The herald., 1893-01-28
ARIZONA.
News Notes from the sM-Kissed Teri
tory,

tory,
Yuma Times, Jan.25th
1t is to be regretted that work has
been suspended on the levee at the foot
of Main street. Until March 1st the
danger from high water in the Gila will
be great and ordinary high water is suffi-
cient to flood the river front if left un-
protected. The work already done is good
as far as it goes and would be all right If
finished. We hope the powers that be
will see the necessity of having the work
completed as soon as possible.
Last Mond ay Probate Judge Ewing
iss ued an order commanding the release
of Frank CLARK from the penitentiary.
Clark was tried and convicted in Apache
county in September. 1887, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life, for the crime
of murder in the second degree.
The Mohawk valley farmers are busy
with their winter crops. About 1000
acres will be soiwed to grain and alfalfa.
Ct. W. Norton has put in 400 acres of
grain for the company and 800 for him
self. Robert D. Chappell will have 200
acres; Clark's ranch $50 acres. The
Finley boys will work the Landon place.
The valley will be Visited this week by a
party of San Francisco and eastern cap
italists and their visit will no donbt re-
sult in many improvements being made
this season.
Joe Carter, the veteran desert man
who can 90 nine days without water,
was in town Monday dressed in his beet
suit of clothes. Joe says he has given
up the rope end of the cattle business
for awhile owing to rheumatic COM
plications.
The Prescott Courier, Jan. 26th
Frank Harmon found some very rich
gold rock about two miles east of town
few days ago, and now believes he has
discovered the ledge whence it came.
The gold was found in white quartz,
streaked with iron. Mr.. H. ground up
about two pounds of the ore III a mortar
and obtained about s5 worth of gold
from it. There is evidently very rich
pocket Of ore somewhere in that vicin-
ity.
The Commercial Mining company are
reported to have shipped 40 cars of con-
centrates, mostly from the Boggs mine,
in the past two months, which netted
$4,000 per car. The shipments were made
over the line of the P. g. A. g. railway.
Tucson Star, January 25.l
CATTLE CULLINGs.
The Shaw and Bernard cattle ship
ment were loaded at Casa Grande tor
California yesterday.
The cattle sold by Sam Hughes, now
being rounded up, will be shipped next
Monday to Nevada.
In the Tortillitas cattle are looking
fine. Range is good and water obtain
able in the mountains to some extent.
The removal OF 700 head of cattle by
Felix Ruelas from Crittenden to the
range 20 miles west of the city is result
ing disaetrously. The stock are dying
to the extent OF a considerable percent
age.
Two train loads of cattle. numbering
HOO head, left Wilcox this week. One
train, those purchased by Mr.. Stone, left
Tuesday evening, and the other, OF
Sierra Bonita cattle, left Wednesday,
both destined for California.
A train load of cattle, gathered in So
nora and belonging to Arizona ranch
men, chiefly Pusch & Zellweger and
Maish & Driecoll, will arrive in town
this evening. They were purchased by
Mr.. Powell of Los Angeles.
M. W. Stewart of Sierra Bonita ranch
is at the Palace. He reports that the
cattle of this district will pull through
the winter all right; that ranges are we'll
worn, but that none to speak of have
died, but that about 5000 head have
been shipped to California.
with nerves unstruug and heads that ache.
Wise women Brnmo-eeitzcr'sfH