The copper era., 1901-05-30

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 Southern Arizona has q climate in summer to suit every health seeker and the tourist can find pleasure and also add good specimens to his store oi curios by visiting the various points Of interest.
 Another saloon is about to be opened in Tombstone and it is understood the Crystal Palace will be the location. This will give Tombstone eight saloons with other locations to hear from. These are indicating straws Of the coming boom.
 The population Of Naco, taken on both sides of the line, is estimated at 1900. This shows how some Arizona towns grow under anything like favor able circumstances. The town is now in the midst Of q building boom and is steadily growing larger.
 Jim Neil, twelve year old boy liv- ing at Eden, was brought in to Dr.. Wightman Saturday night. suffering very greatly from rattlcsnake bite on the foot. His leg was black and swol- len to the knee, but under treatment he is recovering. Pima Paragon.
 J. w. Beatty, who sold the Beau mont oil gusher for S2, 300 900 was for merly waiter in Billicke's hotel at Tombstone, and was considered very indifferent one. He's been in the nine hole, and knows how it is himself, hence he ought to be pretty good to the boys who are Tagging it.
 Tucson has an anti-expectorating ordinance but there seems to be some trouble about enforcing it. The city council placed what should be a pro hibitive penalty for fractures of the ordinance, but the crying evil goes on unchecked. Anyone convicted of breaking the law is subject to a fine of $I0
 Benson is to have a brick and tile factory, with a capacity of 32, GOO brick every ten hours. A company has been formed with 8 capital stock of $6O, OOO and an order has been sent east for a complete outfit of machinery that will cost something like Sl2OOO. Tests made of the clay found in the vicinity prove IL to be of high grade.
 Florence is having great deal of trouble over the validity of her incor- poration. Numerous suits have been filed against the city by parties who claim the act of the board of super visors making Florence an incorpo- rated city was not done in a strictly legal way. The matter has already been carried into the courts.
 Arizona's assessed taxable property exceeds in value $35, 900, 900. Arizona has population of oyer l22, ,0OO. Ari- zona has over 2S,0OO,O0O acres unsur- veycd land. Arizona in 1900 produced $37 1000, 900 worth of copper. Arizona has five bona fide resident millionaires, more than any state in the Union in proportion to population.-EX.
 Grading was completed and ready for rails on the first fifteen miles of the railroad to Canannea, May l5. Track laying will be commenced about June on the Cauannea Copper company's narrow gauge railroad from Canannea to the Ojo Mountains where the com pany have some mines. They will also build to the La Democrata mine and to the properties of the Indiana Sonora copper company.
 X move to complete the dam at Striped canyon on the Big Williams Fork is under way, and promises to re- suit in something more than specula- tion. Necessary surveys have been made and preliminary work is to be begun some time during the coming fall. A large amount of water that is now going to waste will be conserved, and will be used in working the rich auriferous deposits that lie for miles below the dam.
 The Phoenix Enterprise says that Mir. Stevens of Missouri was awarded the contract for printing and binding the revised statutes of Arizona, 1901, the price being S4l50, he to furnish 60lb paper instead of 5Olb, as in the original bid. The Journal-Miuer of Prescott was the next lowest bidder, at S4995, and the Enterprise second with S5l23. The other Phoenix print ing establishments ranging from sS6OO upward. The laws are to be delivered, 2500 copies, by August h, 1901.
 Mrs. Pauline O'Neil and Eugene Brady O'Neill, widow and brother of late Capt. "Buckey" O'Nein of the Rough Riders, were married in Phoenix Saturday. The event takes peculiar importance from the connection of the principals with O'Neill, whose heoric work in Cuba and whose death while leading Troop A of the Rough Riders, at San Juan Hill, made him one of the most memorable figures in the Spanish war.
 D. J. Marr is in from his ranch near Aultman, says the Prescott Courier. He says the substance now known as crude petroleum. has made the water of wells in his neighborhood bad for wears and has accumulated in springs and ponds; but not until last winter did the people in that section have much idea as to the nature of this oily sub- stance. Last winter capitalist from