Arizona silver belt., 1901-12-05
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
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 maj school library. Tempe News.
 An Arizona cowboy named Gray won the roping contest in Alouquer- que. He roped his bovine in forty seconds.
 Mir. F.. B. Gage thinks the popula- ton of Tombstone will increase 1000 in the next six months, and that we will have 5,OO0 people before long, Range News.
 The Erie Mining company, in south RiSbee has patented it's ground and laid out the surface as townSlte. The property will be known as the Erie Addition.-Prospector.
 All tke troops at Ft. Logan, Colo, have been ordered to Fort Huachua and will be under command of Lieut.. Colonel Cooper, who will be trans ferred from Fort Logan tO Huachuca. During a recent visit of Prof Doug las to Morenci, he presented the pub lie school house with a new bell, and arranged to have the text books trans lated into Spanish at his own expense. Five Chinamen were found in an old house in Tucson the other day by the officers These Chinamen had been smuggled into the United States. They were arrested and ordered de- ported.-Star.
 After December 9th. an extra bag gage car will be put on Southern Pa cific trains Nos. and 10, and each will be occupied by regular baggage master. This addition is necessitated by the increased passenger traffic.
 A HOlbrook man was chopping kindling wood when he got tangled up with the axe in some way and had his arm broken. Served him right. A man who will thus interfere with his wife's business ought to have both arms broken.
 While digging in the ruins of an Aztec mound recently, w. W. Grigs- by, whose home is in Skidmore, Mo, found frog which had been carved from turquoise. The relic was found in the Tonto country and Grigsby re- fuses to part with the treasure at any price Phoenix Gazette.
 Steel is being received for the Pi- cache railroad, to be built between snl, E kingman and the Colorado river. It is said that the Picacho district is lvening up, and thls new road will greatly facilitate mining enterprises thereabOut.-
 Secretary Hamilton of the Board of Trade of Phoenix, now has on hand a large quantity of all kinds of Arizona literature which can be had for the asking provided it is to be used for friends in the east who contemplate coming west. .There are number of booklets and copies of mining editions of various papers in the country.- Gazette.
 
 papers of the Santa Fe building a branch road from Congress Junction to the Colorado river, tapping the Bill Williams country. We have faith that the Santa Fe will ultimately build such road, but we also think it will be from Wickenburg instead of Congress Junction. News Herald. Two car loads of eggs arrived in Prescott on Nov. 2l. As there are 500 cases in car load and each case con sists of thirty dozen, the shipment amounts to 1900 cases, 36, 900 dozen. or 432, ,0OO eggs. One would naturally conclude that this would last for a long time, but dealers say they will all be sold within mOnth.-JOurnal- Miner.
 Last Sunday the steamer COchan loaded the locomotive for the Search light and Quartette railroad and af- ter other machinery was taken on board, departed for the big mining camp up the river. The river has been so low that the steamer has made her trips with the greatest difficulty. The river is the lowest in twenty years.
 The St. Johns Ships says: The length of the proposed new railroad from Durango as shown by the recent survey is HI miles. The grade is much less than was expected or ever hoped for. The building of the road means the opening of a vast amount of valuable new country to settle ment and this is an omen that it vii be built.
 President Wm. Garland, of the Gils Valley railway, has been in New Y0rl