The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-02-25
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

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 The first annual ball of Tucson Lodge No. 143, International Association of Machinists, will be held at Masonic Hall on Monday evening, February 20, and preparations have been made for a grand social gathering. Enterprise. The telegraph line from Bowie to Solomonville will be up and ready for business by April 10, says the Bulletin. The material has all been ordered, and on its arrival work will at once com mence. Solomonyille will then be out of the wilderness.
 It is stated that E. H. Witherell has traded his famous Coyote ranch to a Mir. Norton of Kansas City, for property in that metropolis, and that a young man named Lincoln, who will oversee the ranch. has arrived and is now stopping at Prescott.-Courier.
 To relieve their ranges, Henry Hun ing, Esq, and the Twenty-Four Cattle Co.,, intend spaying all their heifers this spring. This is step in the right direction. The county is and has been for many years overstocked. Let the other cattlemen follow suit and in q few years it will be possible to go on the range and get beef that is fit to eat.-St. Johns Herald.
 Last week one of the biggest gold nuggets brought to Tucson in years was exhibited. A week ago a Mexican while walking along the placer dig gins at Quijeotoa, washed out by the late rains, saw the gold, dingy yellow lump, sticking out of the sand, and worked it loose. The value of it is about $200. It weighs II ounces. Smaller nuggets were also found.
 Four additional tram loads of cattle from the ranges of T. F. Hudson and J. H. Slaughter, will be shipped to Colorado just as soon as possible. MT Hudson will ship one train of eighteen cars from Wilcox and Mir. Slaughter will drive to Deming and ship from there. Mir. Hudson will remain in Colorado until he disposes of all his cattle now there, which will probably keep him there till June.-Wilcox Stockman.
 Sales of cattle are again in progress. Mir. Holt, the Montana buyer, has pur- chased about 5000 head on the San Pedro river. Of them about 1000 will be furnished by J. Crowley, 600 by the Mckinney ranch and 500 by the Co., lumbia Cattle company. The remainder of the 5000 head will be made up from other ranches. The shipments will be made early in May. The price paid is $l0.50 for two-year-olds and sl3.500 three-year-olds.--Citizen.
 Lieutenant H. N. Flipper and A. E. Lott have returned from their survey for Captain J. c. Beatty's canal into the Altar Land district. They will leave here tomorrow for the lower country, following the line of survey made by Lewis A. Hicks q short time ago. The surveys are made with a view of determining the best method of taking water from the Colorado river to irrigate lands in Yuma county and Sonora. The heading of the canal is the one located by George w. Norton at Stevenson's island.
 J. M. Holt, one of the large Mon- tana cattle owners, arrived Tuesday evening, leaving Wednesday evening for the east. Before coming here he visited the San Pedro country and purchased 5000 head from the San Pedro company, Crowley, Markham and others, paying $l0.50 for twos and $13.50 for threes. He also purchased about 5000 head in Southern Pima county at slightly less figure. The shipments will be made from May 1st to May 10th, from this point. man.
 live are correctly informed, there is a very rich silver mine located twelve miles northerly from Quijotoa in this county. It is owned by one Steinburg who lately shipped seven sacks of the choicest ore to the Tucson Sampling Works and received return of $l400. The rich pay-streak is not large, but there is fair body of lower grade ore adjoining on each side, and it is pre- dicted by our informant, who is prac- tical miner, that the mine will develop into one of the best in that whole dis trict.-Advertiser.
 Notice has been received from the superintendent of Wells, Fargo < Co.,, San Francisco, that service to Florence and Globe will be discontinued as soon as Route Agent Crum arrives to close up the business. The reasons given for this action are the frequent robberies of the express and the alleged indiffer- ence of the officers of the law and peo- pie in bringing criminals to justice. This latter assertion is libel upon the people of Globe. The only losses sus- tained in many years by the Wells, Fargo company on account of Globe business, were in the two recent rob berries near Riverside, and the officers of Gila county displayed comniendable energy in the pursuit of the robbers and succeeded in experimenting one of the supposed ctlprits and recovered a large portion of the valuables stolen. Casa Grande will hereafter be the billing point for Globe. Belt.
 The militia companies of this city have organized band of trumpeters to furnish music for paradcs, etc., in lien of band. It is composed of three of Company D and four of Company F, under the able leadership of John F. Evans, late chief bugler of the regular army. MT. Evans has already brought his pupils up to a commendable stage of proficiency and the interest displayed gives promise of