The copper era., 1900-06-28

morning for Solomonville.
 Carlos Alvidrez left for Solomon vile yesterday on court business.
 Born, Tuesday, June 26, 1900, to MT. and Mrs. Chas. M. White, daughter.
 Col. M. J. Egan went to Solomon vile Monday and returned last night.
 Mrs. George Fraser went to Lords burg Tuesday to visit Mrs. John An derson.
 left this week for Nova Scotia where she will spend the summer.
 The 16-months-old baby of MT. and Mrs. Wm. Wright died at their home in North Clifton last Friday.
 Mrs. John Hogan and Mrs. William Mclaughlin were down from MorenCi Monday and Tuesday visiting friends.
 W. B. Kelly, of the Bulletin, is spending several days this week here and at Morenci, in the interest of his paper.
 w. H. Cooper, one of the company carpenters, boarded this mornings train. He will spend six weeks at Coronado Beach, California.
 Mrs. Dr. Davis, of Morenci, and Mrs. J. D. A. Smith, of Clifton, left on yesterdays train for the coast where they go to escape the summer heat.
 Mrs. Lord, wife of the Clifton den- tist, arrived from the East on Tues days train, where she has been for the past year or so with her son, who has been attending school there. Dr. r O,-1 ,r-511 4-,Iz ha5 manent residence here in Clifton.
 The Arizona Copper Co. made and shipped during the month of May 561 tons of copper, which was short of their regular shipments by about POO tons. This, however, is accounted for by the bridge accident during that month which compelled the company to shut down.
 The victims of the bridge accident on the ! railroad a few weeks ago are being moved to- day from the library building. where they were placed at the time they were hurt, to the hospital building which has been thoro- ughly cleaned and renovated to receive them. Only two of these patients have been dis charged from the hospital since the accident; the remainder are getting along nicely, but some of them are ''booked' for a stay of many weeks yet to come in the hospital.
 Clifford Pinchol, special agent of the Inte- rior Department a Washington, Prof E. c. Bunch, of Coconino county, and Sam F. Webb, of Phoenix, representing the Farm CTS Protective Association, of Salt River Val ley, A. F. Potter, representative of the National Wool Growers, residing at Show Low, Apache county, arrived in Clifton last Friday, en route to Phoenix. These men form a commission, appointed by the Interior Department whose duty it is to ascertain the damage done to the Forest reserves of the Territory by the grazing thereon Of the herds of stockmen owning sheep and cattle. The contention on the part of the farmers is that the stock grazing the reserves which em- brace that portion of the Territory wherein Salt River and it's tributaries have their sources. destroy the grass and brush, and thus allow the snows of the winter season to melt away and run off before the water therefrom can be made available for irriga- tion purposes They also contend that sheep are far more destructive on the ranges than cattle, inaSmuCh as they eat out the grass en- tirely, also all Shrubbery, and cut up the ground so that it washes into the streams and soon fills them up The stock men, of course, claim that damage is done by their herds. This may be partly true of cattle, but it not be said that sheep do not in jure a range in running over it. The investigation going on by the aforementioned commission has