Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-07-13
What Has Happened in the Ter
ritOry Since Our Last
Issue
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION
OF Clippings From Newsy Contempora-
ries Gossip of the Busy Week -Ao-
tiyity in the Southern Counties Is
Pronounced Douglas City Notes.

The successful trial of anew windmill
in Deming is reported which bids fair
to reyolutionize old methods. Four
wheels are employed which work
in combination and power is generated
to raise six inch stream of water 100
feet Its application TO irrigation will
work wonders in many localities. - Re-
view
Ii is given out by the Phoenix &
Eastern that trains will be running to
the head of Ash creek within the next
thirty days The Phoenix & Eastern
has secured titles to all the right of
way required for the extension of its
line from Dudleyville to Benson and
the titles have been placed on record at
Tombstone. Review.
Frank Benton, the well-known cattle
king-author, of Colorado, predicts that
cattle will be lower this fall than at
any time in ten years. He does not
state the grounds on which he bases his
predictions, and it is only fair to say
that his outlook does not tally with that
of many others. We will hope he is
wrong. Stockman.
Il was found that at the close of the
fiscal year, last Friday night, the ter
ritory was in better financial shape
than 1t had ever been before. There
was in the treasury the sum of
$2I2,OI6.H. But that is not all; there
is owing to the territory the following
sums for interest ON the funded debt:
Pima county, $2l,S7O.65; Yavapai coun-
ty, S9,55l. 10; Prescott, $2,2Sl.55. If
these various sums were now in the
treasury where they belong the total
amount on hand would be 5000, 49, -
Republican.
All of the structural iron work which
was to have been used in the construc-
ton Of the shops when it was planned
to take them 10 Douglas, is being taken
to Ell Paso to be used in the construc-
ton Of the Phelps-Dodge shops. Two
carloads Of material have already been
received and more will follow shortly
The date Of beginning the work is not
definitely settled but will be soon, as
they are tied up because of the non
arrival of the steam shovel TO be used
in grazing. The detailed plans of the
round house and machine shops are
nearly completed. Ell Paso Times.
Suit viii be filed in the district court
next week by Dist. Atty. S. F. Noon,
on behalf of the Territory of Arizona,
against Henry Levin, N. X Noon, Col
by n Thomas and c. X. Brown, as
sureties for Luther +. Swain, for $1,000.
1t Is one more of the long list of legal
tangles resulting from the collapse of
the International bank. The men
against whom suit is to be commenced
signed bonds for the release of Cashier
Swain, who was under arrest for en-
O'zzement. Left in the lurch by the
defaulter, who jumped his bail, they
are now called upon to pay the forfeit.
Oasis.
Gen. Mgr. Walter Douglas, of the
Copper Queen, stated to the Bisbee Mi
ner that there was no truth in the re-
port that the Rock Island is going to
run its Golden State limited over the /
tracks Of the Southwestern from Ell I
PaSo to Benson, and that he does not
know of any other Rock Island train |
mat is going to run over the tracks of
III Paso & Southwestern. He laughed
at the report that the Santa Fe is ex-
pecLmg to run trains over this road.
ms report concerning the Santa Fe .
mas been published in several papers in
Arizona, but Mr. Douglas denial of it /
settles it. The Santa Fe will run no
trains over this road.