Arizona silver belt., 1902-12-04
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
aes Business Enterprises --Gooc Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

below zero at Flagstaff during the re- cent cold snap.
 A modern hotel building is to be erected at Tombstone by NJ. D. Scrib ner and Fred Roberts.
 The business of the First National bank of Tombstone is assuming good ! ly propOrtionS for new institution. About S6O,OOO of deposits is already carried.
 Filing for the Phoenix X Eastern railroad bridge across the river at Tempe is being driven night and day. The company expects to run trains into Mesa by January l,
 An idea of the enormous traffic over the southern Pacific railroad is gained from the statement of the Yuma Sen tinel that iortyfour trains passed through Yuma in one day recently. ] The new store building of the Ari- zona Copper company, at Morenci, is about completed. Tue Standard says every thing about it Is of the mostsub- Stantial and elegant character.
 Bert Frye is now a permanent citi- zen of Bowie Station, where he has accepted the position of manager of l the solomon & Wickersham store. Bert is always glad to receive visit i from his Graham county friends Bulletin.
 Governor Brodie in his report calls attention to the fact that the largest pine forests in the United States are located in the northern portion of ! Arizona and cover an almost unbroken area of 10000 square miles.
 In the Warren mining district there are now some ten or fifteen companies at work, where few years ago there was but the Copper Queen company. Numerous mining deals involving many thousands of dollars have been made in this district within the past ten days.-ProSpector.
 Capt. J II. Tevis, the pioneer and prominent citizen Of Bowie station, was elected justice of the peace of l that precinct at the recent election, says the Bulletin. The captain is now 1 giving the greatest part of his atten- Jiun to the development of some min ing property which he owns near Bowie.
 J Nj. Foster has purchased the in- tcreSts of the Messrs. Taylor in the ! Cyclone Mercantile company, und the i Cyclone store has been reopened for . business in SalIJrd. Mir. Foster has great faith in the Gila valley and will, after making a general clean up of old goods at cost, restock the Cyclone store with a new stock of general mer- chandise. Bulletin.
 There was nearly a duzen bidders, from all parts of the country, for the bonds authorized for the building of a library at the university. The bonds were awarded to Truwbridge, Myers X Co.,, of Chicago, for S27 ,267 The issue is $25, ,O0O they run twenty years and the rate is , per cent. Some of the other bids were nearly as high.
 The Pima Paragon announced last week that D. D. Jayne and Fred P ! Oocuauer, of Detroit, Mich, have ne gotiated, through Captain McEuiry the purchase of sixty mining claims ir the Black Rock and Table Mountain districts Tine company organized to develop these properties will be capi talized for $1 ,OOOOO0.
 Dr. E. E. Powell returned last even ing from q months trip to his min, near Signal, says the Republican That part of the country experienced the biggest storm in years, as it raineC nine inches in firty-two hours at liar riSburg. There is now water standin, in all the low places on the desert.
 Senator Geo. P. Blair came in iron Florence yesterday. From the gen ueman it was learned that the title {, the properties of the Mammoth Col iins llimited) gold mining properties with the Seventy-Stamp mill Ina passed to Frank P. Fle tcher, of Detroit Michigan. Operations will be resume, at an early date.-Star.
 With the Tombstone branch the E PaSO x Southwestern will have
 trackage of about 600 miles and it i hardly possible that there exists il any other section of the world 60 . miles of railroad that opens up as ricI a territory or thatam0unt of trackag that will do greater business thaI will the Fl Paso & Southwestern. r The water supply for the King 0 Arizona mine comes from three wells