Arizona republican., 1904-05-07
A coUNTRY REsIpENcE-B Bav-

"A COON KY RESlDENCE-B. Bay less Beecher yesterday bought of w. E. Thomas a couple of lots in the North Baltimore Heights tract, on which he expects to build a nice residence in the near future. This property is situated between Phoenix and the Indian school and between the Indian school car line and Central avenue. It is therefore in one of the most popular country resi- dence sections of the valley, convenient to the city, yet far enough cut to en- | joy the country air.
 | VISITOR FROM THE BASlN.-E. H. Peery of Washington, D. C., but for several months past a resident of Livingstone, arrived here yesterday from the storage basin for a few days l stay on business, when he will return there again. MT. Peery is a law clerk in the employ of the reclamation ser vice, and has been engaged in looking after land titles in the storage basin and vicinity, drawing contracts and do- | ing other legal business that became necessary as the work at the basin pro- gressed. His work Is not confined 10 questions arising under the Tonto pro- | ject alone but matters concerning other propects are referred to him and his residence at Livingstone is because there is more work for him to do there than under any other single project. POLICE COURT.-The acting city recorder yesterday cleaned up the un- | finished business that has been ac- cumulating in the city jail since cleo ton day. J. Martin, arrested for Vagrancy was credited up with room, board and an occasional bath, during the period of thirty days. James Ryan, who was caught in the act of operating a pipe line for whiskey. through the jail window was fined five dollars. W. Hefton, who succumbed to slumber while under the influence of a corn tonic was also fined five dollars. Andy Garcia who was not only drunk as usual, but in addition was unusually disorderly, squared with the law for d golden eagle advanced by man who thought he could coin that much out of Andy's labor before he got drunk again. w. H. Roberts who had also been oning up his system and oVeFdid the treatment was fined B, but there were extenuating circumstances for which the sentence was suspended till such time as he shall cut the string by another offense.
 SURVEYS FINlSHEO-T. NJ Ban- non, a topographer of the regular en- gineeTing corps of the U. s. geological survey, arrived here yesterday morning and left this morning for Washington D. c. MT. Ramon has been in charge of a party of eight. instrument men and the necessary camp outfit, that has been engaged since December ir surveying ard mapping the Santa Cat alina and Santa Rita forest reserves which work is now finished. This work is a part of the general enterprise oi the government, of surveying topo- grapically the entire. United States, q work that has been going on some years and that will require many years more to finish. It is similar to the surveys of the reclamation service ir these parts except that it is in moro condensed form, giving fewer details A contour line is run with every hun dred feet of elevation whereas the re- clamatiOn surveys contour lines foI 1 every five or ten feet. MT. BannoI
 says the drouth goes clear up to tn'
 summit of the Catalinas and there arr now very few springs that will furnish