned by Dr, George D. Kendall and cigar store of F, Hubbard. Loss Sl0,000i fully insured
 1 There is at present sooOo pounds of { copper bullion on the depot platform, from the cananea mines, which will be shipped as soon as possible. No- ! gales Frontier
 The w. c, T. U. of Tucson have cir eulated petition, to which great many names have been signed, asking Itle Legislature to pass law closing saloons on Sunday,
 The proposed segregation of Cochise county would leavs Coehise s,52S square miles, or 2.258,920 acres, and l give Sierra Bonita 2,777 square miles, or 1 .773.080 acres. Record Ben Morgan, m attorney who sub mitted an objectionable brief in the supreme court at Phoenix, last week, has been ordered to show cause wllY he should not be punished for contempt. A large amount of silver ores is shipped from Eogales to Benson and l Pueblo smelters, A shelter would pay | hauisome return on the invest Imene if established here. Nogales Frontier
 Every train going north takes scy eral cars ot rails for tho the Mexican Central Railroad in Mexico, being brought to Guaymas hy sea, thence shipped to Mexico via Benson aud Fl. Paso NogaIes Frontier.
 Tie Gordian knot, into which the legislature had tied itself on the ques. tioa ofa dne die adjournment, was effeetually cut by notification from Governor Tritle that he would not sign any bill passed alter March l2th. Prescott Miuer
 The Grand Central mine, at Tomb. stone, now employs 200 men The new pump is said to be the largest ever pot into mine on tho coast at the same depth and only excaeded in size by the Union pump on the Com stock Record.
 Sias. of Graham, has introduced q till to and in the construction of | railroad in Graham and Gila eountiest The bill permits the counties 10 subsi- dize the road 10 the extent Of $5,o0o per mile of narrow gauge road, sub. sidy to be paid ou the construction of each ten miles. stoekman,
 Congress IS asked to repeal tho law for an annual expenditure of slo0 on q mining clairn, and 70 pass u law com- polling each owner of claims to pay $50 year for the benefit of the school fund of his or her ercounty. Miners with whom we hayed conyersed said they would like the change Courier
 From the Clarion we learn that Alex Mclean. foreman of the Detroit Cop. per Company's mines, narrowly ess capped being blown to atoms. He ap- preached blast which he supposed had been fired, when there wasa loud report and he was blown, with masses oi rock, thirty feet into the air and fell thirty-eight feet distant from the spot where he stoad when the explo- sion occurred. His escape from in stant death was marvellous. His injuries arc severe yet IL is thought De will recover
 At the annual meeting ofsthe Pima County Live Stock Association, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Walter yail, Presi- dent; ". w. Williams Vice. Presi- dent; Brewster Cameron, Secretary.
 The work ofthe organization dur ing the past year has been highly sue cessful and depredations are growing gradually less This year its agents will rayelthroughout tho country oc- cupied by members of the Association, l. I and my person detected stealing, hill- sng or otherwise depredatiag upon stocst not his own will be vigorously ! goascuted to the full extent Of the lax Citizen.
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