Arizona republican., 1912-01-28
NEWS BUDGET
 FROM LIBERTY
Well Drilling Epidemic Has Broken Out. Canal Build ing and Improvements is Under Way. Passing Of Old Residents.

LIBERTY. Ariz. Jan 2G.-George Cooke. representative-elect from this section of the county. came down from Phoenix on Sundays train.
 d. Ii Knight is preparing to move from the Hammers ranch to his own place. half mile north He has had win Woods put down deep well and has repaired the house.
 Dan Milicam expects to handle a line oc harvesting machinery at his Buckeye store this season.
 George Drew is buying and ship pirg hay for the A. J. Peters com pany of Tempe.
 Jeff Roberts has been threshing sorghum seed and a small amount oi alfalfa seed in the Liberty neighbor- hood during the week.
 Wallace Joslyn has had men and teams clearing the right of way pre- raratory to excavating for the canal he is building. which is to head south of Buckeye and to extend west OF the south side of the Gila river to the vicinity of the Palo Verde neigh bcrhood.
 The Conner family is planting about live acres of onions on their ranCL south of Liberty and on the south ~idc of the GHa river. where they have a pumping plant working and in good order.
 Linville Burris precipitated a we'll Grlling epidemic when he struck water in what is known as the old Lutgerding well on the desert. about twenty miles south of Liberty. sev- ,ral weeks ago Since that time Bob Bcloat has had a well drilling rig on the ground in that locality and now Drew and Riley Johnston are pre- Iaring to send out a rig. The coun- try is paradise for the homestead CT. as the water is to get and of the very best quality
 The first meeting Of the new board of directors of the Buckeye Irriga- tion company will be held February e. The canal is in very good work ing order and in much better scondi- ton than ever before. although there is stili some work which is needed very badly in order yo get water to the lower ends of both branches of the canal This work is in the Eature of strengthening the borders in few weak places.
 The canal company. under the management of Superintendent Rich ;rdson. is doing a small amount of l.y-r protection work about two miles -outhwest or the old Toothaller sta ton A small wing dam is being built and a considerable number of liver willow cuttings are to be plant cd on the banks
 X farmers meeting was held at Buckeye during the week and a movement started for the formation co an alfalfa seed association. A committee was appointed which is te meet week from next Tuesday to perfect the organization.
 Aiessrs. Sanders. Hammels Fields and several others who are rromot- ing the development Of a large sec ton of desert country down the Gila river from Gia Bend. report the work going ahead well under the di- Tection of Frank Fowler and a large fierce of men and teams.
 Cattle are doing well, although green feed has been very short this winter on account of the unusually cold weather, but there was an abundance of good hay in the coun- try.
 Charles Parker is clearing and bor- der!ng and putting in shape for irri- Sation a quarter section of land in the Liberty neighborhood
 William Mcdonald an old resident of Liberty. died at his ranch home last Friday afternoon. MT. McDon- a'd had lived on the same place for nearly twenty years. He was born in Elbridge. Ill. April 24 lS40. be- ing at the time of his death a little over seventy-one years old. The