Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-21

In the suit of $. R. II. Robinson against the Minnesota and Arizona Construction company for Sertices as superintendent of the defendant com pany from April II, 1895, to Sept m- Der 5, 1898. tried before Judge Street at Phoenix last week, the jury rem dered judgment for the plaintiff for Sll,550. The Republican says: There appeared to be no written well under stood contract as to the status of the plaintiif and his compensation. It is denied that his services were continu- ous, but existed only during times when the company was actively en- gagged upon contracts, of which there were only three: for operations upon the Rio Verde canal company, the Prescott and Eastern railroad con stIuction, and a freight forwarding business from Geronimo to Globe. Tie defendants estimate of thc yalne of the supcrintendenps services dur the existence of these contracts was about s75 per month. The case will be appealed, and in all probability will be carried up to the supreme court of the United States.
 The South American exploring party Of the E. Y. academy which left Utah last month arrived iii Thatcher on Saturday last, says the Guardian. The party consists of 23 young Stal- wart men professors and students of the academy. At the head of the party are Pres. Bcnj. Cluif and Pr0fs.
 Wolfe and Hcnning. The object of the cXpa iitiOn is tD mike scientific
 research of Mexico and Central and South America. Their chief work will be along the Magdelena river where they expect to discover ruins of cities inhabited by the ancient pcO- pie of this continent They will reach Mexico by way of NOgaleS, follow down the SeIraS Madre, visit the City of Mexico, then go into YucItan, through Central America, across the lsthmuS, and through South America as far as Valparaiso where they will take a steamer and return to the United States. They expect to be gone two years. They are accompanied by pho tographers, artists, d professor of zoology and botany, and d professor of geology and an interpreter
 c. E. Tyler, of Bisbee, interviewed by reporter of the El Pasa Times, said: The l40O mluers employed in 1 BlSbee receive in the neighborhood Of sl5O 900 per month in wages This large amount ofm0nay released in cir- culation every 90 days means some thing to a town of COCO or 1000 peoeple such as Blsbec Is. The Lowell mine and the South BiSbee mining company are getting good copper leads Cilu- met and Hecla, owners of the Lake Superior property, who recently paid s6OO .0G0.so it is said, for some of Mar tin Costello's property, are likewlse going to do good business. Bisbee copper goes as low as per cent. The big mine is the Copper Queen, owned by Phelps, Dodge X Co This prop erty has about 1jO miles of tunnel and 100 miles of railroad underground. . It is estimated that the company has enough ore in sight for the next % f years, which is big thing in itself | The beautiful feature of the under ground work was the opening of sey p eral caves. In one of these the Ma
 sonic conclaye for Arizona was helc D several years ago The natural inte f rior arrangement of the cave made il , an ideal place for secret lodge work Q the beauties of the ceremonies being , heightened by the electrical illumina a tion arranged especially for the occa , sion.