The copper era., 1901-05-09
PERSONAL MENTION

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 Ruff Phillips of Morenci spent day in Clifton last week.
 Dr. and Mrs. Davis of Moreuci left last week on a trip to California.
 Mrs. V. T. Wilkins of Duncan arrived last week on visit to her sons.
 Toll Bell has returned from Bisbee, which place he reports as quite lively.
 D. NJ. Riordan, manager of the Gen. eral Electric company, arrived in Cliff ton last week.
 w. c. Crawford was down from Morenci this week and favored the ERA with call.
 George Chase, chief pattern maker of the moulding department, has been on the sick list for the past week.
 A. E. Beavers, superintendent of the Gila Valley Telephone Company, has resigned and may locate in Clifton.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. A. Olson of Duncan were in town this week. Mir. Olson is road master for the A. x N. NJ. R. k.
 B. Kaplin, brother-in-law of L. Ferber, proprietor of the Bazaar, has arrived from Boston, and will make his home here.
 Billy Hunter engineer and l.. Lock- wood fireman of little 3-spot brought their engine up from Lordsburg this week. No. will leave the Lordsburg end of the road.
 Mir. and Mrs. Sam Price of Stafford are spending the week in the city. Mir. Price will soon commence some extensive Improvements on his Con. glomerate avenue property.
 O. s. Hudgins of Kentucky, spent a few days in the Duncan country this week, and expressed himself as most favorably impressed with that section. He thinks of bringing out colony of Kentuckians to locate there.
 Miss Mae Miller, of Downey, Cal ifornia, arrived last week to accept a situation on the ERA as compositor. She visited friends in Clifton last year, and has many friends here who gave her hearty welcome on her return.
 E. B. Weaver of Snyder, Texas, spent a few days in Clifton this week visiting his old friend J. c. Smith. Mir. Weav- CT is the father of Rcd" Weaver re- gently killed near Alma, New Mexico, and he is here for the purpose of in- vestigating the affair.
 Howard Lancaster, who has been in the employ of the ERA for the past year or more, resigned last week and will try his luck along the line of Mexico. Howard is good prospector as well as a good printer, and he proposes to have a gold mine of his own.
 Pedro Michelena, ex-county recorder, is spending few days in town looking after his mining interests in this sec- tion. During the past few months Pedro has secured some very valuable interests along Rocky gulch, and in other sections of the camp, which he proposes to develop into mines.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. w. Noble of South wick, Mass, spent couple of days in Clifton this week, while on their way to California They are travelling for pleasure, but Mr. Noble had de- sire to see the Shannon mine, in which several of his friends in New England are interested. He saw it and was pleased.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. A. Conklin passed through Clifton this week, enroute for their home at Springerville, having spent the winter at Solomonville. MT. Conklin is one of the most extensive sheep growers of Apache county, and always brings his focks south in the winter months. Mir. Conklin says this has been a most prosperous year for the stockmen and farmers.
 J.D. Wilson, editor of the Pima Para gon, one of the brightest papers in the territory, is spending few days here. He has made quite a success of his paper and expresses himself as well pleased with Arizona He is from Louisiana, and only a few years ago sold 500 acres of land in the oil belt at Beaumont for 9 cents per acre. The same land since sold for B, 900 per acre