The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

CaVCIe SOIu III NuIC&SO &I IIOm Pt,OO to $480. Last week $500 to $6.30 per 100 pounds live weight.
 Beef steaks of fair grade have ad- vanced in Chicago from l5 and IS cents to 20 and p cents per pound. In New York the wholesale prices of beef have gone up { cents pound. In Washington all grades Of cut meats for cooking have been adyauc- ed 5 cents per pound.
 The placer gold which almost daily finds its way into our stores and other places of business is the dearest evidence that when once the water is taken out of the Colorado with which to work the placer mines as should be done, the product will sur prise our best posted miners.
 Aluminium, the new and coming metal, is cheaper at 50 cents per pound than copper at r cents, than tin at Is or nickel at 70 cents per pound. Copper is 3.65 times as heavy as aluminium. At 20 cents per pound it will take the place of iron and steel in all of the metal in dustries of the present age.
 The papaya or melon tree is ez- citing much interest at the present time. 1t grows from cuttings or slips very rapid and attains height of 20 feet. Itis pretty evergreen and bears fruit very much liked. The juice of the rind is very acrid and has been used successfully as remedy in Cancer troubles.
 The great factory at Lauffen, which is run by electricity, will transmit 300 horse power to Frankfort on-the Main, l05 miles distant, at the open. ing of the great electrical exhibition today with which to operate lights and machinery. Germany is coming to the front in electricity and its ap- pliances.
 The Santa Barbara (Cal.) Inde- pendent for l3 years has done good work for it's town and tho country surrounding it, never failing to fight we'll the battles which fall to the lot of any newspaper trying to build up new town, or resurrect a dead one. Bro. Tebbitts has done we'll. May success attend the Independent.
 La grippe has all England by the throat, and the city of Mexico in its grasp, daily carrying off hundreds to a speedy and unwished for grave. The damp climate of the two seem to be an ally of the disease, which no physician or medicine can stand of. Thanks for Yuma's dry, warm clim- ate where the grippe cannot get foothold.
 The continued shipments of rich ore that come down the river on every steamer enables our mining kings, and those that are not so kingly, to hie themselves away to the sea shore to spend the summer, basking in the cool fogs, bathing in the briny deep and living on the sea food, calculated better to develope the brain than the muscle. But early autumn and winter bring them all back to enjoy Yuma county's superb and even climate.
 Deputy U. s. Marshal George E. Brown of Prescott, says that during his recent trip through western and eastern California, he was surprised to ind so much destruction of ranches and other property. He thinks that the destruction at Yuma will prove more beneficial than otherwise, as the people have concluded to build of brick and lumber and lay off the town in regular order, and in every way to start Yuma city with view to the future. Orchards and other trees were not in the least injured by the food in fact they were benefited. Arrangements are being made for constructing new levee, 80 as to give absolute protection against future floods. so that it appears the law of compensation will prevail in the micfortuna Of Ouy Vuma noiohh horS aR