Arizona silver belt., 1906-02-01
C0CHlSE COUNTY BUDGET
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lIC itoiuCifSC Soi- onel w. c. Greene built at Hereford several years ago at cost of about $2O, ,OO0, was entirely destroyed by fire week ago. It was occupied by Frank Mosen, who is wellknown here.
 The Review states that Fred Riley returned to Bisbee from Chihuahua. Mexico, where he recently went. He was accompanied on return by Mrs. Riley. They return to remain. MT. Riley will resume his former position with the Copper Queen.
 At meeting of Bisbee Elks Lodge 671 new building committee was appointed with instructions from the lodge to secure plans for the erection of three-story building to occupy the lot owned by the lodge on upper Main street. The two upper stories of the building will be occupied for lodge and club purposes, and the lower floor will be for rent. The Review says it is the expectation that the building will be under way before April at the latest.
 The special election at Bisbee to vote on an issue of Sl50,00 sewer bonds will be held on February 5. The Review says that interviews with the business men of Bisbee on the sewer bond proposition so far show nearly every taxpayer and voter to be in favor of the project. A canvass was made among the workingmen who are tax payers and voters, and the business men. But one was against the proposi- ! tion.
 The Merchants Protective association of Bisbee have obtained a promise from the local mining companies to help the merchants in their efforts to collect just bills from persistent deadbeats by establishing the rule that employees of a company whose wages have been garnisheed for non-payment of debts will not be given employment.
 From a statement published in the Bisbee Review it appears that because the local insurance agents combined and asked an exhorbitant rate Q.SD to insure the new Central school house ir Bisbee- erectedl at cost of S59, ,000- the school trustees applied to special agent at San Francisco and secured g rate of 90 cents on 5000, or less than one-half of what the Bisbee agents demanded. Now the agents are mak- ing howl because the trustees sent the money away from home.
 Floyd Thornton, the colored brick. layer, who is employed by MT. Brown to lay the pavement, holds the record for fast bricklaying in the southwest. He has laid 40, 900 brick day for three days, and but few days that he lays less than 35, 900 if he has the right kind of help.
 It is estimated that between seventy five and hundred buildings are now being constructed in Bisbee and Lowell This includes business blocks and resi- dences. The largest number of these are being erected in Lowell and South Bisbee. Don Luis also reports build ing boom.
 Work of laying the walls for the First National Bank building has commenced, and several masons are employed. The old wall in the rear which enclosed the safe is being torn away, and the safe will soon be moved to the front of the building, where concrete floor has been built for it. When the building is completed it will be one of the hand somest buildings In the city.
 After a rest of several months the little ivory ball has again started in the Sample Room saloon, says the Douglas Dispatch. Early last December the gambling licenses were raised to such high figure tbat all the games closed, and few of them opened up at Agua Prieta, across the Mexican border. Now it is said the Mexican authorities have stopped gambling there. There seems to bo no disposition by the Doug las city council to reduce gambling licenses.