Arizona silver belt., 1889-02-09
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At Flagstaff, on tue 2lst of January, the mercury sank to 24 degrees below zero. ,Whew!
 Trains are now runnlng into Bisbse. Cechise County can now boast ef three railroads within her borders. >Gso. W. Van asvenberg, from San Francisco, is putting up an ice ma chine of three tons capacity at Flor enes.
 About tsn days ago fine spring burst from the mountain above No gales, and the flow is sufficient to fill the areya west of town,
 Rev. J. M. Ksndrick, the new Epis- cepal bishop sf New Mexico and Ari- zona, announces that he will soon yis- it Phonix to ordain Dr. Pearsen.
 Ths Tombstone Prospsctor anaoun- css that Tom Fitch, the silver tsngusd crater, has becsme tho pOssessor of fortune of SlS5,0o0 by the death sf a relative.
 Iha Florence Enterprise says: It is currently reported that Wisconsin parties hold sixty day option on the Reymert mines, near Pinal, at a gsod round figure.
 Nabor EScalante, charged with be ing a participant m the murder of Cy- rus Gribble, Superintendent of the Vultura mine, was tried at Phoenix last wsek, and acquitted.
 Excitement prevails at the Verde Copper Camp, in Yavspai County, over the discovery in tho Wade Hamp- ten mine, of what is claimed to Do huge .edge ef silver ere assayins $500 to the toa.
 Work is ts be commenced in few days on the railroad switch leading to the smelter. The smeltsr is being put in condition 10 start up as early as possible, It will probably be running by March lst-Citizen.
 Wong Lee, who so bretally mur-. derea George Parks, at Pbenix, many weeks ago, was tried and convicted of murder. Judge Porter granted him new trial on the grounds that sutii- cient testimony had net been adduceG ts sustain the verdict.
 Another rich strike is reported in tbs St, Patrick mine, Nosn District, west of Eogsles, richer and larger than any heretofore made. Four pack trains brought to Nosalss, in ono ueek between ten and eleven teBs of ere from this mine, averaging ever four hundred ounces to the ton,
 From the tenor of Mark Smiths latest bill asking fer aaricops County permission 10 issue bends ts the ex- tent of 5000 per miles of railrsad wlthln the ecurty between the city sf Ph9nix and some available peint on the Atlantic & Pacific, it looks as though the Mineral Belt would be made the connecting link.-Hoef and Horn.
 We are in receipt of a letter frsm Hoa J C. Jenes, cur Assemblyman, in which be states that tue amount of taxable property ia the territory which it is proposed to annex to Gila, is; Personal property, sls2,13S.5o, realty and improvements, $l3,l50, making the total assessed value s.205,- 2G8.5o.
 These figures look large ts us, and the collection of taxes on that amount, or or a sum approximating it, is very improbable. There is entirely too great disproportisn between the yalne of the real and personal proper. 1 ty As given. Our representatives, we understand, bo.h favor the annexa- tion project, in view of which, would it not be well to take steps toward ob- taising an expression of the oplnion ot the taxpayers of Gila County on the question?
 '.Tae Che Hoss shay"
 of Dr. Holmes, is full of the genial authors exGberant humor Its fun is superficial and obvious; but more l; meant than meets the car or eye. The | l. . Il. L. | '