Arizona silver belt., 1901-06-20

beled and placed in the collection for the delectation of visitors and for exhibition to eastern visitors Gazette.
 Work was commenced few day ago sinking for water at Seligman, by the railroad company. The location for the well was located by a man who claims to possess certain qualities which are infallible in the location of water. He is under bond to the com pany, by a strong financial concern of St. Louis, that given amount of water will be found at the location selected, and in case of failure to do so he is to pay all the expense of bor- ing, and in case of success he is to re- ceiye 5000 for making the selection of the place. Journal Miner
 The Tempe correspondent of The Republican says; The south side farming country al present is indeed very busy. ThresherS, headers, hay balerS and mowers humming every where. The yield of the south side, as usual, is by far the heaviest in the valley. A larger part of the second crop of hay IS now put up and farmers are irrigating for the other crops. The south side has the largest dairieS, apiarieS, alfalfa and grain ranches in the valley and the farmers and citi- ZenS of this part of the valley are said to be the most thrifty and benevolent in the west.
 b. ;. Drew returned from d trip out to Aravaipa country, where within a few days he purchased 2,000 head Ot choice cattle for Miller X Lux Of San Francisco. Mr. Drew asserts that there are plenty Of cattle in this sec ton if buyers are willing tO pay for them He says he could easily buy lU,UOO on short notice If they were wanted. E, k. Hooker aud k. j. Stark, cattle buyers, corrObrate MT. Drew 5 statement Yet, there are few strangers coming in here who stay around town Tor few days, and re- turn home asserting that there are no cattle in this section. Range News.
 The Immense grain crop On the Bart lett-Heard ranch narrowly escaped de- structiOn by ire on Saturday. The tire started in the newly made stbble on extreme eastern end of the ranch. In q very short time after the fire started oyer one hundred men were on the 1 scene and blows were set to turning down the Stu6ble between the fire and the miles of uncut grain lying to the westward. A counter ire was then started on the east side of the furrOw and aided by strong wind from the southwest the men were enabled tO hold the flames in check. Had the wind been from the east no power could have prevented the destruction of thousands of acres of grain. The fire covered an area of about one hun dred and sixty acres. It is not known how it started. Tempe News.
 A Prescott dispatch of June b says: ]. K. May, professional hunter, ar rived in town today from Clear Creek in the MOgOllOn mountains in the eastern part of this county, and re- | ported that his partner, John Me Carthy, had been missing since June :. Both are experienced hunters and mountaineerS and had gone to the mountains to fill an order from east ern parts for specimens of Arizona wild pigeons and four dozen tassel- cared or fur squirrels, an animal found only in the MogOllon range of mourn tainS. They were accompanied by | two other persons, and on the morn ing of June :, while May was in Flag staff purchasing supplies, Mccarthy lett tO go to Poverty FlIt, distance of about three miles, to shoot some pigeons, since which time nothing has been heard of him.
 AdOlph Solomon of the firm of Solo, mon X Wickersham, visited his home in Fl PasO last week. He thinks there is yet no question about the BiSbee railroad going to Fl PaSo, as termi- nus at that point will be worth as much to the railroad as it will be to the city Of Fl PasO. MT. Solomon does not take seriously the talk about the Bisbee road making a terminus at Deming and using the Santa Fe tracks from Deming to Fl PasO. It is pretty well understood that the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific are very close friends and the Bisbee people might just as well use Southern Pacific tracks from Deming as the Santa Fe tracks. The object of building the Bisbee road is to get an outlet for the freight of Phelps, Dodge & Co. inde- pendent of the Southern Pacific, and El Paso offers a number of trunk lines to the east.-Bullet