Arizona silver belt., 1903-06-18

tbey have drained for depth of 30 feet below the permanent water level and that they will ultimately drain the whole basin. The con pany is add ing new boilers to its plant, so as to be prepared for every emergency.
 One of the leading attractions for the Douglas Fourth of July celebra. ton will be Miss Mulhall the famous Texas girl steer tyer, who will enter the roping contest We know of some girl cowboys in Pleasant valley who would give Miss Mdlhall a warm chase for the moncy in either a roping contest or bronco 5uSting South western Stockman.
 The plans outlined by Arthur P. Da- wis, Photographer United States sur vey, for controlling the waters of the i Colorado river, will, if carried out, make Yuma the metropolis of the Col OradO delta. The water made ayaila- ble for irrigation under the system suggested by MT. Davis will reclaim 1 l, 200, coo acres of fine agricultural land in Arizona and Southern California Tombstone ProSpector.
 j. Gilroy and F. II. Gllroy, of Phoe- nix, made the first of series of ship mentS of horses from Tucson to Kan Sas City, last Thursday. Until the 25th inst. they will make further ship mentS of horses to the same place, ag- gregating oyer 5000 head. Twelve hundred of these horses come from the Florence district, TOO head from Albert Steinfeld'S ranch, and the re- mainder from smaller ranches south and west of Tucson.
 Tn the Clifton MOrenci district there is proposition to supply the mining companies, aS well as those engaged in other business and industries, with electric power, which it is proposed to create by water p0werOn the Frisco river some twenty miles above. A company composed of San Francisco men has been organized and surveys have been made which it is claimed are favorable to the success of the en- terpriSe. Bulletin.
 The government is to have model of an irrigated community on eXhibi- ton, and Mesa has been chosen as the subject of this model. A. II. Thomp- son, a member of the U. $. geological survey, is to have charge of this work, and he arrived in the city yesterday JO commence his duties. The model will be perfectly formed, and will be seven feet wide by twenty-one feet long. The Mesa farming country will be modelled on the scale of twenty one inches to the mile. On a smaller scale the whole of the country up to and including the TontO reservoir will be shown. Gazette.
 The Douglas correspondent of the Bisbee Review tells of a man who en- tered a store just at closing time and after making purchase and having it wrapped up, nOncbalantly said to he clerk "I almost forgot to fell you, but your front window is on tire.n The clerk made a run for the window. and sure enough it was on fire. Some Of the cheese cloth drapery had caught fire from a candle, and was burning at a brisk rate when the clerk reached the window. He tore the burning cloth down and flooded the burning wood with water, and in a minute had the fire eXtinguiShed.
 Charles F.. Udall is engaged in work ing over the Mammoth mill tailingS, comprising about 300 GOO tons. He has been at work on the tailings for the past four months and finds profitable in the extraction of molydenum, which commands a good price as a medium for hardening steel. There are forty. eight men on the payroll and they clean up l50 tons of tailingS daily. A store is run in connection with the Op erationS. It will take over three years to work over the pile of tailings, which were first treated in 1898 by the St. Louis Gold Recovery company, who operated three years and made an av- craze of s per ton net.