Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-02
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.


 In Coconino county the tax levy for all purposes is S3.10.
 Miss Kate Forbach has been ap- pointed postmaster at Casa Grande vice Miss Minnie Marshall resigned.
 The Yavapai county tax levy this year is $40, high rate for county that has nearly S4,000, 900 taxable property.
 Prescott has been favored by an abundant rainfall For the week end ing Aug. 27, the precipitation measured 3.59 inches.
 Mohaye county as one of the smallest divisions of the territory, makes good showing by adopting tax rate of S3. % on each S100 valuation.
 The Phoenix Republican has give further evidence of its enterprise by sending George H. Smalley, its able mining correspondent, to Sonora to write up the Yaqui gold fields.
 W. O. O'Neill, the Populist leader, and mayor of Prescott, has returned from the East, where he had beeu in 
 the interest of the copper mines of the Grand Canyon and the railroad pro iected to that place.
 The Mohave Miner says: All north ern Arizona has been soaked by the late heavy rains and good grass on the ranges throughout the winter is assured. Fat beef will be the rule and high percentage of increase of cattle may be looked for next spring.
 The assessment roll of Cochise county after the additions made by the terri torial board of equalization foots up 2,5ll, ,0s4.22, which raises Cochise to county of the second class. The change is chiefly in the interest of the office holders, the salary and fee list being increased some $500.
 Sam F. Webb, late collector of cus- toms, has sold the Favorita silver mine to II. W. Randall and o. K. Franklin. The mlne is said to be rich enough to pay profit even at the present low price of silver. The mine is located 45 miles southeast of Nogales, in Sonora.
 Lawyer Collins created good deal of excitement ill the neighborhood of his office in the ''wee sma" hours of one day last week. The widows living near him have suggested that he wear much longer night shirts if he intends to chase cats and mice around his office under bright light. As to how the widows happened to be around so early in the morning we know nothing Jerome Mining News.
 Construction work on the branch railroad from Bisbee to the Nacosari mines, recently purchased by the Cop per Queen company, will in all proba- bility soon be begun. The Prospector states that the survey and estimates have been completed, and material for the road is beginning to arrive at Don Luis from which point work is to be started The Copper Queen company have, it is reported, secured Q conces- sion from the State of Sonora for the building of the road, no miles, with exemption from taxation, together with other important concessions.
 A wind storm of the dimensions of @ small cyclone, visited parts of Yuma county week before last. At Fortuna tent houses were leyeled to the ground, the company's boarding house partly demolished and other frame buildings damaged. At Palomas hundreds of haystacks were blown away, trees up rooted, the school house, residence and a saloon demolished. Harrisburg was almost wiped out of existence. The postoftice and store building and two dwellings were blown down, and roofs of other buildings carried away. At Harqua Hala the Cyanide company's building and E. J. Quinn's dwelling were razed to the ground.