The copper era., 1901-07-25

in Cochisc county, died on Monday evening at the county hospital in Tombstone and was buried on Tuesday
 Bisbee is up-to-date and has small strike of it's own. Some eight or ten boiler makers walked out Saturday refusing to be bOssed by boiler wash CT who was put over them. New men from Tucson have been telegraphed for to take their place.-Review.
 In the steer tying contest at Prescott on July 6, James Carter got first mOn- ey, time 54 seconds; Oscar Roberts Of Phoenix, second; time 54 1-5 seconds Hasknc, of Mohave county, third, 75 seconds. There were twenty steers haSSht by the committee for $40
 Mf steers were not hurt, and were sold by the co mmittee for s360.
 Mr. Leach, government timber in- spector, is again in Globe. We have not ascertained what is on the tapis this time, but presnme it is some sup plemental action on the same old score. Wood is little bit cheaper since the
 
 or s20, ,O00 per month which Globe has dropped by the incident will never come back to us.-Times.
 The Phelps Dodge railroad, from Fl Paso to Bisbee, will be continued from Bisbee to Tucson, thence to Florence, thence to Phoenix, thence to Yuma, thence to San Diego. There will be competition for you. The main line will he owned in all probability by the Rock Island system. It will have a branch from Tucson to Lobes or St. George Island on the Gulf of California. Star.
 Jas A. Moss was found dead last Sunday morning, by John Neidpram and Geo. McVeigh, on the roadside at tho first crossing of Pinal creek north of Gerald's ranch. There were no marks of violence on the body, and everything went to show that Moss had camped there the night before, tied his horses to a bush, spread his blank cts and had died during the night, probably Of heart disease.-GlObe Belt.
 William NJ. Boyer died on the eyen- ing of July II, at Yuma, after an ill., ness of few hours. He resided in this county for number of years-on upper Salt river and in Globe-and left here more than q year ago for Yuma where he took up a homestead claim, which he sold for $500 short time before his death. It is reported that he still owned cattle on the Salt river range. He was native of Virginia, 53 years of age.
 Supt. Walter Douglass of the Copper Queen Co. and s. r. Hutchinson, vice. president of the southwestern x Ari zona R. R., came in today from Bisbee. Supt. Douglass is here to appear before tho board of equalization with regard to the proposed raise in assessment of the Copper Queen Co. which is placed at about S3,000,0O0 The afternoon is being taken up in the discussion of the proposed raises and is before the board as we go to press.-Prospector.
 E. A. Mcfarland, chief engineer of the Naco-Cananea railroad, was in Bisbee yesterday. He reports work on that road as progressing rapidly. The rails have been laid out Of Naco for distance of fifteen miles and the grade for nearly twenty. A station will be built at point about eighteen miles out, and the supplies unloaded there and hauled to the mines, instead of be- ing uuloaded at Naco, as is q ne at present.-Bisboe Review.
 Judge w. H. Griffin returned Friday from trip to Phoenix and Tucson. He sold his wagon and three horses in Phoenix. He says a thermometer a yard long could not register the height Of the temperature in Phoenix while he was there and ice makers had to put their machines on wheels and serve their customers from the freezing tank. In the ordinary delivery wagon the ice would melt before they could weigh it. The Phoenix sinners will freeze in hades.-Blade. Owing to the fact that electrical power will be installed on the Colorado river within a year mining should have an upward tendency in this county says the Mohave county Miner. With cheap power the cost of ore extraction would be brought down to q minimum and new methods of mining and ex- traction introduced. Along the river are many sites for the generation of power and some Of these sites will soon be used. Water will be pumped | onto the fertile lands of the country and the desert made to bloom, giving to the mining communities the necessaries of life at a much reduced cost, over the | present market prices.-Citizen. The Bisbee road gained what it de- sirod, but it is now apparent that it is not the Phelps-Dodge Company that Is primarily interested in the coming of the new road; neither is southern Arizona the objective point from which it expects to derive its main support. It is the Rock Island and Pacific rail- road, which will both build and finance the new line and construct the road along the international boundary to the Pacific coast. The preliminary sur veys for the entire route were complet- ed not less than two weeks ago. The