Arizona silver belt., 1902-01-23
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises..Good Year tor the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock. Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Nave Money to Burn.

During the year lgOl, Arizona sheep ranges contributed to the Kansas City market supply l2, 500 head of sheep, q loss of 10000 as compared with the period to the last.-S, w. Stockmar.
 The people of northern Arizona feel grateful to attorneys F. $. Clark and J. E. Jones for their successful efforts in getting President Roosevelt t0 make just concessions in regard to the grazing of stock on the forest re serves. Prescott Courier.
 The Indian department has arrang- cd to lease the Indian lands of the Fort Apache reservation tocattlemen for grazing purposes. All information can be obtained from Major c. W. Grouse, the honorable '. :. Indian agent of the Fort Apache reservation. -Holbrook.
 Now that nearly all of northern Ar.- zona has been set aside as forest re- serve, the fellows up there are won dering when the southern part of the territory will be likewise treated. They suggest that the presence of tim Der of any sort is not necessary to es- tablish claim to being forest. h- g. w. StOckman.
 The latest thing charged to the Arizona man" in Los Angeles is that he introduced the smallpox into q lodging house there containing thir- teen roOmers The Arizona man. is everlastingly doing something to an noy the City of Angels besides spend ing his money freely when in town.
 Exchange.
 MessrS. Wright and Fleming have purchased from Mrs Judge Wright her husbands law library, which k one of the largest in the city. They have moved their office tO South Stone avenue and have consolidated them with the Consolidated Gold Mountain Mining company.-TucsOn Citizen.
 btlN 10 h'irt iiN" III who is arranging with the local horse raisers to take all the range horses they can gather, and as a result close roundup is being made and it is eN- pected that the range about here will be relieved of some hundreds of head of class of stock which for many years there has been little or no op- portunity to dispose of. f.-CUrreSpond- ence of Bulletin.
 George H. Kelly, who is becoming somewhat of d mUnupolist in the newspaper business in southern Ari- zona, passed through Clifton Tuesday last for M0renci, where he will soon start the Morenci Standard, a weekly newspaper, which will be run in con nectiOn with the Bisbee Review and the SOlomOuyille Bulletin, all being owned by the same company Mr. Kelly will have editorial supervision over the three papers. The Era hopes that Mr. Kelly will become as great newspaper man as w. R. Hearst Clifton Era.
 Friday night Will Bills was placed | under arrest by Captain Mossman, of 1, the rangers, but the general opinion is | that he is not the man they want. Mr. l Bills has very many friends here who say that there must be some mistake. | However, the case is such that the of- | cers could not pass the matter by un- til further investigation could be made. The man is arrested on a charge of murder that is said to have been committed in Texas some twenty years ago. This is in his favor. as to- day he is quite young man. Flag. staff Sun.
 Hon. and Mrs. c. NJ. Shannon left Saturday last for Boston, where they will spend few weeks. Mr. shannon was called east by telegram signed | by several heavy copper producers. desiring him to attend a meeting to be held on the 18th instant at which it is expected to fix permanent price on copper at about thirteen or four teen cents. After arranging a truce between the warning copper pro- ducers, and establishing a permanent price for the red metal. Mr. shannon will visit Washington, where he win arrange for the admission of Arizona as a state. He will be absent about three weeks Clifton Era.
 According to the census bulletin. Arizona has 3l manufacturing estab- lishmentS, with capital of sl0 l57 ,O0O. employing an average of 3,26s wage earners, and paying per annum. in. wages, s2 s2,363,0a5. The value of the annual product is given at S2l ,3l5. ls9. This classification includes copper smelters There are 1000 more white