Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-04
What Has Happened in the Terri tory Since Our Last
 Issue.
ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION.
New Business Enterprises -- uood Year for the Man With the Hoe, and the Owner of Live Stock Everybody VIII Have Money

The Mesa Free Press reports that W.P. Mealy of the surveyor general s office has gone to the Sierra Ancha to make extensive surveys.
 The deed to the Tonto basin reser- yoir site from the Hudson Reservoir company to the government was filed last week. The consideration was s4O,OO0.
 Fl Paso and MOrenci are to play 8 series of three games of baseball at Clifton. Both teams have put up a wager of 5000 each on the result of the series.
 The Tucson Citizen says that Judge Owen T. Rouse is considering plans for s6OOO residence to be erected in the neighborhood of the new City park on Sixth avenue, near the Carnegie li- brsry.
 John Cochran has laid of townsite on the flat just east of the Old Butte smeltersite. The Phoenix X Eastern has made a station their and called it Cochran. John expects to put up a family hotel and establish winter re- sort.-Florence Blade.
 James Sias, under sheriff for Sheriff J.I. Roberts, of Yavapia county, has been missing since week ago last Sunday. He left Prescott without iu' forming Mir. Roberts or any official in the office or even bidding goodbye to his wife and family. An expert ia examining his books.
 At Bisbee, on the night of July P, J. II. Goodman, diamond drill ope- rator and his Mexican helper, Juan BlancO, were killed by falling 325 feet in the Pittsburg X Hecla shaft. The bucket in which the men were being lowered is supposed to have upset from some unaccOuntable cause.
 John T. PrOffitt has finished another artesian well for Rels Martinez, on his farm adjoining town, and fine flow of water was obtained, amounting to about sixty-five gallons per minute. MT. Martinez now has an abundance of water and has large patch of gar den truck. Benson Press.
 Bisbee suffered water famine last week as result of damage done the water plant supplying the town, dur ing heavy rain storms. It reached the point where the Copper Queen hotel had to get burro train on the trail and haul in all the water it needed for actual necessitie in the house.
 Mrs Robert Branaman, of Riverside, who went to San Francisco to have a cancer removed from her cheek, has returned home. The operation was successful and she is rapidly recover ing from the effects of 1t. The can. Ger was removed by the application of plasters. Blade.
 An exchange states that Manager Clifford of the Phelps Dodge cattle in- terests in Mexico has gone on from his visit at St. Louis for a vacation in Europe, where he will look into Euro pean methods in the cattle business for the benefit of his employers, who send him there for that purpose.
 Frank Hartwell, the well-known Phoenix photographer, has been com missioned by the Santa Fe railroad to take pictures of the sights at and about Kelvin, on the Phoenix & East ern. Mir. Hartwell makes speciality of natural scenery. He left Friday for Kelvin and will be gone ten days.
 Some sensational developments are looked for in the prObating of the will of the late Patsy Delehanty, of Ben son, and contest is believed to be probable. Friends of the deceased claim that his final testament was made while under the influence of spree, and may be disputed. The estate is valued at about $60,000. A brother and sister in Ireland are thought to be the only known relatives Review.
 Armour, son of Cattle Inspector Geo. P. Scholefield, came in yesterday from the SchOlefeld ranch at Rose- mont. He said that the gauge on the ranch registered three inches of pre- cipitation. The grass has grown six or eight inches and there has been rain nine out of twelve days since the hrst fall of agua. Mr. Scholefeld said today that the rains that fell since the goth inst are worth million dollars to southern Arizona. Tucson Citizen.
 An exciting fight took place in the county jail this morning when Bert Starr, the child-stealer, gave J. R Cox, who is accused of forgery, a black eye and other marks. It appears that Starr is of an overbearing tempera.