The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-07-13
TERRITORIAL NOTES.

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 The Tucson Citizen says cattl,mel , report that the grass is long and plen
 tiful on the top of the Catalinas.
 I Ed. McSherry, of Tombstone, lief that place last week for Rockport Ohio. He intends making the cntir trip on a bicycle.
 The Miner says: "Ore shipment | from Kingman station for June wer rather light. The total was two hun dred and sixty-five tons, of value O
 about $53, ,000."
 The Big Sandy mill at Signal, Mo have county. was destroyed by fire o' the 9th instant. The mill was bull five years ago. The loss is isestimated a
 $50, ,0OO, insured for 10000.
 The sheep men of Concho shipped something over s0,o00 pounds of woo from Holbrook, of which amount Dor Juan Candelaria, we are informed owned 23.00O.-St, Johns Herald.
 A man named Wm. Owens was found
 dead in the county jail at Phoenix ont
 morning last week. He had been ar
 rested for drunkenness, He was 5d
 years of age and stonecutter by trade.
 A remarkable rock formation Is To-
 cated on a high peak of mountain
 about five miles from Agua Calientes.
 The rock. which is 800 feet high, is
 shaped like barrel, and eau be seen
 for miles.
 Last Saturday morning the Eureka
 Stock company made shipment of q
 train load of cattle, numbering 473
 head. to South Dakota, whcpe they are
 placing a large number on pasture. The cattle were q fine lot.-Stockman.
 Cochise county contains l.5SS,0 acres of surveyed land and 2,l91 1865 of unsurveyed land. During the the year ending June 50th, l,020 acres were taken up under the desert land act, and l, ,150 acres under the home- stead act.
 Tine Prescott and Arizona Central railroad company in Yarapai county is at present contesting its tax levy of last year. The company considers the rate of taxation levied upon its road too high. and is exercising its right to contest the same for lower rate.
 The Florence Tribune says ".The Mammoth mine has shut down, but it is said to be only temporary. The cause for this action is said to be the recent large cave in the mine. It is also said a new working shaft will be sunk, and arrangements to increase the mill to one hundred stamps"
 Governor Hughes has appointed Pro- lessor F. A. Gully. dean of the college of agriculture of Arizona, delegate from this territory to tine Worlds agri- congress, which coDvencs in Chicago October 18th, and remains in session six days. There will be one delegate from each state and territory.
 At Otis, Thursday morning, a little child of Supt. T. C. Carey, of the Mammon mine, was stung by SCOT pioD, 4 messenger was sent to Casa Grande, where telegram was ssnt to Dr.. Barry, at Florence, to go to Otis and treat the little one. The doctor went at once, but at Casa Grande he was met by another messenger with ,he information that the little one had lied at throe o'clock that afternoon Oasis.
 Shipments and drying and canning 'f apricots have just been commenced n southern California. The prices ob- aimed there this year for this luscious rnit will run from S23 to possibly sS0 ,er ton. At even these prices fruit 'aising is better than the banking busi- less. Now, here in the great Salt rIver alley, fruit shipments began fully tight weeks ago, and was completed Wo weeks since. Prices to the fruit ( ,rower ran seven cents per pound on | he tree at first, to two and halfcents |, t the latter part of the season. Mesa 'ress.
 From parties from Florence the Tue , on Star learns that Dr. Chandler has corps of twenty engineers working on he foundation of the Butte reservoir in he Gila river. They first tried to sink :. Q bedrock close by the butte, but , ailed to find it at eighty feet. They hen moved down short distance and ,und bedrock at about twenty feet. 'bree dams will be erected, and it is T stimated that land will be reclaimed , within fifteen miles of Tucson, and 'Om there to Casa Grande, which D leans many thousands of acres re. aimed to agriculture. V