Arizona silver belt., 1906-09-20
ARIZONA WEEKLY
 NEWS BUDGET
What Has Happened in the Ter ritOry Since Our Last
 Issue 7 -@
A INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempor- sries-G Gossip of the Busy Week. Activity in the Southern Counties is Pronounced

Thomas F. Wilson has resigned as a member of the territorial board of equalization. His successor has not yet been appointed. Wilson succ geded Hon. A. s. Donau, who declined to be a member under Gov, Kibbey Wilson resigns because of his joint statehood views.
 The Douglas new electric street cars are now in operation, connecting the business part of the city with both the Copper Queen and Calumet X Arizona smelters, and Supt. Cowan stated that he expected to have the entire system completed in this city within a week or ten days.
 Brigadier General William s. Me Caskey, U. s. A., commanding the Southwestern division, who is now on an official visit to Fort Huachuca, in his annual report recommends that Fort Apache, Arizona, and Fort Du- chesne be abandoned, and that Fort Clark be disposed of in the same way.
 David s. Rose has returned to Tue son from Milwaukee where he has been for month on business connected with the mines and railway interest of the Twin Buttes. He negociated arrange ments for shelter while in the east and while the plans are still prehmin- ary he intends to have shelter to handle the Twin Butte's ore in very short time.
 The Bank of Florence opened for busines, Monday. The capitalization of the institution is $50, 900. The di- rectors are J. G. Keating, c. G. Pow ell, J. w. Sharpe, J. E. O'Connor and T. F. Weedin of Florence; J. Ernest Walker of Phoenix, and T. c. Eagin of Mountain Park, Okla. The officers elected are John w. Sharpe, president; w. Y. Prlce, vice president, and T. c. Eagin, cashier. Considerable of the capital behind the project comes from Kentucky.
 Wednesday afternoon the first brick of the Tucson passenger depot was laid. TEe concrete foundations are entirely finished and the walls will be reared as rapidly as possible. Con tractor Evans will push the work with all possible haste as the company de- sires the new depot as soon as may be on account of the fall and winter tourist business. Ire depot will be a handsome one and an advertisement for the company to every passenger who goes through Tucson.
 The industrial school at Benson un- der the direction of Superintendent Mahoney has just been remodeled so that there is now plenty of room for sometime to come to accommodate those who might be sent there. There are at the present time in the institu- tion fifty boys and six girls. With the improvements that have been made by dividing up the attic into rooms and the building of another auditorium, Supt. Mahoney says he will be able to accommodate twenty more boys and several more girls.
 Vice President Macdonald, of the United Verde Copper company, and James Douglas. of Phelps, Dodge & Co.,, have each given $l0O to the Capt. William O'Neil Rough Rider monu- ment fund. Contributions from patr- otic citizens continue to swell the fund. The monument commission, as well as all others, are much pleased thereat, for the larger the fund the more cred itable the monument to be erected to the Rough Rider heroes of the Spanish American war. Courier.
 The Methodist Episcopal church con ference for Arizona will be held in Tue son beginning on October 4, and will continue for several days. It will be held in the new Methodist church on Sixth avenue. Bishop w. H. Moore of Portland, Ore, will preside at the con ference. He is one of the best known men in the Methodist Episcopal church and is an eloquent speaker. In addi- tion to Bishop Moore, there will be present representative of the general missionary society of the Methodist l church from New York, and repre- sentative of the Church Extension so- ciety of Philadelphia. There will be a number of excellent addresses during the conference. There are about thirty Methodist churches in the territory, and their membership is probably the largest of any protestant denomination in Arizona.
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