Arizona silver belt., 1906-07-19
What Has Happened in the Ter ritory Since Our Last
 Issue
AN INTERESTING COLLECTION
Of Clippings From Newsy Contempor- aries Gossip of the Busy Week. Activity in the Southern Counties is Pronounced

nominee tor delegate to congress. II defeatd by Mark Smith-as he certain ly would be--he would be in line for a good federal appointment. Colonel Sturges has been resident of Arizona twenty-six years. He is at present national republican committeeman from Arizona.
 Captain Rynning of the rangers, who went to Tucson to investigate report that one of the rangers had been drunk and in the hands of the police of that city, found the report true and the ranger was summarily dismissed from the service. The ranger who indulged in too much of the liquid joy is Reuben E. Burnett. His discharge by Capt. Rynning has received the approval of the governor.
 The board of equalization has or dered all Bisbee lots held under lease on patented mining claims, placed on the tax roll. This will increase the assessment some S2O.OO0. The board also instructed the county assessor to place value of S2 per acre on all pat ented grazing land located in the Sul- phur Spring valley. The assessment of Neal X Hysam was accordingly raised on $40 acres from SIPS to s2 per acre.
 A. Y. Smith, one of the lessees of the Commonwealth Mining company at Pearce, accompanied by his wife were in the city, says the Tombstone Pros pector. Mir. Smith stated to Pros pector representative that the mine is looking first rate and that several new bodies of good ore have recently been uncovered in the lower workings. They have 60 stamps of the mlll run ming, and are still putting the tailings through the cyanide process and con tinue to get excellent returns.
 Anxious to get back to his home at Phoenix, and tired of the life he has lead in an out-of-t -the-way place such as Roosevelt, Arizona Ranger Wayne Davis surrendered his badge and re- signed from the service, which he en- tered few months ago when he left the Maricopa county sheriff's office, where he was jailer. Ranger Captain Rynning has found Davis valuable man, and he was reluctant to accept his resignation. In that spirit he sent Ranger Lieutenant Harry Wheeler to Phoenix to confer with Davis and if possible dissuade him from his determ- ination to quit the ranger force, but Davis was firm in his decision to quit.
 D. H. Collins. president of the Olive Camp and Kelvin-Arizona Mining com panies, and former superintendent of one of the mines of the Warren dis. trict, was business visitor in the city, says the Bisbee Review, leaving next evening for Phoenix and Kelvin, where he goes to superintend plans for the erection of shelter for the company Mir. Collins is enthusiastic in his ex. pectatons of what will be developed al the Kelvin property. "We have veir sixty feet in width that goes per cent copper" said he in speaking of the Kelvin proposition, "and it is our in tention to make the most out of it. ' Mir. Collins will devote his entire time to the development of the Olive CamE and Kelvin propositions. Interested with him are Pittsburg capitalists oi note in the mining world
 The city of Phoenix is having harc time in getting it's municipal water plant under way. About two years ago at special city election $500, ,OOC in bonds were voted to install water system to be owned by the city. Since then the city has been trying to find a purchaser for the bonds, and Gen. M H. Sherman, of Los Angeles, who owns the present water system in the capi tai city, has been using every means te prevent the sale of these bonds, as a way of forcing the city to buy his plant. Finally brokerage firm ir Ohio purchased the bonds, but wher the city clerk went to Cincinnati last month to deliver the bonds he ran on to Sherman's attorneys who had a bunch of injunctions ready to prevent the consummation of the bond sale, and now it looks like the people of Phoenix will continue to buy water from Gen. Sherman for several years yet unless his plant is taken over by the city. - Bisbee Review.
 Thursday evening seven Mexicans who have been at the territorial asylum for periods less than three years were taken to Nogales, Sonora, and there turned over to the Mexican authorities