Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-18

"S"'P"PViS anticipate building boom in the sprinst,me. tra.la.
 The postoflice at Sandy, Mohaye county, Arizuna, has been dlscon- tinued.
 The Arizona Sportsmens associa. ton tournament meets in Tucson on the 2ist of this month.
 The senate has confirmed Constant Cardier, of Arizona, as second ieutel,- ant in the regular army.
 The health of Ex-Senator John J. IngallS, who Is in Tucson, is reported tu bs improving.
 An exchange recently reported Seventy-hye cases of measles in the PhUeuiX Indian school.
 II. J. Simmons, late of Austin, Tex, is now assist int superintendent uf tl.e Arizona and New Mexico rdllroad.
 Tempe people are agitating the ne- cessity of another bunk. The wave of prosperity has evidently struck the Salt river valley.
 The gas fountains in the bed of the Colorado river. at Yuma. are now lighted every night and illuminate the passing waters.
 The amount of taxes collected in Graham county up to the rluse of blSi- ness On Dec. 30 was s60, 900, a gain of s7,00O over 1898.
 California biilt 209 miles of railroad in 1899, New Mexico, l25: Montana, SS; Colorado, l30; Oregon, T; Wa>L- ingtOn, 7S; AriLnna, ..
 CSalt River valley oranges are said to command a higher price in New York than do the California uaveIs, being sweeter and of superior flavor.
 Mulford Wins IT, late editor of the Yuma Sun, has been appointed ass ssnr of Yuma county by the board of supervisors.
 1The Benson Breeze is again in the field. Nearly month asp the plant burned. but a new one has been purch- aSed and that paper resumed publica- ton January 10.
 The fnur-year-old child of ]. liar desty, of Tempe, felliutnan irrigating ditch one day last week and was drowned. The child tloated down the ditch and over half mile before the l !. The Arizona Copper company paid last year as taxes sl4.0O2.'3, nearly s2OOO more than in the preceding year. The Detroit Copper company paid s7, 700 56. against S5,42i.oS in ls9s. At Phoenix, on the 1>t inst, the Carlisle Indian football team defeated the Phoenix Indian school team by a score of S3 to6. The Carlisle team IS one Of the best in the United States. | A Washington dispatch of the Sth | instant, says Senator Clark and party | have returned. All are we'll pleased | with their trip and heartily impressed with the propriety of the admission or the territory as a state.
 Those who are not satisfied with the present winter weather would Rick II | they were in the New Jerusalem be- I cause the golden streets were not | coined into twenty-dollar pieces Phoenix Enterprise.
 Those Yavapai miners who went to | Peru some time since, write to friends that they do not find the country to | be the Garden of Eden they supposed | it was. It is still true that all Is no' | gold that glitters.
 Quietly but surely arrangements aie perfecting for the construction oi d rsilroad from Phoenix to Port iSapcii on Adair bay, lsO miles distant; alse | from Phoenix to the rich mining dis' trict north of the city.-Phoenix hn terprise.
 N 1The hank soon to be established II Bistee will have the following officers Wm. H. Brophy, president; Jaine' II DOuRlaSS, bcCTcod p"' VI .... 4 ham, cashier. Directors in adai'l.I Il to the above, Ben Williams anS J. n Angius.
 Norman II. Chapin, os Wasaih.Ntoi Camp. Santa Cruz county wefp U Phoenix last week to attend SHe nun eral ceremonies over the remaW' 2 his deceased partner, Jerry N"ii' and was taken i'll with pneunloiiia ai'' died few days later.
 A report is current that r'oi gar den on the Fleming buildlp@ is in cNil Emulation. It is said that tne e'e yator will be increased in sIka of O" placed in, and everything put n n'S' class condition. The garden "'up add another attraction to that popu" building. Enterprise.
 Froilana Lucero, sister of the LucPi oh M