The Arizona sentinel., 1886-06-26
TERRITORIAL. AND EDITORIAL.
Notes and Comments Cleaned from the
 Territerial Press.

Territorial Press.
 One or two local papers are advOca- Sing Ben Goodrich for Chief Justice of the Territory. Ben won't get it.
 Democratic candidates for Delegate to Congress are becoming numerous, not less than five being now in the field.
 Some Indians, presumably Apaches, have been buying ammunition of the merchants of Tempe
 Phenix is to have gas works and the buildings will require 120,000 bricks, 10000 of which are already on the ground.
 Ice sells in Phenix at one cent peg pound.
 The Tucson Citisen says that "Pi- ma county genius has invented sim pie ice machine for family use, which he will soon have patented. A ma chine with twenty pounds per day ca pacity will cost less than $25 and the waste of chemicals will not reach one dollar per month Another talented inventor is experimenting on an ice cream cow.0
 The work of construction on the Calabasas, Tucson and Northwestern railroad is not progressing with any degree of rapidity.
 J. L. Camp has been appointed Reg ister of the Land Office at Prescott.
 The first train load of material for the Prescott and Arizona Central rail road has arrived at Chino station on the line of the Atlantic and Pacific A large force of men are at work grad ing. The side tracks have been com pleted and it is expected to have ten miles of track laid by the Fourth of July. The road will be seventy miles in length, and will give Prescott direct communication with the rest of the world. The road will be completed by January lst, and business at Prescott is reviving in consequence.
 The Tucson rangers have not yet wiped out quite all of the Apaches, but it is confidently expected that they will finish up the job in the course of the next few days, and cover Tucson all over with glory.
 | fThe drive of nearly two thousand steers to Laramie, Wyoming, by Smith Carson & Co.,, of Apache-co., marks a new era in the history of the Arizona live stock industry, as it is it the first drive of the kind ever made from this territory. Should it prove successful lit will doubtless be followed by many more. and the drive from Arizona to Laramie, Denver, and other beef ship ping points of the Central Pacific may become permanent thing and of great importance.
 The citizens of Tucson would like to have the people of Pima-co. vote bonds to the amount Of $50,000 to assist an Iowa firm in erecting reduction works at Tucson, The fact that company will not put up works without munlci- pal aid Is alone sufficient evidence that it would not be paying institution. Whenever it is evident that reduction works will pay in Tucson sufficient capital will be forthcoming to erect them without county aid.
 I. B. Hand has a pleasant orchard and vineyard on his place about two miles from town, the oldest portion of which was set out two years ago last winter. As showing the possibilities of fruit culture in this valley we will state the fact that MT. Hand has for the past ten days been picking fully 200 pounds of apricots day from his two year old trees, which at the price of four cents pound would yield revenue of $6 per day. Nr. Hand has a phenominal crop, the trees being as full as they can stand, and the fruit large. His Morepark variety of Apri- cot is comparatively new here and a great favorite. On a four-inch twig the reporter counted six large apricots and nor prolific punches might have been secured by careful search.-Phe- nix G0zette. The Mohave-co. politicians are bud ding out early for long fight.
 Fourth of July orators do not seem to be in demand in this territory.
 Solomonville, Graham-co., will have a grand 4th of July celebration, and | big time generally.
 The sale of large block of the bonds