Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-09-07
CHA COUNTY.

The tax levy for the year loo9, was fixed at $G.604 on each $1OO.
 Mart More is now at Pioneer load ing the engine and boiler of the late Howard mill with the view of dump ing it at Bisbee.
 Agent Chas. E. Vandever, of the Navajo Agency, in his annual report to the Department, estimates the number of Navajo Indians at 10000 as against IT 900 reported last year by Agent Patterson. The livestock be- longing to the tribe has increased con siderably, and now number 25O,O00 horses, and ponies 800 mules, lOO0 burros, 5000 cattle, 100000 sheep and 100000 goats. By rule of the tribe, the sheep belong to the women, and during the year they have sheared and sold to traders 2,100,000 pounds of wool. There are 50,000 acres of tilla- ble land on the reservation, in North eastern Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico, and of this area the In dians have brought under cultivation
 about 5000 acres.
 Dudley Craig, who probably knows
 the country between Globe and Pinal
 better than any other person, IS con
 fident that a practicable route for a
 railroad between Globe and Pinal can
 be found via Pinal Ranch and Queens s
 canyon. The line between Globe and
 Pinal Ranch would be the most
 troublesome to construct, but presents
 no insuperabie difficulties. From the
 Ranch the route would run in an al
 most direct line to Pinal. Between
 the Ranch and Queens canyon there
 is gradual descent of about lO0O iee1
 in seven miles, and for one mile and
 half through the canyon the road bee
 would have to be blasted out of tht
 almost perpendicular wall. In th'
 event of the proposed railroad non
 Casa Grande to Florence being built
 line from Florence via Pinal ant
 Pinal Branch would be the most teasl
 ble TO ute to Globe, and the entire dis
 tance to Casa Grande would be but oz
 miles.
 J.F. Meador, who is laboring under
 the belief that he is the Terrltor1a Auditor and chairman of the Board o Equalization, has advised the Board o Supervisors of the (Gila) county tha f "the Board of Equalization was un able to pass upon the valuation c property in your county for the pull pose of equalizing, the same" but not withstanding, the Zulick Territoria Board of Equalization fixed the rat } of taxes to be levied and collected fo ' Territorial purposes for the fiscal yea , 18S9-90 on each $10O of valuation s The action of the Supervisors in ii D ing MT. Meador's communication - without comment, in the burial plac f of dead issues, the waste-basket, seem { to convey the impression that the a' tion of the Zulick Board of Equallz' |. ton is considered of no consequent e by the Gila County Supervisors. 9 The proposed damming Of Salt rive in Gila county, which can only benef s Maricopa county, was the subject q discussion on Monday, during lu a in the proceedings of the Board s- Supervisors, when everybody was pc 1t mitted to "chip in." Although u :, talk at times assumed prismatlc co ir bring, yet the blue very greatly pr IS dominated, which may be regarded ,e anything else than favorable to u 70 proposition of Maricopa to cork u n waters of Salt River in our county. n- Not only would such a dam su ,e merge nearly all the available agrlcl .h tural land in Gila, but the lake form s> would divide the Tonto Basin count of from the southern portion of the cou ,n ty almost as completely as an imp' 1e sable chasm. The only practical ,d route between Globe, the county SCI u- and northern portion of the county SC through upper Salt River and Ton nd valleys, and the dam if built wor nq form lake which Surveyor Brecke in ridge, of Phenix, estimates would ne 26 miles long-16 miles on Salt Ri0 he and 10 on Tonto Creek-and latera ry would push its arms up every cany as which debouches on the valley trt as the mountains on either side, whi m. would make the building of wag ,d road around the lake an lmposslblll ed Neither would ferriage of l2 mi ne or more be practicable. Another ,rv lection is that it would forever lly Globe off from railroad connect an- north, where inexhaustible supplies lot timber and coal are to be had at n I tance of 200 miles and less.