Mohave County miner., 1888-02-04
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

smount to over $4,000.
Phsnix is making arrangements to Oh.
tain an electric light plant.
The McPbsrson canal will irrieate 10, 9
0n0 acres Of Land In Yuma county.
Wilcox last week installed n lodge Of A..
o. U. W., with nineteen members.
An Odd Fsllows' lodge will be instituted
IN Tempe in the course OF a few weeks.
Small pox has broken out amoag the
railroad woykInen at tho cienegs, near
Tucson.
The r. d A. NJ. Of Flagstaff have received
n dispensation and lodge will be organized
In short tine.
There Is strong probability Of ts ex.
tension Of the Marieopa & Phonix Railroad
to Globe this year.
Mining in the immediate vicinity Of No
gales is booming. and large quantities Of
ore are being shipped.
The Tempe News ssys: The Goodwin
boys this week oompleted the seeding of
one thousand acres Of wheat.
At one point on the new Pautano grade on
the Southern Pa 'ifc road, II tons OF powder
are to be exploded at one tame.
John Sterling, a sheep herder Of He'll
Canyon, Ysvapa: county, had both feei
badly frozen during the late cold snap.
The Detroit Copper Comosny is smelling
about Is tons Of ore daily that yields D,0OO
pounds of copper and I tons Of matte tina,
runs about 80 per osnt.
Deputy Immigration Commissioner Dun
bar informs Phoenix Herald reporter that
Commissioner King has located at Yuma.
Mr.. Dunbar still has his headquarters n,
Phoenix.
. The Prescott Courier says: 4. d =. r
Il. oflcmls at Albuquerque recently sent
doctor to see Q sick man At Holbrook, and
the eneins carried the N. d. 253 miles in
293 minutes.
The Board of Supervisors of Apache
county declared $ll 900 ont of $1,000 OF
county warrants presented by Jacob Barth.
of Grand Rapids, Mich, to be forgsriss.
and payment was refused.
A new steam tannery will be built at
Tucson soon. The roots of the canagria
will be used in the place Of bark. 1t !.
claimed that by this process leather can be
made at ons-half the present price.
John Temple, the artist sent from Ysva.
pai county to the Territorial Prison, hss
made ihe orayon portraits Of suPsrinsen-
dent Gates and w. =. O1ry. which have
been presented to the Society of Arizonr
Pioneers.
Ii. Barnes, a miner. brought to Nogaies
from Sonora last week the richest piece Of
float rock svsr seen in that city, II is al
most " solid nugget of gold and weighs
little over ~ pounds. The specimen 10
worth $3.50.
The Board Of Supervisors Of Graham
county have contracted with Judge j. T
Fitzgerald. proprietor of the Clifton Clarion
to print 5000 oop %. at 10 cents Ga b, of a
pamphlet to be entitled The Resources of
Graham County"
During his recent trip to Apache county
J. r. Msadof killed one of the largest
mountain lions ever killed in the Territory.
He had its head stuffed as a trophy. and il
now occupies place ~ an ornament In the
Bank Of Prescott journal. Miner.
Pepper trees are not sufficiently hardy
enough for this climate. the last cold snap
having paid sad havoc with them. Even
trees ten and fifteen years old were among
the sufferers. Ash, aldsrs, poplar and oot-
tonwood we're equal TO the emergency. The
last is now fast leafing out.-Citizen.
Geo. Grsn, the confessed railway robber
at Pantona last April, has been sentenced
to Ave years, and Doe. Smart to life i'm.
prisonment. An appeal was taken In
Smart's case. The latter has attempted
suicide by shooting himself three times in
the head. The balls hattensd on tho head
and the wounds are not dangerous.
The Florence Canal Company has paid all
its Indebtedness and will resume building.
The canal is now finished sixteen miles, to
a point four miles south of Florence. When
finished 1t will bring over 10000 acres
ind 81 cultivation. W. n. Crandall. Of San
Bsrnardino, is tho new msuagsr, and will
let the new contract to complete the canal
at 0noe.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
will solve the srtesian we'll problem in Ari.
zons before another year waxe and wanes.
The boring apparatus used with such sue
os,s At Indio is now doing dnty at Bowie
Station. in this county. The company has
instructed it's employees to 60 down 1000
feet. II necessary. but rtesian water must
be struok.-Prospestor.
A year ago when Mr.. 4. w. shortridRs
did his assessment work on his claims on
.he east side of the Santa Rita mountains,
about 500 feet above tho sea level, a few
pieces of potatoes were scattered around.
On bis return this year be found they had
taken root aud grown. Those in tho neigh.
borhood Of the grass used ss bedding had
done exceptionally well. He gathered some
20 or 20 potatoes of vnrious sizes. some Of
them fully two inehs In diameter. They
were "a cIean and Arm az any grown under
the mott ftv,rable circumstances. .-Citizen.
President Bisbee. OF the Copper Queen
Mining Company. has placed $2,5nO in the
nds of Mrs. Williams, wife of the Super
intendent. with which to erect and equip a
hail for the use Of miners and other wage.
workers in that Damp. Contrary to tho
orthodox custom OF running such institu.
tIons, in addition to fns library It will be
furnished with billiard table, cards. chess,