Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-18
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 Noe, and the Owner of Live Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.
Work was commenced on the new custom house at Douglas last week.

Nork was ColnilenCeu on illc new custom house at Douglas last week.
 A Pima county miner having no paper at hand wrote a Slo0 check on q piece of Shingle, and the check was honorcd at the Tucson National bank.
 The Wilcox. Arizona, Range News says that the Commonwealth Mining & Milling c,impany k going to build two j0.O00- gallon oil tanks at Cochise,
 A Phoenix man sent the following note to his family physicians: My wife's mother is at deaths door. Please call and see if you cannot pull her through. 7"
 Mike Rice, the writer and miner, fell fifteen feet down the shaft of the Eureka mine at Cerbat, and rup- turcd his cuticle in several places. No broken bones.
 Col. Wilson and F. E. Ellingwood have formed a law partnership. Both are good lawyers and good men in d large practice.
 Cold weather and consequent irOStS in portions of the Salt River valley has killed a good deal of fruit and early garden stun has been either killed or retarded in It's growth.
 Imperial, the new town on the Im- pcrial canal B miles south uf Flowing wells. Yuma county, is soon to have a newspaper, the Imperial Press, with II. C. Reed, editor and manager.
 Oii claims were filed in the Maricopa county recorder SOitice on day last week as follows: Thomas w. Parry, 20 acres: Clara $. Black. 50 acres, and James W. Parry, 20 acres The land is located in the Tempe district.
 A new law regarding carrying guns was enacted at the last session of the legislature which gives justices some option. They can now line q man anything from s to 800, instead of $50 flat, as under the old law.-Range News.
 Reports from Verde valley, Oak and Beaver creek say that there win be but little fruit raised there this sea son, frost having killed all the fruit buds. The weather in the valley has been unusually cold for the season during the past month.
 A Tucson attorney had his clothes attached in Phoenix last week while he was taking bath. Constable Me Donald agreed tu give the lawyer his clothes if he paid the bill. It is need less to say that the account was set tied promptly. ly.-Gazette.
 With few exceptions the large and handsome structures in San Fran cisco, Los Angeles and Salt Lake are the results of profit in mining, and the bulk of the manufacturing and in- dustrial enterprises in those three cities had their start from the same source.
 The Arizona Daily Citizen suggests that the republicans Of Arizona should drop Hon. Chas. II. Akers and Hon. l. I. Stoddard, who are seeking the office of territorial secretary. and urge the appointment of more competent man, and mentions that man as being Major James il. McCliutock.
  The Southern Pacific railroad com pany has just had completed the pit and foundation Op which will be placed an immense tank to be filled with oil to be used for fuel on engines. Tanks l of the same capacity lonc million gal i lonsj will also be put in at Fl Paso, Tucson and LordSburg. Range News Frank Fric>ell and David Baxter re- turned Thursday from their trip down l the Colorado river. They had a hard 1 trip and are satisfied with it, but do ! not want to make another trip down | that turbulent stream. They pros pected along the way, but found no | mineral of any value. .-t'OcOnino Sun. l The general land office has author iled the surveyurs to proceed with | the survey of the reserves in the terri | tory uf Arizona at once. The object | of the survey will bc largely to estab- fish the metes and bounds of the re- serves and compile official maps of | them, but the work will also estab fish whether there is any large de- posit Of mineral to be found on the reserves -Coconino Snn.
 Chris ChrisieDseu says be never saw snch crowds leave a traiD as were Wit messed last night when the west bound passenger arrived. The most of them were strangers coming to Tucson tO seek mines. Tucson is the great min ing center of the southwest and the mines about here are just beginning