Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-29

or an average of more than r. instruments. per working day With force of four deputies Recorder Jonn- sons office presents lively scene any time one may drop in there Journal Miner.
 1t has e st the taxpayers SlO.3l6.46 to conduct tile affairs of Jerome the past l2 months. Of this amount the police force received S3,273: lawyers and court fees about sl, ,33S Eleven hundred dollars were paid for other salaries; streets and sidewalks cost Sl ,s67 .46; the fire department repre- sent> an outlay of Sl,249.j0: the jail s4l5.l5. During the year Sll ,299.5G have been collected.
 The santa Fe x Grand Canon R. R. is now prepared t0 handle passengers from Williams to the Grand Canon of the Colorado. Daily passenger trains are run + miles out and connect with n stage line to Bright Angel Trail. a distance of 20 miles, where there is completed comfortable temporary hotel. which will accommodate 30 or B people. The railroad will be com pleted to the rim of the canyon not later than May l5.
 C. w. Hinclilie. assistant superin- tendent of the Sunset Telephone X Telegraph company. expects to have his telephone line completed between Prescott and Tucson by the 2nd or 4th of April, When it is completed, the Sunset company will throw open its offices in Phoenix, Tucson and Pres colt for 24 hours for the benefit of the general public, during which time every body in the three cities can talk over the Sunset line free of charge.
 A circular letter has been issued by the Grand Master Workman of the X. e. U. W. of the Arizona iurisdic- tiUn announcing the retirement of Grand Master A. C. Hood and the ap. pointment of Grand Foreman W. D. Co i'll the vacancy for the term. The new Grand Mas ter Workman Is a well known Tomb stoner, now resident of Pearce, and we'll qualified and eminently fitted to ill the high fraternal office says the Prospector.
 Chas. T. Cornell, city clerk of Tue son. has received a letter from An Carnegie S secretary, stating that the drafts uf the proper authorities Of Tucson for sums as needed from time to tune to pay for work on the library to the extent of S25,0O0, will be hon ored. Work upon the erection of the new library building will be ordered started at the next meeting Of the common council and Mir. Carnegie will be drawn upon for d substantial sum with which to meet the expense.
 Surveyors of the Denver X Rio Grdnde railroad are reported to be sur yeying d route from Durango to the Grand Canon in Arizona, says the All buquerque Citizen. The proposed railroad will pass Aztec, Farmington, cross the Navajo Indian reservation, on which there are immensely rich copper propositions owned by Pitts burg people, and then cross the north eastern corner of Arizona to cOnnec- tion with the Grand Canon railroad from Williams. now being completed.
 Flagstaff is to hold d town election on April ?. The Coconino Sun says. It is the determination of our citizens to select the members of the council from the leading business men, and q majority of the taxpayers have signed a petition asking Messrs T. F.. Pol lock, David Babbitt, E. E. EllinwoOd. E. s. Gosney and Julius Abineau to accept the nomination for councilmen. They have consented, and the the ticket will be known as the Citizens ticket.
 There is a 0-year-old boy in the county jail from Jerome, says the Prescott Journal Miner, who is ac- cused of starting up an engine on the Jerome road and wrecking lot of
  cars: also, with starting up gasoline hoist at the Nautical group of mines and wrecking lot of property there. In both cases men in charge of the engines were temporarily absent. When the boy opened the throttle of the railroad engine, he jumped off, and spectators wondered what started up the engine.
 The visit of MT. Huntington and party to Sonora, Mexico. may result in cheaper fuel for Arizona. This would prove of much importance. Coke laid down at from 8 to S7 per ton. would result in more than quad- rllping the output of copper, which would increase the freight traffic of the <. P. company just so much more. The reduction in the price of fuel is one way in which the $. P. company can help itself and the territory at one