Williams news., 1903-06-06
BRIEF NEWS
 OF ARIZONA
Interesting Items PurIoined F rom Numerous Exchanges
 of ApacheIand.

during the present fiscal year. No wonder our population is growing.
 It looks as though Michigan peo- pie will soon own the copper mines of Bisbee. The latest sale is the Ivanhoe group in the Warren dis trict last week to some Michigan people for $14O,OOO.
 The amount of money that will go into the territorial treasury from the collection of the years taxes from insurance companies doing business in Arizona will amount to about $17,OOO. Last years receipts were only $14,0OO.
 The territorial school fund has been apportioned among the sev- eral counties according to the of fcial school census taken in 1902. The apportionment was made at the rate of 59 cents for each child between and 21 years of age. It is estimated that the average cost of building a railroad is $2S,- GOO per mile. It takes 400 ties to the mile and they are worth 50 cents each; then you must figure the cost of land, grading, building bridges, rails, telegraph lines, etc. Pension office figures show that veterans of the Union army are dying at the rate of nearly 10000 a year, and the mortality among for mer Confederates is not much less.
 More than half of the men who
 took part in the civil war have an- swered the last muster.
 A reward of s5OOO has been of fered for the capture of the outlaw who killed Officer Tom Vaughan and seriously wounded Constable Dayton Graham in Douglas. The feeling is intense and the sheriff and posse and a force of Arizona rangers are in pursuit.
 From the deeds recorded at the courthouse we glean the fact that about 25O Arizona people have been investing in San Diego realty dur ing the last three months. This is as it should be, for the interests of Arizona and San Diego are close ly allied.-San Diego News. William Nellis of Mayer was in
 Prescott recently and reports de- velopment work on the Picnic claim making a most satisfactory showing, and is well satisfied with the outlook. He has thirty-fve tons of ore on the dump which carries from 12 to IA per cent cop per and $7 per ton gold.
 The Yale Record prints this squib: "I'll get the hang of this game in a
 minute," said the gambler who had
 been caught cheating in Arizona. Our esteemed contemporary is
 liar by the town clock. Its editor was never within 700 miles of Ari- zona. We run square game out here and run it according to law. It is a physical impossibility for a gambler to cheat. Now is the time for the poor. tired, swindled paul. pers of Wall street to get in on the ground floor. Come early and keep out of the rush.-Phoenix Enter prise.
 The government of the United States is to construct a dam of solid masonry in the Tonto Basin, in Arizona, that will create in the valley of the upper Salt river and Tonto creek the largest artificial lake in the world. The great basin will impound storm water in sui ficient volume to irrigate 100000 acres of land. The cost of con- struction will amount to $2,5OO,- GOO. This investment will make possible homes for many hundreds of people and be constant source of increased wealth to the country. The lake to be created by the irriga- tion scheme, it is estimated, will be thirty miles in length with an av- craze width of about twenty miles. It will also afford water power to | bo ,,co5 in noparot tipo o1oofr;oify