Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-07-06
D0INGS IN PHOENIX AND
THE SALT RIVER VALLEY

From the Phoenix Enterprise
Fire on Friday at Maricopa destroyed
seven sacks of papers and packages
routed to the east and burned portion
of the car in which they were. The
cause of the fire was the tipping over
of an oil lamp on the floor of the ear.
A member of the territorial board of
equalization says that the assessment
roll for Arizona will show valuation
of 500, 900, 900. When the board ad-
journs in August the people of Arizona
will not find any fault with the raise,
/ providing il is placed where it belongs.
| The municipal water commission
gives out the statement that it pro-
! poses to dispose of the $500, 900 water
bonds and build new and up-to-date
water works for Phoenix. The COM
mission is waiting for the arrival of
Vernon Clark, when steps will be taken
to the end above set forth.
From the Republican
/ The Mesa Hay, Grain and Milling
company has leased the property of the
Mesa Cooperative Milling company and
will assume the operation of the anne
the first of July. This arrangement was
made at meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the milling company on Mon
I day of this week This company will
now control the new warehouse, the
Union warehouse and the mill
/ There has been reorganization of
the offices of the Phoenix City Railway
company and the Phoenix City Water
company by which the management has
again been amalgamated as it was some
years ago though better arranged. The
moving spirit in both enterprises is NJ
II. Sherman, and II. w, Heap who has
hitherto been the directing power of
the City Water company, is now made
manager of both companies and all the
Sherman interests.
There are more kinds Of climate to the
square mile in Arizona than anywhere
else on earth. There has been no rain
in Phoenix for weeks and it may be
surprising, therefore, to many Phoenix
readers to learn that only few miles
away, on the road between Goldfield
and Mesa City, there was cloudburst
there two or three days ago that
washed away quite a chunk of the road
recently constructed for the convenience
of big traction engine that is hauling
oil from Mesa TO Goldfield Teams are
now being hired to rebuild the road. 1t
appears that the rain was brief one
and it all dropped in one place
II. S. Phelps, one of Mesa's oldest
and most successful farmers, is sowing
a second crop of wheat and will raise
seed wheat for the fall planting. The
loss of the wheat crop from rust has
set the farmers to thinking and among
them II. S. Phelps remembered that he
had often planted corn crop as late
as August in his wheat stubble and
that among the corn had sometimes
grown a second crop of wheat, which
had matured and made good grain, and
he is of the opinion that second crop
of wheat, if properly attended, can nc
cessfully be grown. He is now put
ting in five acres of Sonora wheat and
in about three weeks he will SOW about
fifteen acres more.
Work on the new normal training
school and the new dining hall at
Tempe, has been going on now for
some weeks and already the work has
so far progressed that very good
idea of what they will be may be gain
ed from a look at what has already
been accomplished. On the new dining
hall, which will be little east and
trifle north Of the girls hall, the foun-
dalton is complete and little of the
woodwork has been placed in position
The training school will be directly
west Of the old building that has been
used for that purpose for the past sew
eral years and the foundation there
has also reached an almost completed
stage. The building will be large
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