The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09
TERRITORIAL.

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 Work on the Yuma canal will begin soon. The building of this canal will open up nearly one hundred thousand acres of rich agricultural land in Yuma county.
 Cattlemen from every section of the county state that cattle never were in such good conditions in the history ot the county than this year. With good prices and fat cattle our sturdy cattle men have no kick coming this year. Prospector.
 The mining interests of the Territory are going to bring in more money this fall than all other interests combined. The fact is Arizona has quiet little mining boom on right now. and has !, had, all summer. The hunt for prom ising mining property is incessant and searching. Phoenix Herald.
 The Indian school will open to-inor- row with $40 pupils. Besides the corps of teachers previously engaged. Misses Flora E. Harvey and Ora B. Bryant. both of whom have had ex- perieuce at the Albuquerque school. have been secured, Arizona Repub- lican.
 Concord grapes are for the first time oa sale in this city. Buxton & Co., have lhem.>s They are grown near Prescott, and the fruit is just as sweet and perfect as though it grew in the East. Cabbages from Prescott, too. find ready market here, as they are the best attainable from any place where cabbage is grown.-Phoeuix Gazette.
 It appears that the price of range horses iu Arizona has gone down to bout he prce up in Oregon. where the annals are being used for the manufacture of canned corn beef. In Ysvapai county during the week the firm of Hicks & Brigham, cattle buyers of Tempe, are understood to have pur- chased 800 head of range ponies for S6o0s-Prospector.
 Stockmen in Gila and Pinal counties are annoyed and not little alarmed on account of m invasion of their ter ritofy by hundreds of Apache Indians, said to be absent without pass from San Carlos. The Indians are reported to be swarmipg through the Pinal and and Expectations and Mazatzal noun. tains. killing deer, in defiance to the close season and gathering acorns and small frnils.-S. s. Farmer and Feeder The police were notified by telegraph from Flagstaff Tuesday evening that Eva St. Claire, former denizen of the block in this city, was on the train bound for this city and that her mind was a total wreck through the excess sive use of morphine. She was met at the depot by an officer who ascertained that although she still was in possess sion of her mental faculties, she was n wreck physically and took her to the Crittenton home where she can receive proper care. Phoenix Gazette.
 c. J. Lantry. of the big contracting firm of B. Lantry & Sons. was in Pres- colt yesterday on business, and circu- latlng among his many friends here. The firm of which he IS member are now employing several hundred men in the construction of water storage dams for the Santa Fe Pacific railroad. He states that there is enough water already in the Seligman dam for four months supply for the railroad com pany This dam will be sixty feet high, and when full will furnish two years supply for that station. In ad- dition to the quarry at Rock Butte. which they are operating, and where they have about 100 men at work. they are also operating quarry near Holbrook. Mir. Lantry's headquar- ters are at Strong City, Kansas, and he says that the above state is very prosperous at present, more.so than it has been for several years. Journal Miner.