Arizona silver belt., 1901-01-24
LEGISLATIVE PREDICTIONS
The Wants of Territorial Institutions Are nsatiable-- County Divi-
 siOn--Rsapportionment.

siOn--Rs apportionme i Phoenix Cor espondcnt of the Bulletin.
 The territorial Institutions are con- Ing to The legislature for about the usual run ol appropriations. The Unl versity will usk for an issue of S25, 900 ln per cent bonds for additional build- luSs. It's current support Is maiuly from tue general government, which donates about $40, OU0 year Tor the ! support of ihe University uunrxes of The lnsaue a.y lum needs n new water supply system uud laundry, as we'll as ! eXtensive alterations of the measly structure In winch It Is housed. The i NoI tberu ArIZuua normal school, which has about exhausted the $2o, 0OO lett over from tue home for the insane iuud, needs laboratory eqnipmvut, heating sy stem the fitting up of wlug i ot the big, half empty budding ns Il girls dormitory aud then n regular tax levy of about ? mills for support The normal school at Tempe, wilh its attendance of l20 budding teachers, emphaticaliy needs the enlargement of It's tax support from B to 5 mills. It Is doubtful II the Tempe school wiil call for any special approprlutlou, though dormitory for girls would be n good thing. The dormitories at tue University have proven complete success, atfording the best of board and lodging for the students, at cost of only Sl5 month. The capitol will call for flight of granite steps to the main entinnce, an improvement that will practically finish the structure as IL now stands.
 Concerning the territorial prison, as one member puts 1t, Yuma will keep the old jail, but will have to be satisfied with that There's no use improving the old adobe. Some day Arizona will wake up to the necessity of having Il decent, modern penltentiary, with more steel bars and fewer rihemen as guards
 It looks to man up tree as though "Clark" county were foregone con cluslon. Territorial history can be searched in vain for an instance where H J. Allen failed to get what he want ed from n legislature. The proposed county will be warm thing. It will take in the eastern half of poor old Yavapai, including the upper end of Tonto basin Bigbug, the Agua Fria country and the whole of the valley of tue Verde will be cut off. Prescott will be left in remote corner of the old county as the line that Mir. Allen has drawn runs only seven miles east uf the old county seat, to turn west ward only ten miles north of Prescott, SO as to include Williamson valley and bit mNre of Santa Fe Pacific. About all that appears to be left to Yavapai are the Bradshaw mountains and bit of Big Chine plain.
 These county subdivisions are going to bring mp before the legislature the question of reapportionment of legis- lators. Pima county will not stay con tent with councilman in common with Santa Cruz, while Apache, Maya io, Mohave and Yuma counties, divi- sions of the lowest class, politically, have councilman each Yayapai and Clark counties will refnse to share councilman between them, Many ap- pear to think county is entitled to a councilman Not at all Less than 20 wears ago Gavapai. then embracing Il third of the territOry's area had five of the twelve councilmen all 10 herself There is no law thnt prevents the egis. hiure from grouping the smaller counties into conucil districts and g,v ing the larger counties councilmen in proportion to their population At any event there is going tO be shift ing of nssemhl ymen, on the evidence of popula'Ion reports from the last national ceusus