Arizona silver belt., 1900-12-27
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Arizona, the Treasure Land.

son and 1t Is predicted will go to S25.
 A journal devoted exclusively to min ing It Is said will soon make its appear. ance m Tucson.
 The Southern Pacific paid its taxes in Yuma county, last week, to the. amount of S26, ,OO0
 Steps have been taken to form au association of spanish American war veterans at phoenlK
 The Arizona Press association will meet in Phoenix 0u Jan 2l, 1891, the iirs, aay oi tbe zIst legislature.
 Acting Governor Akers appointed Judge R. E. Sloan of Prescott, mem. Der of the code commission, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of c. w Wright.
 The Copper Queen smslter was closed last Saturday night and rem ain ed closed until this morning, thus giv. ing employees plenty of time to enjoy | Christmas.
 Judge Davis sentenced Sid Page | (cunvicted of murder in the second degree for killing Chris Robertson, at Pearce) to 20 years Imprisonment a, Yuma, This Is the extreme penalty.
 A Salt river farmer leased his alfalfa farm for term of three years and | took his family to Illinois to live on the rent money, A real farmer in this valley is n real. sure enough antocrat. says the Gazette.
 | Interest Is growing Tn orange culture in Salt river valley. and 1t will not be many years when that favored section will become very large producer of ! the golden fruit. Arizona oranges have no superiors.
 The Tucson Star states that there will he approximately 35Uo names in tbe new city direclory This will be an increase of 400 over last year The directory this year will be great im- | provement over the previous ones.
 The Gazette says The water in the wells of the Salt river valley has fallen about l3 feet during the past two years the result of the druuth But the water Is coming back again, having risen 20 inches the last week.
 The death penalty for train robbery in Arizona should be eliminated eS. cept ia such cases as where life has been taken. If the punishment were not SC drastic, jurors copld be secured with less difficulty, and convictions more frequently had;
 Bishee has had wonderful growth in recent years, and the spirit of i'm provement IS still there and is pushing the town steadily ahead. The Copper Queen company now has about l4OU men on it's payroll, and the population of Bisbee is conservatively estimated at between six md seven thousand.
 FEE Walden, the oldest mail car rier in Phoenix. was arrested ny Post office Inspector Hall last Thursday, and is charged with emhezzlnB let ter. He was caught through decoy letter containing silver and directed tt "Sing Wo," at aD imaginary address Walden was examined and held to thu United States grand Jury m the sum O S2OO
 The new 3OO-ton Mitchell hot al furnace will be started up on the Is ot Janu nry and will add greatly to tn production oi metal from the Quee , mines, says the Bisbee corresponden | of the Prospector These Mitchsl furnaces are successfully used by tn Verde company in Jerome and are tn patents of Geo Mitchell. now geners manager of the Greene Consolidate Mining Co, located in Sonora
 Col W. R Wallace returned t Prescott "A short time siuce with an O expert named Kaufman, and the tw made a thorough examination oi tn alleged. bnt uudeveloped, oil ne'o near the Black Hills. The Indication of the existence of oil in that seotio were considered so good, says th JouruaL Miner, that Mir. Rautm"n h' gone east to purchase machinery prospect the field. MT. Kaufman e' pressed the opinion that oil or gas probably both might be found 'her'
 Parks Bros. have begun to nore I' srtesian water in draw coming ln' the San Simon valley from the wes IA m,les from Solomonville, says u
 Bulletin. The work is being done Gus and Lee Hobbs of Clifton wi