The copper era., 1909-04-29
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale or dispensing of liquor, either ir saloons or clubs, between the hours oi F o'clock Saturday night and l; o'clock Sunday night.
 Four feet of chalcopyrite ore going F per cent. copper was the informa tion received from the Globe Con solidated last week, this fine showing . being in the west drift on the Gen vein, 15OO-foot level says the Globe Belt.
 Within two months every convict now at Yuma will be moved tc Florence. By that time the new penitentiary will be far enough along toward completion so that it will be possible to abandon the old prison at Yuma.
 Within a short time, a new and handsome building will be erected at the corner of Broad and Oak streets, according to statements made 10 the Silver Belt by N. l.. Amster, who has purchased the property from J. H. Hamill.
 By vote of 251 to IT, the taxpay- CTS of Phoenix last week authorized the issue of s155,0O0 in municipal bonds to take up the floating debt of Phoenix Little interest was taken on account of the lack of any oppo- sition to the bonds, this accounting for the small vote cast.
 A letter received in Tucson re- gently from Marcus Smith locates that gentleman at Cynthiana, Ky, where he went shortly after the ad- iournment of the last sesslon of COZ gress to visit his sick brother. The letter states that he expects to be home on or before May l.
 Within the next sixty days S100,0O0 and the right-of-way for fifty miles of railroad will be secured in the Salt river valley, this being the share of the people, who expect to profit by the building of the Phoenix-Buck- eye-Arlington railroad by the Phoe- nix & Buckeye Railroad company at an investment of S1,O00,O00.
 Colonel H. L. Pickett of Tombstone has received a telegram from the clerk of the United States supreme court at Washington to the effect that the case of the Huachuca Water company vs. the City of Tombstone was dismissed in that court. This finally settles the points at issue in this famous case and makes perma- nent the injunction issued in favor of the city by Judge Doan against the water company, which was subse- quently affirmed in the supreme court of this territory. The case was stub- bornly contested, the franchise being legally construed as binding contract which has an important bearing on Arizona franchises. Tombstone is now assured the famous crystal pure Huachuca water for twenty-two years longer which isi the expiring term of the ranchise.-Interndti
 The Stafford Commercial Club elected the following officers last week: w. T. Webb, president; w. w. Pace, vice president; Myron Alfred, treas urer, and J. R. Welker, Stafford; Ph. Freudenthal, Solomonville; c. D. Stephens, Ft Thomas; H. A. McBeath, Geronimo, and R. L. Rupkey, San Carlos, board of directors.
 With two big gangs of men at work, the construction of the roadbed for the Miami extension of the Gila Valley railroad is going rapidly for ward. Something like two miles of roadbed have already been built. The work is apparently going on with out a hitch and the army of men, mules and scrapers is making good headway on the march to Miami.- Belt.
 Ten miles of track have been laid north of Douglas up Sulphur Springs valley on the Mexico & Colorado rail- road. Nearly thirty miles of grade have been completed on the Douglas end of the road. Nearly all of the heavy grades have been completed by the M. SS c. in the Courtland district, and, according to expectation, trains will be running from Douglas to Courtland by the first of July and it may be that completion to Courtland will be announced before that time.