Arizona silver belt., 1904-08-18

and the wonderful results which 1t works in so many cases where germs are the primal evil or cause of so many ailments the body Is heir to- makes the discovery of almost unlim. tied power or remedy for good. -Ari- zona Star.
 The adjourned term of the district court at Nogales will resume on Mon day, the 22d inst. Court was post pOned last June because of smallpox among the prisoners confined in the jail. JudgeDavis, who has been visit ing at hIs old home in Ohio, returned to Tucson late last week. The cases against R. Allyn Lewis, John Dessart, l.. F. Swain and l.. II Rhuart, of the defuncl International bank, come up at this time. This term of court will be busy one, as there are many cases to come up for consideration Tucson Post.
 One of the largest floods ever known on the Eagle came down last Sunday night and again damaged the property of the Morenci Water company to considerable extent, causing another shortage of water in the camp. There were several thousand cords of drift wood came down, booming the river to such an extent that the wells were flooded and caved so badly that the pumping plant had to be shut down for the greater part of the day and night. Besides this the flood gate on the Hume was torn of. This year has been an exceptionally hard one on the Water company.-Leader.
 One to look at the green pastures of Mesa as they are today; the fields of waving cane, growing corn and luxuriant verdure, can scarcely realize that only one month ago all this land was dry and parched by fierce sum mer sun. and the winds stirred only sand and dust or, that at any time the country was yet in the clutch of ten-months period of drought. With in two weeks after the first rain since last Decem Der, feed was plentiful and the farmers were busy putting iu crops of corn and caue, and preparing the ground for a big planting the coming fall. Mesa Free Press.
 It would be impossible to estimate the enormous value of the rains with which Arizona has been blessed dur ing the past few weeks, says the Pros pec,Or. Once more every irrigating canal in the territory is full to over flowing. Reports from all parts of the territory bring the same good tidiugs. The ranges have been thoroughly soaked. Ia mountains the stream beds which have bsen dry for year are once more covered with running wa. ter. Prospecting, which has been at a standstili almost everywhere be ;ause of the terrors of the wateresS mount. alus and deserts, will now be resumed with yigor
 Ed Mervin Sturges, when a resident of Mohaye couuty had just been di- vorced from a wife in Nebraska. It is now evident that this wife is to make q struggle for part of the SturgeS estate, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. The E Tigre mine, In Sonora, Mexico, Is owned in part by this estate. Mervin, or Sturgese, when residing here, was very poor and when he left for Mexico on the prospecting trip that brought him for tune, owed the merchants of Kiug. man several hundred dollars for sup plies. After being divorced from his wife he went by the name of Mervin and was so known here Mohave County Miner.
 In regard t1 the abandonment of Fort Grant on account of an made quate water supply, the Wilcox Range News says that '1. McAvoy, an engi- neer, has made an investigation and reports that an ample supply of water can be secured by drilling deep well Up to about six years ago the supply was obtained from a number of shal- low wells. At that time a pipeline was run up Into the Graham mount aims and a spriDgfed stream was tapped. At times this stream fails and the post is left without water. The engineer estimates that an ex- penditure of $s000 would settle the water problsm for all tune. l is prob. ably true that the government could provide plenty Of water if it really desired to do so.