Arizona silver belt., 1903-06-25
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock. Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money 10 Burn

F D. Caldwell has been appointed postmaster at Douglass
 The Review says BiSbee 's Fourth of July celebration fund amounts to $500
 The asSe SsmenJ roll uf CDchiSe cuun- ty this year amounts to Sc GOO, 900, an increase of about 33 Der cent. The greatest increase was at Douglas, $75O GOO,
 The Bulletin says that Harry Solo. mon, who has been in the hospital at BiSbee for three weeks, is steadily im- proving and will come out all right in short time.
 The Verde valley was visited by a storm of rain, hail and wind on the 18th inst which dld great damage to growing crops and bay. The hail was large and drifted into ridges four to twelve inches high
 It is announced that Brigadier G 3n- eral Baldwin, who is in command Of the department of the Colorado, eX- poets to visit forts Whipple and Hua. chuca Soon. He will be accompanied by Col. J. W. Pope.
 Jack Bolan and Jack Bain, princi- pals in boxing match that took place in Bishee last week, have both been arrested, and the Tombstone Pros pector says they will be tried for yio- lating the United States law against prize tightiug in territory.
 The friends of Mrs. J. c. PurSloy are much pleased to know that she is in a fair way to recover from the serious illness with which she has been anllct- ed for more than two weeks past. Her physicians now think that she will be able to sit up in few days Guard ian.
 The contract for plumbing work and material of the Douglas reduction works, amounting to S4000, was re- gently awarded to the E. B Mason Plumbing company by the Copper Queen people. It is claimed that this Is the largest plumbing contract ever let in this part ot the territory.
 All of the grading for the approaches to the tunnels on the Phoenix & East cru, at the ButteS, has been completed and the actual work of driving the tunnels commenced. Progress has been retarded by scarcityof laborers, the MgxicanS employed seldom re- maining in one camp for any great length of timc.-FlOrence Blade.
 An Illinois man, who has invcsu- gated the field, announces himself as being in readiness to invest $5O GOO in in the dairy business in this valley when the Tontu dam becomes an as- Sured fact. He is only one of the many who will come to thiS city and valley to become identified with the new Ur- der of things, and help 10 make the most prosperous section of Arizona Phoenix StOckman.
 The Prescott Herald states that con tracts have been let by the Mohayc Gold Mining company for the building of twenty-threc miles of narrow gauge road connecting the mines, and then to the bank of the Colorado river, oppO- site Needles. The road may be carried to the Gold road. Another rum0r has it that road from the santa Fe will soon be constructed to connect all the mining camps in the San Francisco mining district by rail.
 The Fl Paso & Southwestern will put on a rate of one and a fifth fare from Fl Paso and other points on the line to Bisbee and Douglas for the eel ebration to be held at those points on July 1. The Southern Pacific has also made very low rates from all points between LOrdSburg and Tucson to Benson to make connection with the excursion over the E Paso & South western.
 W. P. Miller, attorney for the city of Bisbee, has received letter from the United States attorney general in which that official stated that the ruling of the United States land com missioner at Tucson in the case of C. R. BoStwick vs. the city of Bisbee had been confirmed by the secretary of the interior This means complete victory for the city, and all that re- mains now is the proper application by the mayor to the land office clliyiaS for patent.
 The work of putting the new stone under the court house walls has been completed and the work has been well done. This work was done under the supervision of Clerk Arturo Elias. Graham county now