Arizona silver belt., 1891-05-16
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.
It was expected that trains would be running into Phoenix on the 18th inst.


 The Prescott Courier truly says Arizona needs north and south tsle- graph lines, as well as railroads.
 Wm. Roberts, of Bonita, was the lowest bidder on all Fort Grant con tracts worth bidding for, and at very fair figure. Wilcox Stockman.
 The Atlantic & Pacific R. k. Co. paid their taxes in Yavapai county on q basis of S5OO0 per mile valuation. The total amount of tax was S26, 66l. 70.
 The Sentinel says that the late term of court was the most expensive ever held in Yuma county. If so, 1t is un- fortunate for that county, already finan- cielly embarrassed.
 We learn from the Prescott Courier that there is probability of the Pres colt and Arizona Central railroad being extended to the United Verde mines and smelters.
 A Mexican boy ramed Jose Chavez, of Gila City, who was bitten by a rat tlesnake recently, was saved by having the flesh around the wound cut out. Heroic treatment, but effective.
 
 A. o. Brodie, engineer of the Wal nut Grove Storage Go. of Yavapai county, just returned to Prescott from the East, announces that the work of rebuilding the great dam will soon com mence.
 An Apache Indian named Algoon shot and killed noble red brother, near Fort Apache, last week, because the latter refused to give him a drink of whisky. Algoon is in jail at St. Johns.
 The Kansas City Bridge and Iron Company have sent J. o. and Chas. Fisher and Al. Goodwin out here to erect or re-erect the iron truss bridge at Guthrie. The bridge will be up by the lst of June -Lordsburg Liberal.
 The Bulletin says that Daly, the man who murdered Constable Lowther, at | p;.l,aa lavf snri,,, onJ Cor ub,,. 4haro were rewards offered aggregating sev- eral thousand dollars, is reported to be in England working in an iron foundry
 The Yuma Pumping Irrigating Com pany is forging ahead. Boiler and pumps will soon be in place, when the red current of the Colorado will be lifted from its accustomed place and turned out and over some of Yuma's best soil.-Sentinel
 Work commenced on tie levee Sat urday under the superintendency ot Frank Hartlee. The old levee has been repaired so as to shut out the present rise in the Colorado. Work will be prosecuted on the new leyee as fast as practicable. Yuma Sentinel. From the Lordsburg Liberal Vt learn that the Detroit copper company are going to erect g, new dam. It vii be known as t'crib dam. " The style of the dam, it is said. is such as resist. any amount of water that may strike it. The work on the old dam has beer l stopped.
 Indian Commissioner Morgan has , answered Supt. Cheyneys letter rela tive to the placing of Indian ehildrenir onr public schools, and in it assures him that his recommenas4 ,,vr, made in good faith and he yet hoped k t see them practically carried out. Th' ! Honorable Commissioner may want t, l see it bad enough, but too many gra, : hairs adorned his brow when he frs : patented the idea, or got it from SC Y of religious cranks in New England. = Wilcox Stockman.
 For the benefit of the Phoenix Re
 publican we will state that Mohav
 county contains more acres of irrigabl land than does Maricopa and also tha
 the climate of the Colorado River val 7 ley is as tropical as that of the valley Q
 the Salt River. The Republican ha more to learn of the resources of Mo
 have county than has the Inter Ocean
 and before 1t flies off the handle an
 catechises the latter journal, shoul
 read up on the subject. In Wallaps valley alone there are one thousand si
 hundred square miles of irrigable land
 and vast body of water underlyin
 the same which can readily be used
 In the mountains surrounding this va
 ley there are streams of water runnin :. down the canyons into the valley a :. the year around Along the Colorad River there are thousands of acres ( = the finest orange land tc be found o
 the Pacific coast and there is no dis
 putting the fact that the Colorado Rive
 contains enough woter for irrigatin l. purposes. Another point in favor ( ID agriculture in Mohaye county is tn i'd unlikelihood of flood coming dow ;0 the valley and picking your farm u