Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-18

many visitors from the eastern states and foreign lands who come to study their singular customs.
 Secretary Hitchcock, of the interior department, has signed the agreement recently ratified ny the Salt River Val ley Water Users association, and now all technical and legal obstacles con nected with the enterprise have been overcome, and there is nothing left but for the govern ment to go ahead and construct the dam. Saturday Review.
 Gov. A. O. Brodie has issued his Labor Day proclamation, in which he recommends that all establishments of industry and places of business within the territory be closed on Monday, September 5, 1901; aud that, in every way possible, employers cooperate with employees in worthy recognition of the dignity of labor and in becom- ing observation of Labor Day.
 ]. R. Grant, of the contracting firm of Grant Bros, informed the Repub'
 lican that they are rushing work on the railroad from Red Rock to the Imperial mine, and expect to have both the grade finished and the rails laid by the lst of September, when ore shipments from Imperial to Douglas will immediately begin. Be tween 300 and 600 men are now employed in the railroad work.
 All talk Of the grading crews of the Phoenix & Eastern being laid of is mere idle rumor. Work is being de- layed some by the fact that high water has prevented prompt delivery of sup plies to the front. The grade will be pushed on to Benson as fast as pOssi. ble. The contract for the grade all the way through to Benson was let to Grant Bros., and they are not people who quit contracts. Florence Blade.
 The Arizona Gazette says that par ty of Phoenicians who recently had an outing on White river, Ariz., report having caught 500 trout ranging from : to II inches in length 300 less than : inches long were caught and thrown back into the river. When they ar rived they found forest fires raging which had driven snakes and game out Of the country. Heavy rains put out the fires.
 The Florence Blade states that while Richard Bimbrick was driving one of D. c. Steveus livery teams across the river few days since, one of the swingle, trees of the rig broke. This frightened the horses and they twisted the tongue of, The river was very high and as soon as the rig got free from the horses it turned over and went down the stream rolling over and over. The vehicle was badly wrecked.
 Work has commenced on the new steel trestle and coal and coke bins at the Detroit Copper company 8 smelter. The concrete piers are already in place and several carloads of structural steel from the Warden & Allen company Of Milwaukee, Wis, are on the ground, The trestle will be laid with three lines of fifty pound steel rails, so as to be accessible for both 20.lnch and 36 inch gauge locomotives and cars. .- Copper Era.
 The contract for the construction Of one Of the two buildings to be erected at the territorial asylum for the insane was awarded by the board of control to Clinton Campbell for s),53i The contract for the other, which Is to bs a counterpart, will not be awarded until after the sale of territorial bonds which are now being advertised. The sale will take place in September, and soon after that work on the second building will be begun, 80 that the of the two buildings will be practically simultaneous. - Repub lican.
 In the presence of several represent ative citizens, including Judge Obnes orgen, Drs. Cowan and Powell, Dis trict Attorney Cunningham and act ing administrator Steve Roemer, the the body of Delehauty, who died un der suspicious circumstances at Ben son, was exhumed, and the stom ich, heart, liver, kidneys and bladder trans. ferred to jars, which were expressed to San Francisco for analysis. This action, says the Prospector, was taken on motion of Administrator Roemer, and will doubtless determine whether pr not the deceased was the victim of foul play.