Arizona silver belt., 1904-03-31
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
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ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises - uood Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock Everybody VIII Have Money.

J.E. Perry, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Ari- zona, is visiting the lodges of the juris- diction.
 There are fifty prisoners in the county jail at Tombstone, many on term service, but quite number are held to the grand jury.
 The s2O, 900 bonds of the Douglas school district were awarded to the Bank of Bisbee, whose bid was $2l ,0OO, Cr "a premium of per cent.
 Two companies of the Fifth cavalry are on the march across the country from Fort Logan, Col. to Fort Apache, Arizona, distance of HOO miles.
 The Fl Paso tS Southwestern has ordered forty new steel ore cars of 100000 pounds capacity each, for ser vice between Bisbee and Douglas.
 The registration of voters for the approaching city election at Bisbee closed last Thursday night at mid night. The number of registered voters is 1l64.
 The Southern Pacific railroad com pany will soon put down number of artesian wells, one or more of which will be in Benson. Fairbank and Vail will also get new wells.
 Joseph Ehle, of North Montezuma street, Prescott, celebrated his 90th birthday recently. MT. Ehle is a Yavapai pioneer of 1861, and is fair sample of the vigor and long life which is characteristic of ChiS matchless eli mate of Arizona.
 The citizens of Naco have sent a petition to Governor Brodie asking that Ranger Brooks be appointed lieutenant of the rangers in the place left vacant by the resignation of MT. Allison. The first signer of the peti- tiOn was W. c. Greene.
 The past five months, from October to February, were dryer than any cor responding period ever known at Tombstone, and the same conditions have prevailed all over Arizona. The total precipitation during that time at Tombstone was less than one inch.
 According to the Mesa Free Press, George Scott has decided to pasture hts heep in the valley this summer instea of driving them back to the mountains as has been his custom in the past. This is done as an experi- ment to determine whether alfalfa fed sheep are profitable.
 One of the most important real estate sales recorded in BiSbee in years was consummated last week when the Merchants bank obtained possession of the Otto Geisenhofer property, which consists of the Anheuser saloon on Main street and the Waldorf lodging house on School Hill. The considera- tion was $23, ,OOO cash.
 F. A. Hough, manager of the Tempe Creamery and Condensed Milk com. pany, is exhibiting samples of evap orated cream now being manufactured at his plant located a short distance from Tempe. MT. Hough's product is known as the Mission Evaporated Cream, and is as fine sample of un- sweetened condensed cream as is man. ufactured at any point in the United States.-Prospector.
 Inside of two months, if the plans of $. F. Mcguire, the secretary of the In ternational Land and Improvement company, go through as intended, the city of Douglas will be perfect grid iron of electric street car lines, and no resident will be compelled to walk more than two blocks to catch a car. The present lines will be supplemented by several extensions covering every part of the town and connecting with the smelters.
 G. w. Skinner of Graham, intends to try the experiment. of pumping water for irrigation. He will soon put in pump to run by horse power; and If successful, may apply gasoline power. Water can be had on his ranch at depth of only few feet, and the supply is abundant. We hope he will be successful, as the solution of the water question of this valley lies in pumping plants and reservoirs. Guardian.
 The senate committee on Irdian af- fairs has adopted an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill author zlng the secretary of the interior to develop the Colorado and Yuma Indian reservations by diverting water from 5he Colorado river, and after estab. ishing irrigation works for the Indian ands to allot five acres of such land