Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-07
What Has Happened in the Terri. tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
N,w Business Enterprises uood Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stoc'. Everybody Will Have Money.


 ceremonies, on sunday last. John C.. Hernduu delivered the oration.
 The Mexican authorities are making objections to the location of theDoug- las pest house, which is within loo yards of the international line.
 10 is said to be the intention of the government to send one, and perhaps two, companies Of the Arizona militia tu une worlds fair for detail work. . Isaac IT. Stoddard, the retiring sec rotary of the territory, and Roy s. Goodrich, have organized the Stod- dlrd Incorporating company, which IS already opened for business.
 At Douglas, the fore part of last week, a severe wind storm unroofed several houses aud did some other slight damage. It is said to have been the worst storm in the history of the town,
 Douglas has a number of cases of smallpox of a mild type, The health board Of Cochise county have pest house built there and the further spread of the disease is not appre hended
 ' The Tucson city authorities have given notice tu tenants in block 2o6, comprised in what Is known as the wedge" to vacate their premises within thirty days from March 3l. Building improvements contemplated along the north side of this block in- yolye the expenditure of sl00,000
 Sheriff J. V. Parks, of Graham county, last Thursday arrested Casper smith, at Douglas, where he was working for the Copper Queen com. pany at the smelter. Smith is wanted on an indictment for murder, having shot and killed Mace Slaughter, near Clifton, in a dispute over cattle, some eight or nine ears ago.
 Eastern capitalists and engineers have revived the project of great great scenic railroad through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and it is said that careful investigation of the plan is to be made Tn the near flu. ture, and if th' engineering difficult ties can Oe overcome to Iattempt the construction, says the Albuquerque Journal
 The Review states that engines Nos. 4 and l5, for tho Fl Paso X South western railroads have been received at Douglas from the American loco. motive company, which completes the delivery Of all the motive power or dered by the company last year, and for which they have been delayed in delivery for several months.
 Isaac T SJoddard is still in charge of the office of secretary of Arizona. His resignation, which was accepted to take effect on the first of April, has been modified So that it will take ef- feet upon the qualification of his sue. cessor, W. F. Nichols. The appoint. ment of Mir. Nichols was confirmed on the 30th of March, but it will be some days yet before his qualification for the office can be mace.
 Recorder John Feeny, sent to the Prescott land office by the board of supervisors to make list of patented mines in Mlhaye county not on the assessment roll, has added to the oounty revenue about $50O yearly by | his trip. He is helping the Chloride people arrange their new road bound. aries according to law.-Our Mineral Wealth.
 The contract for the brick work of the Prescott ElkS building was let to c. H. Valentine for $09s3, and that for Che stone work to Edwin Hall for SlOO0. The front will be of specially prepared white sandstone brick laid with black mortar. This will certainly guarantee to the Eksone of the most randsome structures in the city,or for that matter, the territory
 Engineer Evans and his corps of as. sisants of the reclamation service of Che interior departn ent, are now camped in Benson Their work in that valley will be fuiShed from that point. It will take a week yet to com piete the work under way. Mir. Evans Wll then come Co Phoenix, where he "iii be engaged during the next month making up his report to his superiors. When this report is ready it VIII be possible to obtain data GOV erlng the proposed Charleston dam and reservoir. NIT. Evans work lias been most thoroughly and skillfully executed, and close estimate can be made ol the probable cost Of the pro-