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The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
Opal SUaPrieS.
[Great Divide.1

Opals of every variety are found
in many species of porphyry in
several distinct regions Of Mexico
Don Jose Gonlolos Cosio is owner
Of "a claims on an area of $50 acres
Of opal-bearing claystone porphyry
located rs miles from the city of
Puertano and 16 miles only from
the line Of the Mexican Central
railway. This gentleman employs
100 expert miners, whose sole bust
ness is to blast out blocks of rocks
carrying opals. Thousands of COM
mon as well as magnificent gems
are broken to pieces weekly by the
very awkward process Of blasting.
BY using a rock drill and severing
opal rock blocks by the plug and
feathering quarrying plan not five
per cent. of the gems now ruined
would be lost. Senor Cosio has
lately established a lapidary at
Queretaro. He has cut and polish
ed several bushels Of the precious
or noble opals and fire opals. He
contributed very find collection
for the Mexican exhibited in the
Paris Exposition. His uncut and
unpublished opals cost him, on an
average, three cents each. The
most magnificent Of his precious
opals do not cost him to exceed
fifty cents each. There is an opal
bearing quarry being worked in the
State Of Morelos, and it supplies
gems equally as fine as the Cosio
quarry. For twenty years Of the
seventeenth century, commencing
with the year 1871, the Spaniards
worked quarry ofopals and tor
quoises located about 800 miles due
northwest of this city. The forma-
ton Of porphyry there is exactly
that in which the famous
stones are found in the
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
PrOffF ia Poultry.

The following concise statement by
the editor of the Rural Press is as full
of truth as an egg is of meat, and yet
farmers, frui6 growers, and in fact al
most every one who "keeps few hens
to run about the yard" try to see how
much neglect they will stand, and yet
they pay.
"POultry pays. Few things on the
farm are more neglected than the hens,
ducks, turkeys and geese. They may
be found ON almost every farm, but
often they have no attention, roosaIng
where they become they prey of coons,
wildcats and other enemies, picking
up their living, IN some cases getting
fattenlng carbonaccous food that pre-
vents their laying. Still, despite all
tins mlsmanagement, they yield good
revenue. IT farmers would select their
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15

We know that the Malaga sIopv
bears very heavy crops on land in
which the Muscats would fail en-
tirely from one or the other above
causes. The poorer quality would
not interfere with the abundance
of its crops, while the greater hardi-
ness and vigor- Of the grape, would
make it better adapted to the ex-
tremes Of wet and drought.
Should we again encounter a soil
largely composed of calcarious
marls, such as is found in various
portions Of this State, neither of the
above raisin grapes would be entire
! ly proper. For such soils we could
do no better than to select one Of
the seedless varieties, such as the
Sultana Of the Corinth.
But a.ue- the same care and
Judgement =4ould be exercised in
selecting ..e-l ty and soil for any
re. .r plan. rom which we intend
&. ae--E. profit or pleasure. We
-.--az-- ---ade every day almost
in the selection Of varieties of fruit
trees. Lately we inspected an Or
chard Of almond trees, planted on
low, rich and wet bottom land.
The soil in the orchard was one
Of the richest we have ever seen,
and especially remarkably on ac-
count Of its capacity in absorbing
and retaining moisture. But the
almond trees were poor and sickly
and plainly showed that they did
not like the place.
How could anything be expect
ed Of a tree that requires only a
medium rich soil, and the smallest
amount of moisture. Indeed the
almond Of all trees dislikes the al
luvial bottom lands with their
moisture, prefering the dry mesas
or uplands, where the surplus water
can rapidly run of, and where the
roots can penetrate deep in the cool
earth without encountering any
stagnant water.
The owner Of this particular al
mond orchard would have done well
if instead Of almond trees he had
planted raisin grapes, prunes or
pears, all varieties which delight in
the very opposite conditions ne
.cessary for the almond. The fact
that fruit trees grow Iuxuriantly in
certain soils does not necessarily
indicate that they will bear well
there and prove profitable to the
grower.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15

A bill has been introduced into
the Senate by Mr.. Reagan, prepared
by Mayor j. w. Powell, chief of
the Geological Survey, providing
for the survey Of the arid land Of
the United States by the Irrigation
Department. Irrigation districts
are to be laid out, following the
photographic basins, and it shall
be the duty Of the irrigation survey
officers to designate the irrigable
lands and those that can be cult
waited and irrigated with the great
est economy; to designate the trunk
sections of the rivers, and to deter
mine and locate the places where
dams for supplying irrigating
canals may be constructed. All
lands designated by the United
States surveys as irrigable lands
lands may be acquired by persons
in tracts of 80 acres under the pro-
visions Of the homestead law. Min
ing and coal lands may also be ac-
quired under the same provisions.
The bill also provides for the APP
pointment of Superintendent Of
Forestry and Superintendent OF
Pasturage, with the several as
sistants.-Eng. and Mining Jour
nal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
sever Dined Before.

Said an English woman OF rank to an
American lady: "Was Buffalo ELL in
vited to dine out much when he was ir
New 1Crll?'' f'Hc never dined in his life
till he came to London was the reply,
''when he was at home he had something
to cat ~ e o o'clock. detroit Tree Press
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
Stanley is Back!
AND HAS ELECTRIFIED THE WORLD

By the announcement of his safe return to
civilization. His adventures and discoveries
have been grand, wonderful, marvellous. The
world has seen nothing like them before. His
thrilling adventures, marvellous, discoveries,
daring exploits, astounding prevations,
wonderful trip across the Dark Continent,
How he found Emin Bey-Everything will be
included, from his first entrance into Africa
to the present time. Everybody wants the
new
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15

-HEta.. -Es lE sHf E-sE
E7gsz e5L-sssreee Epovrc rcs-=eEos
The new improved Reynolds
Corliss vertical engine vi tne Fer
ries and Cliff House Railway Com
pany was completed on Thursday
and successfully operated on Friday
morning. The engine is the first of
the kind in San Francicco, and it
cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
To economize room in the power
house on Powell street the engine
was built on the vertical style and
very compact, The fly wheel is
sixteen feet in diameter, weighs
nearly twenty-five tons and has a
speed Of sixty revolutions a minute.
1t has compelled by two 25x44-
inch cylinders Of a combined
strength Of 600 horsepower. The
four large drivers, weighing eight
tons each, are constructed to run
either with the old or new engine,
and a pressure Of 100 pounds of
steam is kept at all times, though
it requires but about ninety pounds
for the new engine. By this one
engine are operated thirteen miles
and 900 feet of cable, supplying
the motive power to the five diff
erent lines. The auxiliary machine
required to conduct the cable from
the drivers to the street is so ar
ranged that it can be attached to
either engine. The old engine has
been in use for nearly three years
and will now be used alternately
with the new ones. F. Call.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
COuNTY OFFICIALS.

District Judge }. II. hlb5ey
Clerk of District Conrt e. h. Brinley
Supervisors, f. s. Ingalls, Chairman, { '
Meeden and 0 f Townsend.
Clerk of Board of Supervisors J L Redondo
Probate Judge aud Sup't Schools Z II Brin-
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
PACIFIC SYSTEM.l

Trains leave and are due to arrive
at YUMA as follows:
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE

Teachers, Young Men and Ladies, MIN
listers, Farmers, Mechanics and Clerks can
easily make from So to S25 per day. No ex-
perience required. Canvassing outfits now
ready Send Immediately for illustrated
circulars and terms free, or, to secure an
agency at once, send Sl.00 for the outfit and
you shall be served first. Money refunded
if not satisfactory. Address
THE HISTORY CO.,
723 Market ST, San Francisco Gal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15

travel. They followed the Mexican
line as nearly as possible, and to
that fact owe the discovery of the
body Of one more unfortunate whose
name and identity will probably
never be known.
"While in camp about twenty
miles below the line one day." said
w. A. TOMS, "a Mexican rode up
to the fire and reported that not
many miles back and a short dis
tance off the trail, he had found the
body Of a white man who had
perished on the desert. His tongue
was hanging out of the side Of his
mouth. His clothes had been torn
away by the coyotes and much of
his flesh was gone, so that identifi-
cation was impossible. The Mex
lean talked no English, and as we
could talk Spanish but little, we
could find out nothing about the
man."
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
cAIITl0N | Old and unreadable accounts

published. Do not be de-
ceived by all books, -hashes and battered
plates We announce this to protect our
agents and the public against the numerous,
worthless so-calied Stanley books-all of
which are simply all books that have been in
use for years, and are now being offered as
new books, with few pages of new matter
added.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15

Trustees Yuma School District Geo NJ
Thurlow, Custodio Ramirez and Jos }
Stein.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-03-15
Bead OE1 the Desert.

The San Diego Sun says: Two
brothers named G. O. and w.
A. TOMS and companion are
in the city after a trip across the
Colorado desert from Yuma on
foot. They made the Journey in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Half a Century of Inventions.

"Those of us not yet fifty years of age
have probably lived in the most impor-
taut and intellectually progressive period
of human history" says lren, and names
The following as few of the inventions
and discoveries which have originated or
been made practical within the past half
century: Ocean steamships, railways,
strcct-car lines, the telegraph, ocean ca
BILE, telephone, phonograph; photog-
raphy, and score of new methods of
picture. making; aniline colorS, kerosene,
electric lights, steam tire-engincs, chemi-
cal fire cxtinguishcrs; anasthetlcs and
painless surgery; gun-cotton, nitrogly-
ccrinc, and host of other explosives;
aluminium, magnesium, and other new
metals; clcctro-plating, spectrum analy-
sis, and the spcctroscope; audiphone,
pneumatic tubes, electric motors, elec'
trio railways, electric bells, type-writers,
heating, steam and hydraulic ele'
vators, vestibule cars, cantilcvcr bridges.
To these may be added the vulcanizine
of rubber, the Bessemer steel process
bicycles, the Monitor type of war yes
sells, the dynamite gun, and doubtless the
list does not now include all Of the mos
important even.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
DANIsnING FLIES.

Flies will not pass through a net made
OF, thread, fine silk or wire stretched
across an-opcn window, even ifraaqgllls- the
meshes are an inch apart, unless there is
a window or light behind it. 1nis at-
fords ready means of excluding these
insects from all our rooms which have
windows on one side of the rooms, flies
can only be kept out by using fine gauzc
for the purpose. The best way to de-
stroy flies in room is to expose on a
shallow plate the following mixture:
Quassai chips (smalD, one-quartcr ounce;
water, one pint; boil ten minutes, strain,
and add of treacle four ounces. Flies
will drink this with avidity, and arc
soon destroyed by it. Cold green tea,
very strong, and sweetened with sugar,
when set about the room in saucers, will
also attract flies and destroy them. An
ingenious person has devised the follow
ing plan: Observing that fly always
walks upward, he made window screen
divided in half. The upper half Tapped
over the lower, with an inch space be-
tween. As soon as fly lighted on the
screen itproceedcd to walk upward, and
thus walked straight out of doors. Not
being able to walk down it had no way
to return to the room. By this means a
room csn be quickly cleared of flies,
which always seek the light.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
He Got His Price for the Book

]. Fletcher Williams, librarian of the
State Historical Society, while in Lon.
don recently, called on a dealer in old
books from whom the State Society has
been buying books occasionally for the
past twenty years. Mr.. Williams relates
that the presiding genius of this particu'
lar place, was queer old piece OF hui
manity, and illustrates it by the follow
ing incident: A Agentlemau in search Of
rare old English black letter volume
found it in the store referred to. He
was much pleased at his discovery and
asked the price. "Nine hundred dollars, !"
said the proprietor. "Ninc hundred dol
lars!" exclaimed the would-be purchaser
of the volume, "that is too high. Now
I think this book" but here the vol
umc was snatched from his hands, and
the proprietor threw it on the counter,
excla:ming: "it'll be a thousand to-mor-
row!" And it is an actual fact that the
book buyer, after along and vain search,
actually came back and paid a thousand
dollars for the volume.-,St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Candy's Ingredients.

The ordinary New York candy factory
will employ about 100 to $50 hands.
who arc largely adults and make very
good wages. In the summer fifty barrels
of sugar per day will be made up into
sweets, and in few months more, whel
preparing for the holiday trade, and
when the rush is at its highest, 200 bar
rels daily will net be considered very
high figure. The great bulk of the suga:
used in candy-makirg is of specia
grade of granulatcd refined especially TO-
the purpose. A little corn syrup or glu
cose is employed in the manufacture o:
some kinds of candy, but outside of tha
the lavSfsssr nuts Or seeds, gums, choco
late, etc., ere the only hSeerlals 1ouho
necessary.
Starch is a prominent aid in manafac'
turing sweets, and the ordinary factory
will need about 100, 900 pounds of it fol
daily use. This may seem strange tt
candy eaters, but it is easily explained
In the factory everything is laid out in
starch. The moulds for gum drops, jelly
beans and all such articles are all made
in starch, and these moulds are among
the most essential needs OF the candy
maker.-Neao York Neus.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

ly isolated from the outside world for
months. As result farms thus situated
depreciatc greatly in value and are often
wholly abandoned.
1t is we'll known that good roads can
be made from hard materials at large
cost, but how to make dirt road that shall
be reasonably useful at all seasons under
a moderate amount of travel is the great
want of the farming community, and our
State experiment stations can do no
greater service than by causing short Sec
tions of bad roads to be improved ex-
perimentally, as samples of what may be
done without being too expensive for
general adoption.
There are many causes of bad roads,
but the leading one is a failure to keep
the roadbed free from moisture and wet.
Rows of large trees along a roadside will
by their shade intensity its bad condition
and keep it muddy for weeks after 1t
would otherwise become passably dry.
Water standing in the ditcltes by the
roadside is fruitful source of bad roads,
on the same principle that cellar often
becomes wet though covered with a roof.
Another cause Of our bad roads that is
seldom or never taken into the account;
and for which it is doubtful if there is
any remedy, lies IN the construction of
the wheels passing over them. Narrow
tread is the general rule and broad tire
the exception. If they could be reversed
the travel would be less damaging, for it
is the wheels more than the team that
draws them that make the worst ruts,
and on softened roadbed the narrow
tread wheels cuts down into it like
knives.-Neu York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
BOUQUET MAKING.

The most graceful bouquets have the
least method in their arrangement; few
sprays of bloom put in carelcssly often
are the most artistic in effect. A bunch
of misty gypsophilla with half dozen or
more coreopsis blossoms, placed in dark
brown vase and set before mirror was
a combination which demonstrated this.
Few large flowers are capable of more
arrangement than the peony. The old
time, rich, red variety forms a gorgeous
bunch by itself, or is equally beautiful
lightened with sprays of white; with
its own bronzy-grecn foliage, it is mcst
effective. The lovely and fragrant Chi
ncse varieties, with their delicate shad'
ings and exquisite tints, when massed on
a platter and bordered with ferns are al
most as handsome as roses and make a
pretty and lasting table decoration.
There is an early single peony, between
magenta and rose in color, and with a
deep golden heart. It is contemporary
with the first sturdy growth of the rib
bon grass and combines with it admira-
bly,, although, by tradition, lemon lilies
and ribbon grass are afinities. An old
ginger jar of just the right shade of blue,
filled with a large bunch of these richly
odorous lilies, their exquisite yellow re-
lieved by the creamy white and delicate
green of the grass, may quite content the
artistic country maiden who has no royal
Worcester and orchids at her command.
-Hick's Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
A SURE THING ON Rosr-Bues.

A. W. Pearson, noted horticulturist
of Vineland, N. j., says he kills rose
bugs by smashing them. lie AYERS that
he knows of no insecticide which is also
an insecticidc for q rose-bug-that is,
which will kill the bugs and not injure
the plant. Pyrcthrum will intoxicate
or stupefy them; they will fall from their
perch and after time recover and fly
again. He has experimental with all
the poisons procurahlcin in the drug shops,
and without desired results. In dealing
with rosc-bugs in his vincyord Mr.. Pear
son sends his men along the trcllis early,
from 6 to 10 A. NJ. They strike the vines
with paddles; the bugs fall on the ground,
and then they smash them with the pad
dies. The vines arc trained upon sim
gle wire, and the ground is made smooth
and clean beneath, SO that when the bugs
fall they are easily smashed. This job
must be doue every morning until the
bugs leave the vines foi other foods.
Even if something medicinal would be
found to kill the bugs, it would be of no
use during such an invasion as Vineland
has had for the past three years. Kill
one and four more will come to attend
the corpse. They migrate and travel
onward like the army-worm. They must
ibe fought snd killed as fast as they
come. By constant work for two or
three weeks each year, Mr.. Pearson has
saved most of his vines.-Nep York VT
ness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
CHESTER WHITE SWINE.

Mr.. T. B. Evans, of Geneva, H., a
breeder of improved Chester swine, tells
that the following are points one ought
to aim at in the breeding of these ani-
mails:
Ham, twelve points with meat to hook
joint.
Loin, ten points, full and wide.
Shoulder, nine points, wide and deep.
Heart, nine points, full back of shoul-
der.
Rib, ten points, we'll sprung at back
and rounding.
Flank, eight points, deep and full to
leg.
Quarters, five points, long with gen.
tie curve to tail.
Legs, ten points, placed proper dis
tance under body, and straight.
Neck, five points, short and deep.
! Head, four points, broad, medium
length, with medium ear.
Jowl, FIVE points, deep and short.
Feet, five points, stand straight on their
feet-nor back.
Back, three points, broad and straight.
Tail, two points, small and fine.
Hair, three points, silky, wavy or
straight; color, white, no dark spots on
skin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
WATER FOR EEES.

When the apiary is not located near
stream, where bees can sip from its grav-
ely banks, it should be provided for them
in the apiary, if possible in some shell
tered nook. Bees are carrying much
water now, and as the old paint kegs
which I formerly used for this purpose
had their bottoms bursted out with freez-
ing during the past winter, I looked
around and found much better substi-
tute in large keg which had held maple
sugar. This is free from paint and has
a much larger surface for the bees to sip
from, while sections float on the surface,
and old muslin strings hang on the sides,
to act as syphons for the bees tosip from.
A large pitcher, minus a handle, holds
water-a little brackish; ateaspoonful of
salt to pail of water is sufficient. Bees
need saltwater more in the country than
they do in the city, where there is so
much they can obtain. Bees are often
seen around manure piles, especially after
q rain, sucking the moisture, and mortar
is great favorite with them.-Prairie
Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
FEEDING A CALF.

In feeding young calves it is necessary
to stint them to safe quantity. When
q calf sucks it draws the milk slowly and
gets tired by the time it has got enough
of it and stops, but when drinking from
q pail it swallows quickly and will gorge
itself if permitted to do so. Hence the
food should be graduated to its necessi-
ties only, which arc satisfied with three
quarts of warmed skinned milk at a
meal. This may be given twice day to
calf week old up to four weeks, when
four quarts may be given, and five later
on when it can be digested. Milk feed
ing should be confined for three months
at least, and a little grain, oatmeal or
oats, or bran or cornmcal, may be given
once day. If the calf acquires habit
of sucking things this will be cured by
giving the meal in shallow box or
trough.-Neao York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Fishes I'm High Lakes.

It is a mystery how fish get into the
little lakes upon top Of the mountains.
There was never lake so high that 1t
did not have fish in it. Bearfoot Pond,
not many miles from Lake Hopatcong,
N. j., is over 1900 feet in the air and
vet it is chock full of bass and perch.
They certainly did not get in by going
up stream, and if anybody took the
trouble to carry them up,he had mighty
hard time of it, for the lake is two miles
straight up from everywhere.
Fish will get into lakes without being
carried by men or without swimming up
stream. 1t is we'll known that water
fowl will distribute yellow perch by car
rying the sticky eggs on their feet. Bass
do not become distributed except by the
hand of man or going up stream. Trout
go anywhere where there is water enough
to float chip, and pickerel get moved
around from place to place the same as
perch do.-Pittsburg Dispatch.