Arizona silver belt., 1900-05-10

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 The Florence Tribune says there are less than 10000 acres of land in the Casa Grande valley owned by white men, upon which water would be required to be furnished from the san Carlos reservoir, an insignificant amount when it is considered that the dam at san Carlos would impound suf- ticient water for l20, sos acres. Water for 1000 acres would be an abund- ance for the Indians, leaving 200,60S acres to be disposed of And there IS fully that amount of rich, level land, absolutely owned by the government less 10000 acres owned by indiyidualSl which could be readily sold for Sl0 an acre with water right, nearly sufficient to pay for the dam. The engineers have so reported and their estimates are conservative.
 The Phoenix board of trade has re- ceived sample bottles of picked olives and olive oil from ChaS. P. Grogan. of Los Angeles. The olives were grown on the Arizona Water company'S farm near Phoenix, and last seasons crop was donated to Mir. Grogan who erect ed a small plant for extracting the oil and pickling the olives in Phoenix, and had the product bottled at his larger works in Los Angeles. As for the quality of the product the Speci- mems on exhibition are evidence enough. says the Republican. Mr. Grogan writes that the olives are SUI, perior to the California fruit and the oil is purer than the imported article and commands good price. In proof of his faith in the Arizona product he has written MT. Cleary, manager Of the Arizona Water company, asking for an opportunity to bld on this years crop.
 In the artesian district four miles from SafTord, Briggs Lee has fine ar tesian well, which spoutS 5000 gallons of water per hour, and he has ma chine on the ground to put down an other well. His brother Frank has fine flowing well in the same neighbOr- hood, as also Mir. Alger. These wells were all secured. at q small depth, ranging from llj to 2G0 feet. Just south of these locations Mir. Hlldreth has a fine well. The parties lately locating these homesteadS will have wells Spouting in few months, and in another season these Cactl and dcS- ert lands will bloom like garden. There are two theories in regard to the underground flow of water in this district. One is that these streams are fed from the overilOwing canyons on the north and east shed of the Gra- ham mountains, while others claim it is the same flow that breaks out in springs along the Cienega. and which evidently comes from distance. This latter theory is the one shared by our surveyor, MT. Stafford Ari- Zonian.
 The Santa Fe Pacific railroad com pany'S depot and warehouse at King man together with several cars loaded with coal, were entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of April 2s. The origin of the fire is something of a mystery, as the wind was blowing in the wrong direction for it to have baught from a train, and as there was a little sprinkle of rain during the night there is some reason to believe that it may have been started inten- tionally. The fire had gained such headway before it was discovered that nothing could be saved from the freight house, and Agent Gooding and family had only just time enough to escape with their lives, losing all their household effects, and not having time to save even their clothes and valuables, all of which were con sumed. As the warehouse was full of freight and the books and waybillS all destroyed. it will be hard to Straghten matters out. The depot will doubt less soon be replaced with a more sub Stantial one. Mohave Miner.
 Among the resolutions adopted by the republican territorial convention held in Phoenix April 30, was one ap- proving the grazing of sheep and cat tie on forest reserves. The Phoenix papers declare that it will defeat the republican ticket in Maricopa county next fall, as sentiment in Salt river valley is strongly against the granting of grazing privileges by the govern ment. The Phoenix Republican says: The resolution in favor of opening the forest reserves, against which there was not the slightest division of opinion in this valley, is regarded as the most damaging blow to republican, ism in this county that the fooliShness of children could have delivered at a time when every farmer, cattleman and merchant is moving heaven and earth to prevent the opening of the re- serves. It was fought in the commit tee and was forced into the report by a single vote as a concession to the north. llNNhnf in the name nf God did YOll