The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1893-10-28

source for water? Arc these lands to
be settled by actual settlers, or is the
scheme one that seeks to gobble up
these fine valley lands as a specula-
ton. 1t will not be amiss for our
people to look into this matter care
fully and see what actually lies at the
bottom of it.
A new frame building 20x30 feet
is being put up on Main street,
near the poStoffice, for an under
takers shop and furniture ware
rooms.
Sheriff Rosborough of Mohave
County, came in Sunday with
Francisco Arna, to serve SEN
tence Of Is years in the prison for
murder.
After the adjournment of court
Monday, lawyers, judges, jurors
and witnesses, left for their several
homes, well pleased to be relieved
from further court duty.
Oriental music hall held it's
formal opening Wednesday even
ing. The music by Miss Annie
Cushman, Professor Behrens and
his band, was excellent and it
pleased the crowd who had the
good fortune to hear it.
Delgado & Avila have AZ men in
their employ taking out ore at the
Castle Dome mines; Hodges Bros.
have Is and the other parties about
20 more, making IS men at work
in the mines, which are looking
we'll and turning out some very
rich ore.
The Las Flores and Gold King
mines near ella City are turning
out some beautiful specimens Of
gold ore. The pure white quartz is
we'll bespangled with large wire
and nuggets of gold. Some of the
specimens are the richest seen in
Yuma for a long time.
The accident to the Picacho
pumps is much more serious than
was reported. The cylinder heads
were broken in one of the large,
and in the small pumps. The COM
pany has telegraphed to Los
Angeles for new ones, which will
be put in as soon as received.
The river is holding it's own at
16 feet 6 inches. The thick, al
most white muddy water has
thinned down SO that it settles
fairly we'll. The sediment which
settles in the bottom of bottle Of
the water is almost as white as
sand. For several days the sedi-
ment refused to settle, which made
the water thick and cloudy.
A statement of the earnings of
the Southern Pacific Co. for the
past eighteen months has been sub
mitted to the railroad commission
ers. The statement includes only
the business of the Pacific system
extending as far as Ell Paso. The
gross earnings were $52,000,000;
operating expenses, $32,50O,OO0;
number of men employed l6 600;
amount of wages paid, $4,000, 900.
A recent decision in the U. s.
Court, Graham county, holds that
the right to appropriate water is
incident only to the land itself, and
that those who have initiated or
consummated right to the land
through the public land laws have
a right to the water superior to
those who, though in possession of
the land, have not initiated such a
right as that for water use.-Irri-
CATION Market.
Our friend Slim jim, is not sue
cess as a navigator. True, his craft
was not one of the ocean racer
kind, though it was Of modern con-
struction, and Jim really thought
seaworthy enough to make the trip
down the raging Colorado from the
Pot Holes to Yuma, but his ship
struck one of the sand bars for
which the stream is noted, and
he started to wade ashore, but the
water was to deep and jim had to
swim for dea life.