Williams news., 1903-07-04
BRIEF NEWS
 OF ARIZONA
Interesting Items Purloined From Numerous Exchanges
 of ApacheIand.

Arizona will ship more sheep and fewer cattle to market this year. The cattle herds will be allowed to multiply little, now that the ranges will warrant such a course -Stockman.
 Mrs. F. L. Jones is getting over a sickness that at one time brought her into the shadow of death. This lady's friends will be gratified to know that she will soon be out again.-Winslow Mail.
 The interior department has awarded the contract to w. J. Cor bett of Tucson for corrugated iron roof to be built over Casa Grande ruins. The roof is ordered for the purpose of preserving this historic ruin.
 The lady brought down from Ash Fork on a charge of insanity, was tried before Probate Judge Hicks last Saturday and released from custody, the examination failing to show that she was insane Pres colt Courier.
 Seven thousand persons visited the Grand Canyon of Arizona last year. The number may reach ten thousand for 19O3 This is hun dred times as many as used to go annually to the canyon in the old stage coach days.
 Mrs. Myron H. McCord: wife of U. s. Marshal McCord, died last Saturday at Long Beach, California, where she had been for several weeks, her husband being with her at the time. She had long been a sufferer from heart disease.
 The Colorado river, after raising to great height at Needles, is re- I ceding and it is thought that it may reach a normal stage before the middle of July. Many changes S are expected in the channel of the the stream when it again settles down to its regular fow.-Miner. \ There is a party of scientists from Philadelphia, who are near \ Canyon Diablo, Arizona, making preparations to excavate the famous meteorite mountain. On the tor Ia of the mountain is the ruin of an immense basin one mile wide and 600 feet deep, with almost perpen- dicular sides.-Prescott Herald. | Promoters of road to run from \ Durango, Colo., south to connect \ with the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe say they are now sure oi getting the necessary capital, and construction is likely to begin this year. It will afford access for traf- fic to copper camps in Arizona that are consuming 25O,OOO tons of coal at $16 per ton.-Sister Republics. \ Practically all the material for the Mohave & Milton railroad is lying at Needles awaiting transpor- tation across the river. The steam CTS are ferrying supplies and mate rial across the big stream, but it is thought that the railroad company will await the completion of the big ferry boats before they will move ties, rails and locomotives to this side of the Colorado.-Miner.
 The Fossil Creek Electric com pany's plant now being constructed on Fossil creek, will convert 5000 horse power into electric energy, and hold the record for long dis tance electric transmission in Ari- zona. says the Prescott Herald. A 6 corps of engineers and a gang of workmen are now busy surveying, driving tunnels, making ditches and fumes, preparatory to install ing machinery.
 At last reports the Colorado river had washed away about eight hun dred feet of the old main line track and was still washing slowly. R. B. Burns, resident engineer of the Santa Fe Coast Lines, has a corps of engineers in the field making a