Arizona silver belt., 1903-05-21

per company, has called 8 meetlng Ol the taxpayers and others interested to devise means to better the sanitary condition of the town.
 The industrial school board has de termined upon the final Improvements for the institution at Benson. Bids
 will be advertised for to complete the
 interior finish and equipment. It is understood an effort will be made tC
 open the school during September.
 The school, when completed, will be a
 model of it's kind, and useful occupa.
 tions will be taught the boys and girls
 and fit them for useful lives after
 leaving school.-TombStOn PrOSpec.
 tor.
 It may not be generally known that
 Arizona has the second oldest mission
 in the United States and the only one
 that yet holds Indians about her walls
 In many respects San Xavier at Tue.
 son is the finest mission ruin in exist
 ence today, and from the standpoint
 of the antiquarian and the lover of art
 is unequaled. Ancient frescoes still
 decorate the walls that were painted
 by Indian artists in native colors al-
 most two hundred years ago. The mis- sion is monument of the past and
 into It's history is woven the early life of Arizona. a.-Morenci Standard.
 O Gibson has been employed by the
 tar collector as counsel to collect de- llnquent taxes under the new delin- quent tax law. All delinquent taxes upon real estate beginning with 1898,
 under the new law, are to be placd upon book to be called the "back tax book. and suits are then to be brought against the delinquent prop. eJty owners, and their property will be sold at sheriff's sale under execution, as in the case of the foreclosure of oth- CT liens. No redemption can be made after sale by the sheriff. Owners may redeem during the year 1903, or, in fact, at any time before sale by the sherif.-Tombstone ProspectOr.
 The railroad from Cochise to Pearce, sixteen miles, has been completed. This is part of the new road designed to be built to Naco and Bisbee, being a branch thereof. At Naco it will con- meet with the Cananea, Pacific & Ya- qui River railway. The plan of the Cananea, Pacific & Yaqui River com pany is to extend the line north via Clifton, through New Mexico and Col orado as far as Durango, where are vast fields of coking coal. En route to Durango are forests of timber which will be tapped. The Tombstone Prospector says: ''The north end of the road will not be built until after the Naco connection is made"
 The announcement comes from Phoenix that there is to be new traf tic arrangement between the roads in this territory shortly, meeting of the general freight agents of the Mar icopa & Phoenix, the Santa Fe, Pres colt & Phoenix the Sou thern Pacific, and the Santa Fe Pacific, having been ar ranged to be held in San Francisco to accomplish this agreement. Super. intendent M. O. Bicknell, who is also general freight and passenger agent of the Maricopa X Phoenix, will repre- sent that road. The Santa Fe, Phoe- nix & Prescott will be represented by H. P. Anewalt; the Southern Pacific by F. W. Luce, and the Santa Fe by Ed Cha mbers.
 Remick White, postmaster at Doug las, who was in Phoenix last week, was interviewed by the Democrat, which says: 'sThe postofflce at Doug las is growing institution and has been paying Uncle Sam handsome div ideDds ever since its inauguration. In one year the office jumped from fourth class to the second class, al- though the government only advanced 1t to the third class, thinking that Douglas was boom town and that the amount of business would dwin dle. The estimated amount of busi- ness for the year ending March 31 was $sOO0. No other office in the United States has advanced from the fourth class to that of second class in such a short time.
 ''Unless all signs fail, Yuma county will have direct railroad connection with Prescott and Phoenix, via the Santa Fe system, in the near future," says the Los Angeles Herald. "A corps of engineers is now in the field surveying line to connect with the Prescott and Phoenix road at Con- greSs. The probable crossing of the Colorado river will be at Ehrenberg, where the surveying outfit is now at work. The objective point of the new line is the undeveloped oil territory on the Bly, estate holdings of Il ,OOO acres. Good oil prospects have been found and developed in different parts of the Blythe property. Oil in com mercial quantities in this district, with all rail outlet, will mean much .I,,k l ;.,ka