Arizona republican., 1908-06-09
OF LOCAL INTEREST

SURVEY APPROVED.-The sur
veSor general has approved Mineral
Survey No. 2515, Black Diamond lode
mining claim, situated in the Ellis
worth Mining district, Yuma county
and claimed by Thomas Kelly.
WATER PAYMENTS.-The 10th of
the month is the last day for the pay
ments of water taxes, The payments
have been coming In exceedingly slow.
1t IS likely, unless some get hurry
up move, that they will be late, or are
putting off payment till the 1880 hour.
SHIPMENTS TO THE VAllEY.--
Twenty two car loads of cattle from
the ella valley viii arrive in Phoenix
this afternoon over the Phoenix and
Eastern. The cattle are being brought
here for fattening for market. The
shipments of cattle from that section
of the country this spring have been
very numerous and the number of head
will run well W. into the thousands. -,
SCHOOL CENSUS.-The school cen
sus has been completed for Phoenix
and IS now IN the hands of Superin-
tendent Fulton. The total number OF
school children is 2,410. OF this num-
Der there are 4e colored boys and girls
OF the white children there are 1.134
girls and 1890 bows. There is a good
Increase over the total of last year
The census report is considered only
fairly complete and accurate. 1t is not
believed that it comprises all the chill
dren of school age in full as the census
was extremely difficult to take in many
respects.
THE PROSPERITY OF GLOBE
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred H Kinney Of
Globe are in the city attending the
suit OF Mrs. Kinney against ]. K.
Mccarthy and others over a mining
property in Pinal county which has
been in litigation between them for
several years. Speaking of conditions
at Globe, Mr.. Kinney said that though
there is not quite so much liveliness
as there was a year ago. matters were
in very good shape and prosperity
might be said TO have wholly returned
with the recent reopening of the bank
ing institutions Of that city. There are
about 5000 men employed there now
at wages ranging from SO to Sc a day,
so that there is an abundance of money
in circulation. The panic, Mr. Kinney
DtlltNCS ~ I'D Z DttIl SOOh AOA
that part of the country. If not for the
whole country. 1t has resulted in a
great solidifying OF business.
NEW RESIDENCE BUILDINGS
The Phoenix Construction company
has secured the contract for two more
houses to be erected in the Evergreen
addition. One for c. NJ. Scott of the
Southern Pacific railroad. 1t will be
of the bungalow design. plastered ex-
terror and the interior finish will be of
a mission syle, the cost will be about
$4,000. The other house is for S. L.
Easterling of the firm of Easterling &
Whitney and will cost about $4,000. 1t
will mark an entirely new departure in
house designs in Phoenix. 1t will have
a massive cobble stone porch piers and
cobble stone foundation with a plast-
cred exterior and the plans shown are
unusually attractive designs for the
exterior and a very convenient ar
rangement for the interior, something
which is usually lacking in the MAORI
ty of houses. The Phoenix Construc-
ton Co, is certainly making a show
ing in the Evergreen addition. The
parties interested in it are experienced
men and the houses which they have
designed and finished for j. S. Griffin.
ID. Nickels, in the Evergreen addition;
and for H 3. Synder in the Bennett
addition show that they understand
the building situation in Phoenix as
well as they did in Pittsburg. PennsyI-
vania, where they are from. Messrs
Ramage and Bicket are the prime
movers Of the concern, but it is said
they have the backing of a number of
influential people whose names are
not mentioned for business reasons.
WORK AT ROOSEVELT.-The
water at Roosevelt now being diverted
again through the big sluicing tunnel
which is large enough to carry the
normal flow of the river, Contractor
O'Rourke yesterday resumed the lay
ing of masonry on the north end of
the dam in what has served as a river
channel over its foundation during the
past winter. This channel is about a
hundred feet wide on the bottom and
about two hundred feet wide at the
height of the advanced portion of the
dam. Only a limited number of men
can work in the channel for a few
lays without falling over each other
but it will not take long to fill it up
A few feet when the adding of masonry
over the entire surface of the dam
may begin with much larger force,
and 1t will be rushed as fast as pos
sible. II will not be many weeks un-
Ill the entire structure will be above
The Interference of any flood unless it
be an unprecedented one. It may be
quite confidently stated that the en-
cheering difficulties of the contractor
are now well out of the way There |
ire always perplexing little things |
wherever there is large construction, |
1ut from now on there can be nothing |
d interfere on the part of the river. |
InleSS il be an enormnus fInnd that |