Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-04-22

county Assessor 'ampDel arr1Ncu
 nome yesterday from an official tour
 through the eastern part of the county.
 His itinerary included Lonesome val.
 ley, Mingus mountain, Cherry creek,
 the Verde valley, Clear, Beaver and
 Oak creeks and as far south as the
 mouth of East Verde river. He also
 visited the Buskhorn and Apache Maid
 in the Mogollon mountains and sur.
 vcycd and established twelve miles of
 the boundary of Coconino and Yava-
 pal counties near the head of Clear creek. Mir. Campbell was accompanied by F.. W. stephens, his field deputy
 Mr. stephens is now in Agua Fria val Icy assessing the property of that dis. trict.
 Speaking of his trip io Journal Miner man, Mr. Campbell said: "In assessing the lands of the Verde val. Icy, Clear, Beaver and Oak creeks, I divided them into two classes, culti. vated and uncultivatcd. This will re- suit in a slight raise in the land assess. mcnt of these localities. There will also bc n fair raise in the cattle assess. ment of the Mogollon ranges. Feed is drying on the Mogollon mountains and rain is needed there. However, cattle wintcrcd we'll and the calf crop is good. The barley crop of tnc Verde valley and adjacent creeks is very promising as are also the fruit crops of Clear, Beaver and Oak creeks. The fruit of the Verde vaallcy was slightly damaged by the recent frosts, but fruit raiscrS expect the crop to be fair. Con. siderable interest is manifested by Verde farmers in horse raising. Two Perchcron stallions were recently i'm. ported from Iowa at an expense of si,soO and s2,20o respectively. A mum. Der of farmers and horse raiscrs club. bed together for the purchase of the horses which are owned on the coroner. ativc plan. Hay is very scarce in the Verde valley now and commands a nigh price. The market was good last year and almost the entire crop was shipped.
 'The Arizona Power company is making the dirt fly along the route of its proposed transmission line from Fossil creek to the Big Bug country. Sixty Indians are employed building a trail from the mouth of Fossil crcek to the springs and nearly 200 men are employed in building wagon road from Sycamore creek to the site of the power plant on the Verde river. The company has also survey corps Iaying out wagon road through the Sycamore mountains,
 "Shecp are moving north on the ranges, hut are in poor condition on account of scarcity of feed this year. The Camp Verde section was visited by a good rain yesterday after left which will be welcomed by farmers and stockmen alike"
 Changing the subject to politics. MT. campbell said; "In the Verde valley and adjoining settlements, local op. l ''on IS among the principal topics dis. cussed' A number of the people favor holding another local option election and in fact are disappointed that the board or supervisors did not issue A call Tor one Next to local option. can. | i'dates for sheriff at the fall election are being considered. Jim Lawry is favored by the large majority to sue. eeed himself Lowry is popular all over tho Verde valley, Beaver, Clear anah Oak creeks. l found him even favored by n number of Tennessee R.. publieans in these parts. Next to Lowry John Merritt appears to be favored by many, especially the old ''mer'' among whom he is generally as wen known as Lowry. In the cattle