Arizona silver belt., 1904-04-07


 by tons of limestone. In company with Mir. and Mrs. John Waters, the young woman was returning from the sick bed of Isaac Waters to spend the night at the home of her companions. Upon reaching the top of the Hum bolt chutes Mrs. Roseveare walked too close to the feedhole and lost her balance falling into the pit of limestone just as the brakeman below was drawing the rock into the car. The fall in itself was terrible one, but had it happened at any other time her chances for re- covery would have been very good, but, falling as she did, head first into the moving rock, sine was caught and carried downward and buried alive.
 The Phoenix postoflice has advanced another step and now lacks only two grades of entering the first class At this season of the year there is made in the department annually an esti mate of the business for the previous year or for what might be called the estimate year, the purpose being the fixing of salaries aud the grading of offices for the year, which begins the following July. The income of the Phoenix postotiice for the estimate year, ending March 5l, was 80, ,4l5.37, as against $2S, ,504 33 for the preceding twelve months. This shows an in. crease of business amounting to nearly : per cent The patronage of the rural routes has grown marvelously though, the country Is ideal for rural routes and the four rou tes cover about 100 miles of road. There insn't d hill to climb in the whole distance, nor for that matter, grade that is ap- parent to the eye, unaided by me- chancal device for determining alti tudes and levels. Phoenix Republi- can.
 General Manager E. D. Kennedy of the Black Diamond Copper Mining company, who are operating in the Dragons, is in the city, says the Tucson Citizen. The camp is miles west of Pearce, town created by reason of being next tO the big Com monwealth mines. Mir. Kennedy came here to consult with Colonel Epes Randolph relative to the building of standard gauge track from Pearce, the present terminus of the rail line, beginning at Cochise station, on the Southern Pacific, to the Black Dia. mond camp. The Black Diamond company has been operating two years, and recently resumed oper- ations, which were suspended owing to shortage in coke supply. Ship ments of matte, MT. Kennedy said. are being made frequently from the smelter, The payroll is loo men and the camp is populated by at least 200 people.
 The solar motor at Tempe has been completed and all that is necessary to demonstrate its practicability in Ari- z0na is few days of clear sunlight, so that thorough test can be made, says the Republican. The motor was first started last Saturday but since that time there has been hardly day when the sun shone for any length of time without going under cloud once in while. Such weather is very discour- aging to the motor. About the time that the steam had reached the proper pressure the sun would disappear for a few moments and the steam would go down again. It requires about one hour of sunlight to bring the steam up to 100 pounds, which amount is necessary to operate the pump. The pump throws a stream at present Of about forty inches, but J. NJ. Bruns, who had charge of the construction Of the motor, says that he is confident that after the machinery has been bet ter adjusted the amount of the flow will be greatly increased.
 MT. and Mrs. Peter Wiukleman, of and Robert Branamau, who has ranches on both sides of the 5ila river, above Riverside, were in Florence Tuesday, called to the county eat by the railroad injunction case, md were pronounced in their objection | o the effort of the Arizon Eastern | o appropriate the Phoenix & Eastern ight-of-way over their lands, says the Blade. Like all the people of that ectioD, who have been waiting pa. iently for years for the advent of ailroad they do not want the work on he Phoenix & Eastern delayed by un- lnterferences. There is 'lenty of room, they say, for the Ari- ona X Eastern to pass over thair land interfering with the right of | say of the Phoenix & Eastern. Like heir neighbors, they are ready to wei. ome all the railroads that may elect h,.sl l