Arizona silver belt., 1889-02-23
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 "siIyer BeItv Readers.

The new furnace at the Atlas csp- per mine Eas been blown in.
 There IS great activity in gold and silver mining at Clifton and vicinity. / The Valley Bulletin wants a tsle- graph line from Solomoaville to Camp Thomas.
 Bishop Ksndrick of the Episcopal Church, is making bis first visit ts Phoenix.
 Ths Vekol mine, in the Casa Grande District, has produced over S800,000 in bullion.
 Coke and ore IS beginning to arrive at the Tucson smeltsr, and smeltipg will sosn begin.
 Another strike in the Vekol mine Casa Grands District, is reported by the Enterprise.
 The county jail, at Tucson. has late ly rstslvsd several new boaraers, and It's guests new number 43.
 Fuller, Tom bstons gambler, shot and killed his brothsr-in-law, Isxi- can, oil .hc 14th. Fuller is at large. 
 i Wilcsx is over-run with tramps. Judge Nichols took compassion on twelve of thsm who are lodged in the town jail at public expense.
 Thv Valley Bulletin says that gen eral er2srs from the Secretary of War have bean received, authorizing tho opening of "canteenas" at all military posts.
 i A burning hay stack at Grant came very near igniting the entire supply of forage at the post The prompt application eff water checked the 1 flames
 Mir Nastep, of the Aaricepa < Phe- nix railrsad, says the ainss of Marl- cspa and Southern Yavapal County will sand large quantles of ore to the Tucson shelter, If the smeltlng works are conducted in buSinsss-like way.
 The Wilcox Stockmaa reports the shipment of 68 beef steers to Los An gslss, purchased from Monk Brss and Capt. J. Nj. Phillips al ? cents per pound--the highest price reported this season.
 Nr. Tim Curry, who was So badly injured last spnng in the Silver King mine Sy heavy rock falling upon him, has recovered sufficiently to do duty at the mill in Plnsl as watch maa.-Ehterprise. An experiment which is watched with much interest in the Pueblo NisIo valley, Graham County, is the boring for artssian water at Thatcher. The Bulletin reports taat ths well is dswn 370 feet.
 The Star has information that Sol Earth has besn pardoned, and his re- lease was to hays occurred on the l7th. Earth wa, sent to Yuma from Apache County for forgery and should have served out sls sentence.
 Graham County's indebtedness IS stated by the Valley Bullstiu, to be $l27, ,422 26 Of this amount $i5000 IS Tn court house bonds. Tae balsnce, SIP, ,422 26, is to be funded, bonds to run 20 years and draw : per cent ln- 1 terest.
 Benj. W. Kellogg, keeper of sta ten on the Silver King road, eighteen miles southeast of Mesa, was burned ts death in his dwelling, which was also consumed. He was alone at the time, and nothing IS known KS to the origin of the fire.
 The Prespector says: The probsbil- lty eff George Hearst and associates getting hold of a large copper prop erty at Bisbes is bordering on an almost certainty Several properties have been bonded to them and that they will take held of them is almost beyond peradvsnture. The Florence Canal Company is making preparations to at encs re- sumo work of construction of its reser- yoir and the remaining portion of the canal to the rsilread, and force will be put to werk so soen as the arrange msnts are complete. The whole sys- ten will now be perfected as fast as it is possible to push it.-Entorpr
 Men, employed by Van Burt and Mcpherson of Tucson. following a seam eff ore Tn claim near the Elm erald. Tombstone District, last month, struck what they believed te be good ore. Scmo of the rock was sent to Van Burt at San Francisco, and the several assays made gave an average of 4,032 ounces in silver. Van Burt 1 hurried back ts Tombstone ana fsnnd in the face of the drifi batween ten | D., .. 4.