Tombstone epitaph., 1914-01-25

ona lspd ou' side forest reserves sDd Q Indian reservations, is rec!s by | irrigation. This is the est,meie of the Q ,tste land commission. The commis- C sioners have nov been in office long enough to have wired practically every township within the borders cf They decisre that the public hss absolutely no conception cf the vast number of reeerAOir sitesr the area of land that can he cultivated profitable with pumped water.
 Novel methods are being employed by the firm of Alexsnd'r, Smith & Bloutt, in working the placer beds along Lynx creek, four Diles south- west of Prescott. The gIound con ssining the placer gold is first loo.ened with dynamite The bedrock lies no deeper then i've feet and there are no large boulders to give trouble. When the ground is loosened it is sboveled ! into sluice boxes fifty feet long. Water for the washing process is pumped by big engines from an old drift.
 The Arizona Federation ofWomen's Clubs will meet io annusl-co1vention
 ct Nogales next week, continuing its
 dsIi iberations several days. The ses-
 siops will be in the club rooms of the
 Santa Cruz club, and the entertain
 ment of the delegates is in the hands
 of the Santa Cruz Club Auxiliary. Gus Boyu ton had narrow escape
 from death last Friday night when
 the horse he was driving over the
 Copper Hill road near Globe, fell dead
 in the shafts. causing light wagon
 to toppls over g ffty-foot enbankment
 By rare good fortune Boynston es- c. ped injury and the wagon was no,
 greatly damaged.
 Proposals tbs . country club be es tablished haI way between Globe and Miami is meeting with the spprovsl of leading business and professional '. men of both cities. It is expected that . meeting will be called within the next week or so and that plans
 will be made for early action looking a towards organization.
 No production of quicksilver va. = reported from O'egon, Utah or Wash !. ipgton in 1913, or from any of thess d states or Arizona in 1912. but an out . put of the metsl was reported in bott 0 Msricopa and Ysvapsi counties 1T d Arizona in 1913, in the Qasrtzite die 6 trict in the Mssatsl mountains, res. 2 pectively.
 = Copper Queen smeiter output fo Dccemhe: -. l2. .l7s. .oH0 c""nda "
 blister copper; for the year 1913, l33.
 800, ,OOO pounds. Calumet and Ari
 zons smelter soutput was 5000 .OU pounds ;n December, and for l9l3 e 65, 200 900 pounds of blister copper ,e G reene Causnea Decem Der output o 70 blister copper was 3 500 900 pounds o ,e its its own account and 2,9O0.0O ,- pou nds made from the concentrates c Miami Copper company for Mism
 account.
 g. Deli E Potter versus the Detr0i .. Copper Mining company is the etyl al of suit filed in the superior conrt . '. Clifton this week, the plaintiff prsyin D for damages in the sum of $8,0O0, ,00O d alleging that the defendant. througl the New England Copper compsn ). during the me nth of September 1910 d leased certain property from the plain n tiff. The complaint alleges that D. l- part of the price stipulated has beel 'e paid.
 A Yums dispatcb states that Pro
 ject Engineer Francis L Sellew, of sb :, Unired States reclamation service hs
 received . telegram from Wasbingto.
 notifying him that $370 GOO had beer e set sside for river fir, nt protection ,, work there. in addition to other sllot e men.s which have been made for th. D Yuma project
 ,I Steady rain for several days in ths
 mounsains about Prescott ~era re
 sponsible for . considerable flood in :, the ve,de The How went considers ably over the normal mark, and aided to thst of the Salt River amounted to 54 900 miners inches ct Granite Reef
 As . result of this flood water was
 svsilsble for anybody who cared to have it. sod rsnjeros on both sides of the river were .busy all day getting rid of the precioos fluid wbereit it would
 do the most good. Noe bit of water
 is so bs permitted to escape into the
 river.
 Ia decision of the general land
 ofics received by the authorities. the
 departmens, for the fret time. indi-
 cstss the amount of wster required
 for making final proof on desert land