Arizona daily citizen., 1901-09-24
ARIZONA
News, Views and
Gossip.

monville, arrived in Bisbee on Thurs
day on business connected with the
building OF long distance telephone
line from Solomonville via Fort Grant,
Cochise, Turquois, Tombstone, Douglas,
Bisbee, Fairbank, Benson to Tucson
Mr.. Solomon was one Of the original
movers in the organization OF the Giia
Valley Telephone company, who have
wires strung from Fort Thomas, at the
lower end of the Gila valley, to Mo
renci and Clifton, in the extreme east
eru portion OF the county, via Solomon
vile, distance OF sixty es,-Bisbee
! Review.
! Word comes from Boston that the
&c, 900 shares OF treasury stock offered
! by the Arizona Commercial company is
being we'll subscribed for. The sale OF
this stock will place $1,000 in the
company treasury, to be expended in
the erection of reduction works and the
further development OF the mine. The
work under way at present is the run
ming OF crosscut on the 400 foot level.
Silver Belt.
Ben. NJ. Crawford and Dell NJ. Potter
came in to Clifton from three weeks
trip through A apache and Socorro coun-
ties along the line of the proposed Du-
range. Clifton railroad. They were after
coal and found it in apparently mex
haustible quantities in veins OF from
four to eight feet thick. They located
| $500 acres of coal land, and also a num-
Der OF valuable passes. While in So
corro county they visited celebrated
salt lake, which exists in crater OF an
extinct volcano. The water is clear as
crystal and many times stronger than
! the salt water Of the ocean. They were
informed that the government had
taken soundings in the lake to depth
OF $500 feet, with no bottom. They
brosght in several pieces OF pottery,
evidently OF Aztec origin which they
| Aug themselves from ancient ruins in
4 the st. Johns country.-Copper Era.
J. r. McGee and NJ. o. Anderson
came over from Tucson Monday, for the
dual purpose Of further examining the
! oil indications on the Graham ranch
rand to afford our citizens an opportunity
to subscribe for stock in the oil COM
pany they are organizing to sink test
wells on the Graham ranch. The com
pany will be Norporated under the
name of "The~ Tucson Petroleum Com
pany," and the capital stock will con-
sist of 100000 shares, of the par value
of 81 each non-sssessable. Several
thousand shares OF stock were subscrib-
ed for here Tuesday, and before leav-
ing for Tucson, D. C. Stevens was ap.
pointed local agent for the company and
authorized to receive subscriptions for
stock. The total amount of stock sub
scFibcd for, here and at Tucson, at this
writing, is $4,000 shares. Mr.. o. NJ.
Anderson had many years experience
in the Indiana and Pennsylvania oil
fields, and ls both a practical and a
scientific oil expert. After examining
the Graham oil belt, Monday, he pro-
nounced the formation, conditions and
indications as favorable for paraffine
oil as any he has ever seen, and left
here firmly convinced that the first well
put down on the Graham ranch will tap
paraffine oil in paying quantities. The
work of sinking the first well will be
inaugurated as soon as the proper ma
chinery can be installed. Messrs. An
derson and MCGEE assured the Blade
that If they do not sell q sufficient
amount of stock TO buy the necessary
machinery at once, they win go dewn
into their own pockets and put up the
requisite amount, go great is their faith
lathe field.-Florence Blade.
Charlie Woolf brought in news, this
I week, OF the discovery OF the Lost Dutch
man mine, in the Four Peaks country
sixty miles north OF Florence. The dis
coverer is said to be prospector in the
employ of Hi Hooker, the Cattle King
OF Sulphur Spring Valley. He was moi
looking for the lost mine but was simply
prospecting around the Four Peaks, and
aecidently found the old mine. There
is an eighty. foot shaft on the new dis.
covery and lying around the mouth OF it
are several human skeletons and pieces
of mining tools. The value OF the dis
covery has not been determined yet
Florence Blade.
Work on the road from the Cobre
Grande mines to Guaymas is being push
ed in earnest. Already sixty-two miles
OF the road bed has been made out of
Guaymas toward San Marcial and the
engineers are pushing location work
from that end toward the Cananeas.
Wednesday win Tyler, formerly of the
chief dispatcher's office OF the n. NJ. 4
a. in this city, was in town en- route to
Guaymas. He is now in the employ of
the Cobro Grande people and said track
laying would begin out OF Guaymas at
once. The length OF the road, from the
/ Cananeas to ouaymas, will be something
over 400 miles. 1t will pass through a
rich mining and agricultural section OF
| Sonora.-Bisbee Review.
Stood Death Off.