Arizona silver belt., 1900-08-30
ARIZONA.
News and Comments Pertaining to
 the Territory at Large.

Joseph Birchett of Tempe is being urged to become a candidate on the democratic ticket, for supervisor.
 The Arizona Copper company since 1883 has paid 10 Graham county sl9S,- 900 in taxes and its tax bill this year will be more than s20,000, The taxes of Graham county this year will go beyond S2. .50O, O0O having increased more than SlCQ GOO during the year. This will make Graham second class county. The law requiring one years resi- dence in Arizona next preceding an electlGn, to entitle citizen to vote, was repealed in 1899. The time re- Quired now is only six months
 At 5I5 feet the Benson artesian well has greatly increased it's flow. The sinking will be continued until the How has been increased to what may be considered its maximum. Supt. James ColqOhoun, of Clifton, who has been visiting in Scotland since last June, will sail for home on September Sth, accompanied by his family. They will arrive in Clifton about Sept 30. The Indian Scouts at Grant got liquor from some source on Sunday last and got in fight free for all; two are in the hospital, one suffering from knife cuts, and the other from being hit on the head with "a rock. Two more are in the guard house. .-Bulle- tin.
 Mr. D. C. Stevens now has his new Weber gasoline pump in operation, filling his 10.0C0 gallon tank. Mir. Stevens had force of men at work Monday laying pipes from the tank to his stable on Main street and now has everything in working order Florence Tribune
 The county central committee of CochiSe county met on last Thursday and selected the fourteen delegates 10 the territorial convention. The delegates were not instructed, but as seven of them headed by Dr. F. A. Stewart, of Bisbee, 1t is probable they are all for Mark smith for congress.
 Jack Farrel, long a resident of Mo- renci, who has recently been in charge of the work at the San Juan mine, Lone Star district, now proposes to engage in an enterprise winch will mean much for the town of Stafford, if it proves successful He proposes to sink an al teSian we'll in the Cienega wash and pipe the water into Stafford. The Bulletin hopes to see Mr. Farrel succeed in this enterprise and secure an artesian flow sufficient to supply Solomonville as well as Saiford- Bulletin.
 J.C. Holsinger, special agent of the interior department, has been in- structed to promulgate orders of the interior department prohibiting any and all excavations on government land and the carrying away of relics from the cliff dwellings. MT. Hol- singer has been ordered to examine the most interesting ruins in New Mexico. Arizona and Colorado with a view of having them set aside as res ervationS where practicable, and to notify all persons excayating them that they will be prosecuted. Tomb stone Prospector.
 A fine automobile was received by George Mitchell, of the Greene Con solidated Mining Co., yesterday. The carriage is of the latest pattern and made by the Winton Motor Carriage company of New York. Mir. Mitchell drove the horseless carriage up Main street last evening to the delight of numerous spectators. The carriage worked fairly well for the first trial, and will soon be carrying MT. Mitchell between here and the mine. The local horses eyinced the greatest hor- TOT and aversion to the mobile and at tempted to give the uncanny object a wide berth.-Cochise Review.
 The Morenci & Southern railway, now being constructed from Morencl to Guthrie in Arizona, Is already gain ing quite reputation as the crooked est railroad on earth, says the El Paso Herald. Besides its crookedneSs it will be notable for it's bridge work and steep grades. In the eighteen miles that it goes to cover distance of ten miles it will have twenty-eight bridges, one of which will be 10i feet high and twelve of them will have an average height of sixty-two feet. The grades will necessitate the purchase of specially equipped locomotives wlth drivers less than two feet in diameter. The engines will be of sixty tons weight and enormously powerful though slow.
 MT. Win. Simms met with an accl- dent at Kelvin, Monday, which will probably make amputation of one arm necessary. He went to cut a horse loose from tree and made strong, swift. upward stroke with his knlTe, but missed the rope and drove the blade of the knife through the center of his left elbow joint and out through the upper part of the arm, cutting all the leaders of the arm in two and sev- ering all the arteries. He narrowly escaped bleeding to death. The doc tor states that the arm may possibly be saved but the elbow joint VIII De useless. But the physician thinks that it will probably become necess- sary to cut off the arm above the el- bow.-Arizona Blade.
 The chiefs and captains of the Yuma Indians are making preparations Tor the holding of their annual corn feast" That time honored and ,eX- ceedingly interesting event Will occur shortly-in fact, as soon as the req mans overflow crop Of melons and corn shall have reached the harvest stage-at Algodones, in Colorado val ley. We are informed by one or the patriarchs of the tribe that this sea sons harvest promises to be an un-
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