Arizona silver belt., 1902-02-20

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 the party left Flagstaff for Needles,
 where they took boat and sailed
 down the Colorado river to Yuma.
 The journey was for pleasure and
 scientific research, and in both they
 were successful, Enterprise
 It is rumored that the Arizona
 Lumber X Timber company will, in
 the near future, construct storage
 reservoir near their mills. The reser-
 voir will have capacity of three
 million gallons of water, It would
 cost from twelve to fifteen thousand
 dollars, but it would be good invest
 ment for the company, and they
 would then have plenty of water at all times of the year to run their
 large plant. Flagstaff Gem.
 The Fl Paso X Southwestern ran | its first train from DemiDg to Bisbec
 last week and soon the train service
 between that city and Bisbee will be commenced. There is now large amount of freight collected at Deming to be taken oyer the new road and II will be taken away at once. There is also large amount of ore piled up at Bisbee to be handled by the Fl
 Paso X Southwestern, SD that road will have plenty of business to do from the very start Star.
 Henry Melluish. who recently re turned from his mining claims in the Tucson mountains, reports the dis covery of two skeletons under the re- mains of ruined cabin in the hills. A prospector informed Mir Melluish that he had found ruined cabin made out of cactus and branches of trees and underneath the debris, two skele- tons, some saddles. mining tools and a number Of small articles. Some pearl buttons were found on the de- cayed fabrics and an army and Mex ican pack saddle were found near the
 bodies There were also some bridles. pick and shovel and some small
 tools. Citizen.
 J. A. LampOrt, a civil engineer in ! the employ of the santa Fe Pacific ! railroad, came up from Bill Williams 1 Fork country few days ago. We | understand that the proposition of | ddmming the Bill Williams was the | crrand which took MT. Lampoft tu
 the south part of the county. Work 1 on the dam will be commenced within
 the next six months. When com
 pletcd enough water will be em. | pounded to not only irrigate thou
 sands of acres of the richest land in
 the world, but to also generate power
 and furnish water tO work the large extent of placer field below the dam. | -kingman Miner.
 The Denver papers in sizing up the
 motive underlying the appointment Of Edward Kent, as chief justice uf Arizona. are of the opinion that the president favurS the admission of the territory and is preparing for the ap- Dointmeut of the new federal judpShip under the new state, and also laying the foundation for the election Of one or more republican senators The impression prevails in the ranks of the republicans that if Arizona is ad mittcd at tlis time the territory can be carried readily in the first election, especially as there is decided split up in the democratic party. King man Miner.
 Out of a5out 72,OOO,O0O acres of land in Arizona only about j,7Oo. 600 are privately owned. of which about 450.- ooO acres are under irrigation ditch. For the total amount of land under ditch there is not sufficient water in all instances tO secure crops, but in time there can be little doubt that the storage and development of water will lead to the successful irrigation of ''''N.'' ''''N biiuli tlIN pitSflil dlfd utuel ditch. There is one acre in sixteen under private ownership, the balance public land. Of the land in private ownership one acre in thirteen is under irrigating canals. Of all the land in the territory only one acre in 200 is under irrigating canals.
 This week petition was circulated in kingman and signed by practically all the taxpayers in the town, praying for congress to enact no law exempt | ing the Santa Fe Pacific railroad from taxation. There is no railroad in the | United States doing a better paving business than the Santa Fe. and il ought by right to be paying it's just of tax for the support of l the local, territorial and county gov. ernments. Therefore, if the recent reorganization act failed to protect them in the matter of tax exemp,ion congress ought to let it stand. that the company be compelled to pay its | taxes in the same manner a, the ordi- 1 nary individual. Miner.