The Arizona daily orb., 1900-04-06
FRIDAY. APRIL 6.

' The original copy ot the declaration (
 Independence Is no longer to be seen b
 the pubic, because exposure to the al
 aud light has made text and signature
 almost illeglole, The uocument Is no'
 kept in a safe in the library of the stat
 department at Washington, and it
 believed that the faded lines are re
 covering some 0. thir color.
 As be ween tunneling and sinking z
 strike the vein, the advantage, ordin aRily, lies with tunneling The tunne is self-drawing; 1t needs no hoistin, machinery the cost per foot is less timbering IS easier provided for. Where the enterprise is not on an unusu Fly large scale, and the distance is not over 3 feet of tunnel to one foot of shaft sun k, the tunnel is deemed preferabe. Of course, special circums, ances govern every case and no general rule can app ply.--M &. s. Press.
 The Prescott Courier says there is considerable mining activity in the Black Rock district of Yavapai county. Several financially heavy outfits have taken hold of properties in the district, among them the Stan lard Oil Company who have let contract to sink double compartment working shaft 200 feet deep on the Hammond mine. The contract price for sinking the shaft is said to be $37 foot. Twenty-nine thousand feet et Oregon pine will be used in timber ing the shaft.
 [Jerome, Ariz., News: ] President R A. Thomas of the Black Hills Copper Company is in Jerome, and will remain here for some time looking after the in- terests of his company. At the ovelop- ment of this now valuable property is turned the eyes of the local mining world. With every foot of development new evidences that they have a pay mine are uncovered. All the treasury stock of this company haa been with drawn from the market, and the com pany is refusing offers of $3 therefor.
 Quarters for Bryan.-Tne committee, of which s. P. Clark is chairman, ar- ranging for the coming of William J. Bryan, met in the Ford hotel yesterday and formed various plans for the care of Bryan and his party during their brief stay in Phoenix. Quarters for the party have been eecured at the Ford hotel when Bryan arrives, which pro- bably will be at S;30 on the morning of April 12. It has not been decided whether the whole or any part of the re- ception committee will be present at the breakfast.--Republican.
 At Wilcox convention of stockmen determined upon an important move covering the valley and adjacent passes from the CEiricahuas north of the Sierra Bonita ranch. The proposition indof- sed was that the stockmen of the dis trict should buy oL purchasing com mittee to be chosen from among them, numbers of high grade Hereford bulls proportion, to their holdings of cattle. the number of bulls actually apportion- ed is lSS and it is expected that several additional s,ockmen will join the com bination, as 10 doubt such large num- Der of bulls can be bought at more reasonable price than could the num- Der required by single stockman.-- Range News.
 There were filed for record "a few days ago in Yuma, the articles of incorpora- ton ot the Imperial Land Company, a corporation that is to act in connection with the Mexican company that is to construct the great canal to take water from the Colorado river to irrigate sev- eral hundred thousand acres of land in San Diego county, California, also a large tract of land Tn Lower California 10000 acres of which is now owned by the Mexican company. Work on this canal will be commenced as soon as possible and water is promised to the settlers before the close of the year This is said to be the, largest irrigation enterprise ever projected in the United States.