The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-02-04
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

TERRITORIAL NOTES.
 Bisbee has an electric plant, which furnishes 450 lights. It is the Edison 1 system.
 The new smelting plant of the Old Dominion at Globe has started up, and a continuous stream of copper is flow ing from it.
 The Southern Pacific people say that the first whistle that sounds in the Salt River valley will come from one of their engines.
 The General Association of New Mexico and Arizona of the Congrega- tional church will hold its next session in Albuquerque on the 3rd and 4th of March.
 A rich strike of silver ore at depth of 30 feet on the Bonanza mine, ten miles from Quijota, is reported. It is worth $2,000 per ton, and is beng sacked.
 Miners who have been placering at Gila City have been making fair wages lately. They say the gold is there in paying quantities and only needs in- telligently expended capital to pay Times.
 Rev. J. A. Crouch, of the Methodist church, is making energetic efforts toward having a church bnilt at Yuma. He is confident of raising $500 or S600 and the Home Mission Board will fur nish like amount.
 One of the best cattle ranches in Northern Arizona, near Prescott, with from l2,000 to 15, 900 head of cattle, and 700 to 500 head of horses, is ad- vertised for sale at q sacraiice in Kansas City paper, giving bad health as q reason for selling out. The whole or a half interest will be disposed of.
 The first shipment of vines for the Yuma Fruit Company, l06,O0O raisin grapes, arrived here Wednesday. They are to be planted on the Sanford farm. During this month one carload of citrus trees and one of deciduous will reach Yuma for the same company.-Senti- nel.
 From what we can learn cattle in this county will winter much better than anticipated, except, perhaps, in the western portion, where there was an unusually heavy fall of snow, which lay on the ground for month or more. In that cection the loss will be heavy, probably thirty or forty per cent.-St. Johns Herald.
 The new city which has been started between Picacho and Casa Grande has been christened Arizula. The hotel has been completed, and Col. Thomas is planting out 100 acres in fruit and vines. He will also plant out three miles of trees on both sides of the rail road track to show travellers what can be grown in the desert when water is applied.-Star
 The S. P. road furnished transporta- ton both ways for Col. Mike Gray be- tween Benson and Huntsville, Texas, on his trip after blood hounds with which he has just returned. Even the railroad companies recognize the fact that the renegade Indians must be ap- prehended hcfore, the country can be settled up, a condition which must eX- ist before railroads can realize profit in any untry.-Prospector.
 On Tuesday last Jesus Gusto, in at tempting to cut the throat of Alberto Hernandez, failed to accomplish the job. He, however, succeeded in so nearly rendering his victim food for the worms as to make the aid of a sur geon necessary to staunch the blood and stitch the gash. Gusto is in jail, and will remain there until the April term of the District Court, and is most likely to serve term in the territorial prison. Globe Belt.
 John Shaughnessy died in Tombstone on the 25th of January of pneumonia. The deceased went to Tombstone in 18SO from Bodie, and was we'll known in every mining camp of any import ance on the coast He was foreman at the Grand Central mine in the palmy days of the camp. He was a member of the Odd Fellows order, q prominent fireman, and at the time of his death and for two years previous was chairman of the Democratic Gen. tral Committee,
 Soaking rains fell in Pima and Mari copa counties this week, and the cat tlemen are rejoicing. A prominent one of this number informs the Tucson