Arizona silver belt., 1904-01-07
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 Will Have Money.

The Guardian records the death, rom pneumonia, of Mrs. w. B. Fon- la, of Layton. Deceased was good woman, respected by all who knew Ter.
 The Arizona Orange Growers asso- iiation has shipped six cars of On anges O the east this season. Arizona oranges command the highest price If anyon the market, the best price re. ,eiyed so far being $S per box.
 General Sherman, owner of the ?h Nenix water works, refuses to sell iis plant to the city and will contest he legality of the recent election by which the city is authorized to acquire ind maintain a water works system.
 Mrs. Thos. N. Wills, wife of Sheriff Wills, has been dangerously ill for ten lays past. It was reported here that he was not expected to recover. At ,his writing there is no change for the better in her condition. Mir. Wills has Deen at her bedside constantly. Flor ,nce Blade.
 Three fine flowing wells have just been completed at Benson, and the contractor, George S. Matteson, has several thousand dollars worth of work ahead of him. Some of the res dents cf the town are drilling wells in ;heir yards. The flow is good and the quality cannot be beaten.
 The elegant new club house of the Yavapai Commercial club, in Prescott, vas formally opened last Friday night. The building, of three stories, is eas. ly the largest and best appointed club louSe in the southwest, and splen- lid monument to the enterprise of Prescott business men.
 Beginning with January II, work will be pushed with the utmost vigOr ln the new freight and passenger de- IOt of the Fl PaSo & Southwestern ailroad at the foot of OK. street, avs the Bisbee Review. It will be a cry neat structure and have every onvenience for the handling of freight xpeditiously and for the comfort of travellers.
 The live stock sanitary board has .ppointed the following delegates to ttend the national convention of the attlemen, to be held in Portland, Ore ;on, January l2.l6 B. A. Packard, )ochise county J. J. Vosburg, Gila ounty, and ]. J. Riggs, of Dos Cabe, as. All of these gentlemen have sig lifed their intention of attending the convention.
 The following officers were elected at the recent meeting of the territo- ial teachers association President, Supt. w. W. McNeff, Jerome vice presidents, all county superintendents yho are members of the association Iecretary, Supt. A. II. Mcclure. No- gales; treasurer, Miss Mary McNulty, Tempe normal. Flagstaff was chosen IS the place for holding the next ses- iion of the association.
 Some of those in attendance at the jerritorial teachers institute at Phoe- lix wanted to censure President Bab- ,ock, of the university, and Territo. tal Supt. Layton for not being present.. After considerable discus ion the resolution of censure was 7oted down. It was explained in be- lalf of Messrs. BabcOck and Layton hat they had important engagements | made prior to the announcement of he date of the institute.
 Ph. Freudenthal, manager of the solomon Commercial company at Sol 'monville, spent few days in Clifton his week, returning home this morn. ng. MT. Freudenthal has resided in he southwest thirty-fve years. He anne to Clifton in 1873, and was at hat time in the employ of Lezlnsky 3ros., who opened up this camp as a opper producer. At that time. Mir. Neudenthal says, nothing less than per cent copper ore could be worked, and if man had then pre- Iicted that even 10 per cent copper would be worked at profit he would ave been considered crazy. At the resent time 90 per cent of toe ton aga averages less than per cent, and ne companies are making money on hat. Mir. Freudenthal now predicts hat in few years per cent ore will handled at profit in this district. Copper Era.
 At Nogales, on Christmas eve, one of he big-hearted citizens, who was per- Onating Santa Claus, got stuck in himney and it took four men ana A oy to release him. As be was de. cending the fue to surprise crowd