Arizona silver belt., 1903-03-19
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
Nev Business enterprises-Good Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stook..Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn.

The Douglas, Ariz., postoflice will be advanced to the presidential class April l.
 Tucson has applied to the territo, rial loan commission to have her in. debtedness funded, amounting in all to $37 ,O00.
 The Phoenix X Eastern railroad com pany has made contract with the Tempe council to take city water for use in its engines.
 Thirty-siX carloads of wool have been shipped of late from Phoenix to east ern markets. The cars contain from 20, 900 to 30,000 pounds each.
 The citizens of Tombstone are pre- pairing for big celebration upon the completion of the railroad to that town about two weeks hence.
 The per cent territorial funding bonds in lieu of the Pima county mar row gauge bonds have been issued to the bondholderS. They are the first 3 per cent bonds eyer issued by this ter ritnry.
 The Southwestern StOckman says that indications point to the fact that there will be more cattle placed on pasture in Salt river valley this season than for number of years The ay- craze number for some years has been about 2O,OOO head.
 W. J. Murphy and B. A. Fowler, who are soliciting subscriptions toward a bonus of $45, ,00O to secure the loca- tion of beet sugar factory in Salt river valley, report that almost the required amount has been secured.
 The Bonita school has closed on ac- count of smallpox, after term of five and one-haif months. There are only few cases of the disease here, and as the ranches are quite distance apart, with ordinary precautiOn it will soon disappear. A. W. Childress is the lat est yictim.-Cor. of Guardian.
 The outlook for stockmen in Arizona is very encouraging. The heavy rain fall and deep snows on the mountains assures prosperous season. Already from mountain to mountain, all over our table lands and valleys, nature no stockmen are jubilant and quite gar rulouS, while the cowboys face is wreathed in smiles -Cattlema and Miner.
 The Indian appropriation bill car. rieS $l52 $50 for the Phoenix Indian school. The items making up this appropriation are as follows For the support and education of 700 Indian pupils, $l16,9 for general repairs and improvements, $l2,000; for the salary of tEe superintendent, S2, 250 {; for an addition to the hospital, LOGO, for cold storage plant, 5000; for an electric light and power plant, 5000; for water system, 7,500
 As an example of the promptnesS with which the United ModernS meet their obligations and pay their death benefits may be cited the case of Mrs. Lillie Harlan, wife of M. R. Harlan, well known in Prescott, having been instrumental in organizing and build. ing up the Prescott lodge of ModerDs Mrs. Harlan passed away in Phoenix on January l6, 1903, and her benefc- iary certificate was caShed on Febru- ary 10, 1903, or just twenty five days after her death. -Journal-Miner.
 c. A. Randall, of the Phoenix X Eastern, drove in from Florence last evening and will return tomorrow in the interest of the new road. He re- ports the grading work progressing at the Benson end of the line. One gang of men have commenced work at the butteS, fifteen miles east of Florence, where there is three months rock
  work to be done. The company hopes to soon have rails and ties enough to complete the road as far as the bu ties. Free Press.
 Angora goats have proved their right to be considered among the stock interests of our country. They have distinct place in the live stock econ- Omy that no other animal will ill. They will live on what other animals reject, and thrive while they are do. ing it, and as bush cleaners they can not be approached. In two years they will absolutely kill every bush on a tract of land. They can hoe their own row with the dogs, indeed they rather court scrap with them, and they will utilize the scanty herbage of hopelessly arid country as no oth- CT animal can.-Cattleman and Miner.
 Prof David Grifiiths, who represents a bureau in the agricultural depart.