Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-11
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises -.Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of live Stock--sverybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn

A company has been formed to bore for oil near Tempe.
 Material has begun to arrive al Douglas for the U s, custom house tC be built at that place.
 The boom at Tombstone has begun The town has new restaurant, a new saloon and new law firm.
 Real estate is changing hands and houses are going up rapidly at Naco. The boom has only begun.
 The new code makes the sheriff eN- officio assessor again, in all except first class counties, but the provision does not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1902
 Bisbee is booming. Many business men are seeking openings there, but store locations are hard to get. Thirty buildings are under construction.
 The Bisbee correspondent of the ProspectOr says there are five cases of smallpox in the pest house and three cases quarantined in the resident DOT tiOn of the city.
 It is said that Mesa will try the effect of the local option law enacted by the last legislature and make an abSo- lutely dry town of the south side capital.
 The Phoenix correspondent of the Bulletin says: As near as l can figure up, and fear have overlooked a few items of importance, the last legisla- ture appropriated about s366, 900.
 Ten thousand pounds of poultry was shipped from Phoenix last month to various towns in Arizona, and the outside residents are wondering what kind of ministers Phoenix has got any way.-Gazette.
 A Tempe maid Of sixteen says that the report that there are nl.i.Icropes in kisses was started by an old maid to prevent her younger sisters trom en- toying iife. That Tempe madam is no prude. Gazette,
 The Kingman Miner says large amount Of MOhave county turquoise is now being handled in Los Angeles. The stones are harder and take a much finer finish than those from many other sections of the country.
 The proposed Elks opera house al Prescott when completed will have a seating capacity of l, 100 persons. The front will be of tufa, the balance of brick and stone. The building will be two stories high and lO0xl36 feet.
 Dr. J. M. Ford, E E. Ford. T. E. Parish and Col. Wm. Christy have gone to Mexico to visit mining prop. erty In which pr. Ford and Col. Christy are interested and which is located southeast of HermosllO. state of So. nora. They were joined by Judge Barnes and others at Tucson.
 The contract has been let for sink. ing the first well in the Mineral Point oil field, Yavapai county. Work will be commenced within less than thirty days and will be prosecuted vigor- Ously to completion. The operation will be watched with the greatest in- tereSt.
 The rough riders will hold their third session at Colorado Springs on June 2i. Certainly the meeting of next year should come to Arizona, says the Star. Prescott seems to be the most appropriate place. Let the Arizona delegation keep the matter in mind
 The Cochise Review notes the ship ment of three cars of Sonora steers from Bisbee to San Carlos. They were for C. O. Douglas. beef contractor at the agency. and shipped by his buyer, Ben Sneed, who is still here and on the lookout for more beef cattle. Those shipped by him yesterday were pronounced in unusually fine con. dition.
 The city election held in Solomon vile last Monday was d very tame af. fair. only six votes cast, which indi. cdteS that the interest in the city government does not run very high in Solomonville. Five cOuncilmen were elected as follows: A. G. Smith, w. c. ClemonS, Arturo Elias, Guy Loomis and Adolph Ruiz. Prof A. E. Nelson was elected marshal and Harry Young was elected city Bulletin.
 The day fixed for the installation of the ElkS lodge in Bisbee is A pril 18th. Word has been received from District Deputy Michaeison that such date would he satisfactory. The Tuc,nu team is practcing regularly and have asked the grand lodge for the privilege of assisting in the installation of the Bisbee herd. Surh a large bond is an un;on 70 >ls ln ArZoha and scy-