Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-28

entire area to be irrigated under the
 Tonto reservoir, has moved his camp
 from the Hansen ranch to point di-
 rectly south of town. In his work
 Engineer Hawley will include all lands
 improved and unimproved, and when
 he gets through will know more about
 the valley than even ''the oldest in-
 habitant. '-Mesa Free Press.
 The past several nights have been
 among the coldesJ that Tempe has ever experienced, The mercury, it is reported, has gone as low as IS above zero. This report, though, is little exaggerated, but authentic reports have it between 20 and 22 degrees above. Had this cold snap been few
 weeks or a month later it would have done considerable damage to the fruit of the valley. As it is, however, the oranges are about the only thing that
 will suffer, and they only to slight extent. Phoenix Republican.
 The Tucson Post states that four of those assessed by the wedge commis- sioners for the removal of the second block of the old wedge have appealed
 to the district court. Those assessed are given twenty days in which to ap.
 peal, and only four took advantage of
 this opportunity. They are Mayor C.
 F. Schumacher, who has property on
 Maiden Lane, facing the second block of the wedge; O. J. Nave, who owns
 the property on the southwest corner of Pennington and Church streets;
 Pima county, assessed $500 on the court house, and R. G. Brady, assessed
 for the San Augustine hotel.
 Last Thursday night an oil tank down stairs in the Hotel Roy building in Douglas exploded, and as a result
 Bo. J. Whitesides, manager of the hotel, was burned about the face and head. Mir. Whitesides was expert. menting with the tank at the time of the accident. This tank, under press ure, furnishes the supply for the lights in the Roy building, and in regulating the pressure in some mysterious man. ner the tank exploded with the above result. While the burns received by Mir. Whitesides are quite painful they a TO nnt at oil oa rinnc
 Bisbee has been worked for sucker and the bites were plentiful. Two 'check merchants touched up the business houses for something like $200, and made their escape. A correct list of those who cashed the bad checks reads as follows Orient $26.5O, Sid Harris $24.50, Boston & Brown s26 50, Turf saloon $26.50, Old Kentucky Home s26. 50, L. A. Nemeck s7 Jones & Burke sls.S0, aud others. It is es- timated that the two men worked the upper part of Brewery gulch, getting one of the disreputable houses to cash large check for s45. There are oth. CTS who were bilked who are making an effort to keep their losses quiet.
 The question of the election of member of the legislative assembly from this county to ill the vacancy caused by the death of George U. Col lins is now under consideration by At torney. General Wells, to whom it had been submitted by Governor Brodie, says the Phoenix Republican. The governor desires to save the county the expense of holding an election if he can do so. The law relating to the filling of vacancies in the legislature is apparently mandatory, though in this case as, in fact, in all other cases of vacancies in this territory, no use- ful purpose could be served by an election. No Arizona legislature has ever been called in extraordinary ses- sion and the occasion for calling one is hardly imaginable.
 Professor Skinner is busily engaged in the preparation of his report for the second years observations on the Colorado river. In connection with | the bureau for the reclamation of arid | lands, daily tests as to the volume, silt and composition of silt coming down the Colorado are made at the university experiment. station. These tests show, and complete records are made of, the soluble, insoluble, saline. and mineral ingredients of ,he water passing down the Colorado It the different seasons of the year. This data is invaluable in the con- 'truction and operation of dams and on the river, and gives some dea of the immense amount of de- 'osits annually swept from the conti- ,ent into the sea, and of the great ertility carried into the valley and ielta of the river.-Tucson Post.
 The Republican says: The latest 'stimate of the wool output of this