Arizona silver belt., 1906-06-07
What Has Happened in the Ter ritory Since Our Last
 Issue
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempor- sriss-G Gossip Of the Busy Week Activity in the Southern Counties is Pronounced

Mrs. Sarah Murpny, or LOS AHSeies' and Arthur Pike, of San Francisco, were married in Jos Angeles recently. Mir. Pike is a hardware merchant of San Francisco. Mrs. Pike is native daughter of Arizona and was the wife of ex-Governor Murphy.
 The equipment for a messenger call service has been ordered by the Bisbee management of the Western Union Telegraph office. It is expected that by June 15 the company will be furnishing it's patrons with messenger service unsurpassed in any city of the size of Bisbee.
 According to measurements reported to be taken at Salton, Cal, Salton sea has risen from 25 to 3S feet on May 20. or a total of 13 feet in 30 days, an aver age of nearly two inches per day. The measurement of 3S feet means that the surface of the water is 231 feet below the sea level.
 The assessment of the Copper Queen Mining company as given for this year amounts to more than $2,3OO,O 900. The Review says this is more taxable prop erty than is contained on the assess ment rolls of six Arizona counties. It is expected that this years assessment will show Cochise to be the heaviest tax paying county in the territory.
 The board of underwriters of the Pa ciic had Arizona doing the hurdling act in the insurance rate line for a few days. Notice was received that tenn porary rise of g per cent had been made on insurance rates in the terri tory within the Pacific jurisdiction. Later an amended notice was received stating that Arizona had been excluded from the raise except on some mining property such as mills ard smelters.
 A Kingman dispatch says: The Col orado is almost as high at the present time as at its flood last year. The Mo have & Milltown railroad below Spear s lake is under water and trains run only to the lake, where freight for Needles has to be transferred by boat. It is predicted that the river will reach a stage never before known. The Santa Fe railroad is moving its tracks west of the bridge to higher ground to avoid the delay of possible washouts.
 The Mesa Free Press says: It looks now as if there was no doubt in the world about the Mesa lands being just theproper thing for sugar beets. On every hand comes cheering reports from the plant of splendid stands, rapo growth and admirable saccharine quail ties of the beets. w. E. Dent was ir last evening with about an average beet from 30 odd acres which weighed 4 pounds and II ouncee. These beets were planted February 20.
 The receipts in the office of the terri torial auditor for May for incorporation fees have been $4, ,572.20 while the run ming expenses for the territory for that month were $4300. It will be seen that the receipts from the incorporation fees for that month were more thai enough to pay the expenses of thu territory. Incidentally it nigh tb' noted that present incorporation law i good one. It has netted the territor. an average of $45O0 per month since Auditor Page assumed his office Janu ary 1, which makes an average of ovel $5O,0OO a year. While the average may not be kept up throughout thu year it will likely be very near that Gazette