Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-19
TERRITORIAL NEWS

The Tucson city council is strug ling over the proposition to grant an electric light franchise, which is ask. ed for by George Pusch and his asso. ciates. hs
 The Colorado river falls 347 feet be- tween Needles. California, and Yuma, Arizona. The altitude al the former place Is 45 feet and at the latter TOT feet. The distance in a straight line is 147 miles and by river 281 miles, giving fall of 12.2 feet to the mile
 The+Argus says the sheep men in Navajo county who have been ruled on the forest reseves of the country will be interested in the recent decis- ion of Judge -Dehaven- at San Fran cisco, who held that there was no law to force sheep owners to observe the ruling of the department of the inter ior.
 Construction is now Tn progress on the new roundhouse, car shops, car Arizona & New Mexico railroad at Clifton. --~ -.-.---
 The board of supervisors of Mari copa county have decided not to order . new registration The old register will be used, with a supplement, thus saving to that county between $1 200 and $500. i
 It is stated that the recent shut down of the Copper Hill mine. Globe district, is only temporary, and that work will be resumed at an early date
 It is said that the railroad people and the mining companies will spend more than $1.000.0OO around Clifton during the next twelve months, mak- ing it one of the greatest camps in the southwest.
 Mesa will have a fine water system in the near future There will be 2400 feet of main pipe line, and a pump capable of throwing 75.o00 gallons Of water into a tank with a capacity of 10000 gallons, which is to be set on a steel tower sixty feet above the ground.
 The grape crop is reported light in the Salt River valley.
 Kansas City buyers shipped five car loads of horses and mules from Phoe- nix this week.
 Delegates from eight labor unions of Yayapai county met at Doughertys hall in Prescott on the afternoon of the Fourth in accordance with a call issued by the miners union. It was a meeting with closed doors and much of the business transacted has not yet been madel public.
 At the Kingmao Fourth of July eel ebration two teams were entered for the drilling contest, Clark and Hop kins, and Owens and Reed. The rock was the>hsrdest granite boulder that could be found in that section. Owens and Reed made 15H inches in fifteen minutes, but Clark and Hopkins. cut 293k inches in the same period of time. The purse was $so. ;
 George 8. Smssiisy. siii lsrissse s :ssscsell ] tary of Governor Brodie, has moved his family from Tucson to Phoenix.
 Governors Rrsdie has begun work on his annual report Co the secretary of the interior A.s
 Company B. N:G.sA. Phoenix, has gone to Iron Springs for an outing. During the stay of this. company Gov ernor Brodie will visK the springs and views the troops in the field.
 Waiter Adams. who is serving a jail sentence at Phoenix, tried to break cut s-.s s:sss-44F
 Governor Brodie has inaugurated a new deal in disposing of the public moneys for safe keeping. Heretofore it was the custom for the territorial treasurer to deposit the territorial funds in any bank he selected, and al the funds were generally deposited ir one bank. Under the direction o1 Governor Brodie, the money of tho territory will hereafter be deposited fl different banks in different sections o the territory. The Consolidated banl of Tucson, under the new deal, has been made . public depository. rs
 N. P. Freeman, president of the Con solidated National bank, has resienet as . member of the territorial boar of equalization. This is not . prt lorna resignation, occasioned by tn advent of new governor. MT. Ffee man contemplated retiring for som time, but anticipating the retiremen of Governor Murphy. he withheld hi resiguxf1uu unffi the new e0vesno took once Mr. Ffeeman's resignation has not yet been acceptedx
 A forese.a.e 1f Ns4itrde E nor ed to be tel1 t1e onfaliha ntouz tains vhsch is pls1n1 vsabse at Tut son. s
 Apache couHky has cnpped s75 %