Arizona silver belt., 1902-03-06
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Sev Business Entefprises.-Good Year tor the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock. Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Nave Money to 8urn

AL the miliie CdihPS VT S''' "
 Morenci milk sells for l5 cents pc
 quart or 30 cents per gallon. The fee'
 nsed is freighted from the Gila valley
 The Chinese have again commenced
 to make trouble for the missionaries
 Why don't they come home and le
 the heathen go to the devil, Prescott Courier.
 A new industry in Arizona, that Il promising to assume large propor tiOns, is the growing of dates. Date' from a farm near Phoenix are sweete' and larger than imported ones.
 An order of the secretary of the in terior allows LOGO head of cattle and horses on the Black Mesa reserve for the year 1902, and 10000 on the san Francisco mountain reserve for this year. Flagstaff Sun.
 Doc Slaughter surrendered himself to the authorities of SOcorro, N. M, last week He was charged with the killing of ex-Sheritr Ed Beeler about year ago and has been a fugitive from justice ever since.
 We have been informed that Cover nor Murphy has appointed on hiSstail Capt. AlphOnSO 5. smith, president of the MexiCau-Colorado Navigation company, with the rank o1 Major. So 1t is now Major Smith instead of Cap tain, as formerly. Era.
 Mrs Win. Downing, wife Of Wm, Downing, who was convicted Oi train robbery, died at Tucson Tuesday morn ing. She was taken suddenly Ill the night previous and the following morning was found dead: heart failure being assigned as the cause. Her fu- neral was held Thursday.
 The first meeting of the Tucson Au- tomobile company, limited, has ap- pointed d purchasing committee with instructions tO buy two autos of forty horse power Within ninety days these horselesS carriages will appear for duty as business demands. Star.
 J. H. Drew killed 200-pound noun. tain lion on Walnut creek last week The animal is said to have had head on him as large as an African lion. The lion measured eleven feet and eight inches from the tip Of his nose to the tip of his tail. The head and hide will be brought to Prescott and placed on exhibition the first of the month. h.-Journal Miner.
 <. c. SchOonmaker, for the interest of a Chicago company, has arranged for the purchase of the TruXton ranch and cattle from the estate of the late Samuel Crozier. The property sells for s3O,00O cash. The Crozier ranch is one of the best in Mohave county and the new company is sure to make a big thing out of it, especially when managed by Mr. SchoOnmaker. Mo have Miner.
 Forest Supervisor F. R. Stewart is kept busy these days looking after forest reserve affairs. Under the re- cent orders which forbid the cutting of dead or down timber on the reserve without a permit, except for ones own use, parties who have heretofore been cutting this kind of timber have to consult Mir. Stewart before doing so.--PrescOtt Journal Miner.
 Charles Goddard has patent steam l sheep shearing plant in operation at Congress Junction. IL consists of four | teen shears and each of these machines has capacity for shearing between | 25O and 300 sheep per day and itis said l that they will get sufficient clip in weight over hand shearing to nearly | pay the expense of shearing. There | are about 30,00O sheep to be sheared at | the above place, and with this plant | 1t will be about a ten days job. Phoe- n K Enterprise.
 MT. and Mrs. C. M. Shannon return | ed Saturday last from Boston, where they spent some weeks very pleasant ! ly. Mir Shannon will leave in a few days for Los Angeles on business af- fairs, where he will spend few weeks and then return to Clifton to look af- | ter the erection of cottage which he | will erect on Hills addition to Clifton. MT. Shannon says that he has found | larger towns than Clifton during his | travels, but as yet has found no eli mate that will compare with Arizona. Era.
 The president has nominated Major James H. McClintock to be postmaster at Phoenix. Major McClintock has been identified with the press of Ari- zona for over twelve years. He was a member of the Tempe Normal school