Arizona daily citizen., 1901-08-12
ARIZONA
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The Winslow Mail is authority fol
the statement that the Territory o
Arizona was organized February Q
1868. at Navajo Springs. The governor
and his suite were not certain they wert
within the boundary OF Arizona unit
they reached that point. Albert F
Bsnta was the guide for the party from
Albuquerque. They moved from Nava
10 Springs to the present site OF Whipple
barracks where the seat Of the territor.
ial government was permanently esta'
blished.
A meeting Of several hundred Navajos
pas held at Fort Defiance few days ago.
proposition had been received by
them from a syndicate, at the head OF
which is George f. Huff, of Pensilvania.
to lease for ten years all the mineral
lands Of every description on the reser-
vation for 5 per cent royalty on the
gross amount. After considering the
amount for two or three days, lease
was drawn up and signed on the above
terms for the mineral contained in one
mile square in the Garlic mountains
Republican, Gallup, n. NJ.
The miners inch, rays the Globe
Silver Belt, is being abolished as a legal
measure of water. Arizona, California
and Montana have each passed laws
making the cubic foot the standard
measure. In Arizona 100 miners inch
es are counted as the equivalent to two
and one-half cubic feet per second.
About 20 men are busilv engaged in
developing the Oro Grande. They are
now down about 2l5 feet. At the 100
foot level they have drifted about 100
feet and cross-cut considerable distan.
ance, which, with the drifting and cross
cutting at the 200-foot level, shows what
remarkable vein Of ore has been
encouneered. The ore still continues to
showhp we'll, and from the quantity in
sight the early predictions as to its
greatness have proved to be very conser'
vative. .-Wickenburg News.
Speaking of the strike at Jerome,
Senator Clark said to an Albuquerque
c itizen reporter "There are no smelt-
ing plant nor mining camp in Arizona
working their men eight-hour days
that he has applied to his works at Je-
rome the highest wage scale of Montana
which average higher than the wages
paid by any plant in Arizona, this now.
withstanding the fact that it costs
| double to lay at Jerome, as compared
with Butte, coal, mining supplies, struct.
aral steel work, etc. That at Jerome
board is 81 per week less than it costs
in the Montana districts. Also that al
Jerome the sanitary conditions are ol
the best, with excellent water and sew.
erage system, and adequate fire proctec-
tion has recently been made. Mr.
Clark stated that he has always favored
unions and encouraged them and be-
lieves they are a good thing for all con.
cerned when their affairs are managed
by level-headed and conservative mer
of affairs and attributes this trouble
like many others, to the influence o
agitators, who act without reason and
proper consideration OF an ill-advised
strike. AS the result of the shutdown
at Jerome about 1900 men will be ou,
Of employment.
The Dominion property could scarce.
ly be in better shape. There is more
ore in sight in the mine than at any
time in its history, and this, together
with the fact that sulphide ores have
been encountered in the lower levels in.
sures great future for the Old Domin.
ion. The production Of copper, estimat.
cd at about 300, 900 pounds monthly, ia
maintained with remarkable steadiness
and could easily be increased. Globe
/ Silver Belt