The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-14
NEWS OF ARIZONA.

' hospital at Phoenix. It will cost s4. 900.
 The militia company at Florence disbanded. and Mesa may come in to'| fill the vacancy. q Jla
 The supreme court recently in ses- sion in Phoenix has adjourned till the third Monday in May.
 The public schools of Phoenix and Tombstone are to close the latter part of the month, as the school funds of those places have been exhausted.
 From his l20-acre alfalfa ranch two miles north of town Major Evans re- alized $1 300 last year and paid farm hand $45 per month for eight months. Gazette.
 By the decease of well-to-do uncle Tempe cook has fallen heir to S25. 900, It will probably be some time before he fills any more orders for beef la mode and pate de foi gras.
 There is more inquiry for good gold properties than for long time past. He who has mine and does not ask too much for it should experience no great difficulty placing it.-Star.
 During the month of January tho shipments of cattle from ArizOna az gregated 9,258 head, as compared with 6.47l shipped during the cores bonding month in 1894, thus showing an increase of 2,787.
 The old Fl Rio 10.stamp quartz mill near Yuma is being tom down and will be shipped to point twenty miles south of Tucson. The purchasers will take one boiler, the engine and stamps only, leaving the rest of the machinery.
 Sheep shearing is now in progress and daily big wagons loaded wiih sacked wool are seen on the streets, The clip this year Is good one. Many of the northern sheep men come to this valley to shear. thereby getting :wo clips year.--Phoenix Review. A train of twenty-one cars loaded with fine fat sheep consigned to Los Angeles parties passed through last night, The sheep were raised in the Chiricachua mountains, Cochise county, by Shaw Bros. This Is probably ihe largest shipment of sheep ever made from southern Arizona.
 The Phoenix Gazette remarks edito- rially: The territorial reform school at Flagstaff Is asking for an appropria- ton to complete the building now under construction. The four north ern counties are only asking for this appropriation, and as it is the only public institution in the north their wishes ought to be considered favor ably.
 Hon. Sam Hughes reports the coun- try as much in need of rain. The grass is growing nicely, but it must have more rain 10 keep 1t growing. Cattle, he says, now in fair condition, are thin rapidly and stockmen will suffer loss ii the dry weather continues. He further believes that more cattle have been sold to spring purchasers than can be deliv' cred. Tucson Citizen.
 Report comes from White Hills that an immense body of silver ore has beer encountered below water level in the G. A. R. mine, owned by the Whit, Hills company. Samples from tht vein run over HOO ounces in silver and four ounces gold per ton. This i. the first strike of ore that has beer made below water level and proves that the mines go down.-Mohav. Miner.
 The contract for the new machiner, ordered for the School of Mines a Tucson has been awarded to Fraser { Chalmers. There will be a full car load, comprising crusher for fin work, a 5-stamp mill with 600 poun' stamps, feeder, plates and all appul tenances; a 3-stamp mill with 25
 pound stamps, for treating small lots a sample grinder and automaii sampler.
 The committee of Maricopa, Pima . and Pima counties have raised the net 3 essary sum of money with which t survey a line for the extension of th 3 North and South road from Phoenix [ : Calabasas. It is thought that no di : ficulty will be experienced securin B right of way through the counties. fo