Arizona silver belt., 1901-10-10

Col. Alex. 0. Brodie last week at a
 dinner which he gave to few of his intimate friends. The president has
 the reputation of being strong in his
 likes and dislikes. It appears that Inc
 has high regard for Colonel Brodie
 Friendship formed on the field Of bat
 tie are seldom shaken in this life
 Such is the tie between the heroes o
 the Cuban war. Star
 It seems strange, says the Paragon
 that in a land where vegetables grow
 to perfection, and in a season when there is no drouth, that people should
 be forced to depend fUr about six out
 of every seven days upon canned veg. etables or do without any. A person
 who could live in Pima few months and not turn sick at the sight of can
 would have to possess a wonderfully constructed stomach.
 The Tucson Post predicts that Col. Alexander o. Brodie will be the next governor of Arizona. The Post says that President Roosevelt recently told Colonel Brodie that whenever he could do anything for him he would get up at o'clock in the morning Jo do il, and during Colonel Brodies campaign for congress, Mir Roosevelt was one of his most constant friends and advisers. He was greatly disappointed when Colonel Brodie was defeated
 Frank King and his wife returned this morning from months stay iu San Francisco. While Mir. King went there partly for pleasure, he has been very busy during his absence, having orders for l5,000 head of cattle to he delivered between November 1 and February l, The price being paid for cattle is good notwithstanding the failure of the grass crop in Nevada, which thlew all Nevada cattle on the California market. There were not enough of these to measurably affect the price The l5,O00 head which MT King has orders for will all go to Cen tral California. During his absence MT King had many inquiries concern ing Arizona mines. He reports d marked interest on the Pacific coast in Arizona mining development.-Tuc- son Citizen.
 The recent filing of the articles of incorporation of the Fl Paso, Phoenix X California railroad with the terri torial secretary has eicited much com ment from the territorial press. A new railroad in Arizona is not always built on paper, although many of the pro. posed schemes have never material iZed. The new concern has d capital stock of Sl0, ,0O0, OOO and is incorporated by II II. McCord, J. l. E Alexander, J. 4. kurtz, J. J. HOdnett and NJ. E.. CLrry. Just what interests are repre- Sented is not now apparent. Eastern capital has recently been interested in the concern, and the promoters claim they will begin the construction work in about four months. The proposed line is from EI PasO to Benson, down the San Pedro valley tO Gila river, down that stream to Florence, and thence via Phoenix to California Phoenix Enterprise.
 Some idea of the immense amount of freight traffic that the mineral de- velopment of Southern Arizona and Sonora is providing is gained from the following Bisbee correspondence of the Citizen: "The sidetracks of the Ari- Zona X Southwestern are filled with cars loaded with coal, coke, lumber and mining supplies for this place, the Cananeas and Nacosari. At Benson last evening there were 275 loads, and all of the sidetracks between Benson and El Paso are filled more or less with loads for this line. At Fl Paso on Thursday there were l65 loads destined for this point which the Southern Pa citic company was unable to move out this way, as there was no side track on which to set them out. The company expects to have one or two more large locomotives during the next few weeks when it expects to clear up some of the yards.
 Construction work was commenced jhis week on the extension of the Ari- | 'ona & New Mexico railroad from Iordsburg to Clifton, and the work | will be pushed as rapidly as possible. The New Mexico x SUuthwes tern is | aying steel out of Deming at the rate 'f nearly mile a day at the present ime. The Arizona & New Mexico win make it's junction with the road from )eming at a point about three miles ast of the old mining camp at Hach. ta, where they have scripped land in most desirable location. A town will 'e laid of there which in the near fu- ure promises to be a place of some inn 'ortance. The town will be about orty miles from Lordsburg and d lit. le further than that from Deming. It will be called Hacbita. Good mines xist iu that section, but owing to the ack of transportation and the low