Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-29

rushing through the power house il torrents. The r. r. Miller Company building caught on fire during th'
 .ovupour hu' thc blaze was cViin 1 gJ.hcd without any damage, The fir, !, Is believed t1 have caught from Dn,
 o' tH electric wire, being struck b, l lightning. lt is believed tua' ,H'
 t,utc of 'hc road throug. Deception lu.rh will hc changed when i' Is rc
 built. which will be at oncc.
 Upon receipt of new. that tnc bridge
 south of town was washed away yes 'rr'ay and before thc storm had sub sided, Chairman Barney Smith of the board of supervisor, secured rig and drove Co tuc site of thc bridge to as certain the extent uf thc damage lIc
 ilo returned here and commenced arrangement. to rebuild at once lIc
 will leave tli- morning at < o'clork
 with County Surveyor Latiucr Co make
 Q survey and draft plans for its recon.
 .'ructiou. IIc stated last night that he
 intended tp build new bridge high
 enough tu hc ou, of the reach of any possible flood and substantial enough
 to last a generation. The bridge at the
 Wbiteside, place will also be rebuilt as son as possible. Chairman Smith also said that he had adviccs from Vii. Hanson valley stating that the roal between thi. city and Simmons was also badly damaged. lIc will make ar engagements Co have it repaired as soon is possible and opened again for heavy traffic.
 The storm only extended mile east of inc city limits and it~ fury was con hncd to the summit of the range. five miles west. The heaviest precipitation appears Co have been between here and the hcadwaters of Banning creek, where boulders larger than houses were rolled down stream by the food waich assumed the proportions of a water spout.
 Hardly any rain fell at the Bull. whacker mine. three miles east of here. Reports from Big Bug, Mayer ana oth. CT points on the Bradshaw mountain railroad are that only light showers fell in these places during the day.
 News reached here yesterday that the damage done by the cloudburst to the main line of the santa Fe railroad. seventeen miles west of Seligman. has been repaired and that trains were 'gain running on schedule time. Three thousand feet of the road bed was washed away Saturday. stopping traffic intil early yesterday morning. X mum. ger of passengers en route here from | southern California were delayed from welve to twenty.four hours by the 'ashout. Heavy rains are reported long the line in various places be. ween Ash Fork and Needles. The sasnout west of Seligman was the most of any since the July storms.
 Heavy rains are also reported from 'oconino county in the last few days. ut the santa Fc railroad was only lightly damaged, no serious washouts 'eing reported.
 It IS also reported that the Congress tation, in this county, was visited by
 damaging downpour late Saturday, ut the extent of the damage done 0uld not be learned at late hour last light, as the telephone wires were re. 'orted down.
 Williamson valley Is reported to ave been almost entirely submerged y Friday's storm. Much damage is eported to the corn crop but this is nset to some extent by the benefit the Q the ranges where the grass is report. d to have grown three inches in the hst ten days. White and black gram. na grasses are springing up as if by nagic on the mesas and mountains and attle are in excellent condition. The aims are reported to have benefited he cattle interests of this section to he extent of thousands of dollars, as attle were falling away day by day when thc. first July showers fell.