Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-25

| Ryan brothers have about 30 men at work on their property and have opened up during the past week good body of carbonate ore.-Pros- pector.
 Poles for eight miles of power line came in on this mornings train. The | line will be run by Consolidated Canal company from it's power house to sec tion p, south of Mesa, where It will be used to pump water from three large wells. It is expected that the wells which are connected, will fur nish a steady flow of 200 inches of wa ter which will be used for irrigating purposes. Tempe News.
 Messrs. Shields X Price have or dered a carload of grain sacks to hold their grain crop of this season. The load consists of 10000 sacks and the cost of them, delivered from ship to the car at San Francisco, was $3500. How is that for Pinal county farm, 1 in the so called desert of Arizona? They have 1900 acres of grain and it will yield about three times more grain to the acre than will the famous grain fields of Dakota, Minnesota, etc. Arizona Blade.
 The Holbrook Argus says Infor- nation has been received from Bin | ger Hermann, commissioner of the land office, that 225, 900 sheep will be l allowed to graze upon the Black Mesa forest reserve during the coming sea son. Sheep will be excluded from that part of the reserve in Graham county and south of the Gila-Colorado divide, also all south Of the rim of 1 the Mogollon mesa and west of the | line between ranges nine and ten, which is along the Verde-CoIorado divide.
 It is said that telephone system, | using common barb wire fences as a | conductor of the voice of it's patrons. has been placed in use at CrttendOn, | Pima county, conversation being held over this line as easily as any long distance telephone line. The line | runs from hotel to a farm nine miles in the country and it is placed in operation by several farmers for | their private use. The entire line is nine miles in length, with four tele- phones and cost less than s1O0- | Gazette.
 Major Allyn Lewis, southwest agent for the New York Life Insurance Co, with headquarters at Phoenix, has been business visitor at Nogales this week. He is on his way to Her mosillo and Guymas to establish agen- cies for his company and incidentally to organize the order of Buffaloes, of. which popular benevolent organiza- tion he is past master The major initiated a large class of BuifaloeS while here, and it is not a surprise that he left NogaIes somewhat fatigued after having gone through the work with each new member- | Vidette.
 Moses Kicker, of the Newton Pack ing company, Newton Mass, who was here last winter and saw some of the cactus novelties manufactured by Fred E. White, wrote the latter this week that he has been consulting | some furniture men who may take | hold of the goods and haT de them in the eastern markets. He asked MT. White to ship him some samples of picture frames. napkin rings and ta- | bleS, also some of the raw material so that his men can work some of it up into furniture and see what they can l do with it. It is the intention of the local cactus manufacturing company to establish d branch factory in the east as soon as they get the factory here on a.solid basis. They will then dress the raw material here and ship it to theft eastern branch to be worked up into furniture and novelties there to supply the eastern market.--Ari- zona Blade.
 The active search for oil is likely to add another important industry to Arizona $ varied resources. The Jour nal-Miner says, the oil land locating craze has reached pretty close to Pres colt. It is stated that several hun dred acres of alleged oil land have been located in Willow creek basin, about three or four miles northwest of the town. The land had been pre- vlously located for coal, but no work of any consequence was ever done to- ward prospecting it thoroughly. Sand | stone, limestone, Shale and slate are found there, and it is claimed that there is spring in the basin which gives out oil at times. Some who have made study of Willow creek basin seem to think there is better show for striking oil there than in any 1 of her Dlacp in the cDuntv ,ybila h,