Arizona silver belt., 1902-03-27
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Nes Business enterprises.-Go Year tor the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner Of Live Stock. Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn,

for fourteen years pTlSpnei do r'i Sill, Oklahoma, is to be released rom captivity and may be given civil rights.
 A Holbrook (Arizonal mercantile firm has employed 140 Navajo squaws, who are kept busy weaving blankets against the anticipated demand at the worlds fair in 1903.
 The machinery for the Clifton and Morenci steam laundry has been ship ped from Chicago. The machinery cost s4 ,OOO. The new laundry will be in operation in about two months.- Bulletin.
 The Santa Fe company has resumed the sprinkling of oil along the road bed in New Mexico, Arizona and Cali. foruia, where the dust of the desert makes travelling a burden during the summer months.
 The work of broadening the guage of the railroad from Longfellow to Metcalf, Clifton district is progress ing rapidly. Two large tunnels are being driven. Seyenty-tive pound steel rails will be laid on the iine.-Bulletin,
 An order has recently been placed by the British Government with firm at El Paso for tive thousand head Of horses and mules to be used in the service in South Africa. Horses in the Arizona market will be in de- mand.
 B. F. Daniels, who was refused the appointment of United States marshal of Arizona, will probably be nominat- ed and elected to the legislative cOun- cil from NogaleS, says the Democrat The people of that county are for him, almost to man. So We may expect to see Mir. Daniels in our next legisla- ture,
 E. R. Hooker, of Wilcox, has con. tracted 1000 head of cattle for May delivery from Jackin & Scherer. The cattle will go to Bloom Cattle compa ny, Trinidad. Mir. Hooker says he is contracting quite regularly now and that there will be quite a movement of cattle from Wilcox section next spring.
 The scarcity of water for irrigating purposes is causing some uneasiness in the Gila valley, The men most famil- far with the conditions, however, say that there will be ample water for all crops except possibly one cutting Of alfalfa. Strict economy in the use Of the water is being exercised,
 0 k. Wiltbank was in the city last week watching the Arizona Wool Growers association allOt the grazing privileges of the forest reserves. "Ted" has farm of 160 acres inside the forest reserve. It now comes to pass that MT. Witbank will be obliged to put on force of flying machines to transport his herds to and from his ranch.
 c. D. Reppy, former publisher of the Florence Tribune, is here for few days. He says he feels like free man, and was pleased to add that he owns two claims that adjoin the famous Pride of the West, in the PatagOnias. | The latest news from his properties is | of d favorable nature. Tucson Citi- zen.
 The agricultural department an nounces that it will send an expert dur ing the coming season to Arizona and | New Mexico tO make a study of the | poisonous plants of these territories and issue bulletin for the benefit of the live strk interests, which now suffer considerable loss from the effect of such plants.
 Never in the history of this valley has there been so much water flowing | down the river at this time of, the year, and the fact is. apparent that in the upper country the development of | artesian water has taEenc the place of the costly practice of dams, ditches, etc., foI, Warming purposes, z, which all tends'to show that the San Pedro val ley, asfa faFmingpcountry, has bright future.E Benson. Press
 The 'SoiQQIhgras Pacific company has filed articlfsof Incorporation by which it consolIdates all'ts property in Call. fornia, Arizona ande' New Mexico under one compahy;%s; which will be known as the Southetn, Pacific Rail way company. Its<tcaPital stock is fixed at $155, 455, 900, making it one Of | the largest companies4!in the United | States. =. >''! .s, s.%
 The Supreme'Courtof:th Territory has affirmed hesdecisiondof' theS lower