Arizona silver belt., 1890-10-04
TERRITORIAL BREyITIEs.

c.oye trees will be planted Ill the Mo-
 hawk valley next month as an experi-
 ment.
 A session of the Territorial Funding
 Commission was held at the Capitol yes
 terday. Acting Governor Murphy,
 Territorial Treasurer Smith and Terri
 torial Auditor Hughes were in attend
 ance. It was determined upon to in-
 struct the Treasurer to advertise as pre-
 scribed by law, for bids upon $1, ,000,-
 GOO of Territorial bonds, at an interest
 not to exceed , per cent per annum-
 Phoenix Republican.
 On the 25th inst meeting was held
 in the city plaza of Phoenix to organize
 a Farmers Alliance for Arizona. Jas.
 II. Broomell received the nomination for chairman and w. B. Green, secre-
 tary. Thirty one farmers attended A
 motion prevailed to form subordinate lodge under the general rules of the Alliance. The next meeting will be
 held at the Grand Avenue school house, district No. 30. at D. m., October 1.
 Messrs. Haarbart, Mills and Williams were appointed committee to secure the building -Phenix Herald.
 Prof. s. M. McCowan, the superin- tendent of the Indian industrial school at Fort Mohave, expects to have every thing Tn readiness to open school on the lst of October. About twenty-five Indian pupils are expected to be in at tendance at that time, and the number will be increased in few weeks. The boys will be instructed in the various trades, besides farming, and the girls, who will be under the charge of Mrs. McGowan, will be taught cooking and sewing aside from the regular elemen- .ary English course. .-Moiaye Miner.
 T. F. Weedin has machine nearly completed for working placer gravel either vet or dry. It is of his own de- sign and invention and the original model worked with perfect success. It Is simple machine, arranged with in- eenious devices to separate the gold and save even the finest particles. When completed it will be placed on exhibition for a few days before being sent to the placer diggings near River side. Mir. Weedin has applied for patent and his friends all hope it will bring hira big winning. Floren.e Enterprise.
 The new road to Casa Grande, as surveyed by county surveyor Cotton, brings the grade one foot above the highest possible food water. There are but two points requiring fills of any great length, one being about mile long and the other two miles, over which large portion of the work will be very fight No culyertsare contem- plated, but water escapes will be pro- yided with firm and solid rock founda- Iions over which the heaviest teams can pass at all times. The new road in- ereases the distance but half a mile.-- 
 Prof Douglas, general mining man. ager for Wm. E. Dodge and associates, of New York, left Prescott, Saturday last, with one of his sons, for New York He left another son at the Sen 'tor mine. The Professor expects to be in Prescott again next January. While in Arizona he visited the compe- ly's great mines at Bisbee, Cochise county, the Old Dominion mines of .iils county, the Senator, Boggs, Hack Derry and Copper Basin, near Prescott, md expressed himself well pleased with III of them. 4 stamp mill is being arected at tie Senator, l2 miles south f Prescott. The company have 'meiter in Copper Basin and will short y have large one on Agua Fria creek, ,o treat ores of Big Bug and other dis 1icts. They propose to construct narrow gauge railroad from the Hack perry and Boggs mines to Agua Fria.-- Prescott Courier.
 In commenting upon the nomination # Hon. P. R. Brady for joint-couneil- nan the opposition press have charged lim with being one of the bondsmen of feorge H. Stevens. the defaulting of the Territorial prison, and with seeking as such to avoid the re- possibilities incurred by little Steve's Believing this misrepre- to be unintentional and in ustice to the gentleman named, We ,olul,teer the information that Mir. srady is not upon Stevens bond, nor ould he be elibible surety thereon. The prison commissioners are each re- Iuired to execute individual bonds for he faithful performance of their duties, nd in addition thereto the one selected s treasurer is required to furnish an dditional bond, to be approved by the soard, srd none of the commissioners