Arizona silver belt., 1905-07-20
C0CHlSE COUNTY BUDGET
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From the Bisbee Review.
Lumber is scarce in Bisbee and build
ing operations are greatly retarded in
consequence.
Heavy rains have fallen from Doug
las to III Paso doing but little damage
and much good. The Bisbec subway
was cleared just in time for the flood
of waters.
The large tank of the Bsboe-Naco
Water Co., which has been under con-
struction for some time, is now near
ing completion and the people of Low
ell can reasonably expect to have a good
water supply within the next two
months, The tank is built Of steel and
will have a capacity of 100, 900 gallons.
1t will have sufficient elevation to
give good pressure TO all parts of
town and furnish fire protection 20 all
of it.
The Southwestern is making prepar-
tons TO plant park on the north side
of the depot to grass and trees. The
plot which has been recently enclosed
with a handsome iron and wire fence
contains some two acres of ground eX-
tending from the water tank to the
machine shops and over to the adobe
flats, The ground enclosed is being
leveled for irrigation and as soon as
that work is completed it will be thor
oughly covered with pipes and sown to
grass and this fall set to variety of
trees and shrubbery, The park on the
south side of the depot is coming along
nicely and is flooded with water every
afternoon.
A section foreman on the Southwest
ern's first section east Of Douglas re-
ported Friday morning at 10 O'Clock
that a 4O-foot bridge had burned four
miles eastof Douglas Superintendent
of Bridges Ryan, who was in Douglas,
lost no time in loading train with the
necessary ties for cribbing the burned
bridge and hurried to the scene When
he arrived he found that instead of
4O-foot bridge being burned il was one
20 feet long and that it was still burn
ing. 1t was nearly two hours before
the fire could be gotten out of the way
so the work of repair could proceed.
Monday was counted the dullest Cal
umet 4 Arizona payday that has been
experienced in the city for many
months. Business men said that il was
due to the fact that the Fourth of July
was just over and that all surplus
change had been disposed of in celebra-
ting. The fact remains that during
banking hours the branch establish
ment of the Miners & Merchants at
Lowell was obliged to send to Douglas
on four separate occasions for addition
al funds with which to cash checks pre-
sented. 1t was said that the main
street of Lowell had more people on it
than did Main street Bisbee, and that
more money was in circulation than the
suburb had ever before known.
From the International American
Word comes from Tucson to the eff
feet that a special agent of the United
States land Office is inspecting entries of
land in Cochise county and southeastern
Arizona for many years back and some
sensational developments may follow.
Land frauds have been discovered in
New Mexico and the secret service men
are transferring their operations to Ar
iona. 1t is reported that some people
who have filed on land under the home
stead law have sworn falsely, while en-
tries of another character are being
brought into question. The policy of the
government is to require the most
rigid enforcement of the land laws so
that there can be no further frauds
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