The herald., 1895-04-12
CATTLE PRICES ARE HIGHER
Interesting News From the Sun.Kisse,
Country
The Construction Of the Rio Verde Canal Ha
Begun-The New County of Navajo.
Territorial Mining News

among cattle men that prices will be still
better in the near future. j. h. Nickkers,
manager of the Chiricahua cattle com
rany. is now in Tucson buying cattle.
He has already purcbasd about 15ooe
head, paying therefor 81, $40 and Sl3 per
| head. according to age ana co ldition.
Emil Ganzhas has gone to Europe on
an extended trip. Col. Tom Fitch and
wife have likewise left to spend the sum
mer in Europe. Colonel Fitch has let the
! contract for a $4,000 residence to be
erected during his absence.
F. X. Hickey, president of the west
| ern Investment bank. says that interest
rs steady dropping. The old rs per cent
rates are gone forever, it being difficult
to get per cent on good security for
5000 loans. es.s os4.f
Phoenix will soon have private park
and picnlc grounds. Mr.. Duted has pur..
chased 80 acres between. the capitol
grounds and Salt river, and VII beg in
| work at once fixing up such resort.
Architect Heinlein has in charge the
] work OF erecting, the two additional
| stories on the Flemming block. About
/ S25, QUO will be spent to complete this
1 handsome building. 80, .rf -.
! The corner stone of the new public
school building in Flagstaff will be laid
| on April 18th with imposing ceremonies.
| control of the Yuma prison the superln-
! tendent urged the necessity of supplying
machinery for a pumping plant 1or the
farm. Ali bids for supplies were returned
| unopened to the bdders and the board
! will readvertise for bids. Talk Of erecting
| a boot and shoe factory was also INDUCED
in. rhe meetings Of the board will here
! after be held in Phoenix. Settlers on the
recently opened Verde military reserva-
ton have commenced ditch on the east
/ side OF the river which will reclaim thou
sands OF acres OF land.
The Tucson Star reports the crop OF
wheat and barley in the Santa Cruz val
ley greater this year than ever before.
Major J. W. Evans has sold go acres OF
orange lard in the Phoenix valley, when
is to be parceled out in 20-acre tracts 10
incoming citrus growers.
\ Tucson cattle grower states that be-
tween six and seven thousand head OF cat
tie have been contracted for III flma
county by eastern stockgrowers, to be de-
livered in May.
The construction work on the Monterey
and Mineral Belt railroad. from Monterey,
Mexico, to the San Pedro mines. is pro-
crossing rapidly. Track laying has
already commenced
/ The Southern Pacific Coal Prospecting
company proposes to strike. q DIAMOND
drill 100 feet in tile Gila river bottom, not
far from Solomonvlile.
Considerable building is reported from
Prescott The frame of the building OF
W. c. Norten & Co. is up. Foundations
for the kreuger building have been be-
gun. Other business buildings are con
templa, ed among which is a hotel which
Hon. ]. G.. Campbell proposes to erect
near the depot.
The special train of eight cars contain
ing horses and implements for the con-
struction OF the Rio Verde canal havs
arrived. and active work will be immedl-
ately commenced. The building of the
dams will be under the charge of ID. u.
Campbell. a prominent engineer OF Den
yer.
Tucson expects to have a street railroad
in operation by August. J. Nj. Ormsby
has the papers in charge and will start
out this week to secure subscriptions.
Tn. road win run down Main street to
Pennington, to Stone avenue. to Con-
gress, to sixth avenue. TO Pennington.
Holbrook is named as the temporary
county seat of the-new county of Navajo,
created by the last legislature. Navajo
county is the western half of Apache
county. The following are the officers for
| the new county, appointed by the COVER
nor: Sheriff. q. T.. Owens :: county recor-
! der +. w. Nelson: treasurer, +. A. Saw
| yer; district attorney, Judge Perrill; pro-
! bape Judge. +. NJ. Zuck !; surveyor, Allen
/ Frost; supervisors. John 4. Bowman, j.
I ii. Willis. J. ii. Breed. lcae arg
| The hotels in PRESCOTT are reported full
| and running over. ~ f1. ftsG,.
! IU is said that the Southern Pacific and
NJ. and P. r. X. Mill erect large hotel
! at Maricopa Junction for the accommo-
/ dation of passengers who have t. lay over
at that place in order to make connec-
i tions. tl=a-, g"
Charles Livingston of Providence. r..
I. writes to the Yuma Times that the
4 ~, ;,,to t,o uffn nf ,l.,
! RADIO River Irrigation company is still
! 20 ne onsin New York. The company is
J thousands If dollars in debt and has not
! dollar in It's treasury. There is no one
now authorized to contract any debts for
/ the company or to transact any business
in its a name. and will not be- until his
| suit is decided. when the company will be
re eorganzed. lie further states that the
| canal will soon lie started. About $50, 00t
of the stock is held in the city of Provi.
dence, b sides there are hundreds OF
other investors all over the east.
The new hotel of the S.. r., p. and p.
at Ash Forks is now open for business
1t is under the management of the Fred
| Harvey system of eating houses.
! Work will soon coinnnce on the cree
| ton of additional machinery at the Nam.
moth mines at Tucson. When completed
the mill will have capacity OF 300 tons
per day
The passage of the mining law by the re-
cent legislature seems to have given quite
an impetus to the location of mining
C aims. The law does not take eifec
1 until July /, 1895, and locations can IL
made previously without one being com
PEELED to DO a certain amount of develop
ment work prior to recording. During
the first two days OF the present month
! forty-three location notices were filed fo
record, twenty of which were for ltho
| graph stone, and up to noon today eigh
had been filed for record, making Il tota
4 OF fifty-one notices for the two and hal
days.
Track laying was commenced. at Pimi
on the Valley. Globe and Northern rail
way last week. About forty men are en-
gagged in laying track and surfacing. The
rain W III probably run into Thomas by
the 18th OF this month.
II he new ditch of the st. David Cana
company is completed and affairs on the
San PEDRO river between Benson ant
Yairban were never looking more pros
porous than at present. While alfalfa i
tie principal crop variety OF cereals ant
root crops will be cultivated this season
The Flagstaff Democrat reports tina
news from tile Silver King is most en-
couraging. The recent report of n ricl
strike on the 49O-fo level seems 10 hav
a good foundation. tits said that natlv
silver. similar TO that which made tn
mine famous, has again becn encountere
in q large body. superintendent III
Champion has gone to San Francisco ;ln'
it is confidently bcliyed that the min