The Arizona sentinel., 1892-08-20
LOGAN. ETEMS.

Mr.. III. F. Bush of the Ell Rio pump
works has gone to Oakland, CAL, on visit
to his family.
DR.. J. u. Taggart has passed a very
comfortable week, considering that at
sultry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Redondo are very
happy over the birth of a nice boy on Wed
nesday morning, Aug. 18th. Both mother
and son are doing nicely.
John Speese is putting up small build
ing on his lot on Main street, next to the
tin shop, which will be used as a barbar
shop. 1t will be l4xl8 feet.
Superintendent Wheeler, wife and son of
the Cargo Muchacho mines, visited Ell Rio
Tuesday. Mr.. w. inspected the great
pump which supplies the mines with water.
The latest news in regard to the Algo-
dones Land Grant is, that a re-hearlng has
been granted and that it will probably take
place before the Land Court in October at
Tucson.
Miss Post, Miss George Polhamus, Miss
Juana Vasquez, Messrs. Peter B. and John
Hodges and Charlie OFT went down to Hall
Hanlon's Monday to see the great clusters
of dates on his date palm trees. They
found that all that had been said of them
was true. They are magnificent.
The river today guages Is feet inches,
being inches higher than the average for
the past IL years, having fallen inches
since last Saturday. The average height
of the water for the past IL years has been
II feet g. inches. The highest was % feet
8inches in 81; lowest Is feet inches in '79.
The average temperature during the same
time for the third week in August was 1908
highest IA in '92; lowest 80 in "a. The
temperature of the water in the river today
is 9l'; highest in IL years SO in 'S7, lowest
81 in 81.
Frank Redondo's new adobe house on
Maiden Lane, near the corner of Third
street, is credit to the town. 1t is 32x45
feet on the ground. 1t has four rooms ID
square and a hall through the middle llx32
feet, and kitchen II feet square in the
rear of the house. The ceiling is ID feet in
height. The windows and doors are large,
which make the rooms pleasant and airy.
The foundation is built up solid four feet
high from the ground, which will be sur
rounded by blue cement gravel from prison
hill, which will protect the walls from
water, should it ever again overflow the
street from the ella river. When the ver-
andas, which will be IL feet wide, are en-
ished on the three sides of the house it will
be one of, if not the most comfortable house
in town.
Santos Bouchet, the well-known orange
grower and fruit expert who has been in
charge of Gen. Luis E. Torres orange
groves near Hermosillo, in Sonora, Mexico,
for the past few months, was a passenger
on Thursdays west bound overland. He
says that the General has one of the finest
orange groves of 5000 trees that he has
ever seen, that oranges generally will be
short crop this season in Sonora on &C
count of the lack of care and cultivation,
and that the white scale has made its ap-
pearance in places. The Sonora orange is
the result of grating the sweet orange up.
on the sour orange root or sprout, which
produces very tough and hardy tree.
Lie. Rendon, the well-known
and eloquent lawyer of Hermosillo,
Sonora, Mexico, was a passenger
east on the Sunset express Tuesday
from Ensenada, L. c., where he
had been on visit to his brother,
Pedro Rendon, Judge of the First
Instance, and also on business for
Gen. G. Andrade.
Superintendent Geo. w. Norton,
of the Mohawk canal, returned
from his visit to Coronado Beach,
Cal, Tuesday evening and spent
Wednesday in town. He visited
the Mexican town of Tia Juana
and also the great Sweetwater irri-
CATION dam while on his trip.
The umbrella trees which were
set out nearly two years ago by
Judge Levi in front Of his old
place on Main street, are the most
beautiful shade trees in town, not
withstand they passed through the
food, which did not injure them in
the least.
James Doten has a magnificent
picture frame cut out of a solid
slab of onyx, one of the finest
specimens that we have ever seen.
It was cut and polished at the
prison, where the prisoners are
turning out some most beautiful
work.