Arizona silver belt., 1900-09-06
ARIZONA.
News and Comments Pertaining to
 the Territory at Large.

which is 25 cents less than last year.
 The Mcqueen well at Mesa is down 1900 feet, without any sign of water.
 Senator" w. A. Freeze has sold his interests in Phoenix and gone back to Nome.
 A Coconino sheep man is paying the railroad company Sl4 per day to haul water for his sheep.
 Wm. O'Brien, repairer of chutes, was killed, in the United Verde mine, Aug. 29 by falling 50 feet down a chute.
 Prescott has voted Sl00,O0O for Wa ter and sewerage bonds. Only 19 votes were cast against the proposi- tion.
 Mrs. Thos F. Weedin and her little daughter, Jennie, will return home from Los Angeles on the 10th of Sep tember.
 The board of supervisors of Pinal county, fixed the tax rate at S4,35 on each Sl00 valuation, the same rate as was in force last year.
 The Florence Blade says; A report comes down from Kelvin to the effect that Charlie Harpole got caught in fly wheel, Tuesday, and had several ribs broken. We had not aScertained the particulars at the time of going to press.
 Babbitt brothers, of Flagstaff, have a contract for furnishing large num- Der of horses to the British govern ment and are buying all the suitable horses offered. They are shipping them from Flagstaff. The price paid is from s35 to S40.
 M. Breen of the firm of Breen X Peck will shortly depart for the east to complete arrangements with east ern parties for locomobile line to be operated between Nogales and Tucson also between NogaleS, Washington and Duquesne camps. .-Vidette.
 The board of equalization of Gra- ham county has fixed the tax rate at S3.45 on each SlC0 valuation. This Is the same rate as maintained last year. The total assessed valuation of the county is sl,79O. 7O0,7s, being a gain of Ss3,0O0 over last year. The school levy was fixed at .55 on the sl00 valu- ation.
 G. w. Hull came in last evening from the east. During his absence he was called to Scotland on business and while there concluded to take run over to the Paris exposition. He says that the United States leads all othe r countries except France in the exhib- it's displayed. Prescott Journal-Mi- ner.
 There are again whispers of rail- road into the TOnto Basin country. There is no doubt but that railroad builders have had this proposition under earnest consideration for q couple of years, and the country has been thoroughly looked over and eSti- mates of expenditures and returns made. Competent men inform the News that road to TontO means a road up the Verde valley.-Jerome News.
 A curious thing happened at Mesa Thursday evening during the electric storm. says the Gazette. A man was sleeping under big tree and the lightning struck the tree and entirely obliterated it's trunk and top and GOV cred the man with dirt But strange to say never injured him. This is one of the marvellous escapes from death that we often read about but rarely see.
 NIT. George Collins the owner of a large ranch southwest of the city, iS| one of the few men who has but little occasion to worry over the water ques- tion, says the Phoenix Republican.
 
 The great we'll on the Collins land is now down about 30 feet and an So horse power engine is pumping out a stream of about 100 inches. The well is 100 feet long and 45 feet wide. Sev- eral other like wells are to be dug in that neighberhOod and several others near Tempe.
 The StOckman says that promin- ent sheepman of CocOnino county who habitually drives to the Salt river valley to winter his sheep, has given out the information that never again will Sc many sheep be pastured there as last winter, The reason given is that last year many were induced tO try the winter ranging in the val ley who had never done 50 before. The result was very unsatisfactory in many ways, and for these reasons they. will not care to repeat an unsatisfactory experiment..
 It is reported, on reliable authority, says the Lordsburg Liberal, that the Southern Pacific will not put on the Sunset limited this winter, but VIII