The news-herald., 1904-02-06
Will Be Maintained by
the Government
ARIZONA WILL SECURE ONE
CattIemen Declare They Will Tryto
Control Legislature in Their
and Farmers Interests

favorably reported in the House
1t makes an appropriation of ten
thousand dollars year to the
School of Mines in each Territory.
The money is to come from the sale
of public land.
The cattlemen and farmers are
figuring on electing a majority of
the members of the next Legislature
and passing laws to compel the big
mines to pay their just proportion
of taxes. The cow man or farmer
pays heavy taxes on the output of
his herds and lands, and he has
commenced to wonder why the big
Producing mines should not pay
their proportion of taxes on the
output of their mines. 1t is in
the power of the cattlemen and
farmers to unite and elect men to
the next Legislature who will not
be under corporation influence
Arizona Cattleman.
F. E. Matthes, the civil engi-
neer in charge of the geological sur
vey which has been in progress in
the Grand Canyon for over year
past, having completed the work
outlined for him by the department
came in Tuesday and departed that
evening for Washington. The 9th
er members of the party went over
land from Flagstaff. andfrom there
continue overland to Nogales. The
coming fall, it is said, map will
be made of that section of the can
yOn around Bass ferry and camp.
Williams News,
The United Verde and Equator
smelters will eat up about SO stand
ard cars of coke every week, which,
with coal and other supplies for
Jerome, the district generally and
the two companies controlled by
Senator Clark, will make an inn
: mense amount of business to b9
handled by the United Verde anil
Pacific Railway.-Jerome Mining
News.
The railroad companies hav e
raised freight rates on cattle an d
have taken transportation awe Y
from shippers The railroads com
pei owners or shippers to 60 or
send men at owners expense, with
all shipments of cattle, and vet
they compel payment of fare re-
turning. When these roads ship
any other. kind of freight, they do
not demand men to go along. Cat
tlemen are thinking seriously of
loading their cattle in future and
at once turning them over to the
company, then buying tickets to
their destination, and ride in Pull
mans instead of cattle trains.-Ar-
iona Cattlema11
1t is reported that the Campbell
} Brothers, who have lease on the
Refugio mine, near Morenci, have
recently made big free gold strike.
The ore is said to be fabulously
rich. Some of these days Clifton
people viii begin to rerlize that
this is a gold as we'll as a copper
country. The Clifton-Morenci dis
trict has produced large amount
of gold in years past, and when the
main quartz leads are developed,
she may astonish the world with
her output.-Clifton Copper Era.
Clay McGonigle, holder of the
worlds steer tying record, who is
well known throughout Arizona,
won the prize in the tying contest
at the Ell Paso carnival. The time
was 25 seconds, which is something
remarkable, although not within
several seconds of his record time.
James Conlon, for some time
employed as an assistant by Alex.
, Chisholm in the Tavern Saloon,
died last Monday of heart failure,
while sitting in a chair. Deceased
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