Arizona silver belt., 1903-07-09
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 Everybody Except the Editor Expects to Have Money to Burn,

The aggregate of the con ntract which has sbeenawardeda at Whipple is SS6, SIS. Other bids for buildings are in, run. ming the total up to nearly $2O0, 900 if contracts are awarded on the other bids. Journal Miner.
 The remains of the late Mrs. M. H. McCord, of Phoenix, are being held in Phoenix until Colonel McCord can ar range his business to accompany them east. Funeral services were held in Phoenix, on Tuesday, June 30.
 Adjutant General Leayell says that the expense Of quelling the MOrenci riot was VII the neighborhood of | $S, GOO. He will soon file his bill of ex- pense with the territory-just as soon as the muster rolls are all in.-Enter- prise.
 The trustees of the Stafford public schools have employed the following ladies tO teach the ensuing year EIiz- abeth Caruthers, principal Maude Horde Of Texas, Katherine Budd of Tempe, and Emma Fancette of north. ern Arizona Bulletin.
 MesSrS. II. l. Latham, <. J. HOlSing- CT and T. D. Bennett have returned to Phoenix from Fort Mcdowell, where i they went to appraise the north half of the reservation, which will be opened to settlement. They will make their report to the Tucson land office. Enterprise.
 Mrs. Webster Street left last Thurs day for Philadelphia, Penn, where she will visit her daughter during the summer. Should her health not inn prove t is more than likely that Mrs. Street will leave for Carlsbad, Ger many, later in the fall.
 The Southern Pacific railroad track over the desert portion between Los Angeles and Tucson is to be sprinkled with crude oil. This piece of road is the dirtiest of any on the system, and when sprinkled will be one of the cleanest.-Yuma Sentinel.
 Thirty $1O0O worlds fair bonds were delivered to the commission July by Treasurer Christy, and the commission will in turn deliver them to the pur. chaser, the Bank of BiSbee, as soon as convenient. The bonds were sold about year ago for $32, 100, or at a premium of 1l per cent.
 ChaS. F. solomon returned Tuesday morning from Globe and Troy. He re- ports Globe looking up. The prospects are that it will be better town in the near future than it has ever been be fore. Troy is d lively little mining i town of four or five hundred people, located in the northeastern section of Pinal county. Bulletin.
 The Democrat offers the following explanation for the delay in publish. ing the acts of the Twenty leg. iSlature "The laws were published S3me two weeks since, but when com. pared, it was found that legislative memorial had been omitted from the hook, hence the entire laws had to be reprinted, and the books will now be ready for delivery in about ten days. :
 During the past year the receipts oi the Phoenix pOStOllice amounted to about $2S ,600 as against less thar $27,O ,OO0 the preceding year. This is ir spite of the fact that the establish ment of the rural free delivery routes during the year just closed deprived the office of about $600 in box rent Thus it can be seen that the increase in business really amounted to about 2,20O.-GazCtte.
 Plans and specifications for the Ari zona building at the St. Louis world's fair, presented by W. R. Norton, have been accepted and bids will.be called for at once. The building, to cos about g 900, will be half Moorish ant half Spanish in appearance, and vii have every convenience for AriZon; visitors and their friends. l will be ; home for the people of thlS territory and will be used only as place tC meet and greet friends.
 It is not often that steamboats pl! their way from the main char nel of th, Colorado river, but last Sunday tho steamer Searchlight with boat loaC of excurSionists left the California sid, of the river at the landing, steamed across the river and out into the for eSts of Arizona, and after a ride O. about ten miles through towering cot tonwoods and waving willows, thu boat entered the upper end of Spears lake, carrying its passengers to tht lower end of the lake and returning tC the Kohlhauer ranch, where a halt wa