Arizona silver belt., 1901-03-07

pect.
 The valley of the Salt river is one
 continuous field of green and blossom,
 the prettiest and most productive spot
 on Gods smiling earth. Gazette.
 Every day some new action of the
 Phelps Dodge company bears out the
 prediction that the company will build
 the Bisbee road from Fl Paso and do
 the work some time in the early sum
 mer. Tucson Star.
 Word has been received from Wash
 ington that Secretary of the Interior
 Hitchcock would modify his order in
 regard to the grazing of forest reserves
 Tn northern Arizona and would prob
 ably throw the San Francisco reserve
 open to stock of all descriptions with.
 out any restrictions - Winslow Mall.
 good looking, nicely dressed girl
 IS working the Arizona towns. The
 glrl goes into a place and organizes q
 class to learn fancy work, collects S2
 as entrance fee" and quietly lights
 out. She worked her scheme in Phoe-
 nix and Tucson. She is said to be
 headed this way.-Prospector.
 The Chicago Record in describing
 the sportsmen's exhibition notices the
 following Arizona features The Coliseum presents the appearance of a vast miniature forest filled with fish and game of every description and brought from every corner of the globe The Grand Canyon of the Colorado is Is reproduced in miniature by means of huge painting and a rough moun- tain trail leading up to considerable height. Beside It is the Hogan" of the Navajo Indians, who busy them selues by weaving the native blankets.
 Many visitors from the city are viewing the shearing of sheep at the Hugh Campbell camp, north of the Black canyon bridge across the Ari- zona canal. There are probably 80, 900 sheep herded in the valleys within ten miles and no scarcity of feed, in fact enough to feed five times that number of sheep. Several thousand ewes have been taken further west, for lam ping, and are located near butte four miles up on the canyon road At the camp there are a half hundred mon at work. The shearers are paid four cents per head and some of them can shear from lOO to l5O Il day. .--Phoepix Repub- hcan.
 The cattlemen oi the TontO section of Gila county express a regret that one of the legislators from their own county should be endeavoring to have the bounty on predatory animals re- duced. It is believed that the bounty law as it now stands is none too good for the destruction of the many wild beasts that run the range and destroy their young cattle. The belief of the of that section is heartily seconded by the cattlemen of other counties, and the majority being of that belief, the legislature will prob ably let the bounty law stand as it is. regardless of the recommendation of the superyisoral convention. Stock ! man.
 Sheriif ] Y. Parks of Graham cuun- Jy, and his deputies, J. D. Hill and l.. 1 J. Hobbs, made very important cap | lure of band of cOunterfeiters near Clifton. To Star representative | sheriff Parks said that the gang, eight l n number, had been operating for the asst three months along the line of | ,he railroad between LOrdsburg and | Jiiftnn. There was one white man in . ihe party, the balance being Mexi- . ans. The American kept a saloon md most of the money was passed by i'm. The money was passed of on nen who turned in their time checks t the saloon and received the worth ess money in return. The money 'assed was silver dollars and good except defective in weight. To an unobServing person the money ould easily be passed off. Two mem- CTS of the gang escaped with all the D0lS and large amount of counter cit money. The six captured were aken to Solomonyille and placed in he jail. TucSon Star.
 w. II. Hoey, collector of customs at .ogales, stopped over yesterday en Iute from Phoenix home. He has cen in attendance at meeting of the republican central commit 'e. The matter of federal appoint tents, said MT. Hoey, was up for dis isslol, but nothing was done in the -emiseS. It is understood that Gov nor Murphy has considerable in- lence in regard to appointments, tewise National Committeeman Mar al Griffith. Colonel Isaac r. Stod- lrd, of Yavapai county. has an eye Charley Aker'S place as secretary
 the territory. Governor Murphy IS a commission dating four years Dm August, 1898, and Postmaster T leyney occupies a like position. Idge Davis. of the first judicial dis. let, is d close friend of the president