Arizona silver belt., 1890-08-16
TERRITORIAL BREsITsEs.
Barley is selling at 75 cts. in ph0n

Ire teliDiitteu NeIue Dl cdtttS solN III Arizona this season is s3, ,500. 900.
 Judge J. H. Kibbcy is enjoying a well earned vacation, at his homo ir Florence.
 The washout on the $. P. railroad near Pantano was 800 feet in extent, end that west of Dragoon summit, 200 feet
 Tucson ia engaged in its fayorite pas time = building railroads on paper. This time it is an cir Cviad) line to Nogales
 Fifty-three cars of perishable fruit were caught at Tueson by the washouts, and sold to pay freight and express charges.
 Arms ard aecoutrements have been forwarded from Benieia Barracks for the militia companies at Tucson and Florence.
 The Colorado river wes stocked with carp a few years ago, which have great " increased All tue rivers in Arizona should be stocked with this fish.
 Wood is hauled long distance to Phoenix and sold at s. 50 per cord. In Globe we think we are getting it cheap at SC. GO.
 Herbert Brown, Register of the Tue son Land Office, i5 enjoying a months vacation in California, where his family arc summering.
 The Citizen s4ys that great many fig trees are being shipped into the Territory The fg docs well in any part of central or southern Arizona.
 The Anricopa County Bee-keepers Association shipped car of honey to Chicago. recently, which netted over , cents per pound; satisfactory figure.
 The Star reports that the railroad between Benson and Cnlabasas vas so damaged by recent floods that nearly sixty miles If raad will faye to be re- hmlt
 By an order oi the Boarl of Super visors the prisoners serving out sen teaccs in tho county jail, will be re- quired to labor on the public highways Us ss6H as,the weather settles and per miis them to do so Splendid move Star.
 R. c. Brown, the pcripatetic repre- sentative of the Florence Enterprise, las bean doing n1apai county. and will extend his trip to other portions of Northern Arizona. The Enterprise IS making strong effort to extend its cir culasion.
 The heaviest rain storm of ihe season visited Prescott lasteyening Aug. 6th). It came from the northeast, and was accompanied by heavy thunder and 1 lightning, considerable wind and some hail, the hail stones being unusually large. At Whipple the hail was very much more severe than at Prescott, the ground being covered, and many win dows were broken. --Journal-Miner.
 The Phoenix Herald 7ays: Globe is likely to gc' branch line of railroad from the Southern Pacific. Us line has been surveyed. It is reported that all that Is now wanting is the right of way over the San Carlos Indian reservation. The country is level and the bnilding can be rapidly done whenit commences and tic increased mining boom at Globe would justify the building of the road
 The Supervisors are preparing to take advantage of the provisions of the funding act. They have instructed their clerk to communicate to the Sec retary of tue Loan Commission com plete statement comprising the total bonded and floating indebtedness oi Yuma county and the probable addi- tional indebtedness which will be in- cured mp to December 31st. 1S90.-- Yuma Times.
 According to Current Literature, the center of population of the United States is now at Madison, Indiana, nesu the junction of the thirty ninth parallel and the eighty-iifth meridian. Thi: estimate is made uponuncomplete data. It will require the complete census re turns to arrive at an accurate deduction, when the center of population will, 1T all probability, be located farther wesi than Madison, Ind
 The damage to the Santa Cruz Val ley near the city is almost irreparable For one whole mile there is a channe , from 5 to 20 feet deep and 50 yard,