Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-15
ARIZONA. News and Comments Pertaining to the Territory at Large.
Territory at Large.

eo Nolic again Mouudy, anu prove Ulal he possesses a legal permit to cure the ills of humanity. The law bearing on this question is very specific, and all infractors are dealt with severely. The case arouSes considerable interest among the medical fraternity.-l Gazette.
 Flagstaff, the Arizona city which much of the time dwells above the clouds and which is the ideal summer resort of Arizona, is making rapid pro greSs as commercial city. About s240,000 in the value of buildings was added to the city above the clouds last year.
 san Carlos Apache IS recently tried to wreck train on the c. V. c. X N. railroad by driving horse shoe be- tween the ends of two rails short distance below Geronimo. He was caught in the act by Indian Farmer Knowles and taken to Solomonville. His reason for the act was that his pony had been killed by train.
 A colored preacher in Philadelphia has figured out that hell is only fifty miles below the earth and that his lig- ures start from certain mountain peak in the Himalayas. This would bring the Salt river valley on a dead level, therefore, you may know just about what Phoenix is. Tucson Citizen.
 We learn from our exchanges of quite number of Arizona young men leaving to join the Boers in their bat ties. Arizona, you will notice please, is generally on the right side of any question affecting the cause of liberty, and her young men are fired with the patriotic zeal and love of liberty of their revolutionary sires. St Jonns Herald
 Robert Cole, says the Prescott Pros pect, an experienced miner who has pounded the head of drill in many widely separated mining camps on this oblate spheroid, arrived in Pres cott last week from Delamar, Nevada, having navigated his mule team the | entire distance He says that Dela- mar is a good enough camp for work, but that the nature of the work kills men of if they stay with it, as the ore is handled by dry process in Griffin mills and the inhalation of the dust affects the lungs. The Delamar mine l is down about l,2O0 feet, with l6 | levels, and in mine and mills between loo and 300 men are employed. As high as 100 tons of ore are handled daily. and no ore that runs less than g. per ton can be worked with profit l He also states there is much talk 1 there os Arizona. where things are said to be on the boom, and that ten men are working here to one in Ne yada. At Deer Lodge and State Line camps, some 90 miles south of Della mar, boom is looked for this coming spring. Several mines are being open ed up there, and as soon as the snow is gone two or three mills will be erected. MT. Cole $ experience among mines is vast and varied, and he is on the look out for a chance to try mining in Arizona.
 The following article is from the pen of Joe Mulhattan, the recognized liar of America. if not of the universe, who wrote to the Phoenix Republican in regard to the Ray mines. There is little or no truth in the article, and il is reproduced only to show that Ari' zona climate does not have any dele terious effect upon an elastic imaglna. tion: "There IS temporary closing down of the Ray mines. on Minera
 creek, caused, ii is said, by dctermi
 nation on the part of the principa
 stockholders to weed out some of tho
 young British blOods of extravaganza
 habits who have been flying high O
 late in their management of the Ray
 Mining cOmpany'S big property. It il
 reported here that they built bloom
 ing big club house at Kelvin, the nev
 town near Riverside, at cost of S2O, GOO, stocked it with champagne an'
 lots of Bass bloomin' bloody stout ant
 pale ale. They bought bath tubs deco
 rated with flesh colored sea nymph and mermaids at cost of over $50
 each. They erected system of wate works. bought brilliant, beautiful tables of the most expensive kind Don't you know" They are the son
 and nephews of the big English stock holders who had every confidence Il
 them learning all about mining il l Arizona: but alas, "The best laid plan of mice and men gang aft aglee, :" an l the greater number of these sons c $ the British Lion left yesterday for tn - scenes of their childhood Grizzly e red-headed. practical Cornish miner ;. will take their places at an early day s and the proceeds of the big bodies
 cooper now blocked out in the Ra n mines will reach the cOiIerS of th !, stockholders instead of being waste T .. | ( .f x