The Arizona champion., 1888-03-17

] k. B. Hibbins, general manager of the Arizona Stone Company, arrived with Mrs. Hibbins from Los Angeles on Tuesday and will make Flagstaff their future home, the demands of the companys business requiring the con stant presence of the general manager.
 Albuquerque papers state that under the new management $2, 2,500,000 will be expended by the Atlantic X Pacific R. R. in placing the road bed, bridges, depot buildings and rolling stock in re- pair. Machine shops will be enlarged, water supply developed and the track force on each section increased to thirty five men.
 Cslling the principal street in every railroad town "Railroad Avenue" is getting to be considerable of a chest nut. Albuquerque, Gallup, Iolbrook, Winslow and Flagstaff are thus afflicted. It is neither an appropriate or strik- ing name for the solidly built town front of Flagstaff and ought to be changed.
 Somebody has been fencing in strip of land south of the railroad track. It is singular that some men cannot divest themselves of the idea that one rider fence gives some color of title to the man that drives the stakes and nails the boards. In this case the acquisitive party has fenced in public street, in ignorance of the surveyors lines.
 The Flagstaff Lumber Company has an attractive advertisement in this is- sue of the CHAMPION. With ample capital and first class facilities for the manufacture of lumber, the com pany starts under the most favorable aus pices and will form an important fac tor in the future prosperity of Flagstaff.
 In Albuquerque, Las Vegas and other New Mexico towns, base ball lea gues have been organized, backed by capital which is subscribed in the shape of stock subscriptions by the citizens and the prospect is good for an unusually active and interesting baseball season. Flagstaff should take steps to organize its crack nine with such fnan- cial backing as will enable it to take part in the contests of the season.
 A movement is on foot for the insu- guration of series of excursions from Los Angeles to Flagstaff early this spring. The attractions of our pine forests, grassy slopes and mountain scenery, with projected trips to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, will form sufficient inducements to make the excursions large and successful and not improbable result will be that some of the excursionists will drop few dollars in town lots, big hotels and oth- CT investments here.
 At special meetiug of the board of stockholders of the Arizona Lumber Company held last Thursday, Messrs. D. M. Riordan, T. A. Riordan and F. W. Sisson were elected directors; D. NJ. Riordan was elected president and manager; T. A. Riordan was elected secretary, vice W. E. Pratt, resigned, and F. W. Sisson was elected treasurer. The resignation of c. A. Bush as su- perintendent was received and the ap- pointment of his successor postponed until future meeting.
 We noticed that the oysters were much solder lately than they were at the first of the season, and asked Richards the cause, which he readily explained in what seemed to us to be a reasonable way. He says that in the first of the. season oysters are soft from the fact that the water in which they are grown has been, compara- lively speaking, warm, and as the winter advances the water becomes colder and as the water becomes cold the oysters become more solid and get a better flavor He says that from this until the first of May oysters will be of better quality and dish up better than any time during the season. ... .... .... -..