The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Stockman of Wilcox is eight years old, good fat and hearty. Bro. Pugh give. Arizona an excellent live stock paper and it deserves good patronage. Success to the Stock man.
 The discovery of a great vein of almost pure zinc near the river and only 30 miles above Yuma Is of great importance. A vein 60 feet in width and g half mile in length with ore that runs from D to 90 per cent of zince is not met with every day.
 Another very important discovery lately made on the borders of Yuma county, is that of two veins of tin, each of which Is about three feet in width. The assays, made, show the ore to be of high grade. Competent judges and experts believe that this IS one of the important discoveries ever made in western Arizona.
 A large number of the Indians at the different Indian agencies have applied to the Commissioners of the Colum bian Exposition at Chicago for space in which to exhibit their curios, and articles of their own manufact, ure. They say that they can and will make it one of the most interest ing exhibits of the great show.
 After having advanced for several weeks, beef has, declined in the eastern markets, caused by the combined efforts of the "bears" in St. Louis and Chicago, who simply said that beef cattle were too high, and acted accordingly. The best beef has declined from 35 to 50 cents per 100 pounds, second.class 50 cents, third class 75 cents and scrubs and poor lots $I per 100 pounds. The cattle growers believe that prices will ad- vance again within & few days. Good fat cattle are scarce in the east.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad Con- pany makes a good showing in it's last report. The gross earnings for 1890 were $4S, 2,503, an increase of $l,S84,540 over 1889; after de- ducting all charges, the balance in 1890 was $2,377,7I3 as against Sl,- 346, 346 in 1889. In 1889 the road carried l6,761,488 passengers and IF, ,382, 220 in 1890.
 The Company has 10 hospitals in which 8,828 patients were treated in 1890. The employees of the Company contributed $125,223 towards the support of the hospitals, 75 per cent of which was subscribed by those employed on the Pacific system. The company operates 7l55 miles of road
 Only short time since and onyx was hardly known or heard of in the United States. When the railroads reached the City of Mexico, these beautiful ittls ornaments made from onyx, for which Mexico Is so famous, began to reach us through the ex- cursionists and business men who visited that section. Now onyx is found in no less than five of the II counties in Arizens. and in several other places on this coast Lower California has some very large de- posits or lodges of it, of most beauti- ful colors. From present appearances it will be but short time until it is as common as marble. It is becom- ing a general favorite in place of mar ble for wash stand, table and mantel covers. for counters and the trimming of doors and windows.
 No greater compliment can be given the management of any railroad com pany than that of the Merchants of San Francisco and New York, when they unite in saying that amid all of the long delays in the transportation of freight, the only line on time, and living strictly up to it's contracts on "time freight" is the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The merchants go farther and say that while the Sunset line uses steamers for the transportation of its trafc from New Orleans to New York, yet it gets there on schedule time and distances all of the other lines in time. Moth. ing in particular is said against the Santa Fe, but the Union Pacific,