Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-09

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 Geo. II. Birdno, of Thatcher, has a ten-year-old pear tree on his place, which this year produced 300 pounds of fruit. A selection of fourteen of the pears weighed one pound six ounces each. The Arizonian, Stafford.
 Men who contemplate using deadly weapons upon their fellow men will please take notice that Arizona is not a good field in which to do their kill ing Five men are now under death sentence in this territory.
 John Brown, who killed l.. O. Sim mons in Mohave county some time ago was convicted in the kingman district court last week of murder in the sec ond degree and received a sentence of twenty years in the Yuma penitenti- ary.
 With natural gas in abundance, a railroad to the gulf, a liquid air plant, Pierce Evans water wheels along the river and a cordage factory among the good things promised for the near fut- ure, why should not Yuma boom?- Seminal.
 A drive of a few miles south, up Granite creek valley, will show the ground is all torn up by placer mining and quartz veins running through the hills in all directions. Coarse gold is found in the bed rock all over the up- per valley. Courier.
 Gen. J. F. Wilson, our delegate to congress, says of the mesquite ques- tion that he will endeavor this winter to secure the passage of a bill that will be clear and comprehensive and that will forever settle the status of mes quite. which everybody knows is fit only for fuel. Enterprise.
 Mrs. Albert Jennings and child ar rived in Florence Tuesday from No gales. Nothing has yet been heard from MT. Jennings, who mysteriously disappeared from Minas Prietas some time ago. Any one knowing of his whereabouts will confer a favor by writing to her here.-Florence Fri bune.
 Charles F. hoiF of the Sunset Tele- phone company is here securing sub scribers for the local circuit, says the Florence Tribune, and is already as- sured of some thirty, which he thinks is doing well for Florence, consider ing that Tucson started in with but twenty eight.
 Dan Burgess, who was accidentally shot in the Naco affair on Sunday, is doing well. The bullet passed through the calf of the leg and just between the two bones without shattering eith- CT one of them. The wound is healing rapidly and Dan will soon be around She same as usual.-Bisbee Orb.
 The masonry work for the iron bridge over Canyon Diablo is almost completed, as is that on Canyon Padre. The Santa Fe Pacific company is re placing all their wooden bridges with iron, which will add to the safety and increase the business facilities of the road. Winslow Mail.
 The business of the Arizona Central Bank in Kingman has grown to such an extent that a safe larger and more commodious than the old one has been installed. II. II. Watkins, manager of the bank at this place, is prompt, cour- teous and obliging, which adds greatly to the popularity of this institution. % Kingman Miner.
 One day last week George Hochderf- fer killed three bear with shot gun. It was about sixteen miles north of Flagstaff where this wholesale killing occurred. When he discovered this trio, which consisted of the mother bear and two cubs, they were feasting on choice mutton. Flagstaff Gem
 The Val Verde company, limited, that was the subject of Governor Mur' phys late proclamation Is putting in a smelling plant of The most modern type, which when completed will in volve an expenditure ofsl50,00o, That don't look as though either the mihe or the company were fakers. -Phoe. nix Gazette.
 At least thirty people have made in- quiries at the land office during the past three weeks about land near Ben son and St. David. The finding of ar- uesian water in unlimited quantities in those districts have given them de- cided boom and it is expected that many homestead enteries on land in those districts will soon be made. Sev- eral have already been made. e.-Clifton Era.
 Articles of incorporation of the American Wireless Telephone and Telegraph company, with capital stock of five million dollars, divided into fifty thousand shares, were filed in the recorders office at Phoenix, on the lst. The principal place of busi-