Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-01-13
TERRITORIAL NEWS

The Chiricahua Cattle company are
shipping through Ell Paso 1900 head
of cattle in transit to Kansas, where
they have large pasture lands. This
company also has extensive cattle in
terests in Cochise and Graham coun-
ties and also in the Panhandle of Tex
as.
Prof. ]. D. Yoacum left Yuma Tues
day for Pasadena and San Francisco,
ION business for the Yuma Valley Union
Land and Water Company, of which
he is president. While in San Francis
co he Will purchase pumping machin-
cry for his cOmpany's canal being con-
structed in Colorado valley.
Preparations are being made by the
! United Globe mines for a resumption
of smelling. but the date when the
furnace is to be blown in cannot be
fixed until information is received of
the shipment of coke from the east,
which is daily expected There is
about two weeks supply of coke in
the bins. Globe Silver Belt.
City Tax Collector Treat yesterday
turned over his delinquent tax list to
| Treasurer c.. F. Hoff. which foOtS up
| S1416.42. This is about the same as
last year The total of the delinquent
tax list for Pima county this year is
S12S92. &c; and for the year 1896 it was
over $1,000; making a decrease which
speaks well for the prosperity of Tue
sOn--Citizen-
| The range in this section has not
been so poorly for many years and
principally north and west of Globe
In Upper Salt River Valley cattle
which We're not too weak We're remOv-
ed back into the mountains. Those
that remained are beginning to die off
quite rapidly.-Globe Silver Belt
Miles W. Gibbons. general manager
of the KAISER Gold Mining Co. who
was in town on Monday. informed US
that his company made Il very salts
factory output during the month of
December. The mill was in constant
operation % days during the month,
and the output of bullion equalled eX-
pectations and shows a handsome
profit over al eXpenses.-GlObe Silver
Belt.
Fred G. Hughes appeared before
Justice Meyer this morning and his eX-
animation on the charge of embezzle-
ment from the Pioneers which was
continued from yesterday was con-
Guided today. The Justice saw fit,
from the evidence produced to fix his
bond at $4,000 to appear before the
next grand jury. He will be eXamin-
that of embezzlement from the county.
| Citizen.
NogaIes. Sonora. is not tagging be-
hind in the march of improvement,
and under the energetic administra
ton of President Ignacio BOnillas the
city is taking rank as one of the best
kept and conducted municipalities in
Mexico The streets are daily swept
and kept neat and clean. they are to
be well lighted by electricity, and Il
comprehensive plan of street improve
ment is now under consideration.
which will be doubtless adopted, and
when completed will rival the work
now under way in the sister munich
pality on the American side of the
line--Oasis.
1t is now stated on good authority
that by recent enacted law of the
congress of the Republic of Mexico,
permits for mining exploration which
have been so great n drawback to
mineral development in Sonora, will
be greatly modified. Under the new
law such permits are to be limited to
a period of three months only, and
when one expires another covering
the same area cannot be issued until
six months afterward Within that
time the territory involved is open for
prospecting to everybody and discOv-
erers can secure title to all Lodges
they find.-Oasis-
G. c. Underhin. general manager of
the Big Bug Onyx Company. who is
stopping at Hotel Burke. Prescott.
states that Il large quantity of onyx
IS quarried and on the derrickS at Big
I,a
has several large orders to fill, among
them onyx for the new building TO be
erected by the r. @. Dunn Mercantile
Co. in New York. Mr.. Underhill
states that he has had little trouble in
securing orders. as the stone adver
tises itself. In order TO save freight
on Il large amountof waste, Il mill will
shortly be erected which will saw the
rock into slabs of desired size. The
company have not vet decided upon
the location of the mill, but if not er-
ected at the quarrieS it will probably
be erected in Prescott.
Last Saturday the steamer Mohave
started up the river with the barge
and big steam shovel of the State of |
Arizona Improvement Co., says the |
Yuma Sentinel Much speculation |
was INDUCED in by idle people prior |
to the departure of the boat, some ar |
guing that the trip could not be made |
owing to the low stage of the river. |
From record kept by Captain Pol |
hamus since Jan. 1, 1878. it is learned |
that the river is now four feet, nine |
inches above low water mark. The |
lowest water recorded at the S T. |
bridge is thirteen feet, two inches. on |
October. 1879. the present stage being |
seventeen feet. eleven inches. The boat |
is slowly vending its way up the river |
and is expected to reach the landing |
at the head of the canal tomorrow OF |
next day