Tombstone epitaph., 1913-07-20
News of the State
 in Condensed Form


 A great game park in the White is being planned by the government ss the result of the sale oI 600, ,0OO. 900 feet of timber there for $2.5l . thousand feet. The sale will bring the government Sl BOO 900. which will be used in retaining land in . portion of the present reservation for the use of the Indians, alter which the remainder of the great forest will be converted into preserve for wild animals. This was the word brought to Globe by Dr L WiRhtmsn, who has just returned from . camping trip in the White mountains.
 Letters received in Prescott recent. ly state that former United States Senator and Mrs R Burton will are. rive in Prescott within the next two weeks, and contemplate making that city their future home. Senator Burton is prominently identified with the stiairs of the Arizona Land and Irrigation Company snd has been . frequent visitor since its affairs have been adjusted.
 It is announced that the United Verde and Pacific railroad has plan- ned to change its depot st Jerome to 6 new site in the vicinity of the old roasting beds. and about 200 feet be- low the elevation now occupied.
 The force of men employed on the transmission line bstween the Roose- welt dam and Superior via Miami, consisting of about t~enty-6ve white men and seventy-five Indiana, is now at the head of Queen Greek box cau- yon, c mile from Superior.
 i The Sultan Hill site for the new N5 900 high school building for Globe, was approved Monday by a majority Of nineteen votes. The to- ,al was for the site 2S1 votes; sgainst 262.
 Theo A Nicholas has cut off his al- fslfs fields. during the 30 days juet past, six hundred tons of hay, and will probably cut treble that amour, before the season is over. The land surrounding Florence is the greatest alfalfa land yet discovered. There is one alfalfa field on the Nicholas ranch that has been yielding from ten to eleven tons of hay per acre each year for thirty consecutive years ard ii shows no siRns of going out of busi- uess during the present generation Florence Blade.
 | At seven o'clock last Monday morn. ing. the whistle out ss the beet sugar factory announced that the biggss. suga'-making campaign Glendale has eyer known has started in earuest. The company now has . working force of between four and five hun" dred men. As the company grows . large amount O! it's own bees. . con- siderable number of people are used in the field work. The crop this sea- son is ssid to be the finest ever grown,
 Operations hay. been resumed very actively at the La Fortuna mine. about g miles southeast of Yuma Several months ago, F B Keever and re Woodworth began ap exsmina 'ion through their field men of the Ls Fortuns and the ground adjoining it on the west and east. After full investigation they secured sn option on the La Fortuna group ~h oh con- tsins several patented claims. They also secured the ground adjoining the Ls Fortuna on the west, known as the Phelan-Grabam group. The work of sinking the double compartment shaft st Pesrce to water level has resumed and the shaft is now down $40 feet and is completely timbered 325 feet. It is expected that water will be encountered in the next few days and drifting wilI begin immediately. The formation in the shaft is highly minersiized and the indications for early encountering ore bodice of commercial value shortly after the drifting besiDs is very en- coursging.
 Paul Saviany has leit Yuma for sswielle. California, where he will enter the Old soldiers' Home Paul is 63 years old'snd . veteran of the civil war, He has been . fxturs around Yuma for . good many yesrs and bss many friends in that city who will wish him we'll in his new quarters.
 A new railroad veiocipeds, the kind that operates itself if supplied with gasoline and unencnmbersd with kinks in is mechanism, hss recently been received by the Miami freight ofice for uss is the ysrds st that place.