Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-23
NEWS
 AND COMMENT

Mayor Greene of Douglas has re- turned from his vacation on the coast before schedule time, claiming that he could not stand the rgors of the Cali tornia climate after living in delight lul Arizona for So many years. Louis G. Ullibarri, the new Mexican consul at Douglas, has arrived at the scene of his new labors and taken up the duties of his office. l With eight miles of line already com 1 pleted, it is stated that Douglas will be in telephone connection with the inter for of Sonora within thirty days.
 The Douglas baseball team, with Kane in the box, shut out the Cana nea club on the Shelter City grounds | Sunday with a score of to O. | Joe Vidana, a Mexican of Fl Paso, has been arrested i'll Douglas for at tempting to sell stolen jewelry on the streets.
 J. C. Blumer, well known natural ist and plant student, has discovered fifteen new species of plant life in the Chircahua mountains.
 A number of Douglas men have form aI fnr ha of in cooperating corporations to do business in Arizona.
 The Vulcan Copper company has re- sumed work in the Verde district with largely increased forces. The city of Jerome has purchased from the United Verde Copper company 25-foot lot for the purpose of erecting municipal buildings thereon.
 The shannon Copper eompany's prop of ore daily to the Clifton shelter for treatment.
 1 The old Grown King mine in the Bouse district is being retimbered at many points and the old tunnel is being cleaned out and made ready for an in ves,igation of its mineral conditions. ! In drifting from the big shaft of the Tombstone Consolidated property rich body of ore has been encountered in the old Contention ground which great ly encourages the management of the company.
 Charles Price, Bisbee boy, recently sentenced to the reform school at Ben havior, has had sen.ence enforced for using vulgar and insulting language to woman of that city
 A. H. Hale, a Denver, Colo, mining man, is looking over the mining dis tricts of the northern part of the terr- itory in the belief that deposits of tung- sten ore may be found. Manager Street of the Boquillas Land & Cattle company has fifty-two thorn 1 less cactl growing on company farm near Benson. They were put in last fall and at last reports are thriving wonderfully,
 [ Officials of the Tucson immigration station are in receipt of about two 1 hundred bond certificates, signifying | the number of Chinamen leaving this section of the country during the last thirty days for China, most of whom intend to return after a short visit.
 The first heavy rains of the season ! have proven the success and stability of the new Bisbee subway, recently completed. which handled the great vol umes of water to the entire satisfaction of the residents of the city. Authoritative statement has beer made in Phoenix that the contractors have received authority to go ahead with the building of the A. X C. railroad from Parker on the Colorado river tc Bengal on the Santa Fe, Pacific & Cali fornla Construction work will begin m September.
 f. News comes out of Courtland that good sGlphide ores have been struck on the 400-foot level of the April Foo shaft, which, if it proves to be true l will mean much 10 Arizona s newest copper camp.
 The Phoenix Democrat announces that it has inside information to the effect that Edward Kent is to be sue. ceeded as chief justice of Arizona by Afford W. Cooley of Washington, b ! C.
 A recent statement of the Superior & Pittsburg Mining company at Bis bee places its annual earnings at over i $l,000,000.
 Elliott Evans of Phoenix, !. l.. War