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Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
Placer uinine.

The Yavapai Mining and lrrigatlug Cofnpany are preparing to york their property on Humbug creek, about forty tive miles northwest of Pbeni&. Over S50000 have already been spent in careful examination and develop. ment of the claims. The gold is found in great gravel and sand banks along the stream. Shafts and dips have been run Tn many places and tests made lead the owners of the property to estimate that over one dellar per cubic yard will be obtained by proper handling.
 The mine is 10 be worked in true California style, by means of bydrau- le giants, tearing dewn the walls ol the gravel deposits and washing the debrls through rifiisd suices to the plain below. To do tbis will, ol course, require large amount oi water and strong pressure. These the company design obtaining by means of a dam, to be thrown across the Humbug, about three thousand five hundred feet above the main claims at point where rock bluffs facilitate the construction of such work. The dam will be of rock, solidly put up will bs 120 feet long and forty feel high. Thi. will secure over thirteer hundred miners inches of water at ar elevation of enc hundred feet, giving pressure of water at the mouth O the "giant' of nearly forty-fre pounds Ths will be ample for the work rs auired,
 Capt. D. E. Heating, mining mar of large experience, is auperintenden for the company. He has but recent 1 ly returned from London, where mncl of the stock is owned, and states it i the intention of the directors to pusl operations upon the property in most vigorous manner.-Ph@nix Re publican.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
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A Montana correspondent of the Engineering < Mining Journal says: Nothing has yet been dsne by Con gross toward carrying out tho recem- mendations of the Secretary of the ln- terior in his last annual report for legislation concerning the mineral lands claimed by the land grant rail- roads. The vast amounts at stake naturally have stimulated the great railroad corporations of the Pacific Coast to bring all influence agalnst any Congressional action not tending in the direction of their interest. It Is really to their interest that Congress should take no action at all, for if the Supreme Court of the United Statei should sustain the decision of Judge Sawyer in the United States Circuit Court for Southern California, in De cember last, the Northern, Central and Southern Pacific roads would immedi' ately take possession of mineral lands oi great value. The Northern Pacific particularly would be especially bene' fitted by this. The Northern Pacific runs through 800 miles Tn the State ot Montana, and one-half of this distance is through region abounding in ricl deposits of gold, silver and copper Tho company under its grant has lalc claim to 2,80o,00 acres of land, cover ing 1000 discovered mining proper ties bearing gold, silver and copper yet unpatsnted, and nearly 1000 pat euted mines, which have l.ng been II undlsputed possession of private own CTS.
 The act of Congress making thes' land grants to the railroad corpora tions reserved tue mineral lands. I'm Northern Pacific and other companie claia that this reservation applied on ly to lands then known 10 be mineral and this construction of the act ba been sustained by tho United State Circuit Court for California. II Is tn, best legal opinion that thls Is tn proper construction, and there seem i to be little doubt that the Suprem Court will sustain the Circuit Court The effect would be in the State Q Montana alone to take valuable mine from perhaps three-iourths Of the pri vate owners who have been in posses sion for from ten to twenty years i The act making the grant was passe' { in 1864, and most of the mineral pro dueing lands have since been discor cred The Secretary of the snter;o strongly recommended such provision as would at least secure the pnyat owners ill. their possessions. If thi was done t would stll leave to th ] Northern Pacific Company uDpatent ed valuable mineral lands.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
The New Library of csnsre,,

Tho building now in course of cree ton for National library CT, as it is called, the Congressional Library, will be, on its completion, the most admir- ably arranged, the most connections, and tho largest library building in the world. Tho org nal hbrary was be- gun iu 1900, sut was destroyed by tlae British when they burned tho Capitol in l8l4. The purchase of tho library of hr, Jefferson, containing about 1000 volumes, was the basis for the rebuilding of the library, In lSsl it was burned by accident, and at tbat tlmo 1t had increased to 55,000, of which all but 10000 were destroyed. It was rebuilt in 1852, and Csn- gross appropriated SS5,ooo to repair the less, and by annual appro- pratlons the increase has bsen con stant. With the addition made by tue transfer of the Scientific Library of the Smithsonian Institution, tho purchase of the historial collection of the late Peter Force, and the constant accumulations under tho copyright law sf 1870, It has grown Into vast collection, embracing m it's various departments 6i5,000 volumes, besides POO, ,o00 pamphlets. Thls hugo eollsc- ten has overrun all tho space allotted to it under the rebuilding in 1852, and has no longer any rooms unoccupisd in the Capitol, and hence the floors, alcoyes, and every available space 1t can command are piled up in a seeming chaotic state to the general visitor; but the able and accomplished librarian MT. Spoford, and his many assistants extract from the mass any book, paper or pamphlet asked for. In addition te the large number of books and pamphlets and maps and drawings engrayings, uusic, etc, contributed by the copyright law, thers are 7,0ct volumes of newspapers. Tho build
 ing as at present designed provides fol the contemplated and natural increas' of 3o,000 volumes year for . perio( of l30 years. and at that far distan
 peried 1t will contain 5,5000Go books Inside, tie building when completed will contain ample provision for 4,500, l COG volumes, and when the vast court yard IS required, provision can tber'
 ba mado fer an additional 1,Co0,0o' .besks. -Harper's Weekly.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
Tho commission created by the New

Tho commission. created by the New York legislature to inquire into the
 npediency of consolidating into one vast municipality the cluster of cities st the mouth of the Hudson has begun its work. It is proposed.to tale into tho city Of New York all the territory within a radiu. of twenty miles, with the city hall as center. This covers the entire dock area of the harbor. Within this circle, it IS estimated 9000,0o0 people will reside in less |.than thlrty years, if the consolidation is.etfccted. It will be tho largest and most important city on the globe
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

Senator Moody, on the 24th ult., re- ported from the select committee on irrigation and reclamation of arid lands an amendment to the sundry civil bill making an appropriation of S2oQ 900 to investigate tho arid region of the United States for the purpose ot discovering to what extent they can be redeemed by irngating. Also, an amendment making an appropriation of s250000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cause surveys and field examinations to be made to ascertain tho value of underfow waters for IT. rigation purposes within tho region lying on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
cs,',c shipmsn,..

The following shipments of fesding steers have been made from Wilcox since our-last issua
 ,- Gomer Jones to 1. Drpmm, Bazar, Kansas, 294 head; A R. Palmer to Conner Jones, Lebo, Kansas, 2lS; 4. k. Palmer to l. Drumn, Bazar, Kansas, l70; Bazar Land < Cattle Go. to A. Drumm, Bazar, 48; X. R. Palmer to A, F. Palmer, Baza, 240; V. E. Wright Emporia, Kansas, 294 Adams, Green < Baldwin to $, s Green, South oma- ha. Nebraska, 433; J. r. Anderson to J. Franks, Great Bend, Kansas. 65; J. Franks ta J Franks, Great Bend, la2 total, ,955 head.
 These cattle came from several diff ferent sections-the Iento country, Gila county, the Gi!a river. Munson Genega, tue San. Pedro, and Sulphur Spring valley. Among the stoekmen of his immediate seetisn who had sat tie in the shipments were T. C. Will Hams, T. Steele, ihe 0 T outfit, Rock fellow { ServoS,, Thomas Allaire and B . Gum, The Tonic cattle pur. chased by Mr Wnght, were sp!en' did lot of high grade stsurs.-W WblcoA Stockman.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

The Enterprise is informed that a few days ago Constable J. D. Thomas effected the arrest of an offender and toook him to the county Jail. No of, sicial oi the sheriffs office was there nor could enc be found and after de- spairing of getting his prisoner behind the bars he was told by Big Jaw" Clark Chat be would open the jail and he did so, He went into the sherlffs office, took the keys from drawer and opened the jail for the officer and his prisoner. One would say with great deal of truthfnlness that this Is an ex- ample of lnexcusable neglect of duty that should be inquired into.
 Upon another occasion this week John Brown stepped into the county hospital, as he alleges, for n drink of water, whereunon jail ''trusty" who is allowed all the liberty he desires, swore out complaint against him for breaking into the premises and arr rested him for the alleged offence. If the prisoners of the county jail are deputised as tae sAeriF's deputies, would it not be an economical plan to designate the oldest incumbent of that institution as the cnunty's exeeutiys officer and the others as deputies and thus save to the county the large sun required to conduct that ofiice2
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

But few persons who view passen- ger train as it goes laundering past have an idea that it represents cash value of from $75,000 to al2oo00, but such i5the case. The ordinary express train represents from S83,00o to s90,- GOO The engine and tender are valued at Sl0,500, the baggage car sieo0, the postal car ssCoe, the smok- ing car s500o, two ordinary passen- ger cars Sl0,000 each, three passcn cars sI5.0 GOO each: total, sS3.o0e.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

The Times says large number of Mexican people, little and big, young and old, male and female, from Sina- ica and Chibuahua, Mexico, passed through Yuma last Saturday on their way to Los Angeles. They had over forty burros, each heavily laden with camping appliances and numerous cages containing native Mexican song birds and parrots, white mice and rats, and hairless dogs.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

A copy of the warranty deed by winch the 4, < P. railroad company conveys to Jacob Ssligman, of New York, 112,00o acres of land in Mohaye county, has been received by County Recorder Goodman. The desd has not yet baen filed for record, but as it is quite ,lengthy, tue copy has bssn sent in order to iacilltste the work when ii is returned from New York. Thesals YVES consummated March 1st of this year. The cSnsideration is.$S4,o 900. Mchavs County Miner
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

Frank Brown, until recently the driver Of the stage from Riverside to Redington, was brought to the county hospital last week suffering with screw-worns in bis nose and throat. He had Iaid down under tree after protracted spree and while asleep the worms were deposited in his nostrils ano at once began their work of de- struction. They penetrated the roof of the mouth and literally flied his throat, causing inflammation and at times making him sayagcly insane. A great many worms were taken out by Dr. Adler, but others were far beyond bis reach, and on Monday night he died. He was about forty-one years of age and, so far as known, Lad no relatives in Arizona Florence En- terprise.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

The silver compromise, as tacitly agreed upon, will provide for compul- sorry coinage or purchase of either M, ,500,600 worth or 1. 4.500,000 ounces 8 month. Tie legal tender clause will be kept iu; the bullion redemption feature, for which Windom has con- tended ali along. will be.dropped out. This compromise will pass both branches of Congress, will go to the President and will become a law.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

p,sacs froa, Gloss to ile rni-oad as wllco-, .ys' waoTs and Norton s s.twast's liass trSu'e ioi Eass-rn paslspsers) .,.,,.-...,-.- l-3 miles From Glosa to C5ss, GTsDie, croaiHs the hv'is Can yon, and touching at rlaal ani ilercl,es % laiS' From Globe to c,,a GrAaal ,ia Pioneer. 20 miles EleyatloH absge sea lsysl st Clgso Saoc 'ls' Lasi.ai. s3 degrees, 26 ninutes, long;ir,e DO de faees, @ sainutes
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Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

Ths slag dump at the Copper Queen mine, at Bisbee, IS growing to such mammoth proportions that track is laid across and high above the rail- road track to the ravine beyond, where thu slag will be dumped in future. The slag will be hauled tc inc dumping ground by an electric motor. or.--prospector
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

Some of the governmental banks of Europe are weaker in gold than they were year ago. and they are, 1t is Tinted, trying to strengthen them selves al tbs expense of the United States. This is said to be the real secret of the recent gold exportation. The pubic is not able to judge as to whether there is much or any truth in these $tores. However. this expor- taiion, thus far. has not taken on alarming proportions.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

The Mexican Minister has received ? dispetci from his Government sta ting that American cattle which have strayed into Mexico have not been and will not bs'confseatsd by the Mexican Government
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

Just twenty-ionr years ago last month the first horse butcher in Paris opened bls sbop Since then there have heen started nearly i40 horse flesh shops in the Department of the Siene, and at the present time about 2o.o00 horses are killed every year in Paris fof human food. During tine siege horse.he.h used to go under the name of siege venison.' In Paris iae price of the meat is less than half that of ordinary butehers meat. Ber- lin ls following he example of Paris.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Territorial.

Govs,nor-I.ewis WolGey, Phnnix. ssoretary--N O. Murphy, Phoniz. casurer-Iohn Y T. Smith, Phonir. Superintendent eI Public In.true,isn--G, " Cheyucy
 Auditor Thomas Hughes, $ lpreme Court-Hsnyy Clay Gosding, Chief Ju tice. Prescott; lbs H. Kibbey, Associate JuFtioa, PhUniz; il. E. sloan, As.ociats Ju'' tiee Tagson.
 '. s. District Attorney H. J, Jsiford', Tucson.
 T.. $. Marshal--Robert II, Paul. SurYeyor Genesal--Royal 4. Johnson. Delegate to Congress Marcus Smith, Tambstone
 fudge of First Judicial Distriet-R. E. sl
 Judge of Second Judicial District II, K bbey, Phoenix.
 Jaire cf ThiId Judicial Dissrict-Hsnry ClAy Gooding.
 Gila County. .tuJee of District conrt Jos. II. Kihbey. Clerk of District Court-W II Duryea Judge of Paol,ate F. W. Wsstmsy1, sheri.f--J. II. Thompson. Under sheriff T A. Lonersan nistriet Atsomey-J. D. McCabe. Recouler-Chas T Martin. Supervisors Geo. Daniorth, Patric!; shan ley. r. T. Powers.
 Clerk ol Board oi sg2errisoys-- Gas Martin. County Treasurer ". W. Brookncr, Coroner---
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05

The mail roats between Prescott and Camp Verde has been sub-let to Fransito Rolaco, who will commence service July lst.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
Preventative of chi..s,
NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT 4 at the regular quarterly meeting of she Beard nf SupcrYiiors of Giln Counsy Arizona, held on the 5lh day ot April, | D. 1890 the following erdsT was passed, to-wit '0n motion it is ordered that. pursuant ts Act Ao. z. session bsws ol lsSs, ie-rosis tgAtinn Of all tlio fotertnf Giln Conntv, Aii- zona bs had; aiva further that the Clerk pub. fish due notice thereafN
 Globe, Arizona. lpr.l i7th, 1Sap-
 CHsS.T. MARTIN, spi A. fnll Clerk Board cf SvDsrvisc-s.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-07-05
suDscnlPrHox RATES; |;

Aaver. ising Rates made known OF application.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-17
Ono Legged Newsboys Fight.

On0 AOSBoQ N0W6DOyS F1GnG.
 Among the hundreds of newsboys in New York city there are six with only one leg apiece. It would naturally be supposed that these maimed little fel- lows would be meek and inoffensive On the contrary, they are among tho most truculent and vicious of street Arabs. Each one of the boys carries a crutch, and in case of quarrel the crutch is yielded with skill and vigor. Fights are frequent among the boys, and the maimed ones receive and ex- pect no favors. A duel occurred tho other day near the Franklin statue in which the weapons were crutches and the contestants had two legs between them
 One was known by the nickname of Timpsey, and the other bore uncom- plainingly the title of Crutchy. They were equally matched as to size. The crutches were used both as bludgeons and rapiers. A sounding whack on the skull knocked Timpsey to his knees. While in that position he retaliated by showing the end of his weapon forcibly into Crutchy's stomach, which evident ly interfered with his digestive appara- tus, for he dropped his crutch, placed both hands over his ragged vest and began to cry. Between sobs he blurted out:
 ''Dat ain't fair, Timps. I wouldn't try to make no hole in your dinneSl''- New York Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-17

8 poor rule that will not work both ways Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. Not congratulation but tears when cedar is fallen.
 Yet there is one cedar of Lebanon that always has and always will over top all others. It is the Christ whom Ezekiel describes as goodly cedar, and says, Under it shall come all fowl of every wing" Make your nest in that great cedar. Then let the storms beat and the earth rock, and time end, and eternity begin, all shall be we'll.
 THE BOTANY OF PALESTINE.
 In my journey up and down Pales- tine and Syria nothing impressed me with greater force than the trees-the terebinths, the sycamores, the tama- risks, the oleanders, the mulberrys, the olives, the myrtles, the cedars-au of them explanatory of so much of the Scriptures. And the time is surely coming when, through an improved arboriculture, the round world shall be circumferenced, engirdled, em- bosomed, emparadised in shade trees and fruit trees and flower trees Isaiah declares in one place, ''The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it." and in another place, "An the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; instead briar shall come up the myrtle tree" Oh, wonder $r,1 1f on Beginl
 Oh, I am so glad that the holy land of heaven, like the holy land of Palestine and Syria, is great place for trees-an orchard of them, a grove of them, a forest of theml St. John saw them along the streets and on both sides of the river, and every month they yielded great crop of fruit. You know what a beautiful appearance trees impart to city on earth, but how it exalts my idea of heaven when St. John tells of the city on high as having its streets and it's rivers lined with them. Oh, the trees! the treesl The jasper walls, the fountains, the temples were not enough. There would still have been some thing wanting. So to complete all that pomp and splendor behold the up branching trees of life.
 Not like those stripped trees now around US, which like banished min strels through the long winter night utter their dolorous lament, or in the blast moan like lost spirits wander ing up and down the gale, but leaf shall never wither. Whether you walk on the banks of the river you will be under trees, or by the homes of mar tyrs under trees, or by the heavenly temple under trees, or along the pal ace of the King immortal under trees. Blessed are they that do his com mandments that they may have right to the tree of life" Stonewal Jack sons dying utterance was beautifully suggestive, Let us cross over and lie down under the trees!"
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-17
Come ctiout's Newr.te.

Lonely, in ruins, but yet picturesque, the old Newgate prison of Connect- cut, named for its London prototype of gloomy memory, stands upon . green hillside in the town of East Granby. Viewed with 8 glass from Bartlett's tower, a lofty observation point away across the Pennington river, it resembles an old castle-tur- reted, moated, bearing the unmistak- able marks of age. This old mins prison holds 8 unique place among tho antiquities of New England.
 Today, as one stands beside its crumbling and vine covered walls and looks across the peaceful valley of the Burlington, with it's quiet villages, 1t is not easy to realize that the place has a history written in blood and suffer ing. Only descent into its subterra- mean caverns puts the visitor in tho mood to feel the spirit of the stories which the place has to tell
 Newgate ha,' been successively a cop per mine, a colonial prison, military prison in the Revolution and state prison. The first chapter of it's history opened in 17o5, and the last chapter closed over sixty years ago, when the prisoners of the state were removed to bstter quarters in the new prison ct WethersAeld. The amateur mining of &s early history, conducted at fzst by e1eegymen, had a comic cast. The hosron of its later history were tsagio and through them we gain some in- d9ht into the ideas of penal discipline which ruled in the old t'blue law" col ony.-New England Magazine
Connecticut western news., 1890-12-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

P. T. Barnum always takes tea and; coffee mixed at regular hourly intervals during the day and night.
 Jacobs we'll end the plot of ground surrounding it have been sold by the Turkish government to the Greek church for f4, O)0.
 Salt and water, quite strong, and used consistently for a time, will pre- vent the hair from falling out.
 Londoners consume 30,O0O, GOO gal Ions of milk-or what is sold as milk per annum, and pay 95o, 900 for it.
 If 8 cucumber is cut into strips and the pieces put into places where ants are found it will surely drive them away.
 Just now it would seem that the orange blossom leads in the choice of a national flower.
 He who would Timber his tongue should repeat fifteen times as fast as possible the sentence, 'Shoe the shrew and beshrew the shoe" More than one-fifth of the land of the world has TO outlet for drainage to the sea, and in all that area evapora- tion is greater than precipitation.
 Word comes from West Virginia that a live bat has recently been found i'm bedded in a solid rock in one of tho quarries near Wheeling.
 The number of sentences of penal servitude passed by ordinary courts in England and Wales in 1889 was 91e. The lowest number on record is 91O.
 Tests in Germany of new electric ally controlled steering apparatus show that the captain can control the rudder from the brid ge or from any point about the deck.
 It.is the opinion of local authorities that nothing can save the beautiful birds of India from complete destruc- ton but a prohibitive tax upon the ex- port of their six ins and feathers. Electricity applied to locomotive headlights is al aong the safeguards pro posed for railway travel, and a recent simplifled apparatus is thought to be tho most satisfactory so far introduced. A great sche eme is on foot in Japan for the emigration of Japanese labor CTS to Mexico, where they are wanted to work on railways Two Mexican agents are promoting the scheme. Nothing is easier than fault finding. No talent, no self denial, no brains, no character are required to set up In a grumbling business But those who are moved by genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint.