Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-02-12
BIG BUDGET OF
BUCKEYE NEWS
House Building and Ranch
Improvements. Water De
velopment South of ella.
The Dixon Case. Visitors
En- Route.

| BUCKEYE. Ariz.. Feb. 10.-William
Walton Of Falo Verde is in Phoenix to-
lIay on canal business.
Fred Wells returned to his home in
Liberty today on the noon train from
Phoenix.
Chas. Davis of Glendale was here
! Tuesday an I "Wednesday doing job OF
surveying IN the Liberty neighbor-
hood.
W. q. Trout who moved To- Helmet,
| Cal about two years ag" il here at
| tending To- business matters.
! Messrs Sanders Knight and Ham
mels made a trip by auto To Dendora
during the week
y. \. sanders went To- Phoenix today
by auto.
Two sisters of II. r. Kcll are expect
~ To start from England next Molday
COR buckeye. Their tickets viii read
direct to Phoenix and they will not
make other than the necessary stops
enroute until they reach the home Of
their brother at this place.
Mr. Stone collector for tn. Spauld-
ing buggy company was in this Sec
ton during the week
John L. Dykes of Mesa is now ~ the
Homer Davis ranch which he has
rented FOR year Since renting his
ranch 10 Mr.. Dykes Mr.. Davis has
moved 10 Glendale ana expects To
teach in ne schools there
Mrs. Jesse Conner went To- Phoenix
yesterday by train for the purpose of
consulting with her physicians. AS
viii be remembered Mrs Conner had
long and very severe seige of sickness
last summer and has feared a recur- |
renee of her trouble for some time /
past
Jess Lafcerty'~ house near Liberty is !
assuming sHaIrc very fast under tho |
direction of contractor HadScll and a !
crew Of several carpenters Mr.. LAT /
ranch from the G. NJ. Zaadrr place
about the first Of March
Rev. r. II Fields pastor of the
South Methodist church at Liberty is
erecting a $1,000 cement block nous
on his ranch one mile east and one
and half miles north Of the Liberty
Methodist church. Ground was brok-
IN "wednesday when men an teams
commenced cNcaNating for the base
ment This viii be one Of the best
houses in the country in Naricppa
county. ana will be built h. T. l.. n
Edens OF Phoenix II
Wallace Jaslin has his canal on the
south side of the ella river opposite
Buckeye about completed ana will
soon be ready To- turn IN water
Ed Brewster. Yves Wayne ana Evan
Iiarrer have 4 rig on the desert south
. Liberty TuttinE down well for the
establishment Of cattle range.
Riley Johnston and Geo. Drew are on
he desert in the same locality butt
across the :. p. +. L. also with a well
drilling rig. 1t would seem that in
7tead of cattle range farming dis
rict might be started in that locally
The department of the interior has
iad surveying party in the vicinity
I the VII drilling operations for the =
establishment Of the boundary of the
>iaricopa Indian reservation.
The reference to the suit i'm district
curt. Of &. &. Dixon rs the Buckeye
irrigation company a. published in the
Democrat of the Sth is not i'm accord
lrce with :he facts. Mr.. Dixon bought
lis water rights during the time that
Walker x WATSON was operating the
anal. applied water and received pat
ut from The United States for his J
:. nd. 4 part Of this land has not been
md il * on account Of this failure
hat the directors of the Buckeye Irri- O.
'ation company refuse sale OF water ,,
or this land. and. further because Of
resolution passed by the board some :
line in the past to the effect that no
rore water should be supplied 10 lands
n the North side Of the canal
w. r. BLACKMER