Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-14

Will De Issued unOer the name OI uHe Prescott Prospect and will be in ap- pearance similar to the excellent Special issued two years ago.
 There is some talk among the news- paper fraternity in Cochise county of the formation of Cochise county press association. It is proposed to hold the first meeting at the Copper Queen hotel in this city sometime in the near future, at which officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The newspapers at present published in Cochise county consist of isbee Evening Miner, Bisbee Daily sview, Douglas Dispatch, Douglas inter. tional- A merican, Benson Press. Tomb stone Prospector, and Arizona Range News at Wilcox.
 The little monument enterprise of Mir. Legier at the corner of Second avenue and Washington street is at tracting great attention since taste fully constructed iron fence has been placed around variety of monuments near the sidewalk. The attraction is mainly in the fact that the monuments are made of Arizona granite which is brought from the Salt river mountains less than ten miles from Phoenix aud which, having been submitted to all kinds of tests, has been proved equal to any granite in America for such purposes, not excepting the famous Barre product, and superior even to the Barre stone in some respects.- Republican.
 The month of December was the record breaker in freight receipts at Prescott since the S. F., P. & P. rail road was built. The side tracks and frieght depot platform have been so crowded that it was nearly impossible at times to move the goods. Freight Agent West in forms the Journal Miner that the receipts for the month of December aggregate SS,000 more than the previous greatest months business for the road, october, 1902, having been the record breaker previous to that time. The thing that is agitating the company at this place now is the erection of a large new freight depot. Journal Miner.
 The board of supervisors of Cochise county notified Sheriff Lewis that on and after January 6, the salary of Mir. Callaghan, the under sheriff of the county, and that of Porter Mcdonald, would be stopped by the board, and that they would pay these gentlemen their salaries no longer. This action is supposed to relate to the jail break at Tombstone, when nineteen prison CTS got away. The board, however, notified Sheriff Lewis that he was authorized to employ three men to act solely as guards and perform none of the functions of the sheriff, leaving the naming of these men to the sheriff, and that they would work shifts of eight hours each, by this means keep ing a guard on watch every hour of the twenty-fOur.
 A statement just prepared in the territorial auditors office by Leslie Hill chief clerk of Auditor Nichols, shows the indebtedness of the terri tory of general funding warrants, out. standing January 1, 1904, to be Sl40,- 4l9.60. This only includes the war rants issued during the past three years on the general fund. The war. rants issued during the year ending January 1904, amounted to 500, 452 76 while the warrants unpaid issued in 1902 amounted to $37, ,63S 62, while the balance issued dnring 1901 amounted to $575.26. The balance issued prior to 1901 amounted to only $l ,502. .96. It is probable that a call will be issued shortly for all outstanding warrants up to June, 1903, when the territory will greatly reduce the present in- dehtedness. s.-Gazette.
 Notwithstanding the trouble in mining circles in this county for sev- eral months of the year 1903, the county treasurer reports the best tax collections for that year of any year for long time, or probably the great est in the history of tho county. There was paid into tine office of the county treasurer, in the month of December, right close to SIS, ,000 for taxes alone. while the total recepts from all sources amounted to nearly $l25, ,00O. The total of money collected by the office during the year, amounted to within few hundred dollars of half a million dollars. This is very en- outlook for the county $ fu- ture prosperity. The mining outlook for this section was never better, and the year 1904 ought to be a record breaker for Yayapai county. .-Journal-