Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-01
Daily Grist Of
Arizona News.


5000 viii greet President Mckinley on
his visit to that city.
Saturday Mrs. H. Gerwein and baby
returned 10 Benson from Tucson where
she had been visiting couple OF weeks,
1t is likely that Governor Murphy
and staff win join the Presidential train
at Ell Paso, aud accompany the presi-
Dental party through the territory.
AZ a meeting Of the Benson school
trustees last Wednesday the press says
that Prof. w. B.. Adams Of Phoenix.
was appointed principal OF the Benson
public school for the next term and
Mrs. Dora Horton assistant principal.
Justice Chase. G. Sanders was appoint
ed school censns marshal
Scarcity Of ranch hands in Salt River
valley is apparent at present. Let one
drive to the country in any direction and
there will be seen women driving now
ing machines or hay rakes, helping 70
harvest the alfalfa, says the Phoenix
Enterprise. DR. ught the past two years
has caused many farm hands to leave
the valley. Now, with bountiful sup
ply OF water big crew 10 needed. The
FIRST crop Of alfalfa is nearly all cut and
most OF the land has been irrigated
since. This insures Mt least three crops
before the Fourth OF July. Il is proba-
BILE that fourth crop may be cut in the
fall.
The Mammoth Collins company are
installing at their Schults mines, this
county, mammoth air compressor TO
drive Ingsrsoli drills. which will be
utilized in opening Q connection be-
tween the Mammoth Collins mines. The
completion Of this connection win
enable the company 10 work the Collins
mine through the Mammoth double
compartment shaft. The recent cave in
the old workings OF the Mammoth did
not affect this shaft or any Of the ground
between it or the Collins mine. The
immense ore reserves in the Collins
have hardly been touched yet and in.
sure continuous operations at Nam.
moth. The ore IL said TO be higher
grade than that OF the Mammoth.
It has been the Gu, tom in this county.
as well as elsewhere for q coowner TO
relocate q mining camp abandoned by
co-owner. The supreme court Of Utah
has held that mining claim so located
il held in trust by the locator for the
benefit of all original iocators. This con-
tention was so held by Judge Sloan in q
case tried in this county and is good
Law. A co-owner, to get possession of q
mining claim, must advertise his CO.
owner out of such claim. the law pro-
viding clear course for him 10 pursue.
On the first Of January there we're q
number of claims located by the old
owners, bat which in recent location the
name OF one or more OF the eo-owners
was omitted, In these cases the old
owner can obtain his original interest in
and 10 the claim If he 20 wills.-Mohave
Miner.
A Mexican freighter was sleeping in
his trail wagon on the surface OF the
Mammoth ground when thelatter caved
in. The wagon went down with the set
Ting earth and the afrighted teamster
crawied ont OF the dust and debris with
the impression that his brake-rod had
broken and let his wagon run down hill.
The Florence Blade says when hedug the
dirt out Of his eyes and looked around
he thought he had been carried away by
a cyclone and dropped into q strange
canyon. II was some time before he
realized "where he was at" and what
had happened. He escaped with few
slight bruises. A miner who happened
to be near the mouth OF the shaft at the
time of the accident was knocked three
times by the rush of air from the shaft.
He also fancied an earthquake "were
on" and that he had sure thing on an
interview with st. Peter of the "shift
boss" of ths slower ievels and was very
much in doubt as to whether the signal
would be TO "hoist'' or clover away"
The contract for carrying the mail be-
tween Florence and SILVER King was let
to an eastern bidder who undertook the
job for $500, with the expectation of sub
letting the contract at profit. This he
was unable to do, and he has asked for
and received permission to withdraw the
bid. The Florence Blade says that there
are lot of cormorants who lie around
Washington and under-bid legitimate
stage men on mail contracts then sublet
these contracts at starvation prices. The
Department should rule these rascals
out and require all bidders to furnish
evidence that they are bona fde carriers
or that they are bidding with the inten-
tion of becoming bona fide mail carriers
and not for the purpose Of subletting the
contract. The present system of letting
contracts to the cormorants who hang
around Washington does not save the
Government any money but does destroy
the efficiency of the mail service in Sec
tion not served by the railroads.