Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-05-14
TERRITORIAL. NEWS.

erLS or Los Angeles, anu the Olld Deuu
 l. Rssersoir and Irrigation O., has been recorded. The canal is to be D feet
 wide on the bottom aud 3S miles long.
 Tom Allison, says the Prospector, has
 raturned from an assessing trip through the Huacbuca mountains and as
 far as the Mexican line. The heavy
 winds of the past few days have cov-
 cred sections of tLat country with sand,
 and drIveu cattle to hunt feed el5e-
 where.
 Wallace, the cattle buyer, took ], LOO head of cattle from along the line, says the Prospector, in the vIcinlty of Ro
 bins which, he states, are the best lot ] he has purchased in thls section.
 The grand jury of Gila county has
 en Iorsed Judge Kibbey without dis
 sen!iug voice. They pronounce the
 charges preferred by Humphreys as | false and malicious. This was made
 part of thelr final report.
 Says the Yuma Times: The Bonan- "a mine owners are kicking at the as-
 eessments this year. They have pro- perty which Is said to be yielding a pro- | it Of S50000 month and yet object to | being assessed for more than Sl0,OOO to
 S20,O00.
 The Algodones homestead locators
 in Yuma county, have received com plete abstract of title to the grant as 1t exists in the Mexican records of the
 State of Sonora. The work was done
 by Lieut.. Ripper, who also translated | it into English. It is pronounced fine
 piece of work by those who have seen | 1t.
 The Phenix Herald says that the extension of the Cave Creek road to the opyX mines Is now completed, and r. II. | Coyle's two big teams, one ten and the other SIX, started yesterday for the
 first trip. They will bring down carload of 30 0O0 pounds of onyx each trip and will make one trip week for loo weeks
 before the present contract is filled.
 Another mining enterprise has come | to grief by ignorant managing, says the | Yuma Times: Some months ago the
 La Paz Mining O., put up mill near | Ehren berg, and spent about S2O,OOO Everything has been shut down and the contiding eastern capitalists now have a chauce to figure how much they 1 are out. As long as ignorance can be
 passed off for experience, legitimate
 miuing development will be hard work. The Governor on the 4th inst, ap- pointed the following County Commls- sioners to act under instructions of the B 1ard of the Worlds Fair Commission 1 CTS of Arizon2: l.. J. Wood, Maricopa county; Capt Thomas, of Graham; w. 4. Rowe, of Yavapai; F. M Zuck, of Apache: Ralph Cameron of Coconino and Thomas Sarines. of Cochise. Oth-
 CTS will be appointed soon.
 w. x. Riley and Andrew Welsh, says ! the Journal Miner, came ln few days ago from the Gro Bella mIne and the former states that Superintendent Ans | den had his vats and tanks about ready
 to commence work by the Mac-Arthur- Forrest process. He will make a trial
 run of about loo tons of concentrates l to commence with. Work iI the mine ID the mean time has been suspended but should the test prove satisfactory,
 no doubt both null and mine will be
 worked to thelr fule t capacity. Hubbard and Bowers of the Bonanza
 mines at Harqua Hala have been work ing ore that was thrown one side at first as waste ore from which they cleaned up S60O9O in gold. The Yuma Sentinel also reports Frank Levan and Lew Smith have discovered very rich silver mine 10 miles west of there. Some eX- cellent copper veins have been recently discovered about 12 miles west of there. and large deposit of very fine brown hematite iron ore has been found about seven miles east. N Edes, chef engineer of the Southern Pacific surveying party between PhenIx and Prescott. accom- panied by his party, Martin Moran, Fred. N. Schuyler and G. 4. StreltZ, have arrived m PheniX. They have completed the survey for the new road between the towns named and are now through with their labors in that connection. The gentlemen are very reticent and have nothing much to say regarding the work, other than 1t is tt rough, etc. Now that the engineers are ready to report something definite may be known in a short time. If the Southern Pacific should start work on the road this Summer 1t would make a lively season in this section of Arizona.
 The Secretary of the Mexican trea- sury has appointed Don Carlos GarZa Cortina, auditor of the custom house Tn Nogales. Mir. Cortina, was last year as appraiser but was transferred to Laredo. |
 The Phenix Herald says that the | Court of Private Land Claims is stead l ilv at work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, | and has decided one of the land cases l in favor of the claimants. So far this Is the only case that has reached conclu- | sion, but there are number more of cases on the court calendar and busi- | ness promises to be lively. According l to the New Mexican a case will coms | involving the title to the lands ou which | Albuquerque is located. or course 1 New Mexican cases perdomlnate. The ! cases that will come up from Arizona l are extensive in some respects and ! quite nun Der of them; 1t would there | fore be the highly proyer thing for the | conrt to hold sessions at some point in ! thls Territory, probably Tucson or Pnenix as they are the mora accessible. !
 The Tombston Prospector says B. F. | Cotfman has just returned from trip | to New MexicO,. He reports that Ter ritory qulet Cattle and mIning inter- ests are both suffering there as well as in Arizona.
 There was crowd in front of All9n | English's office, says the Prospector, caused by display in his window of some very rich gold rock which was taken from his Bonanza mine at Gold | Camp. At depth of 90 feet the vein is
 fifteen inches wide, and the rock is fair ly spr;nkled with visible geld. Some | of his friends are strongly urging him to | give banquet.
 The fruit crop bids fair to be heavy this season in C0chlse county. Cherries apricots and peaches look remarkably well. In some localities the fruit was nipped by the frost last month, but the fruit wi.l be better for not being so plentiful.
 The Prospector says that suit was commenced, in the district court by G. w Swain acaInst the Huachuca Water