Arizona silver belt., 1901-05-02
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises--Go Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

turned into bank. The utensils prob ably will be utilized in shaving notes.
 In 1900 the Arizona copper company disblrsed s42l, l5S, which is equal to 45 per cent per annum on its ordinary share capital.
 The orange, lemon and lime trees in the village gardens are lovely to behold in their fragrant robes of bud and blossom, says the Yuma Sentinel.
 The Gazette printing company of Phoenix filed papers of amendment to it's incorporation papers increasing the capital stock from $25, 900 to Sl0,- GOO.
 Judge Samuel Ritter PeterS,of Kan sas, who has been selected to succeed Henry Clay Evans as commissioner of pensions, is a brother-in-law of Judge F. NJ. Doan, judge of the second judi cial district of Arizona,
 A Southern Pacific railroad hospital will soon be established either at Tue SOB or Fl PasO. pr. Gardner, chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific, has been in Tucson this week looking over the ground for a suitable site.
 Manager Sanford Robinson of the Carlisle Mining company, of Duncan, has decided to put in wireless tele- graph line from there to Carlisle in stead of telephone. He claims it can be operated at much less expense and will work to perfection in this high altitude.
 The general land office has author ized its surveyors to proceed to the reserves in the territory at once. The object of the survey will be largely tn establish the metes and bounds of the reserves and compile official maps of them, but the work will also establish whether there is any large deposit of mineral to be fUund.-WinslOw Mail.
 During the last six weeks over 9 ,000 dClES Oi IdJu DtCu utOI III Yuma county, nearly all being by homesteaders. This means large farming population added to Yuma's tax paying citizenship. It also means that Yuma City is about to enter upon her growth as commercial center.- Star.
 The Graham Guardian says: Re- ports from different portions of the Gila valley are to the effect that the late severe froSts did not injure the the fruit crop as badly as was at first supposed. The apple and pear crop will oe as heavy as usual and the peach crop is not injured to very great extent. The apricots were in- jured more than any other fruit, vet in some orchards good crop of this fruit will be harvested.
 William Wynkoop Watkins, an old gentleman who had lived alone on a ranch near Yuma, was adjudged in- sane last week and sent to the terri tOrial asylum. The Sentinel says, his mind is supposed to have become un- balanced from living alone and broOd- ing over financial reverseS which have marked his life in the west. One of his Authorizations is that the J. Pier repent Morgan syndicate is indebted to him in the sum of S2,000,0 900 and will not pay him.
 A smallpox epidemic has broken out at Cochise and five cases are reported there under quarantine. The disease was brought there by stranger and those who are down with the dread afflictiOn were exposed before they kne what the disease was. One case has since develoDed at Pearce and the inhabitants Of the latter place fear an epidemic. Several persons are be- leved to have been exposed and there is considerable excitement there.- Prospector.
 The Arizona & New Mexico Rail- road company will commence chang ing its track, between Lordsburg and Clifton, from narrow gauge to broad gauge on May and expects to have the work completed by May F. This will be quite d job, as at one stretch there will be eighty thousand spikes to draw, the rails to be moved and then the eighty thousand spikes must again be driven into the ties. Travel wilt be interrupted while the change is being made.
 A Yuma company composed of John NJ. Speese, Mulford Winsor, H. II. McPhaul and W. E. Marvin have se- cured a splendid heading at Cocopah Point, eighteen miles above Yuma and will construct canal which will water about 10000 acres of splendid land lying a1jacent to Yuma and north of the Gila river. It is all en-