The copper era., 1903-08-13
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


 Douglas now has 5-cent beer. 5h
 will soon be cheap guy
 Saloons were held mp in both Ere,
 colt and Tucson la-t week lt7 ea-l
 The United Verde is running shOr'
 handed and now has its agents out at
 tempting to secure an additional 300 o
 400 men to enable q normal production
 of copper.
 A Yuma Indian whom the "oldes
 inhabitants estimate To be IF year
 old, was feeling SO indi7posed tho other day that he failed to go down tC
 the depot to see the train come in.
 The Rcina de Orc Mining company al Fl Two in the Altar district, ha, ton mill. Capitalists are contemplate ing building custom shelter al Naco.
 The new forty-stamp mill Of the Mohave Gold Mining company made it's trial run Thursday, says the Needles Eye. II was n run to test the mcchani- cal perfection Of the construction Of the mill.
 Judge Davis Of Tucson wants to know, if it is to cost him SlO, 900 every time he fines a California man q hun dred for contempt, what would be done to him if he should put one of them in jail.
 The Reina de Gro Mining company at Fl Two in the Altar district, has just started its new ivc-ton Hunting ton mill. Capitalists are coutempla- ting building a custom shelter at Naco.-Bi7hcc Review.
 A Jerome woman is credited with having given as her reason for not getting married, that she has parrot that swcar, a monkey that chcws to- bacco and q stove that smokes, and she needs nothing more to complete her happiness
 In w. C. Grcenc's new residence at Cananca there will bc IF electric . lights according tc the Canauca Her aid, which paper details the distribu- : ton of this vast number, even to the . rooms, where there will be twenty lights.
 The Producer Mining company in tho QuiIOtoas, arc erecting their -rnel- ter plant which has arrived. From Mr.. Frank Browncll, superintendent, we learn that they expect to blow in their shelter very soon. Plenty of good ore and everything running sat 
 A little less than two years ago the present site of Douglas was a bcauti- -ul stretch of sage brush. Now Douglas is a prosperous city of 5,OOO and boasts two daily news papers. What more evidence of the growth and prosperity Of Cochise county is wantcd?-Revicw.
 On July 2l the board of supervisors ,f Yavapai county compromised with he United Verde company concern 1g the taxes on that great mine. Now the district attorney. F.. S. Clark, las sued out q writ of ccrtiOrari and he right and power to make this com promise k to be called in question be- ore the court. The board of super ,isors and the United Verde company we're called before the court at once.
 Tombstone adviccs state that the preliminary examination of Billy stiles was completed last week. No ,videncc was introduced. The only question at issue was the amount of he bonds that Stiles would have to urnish. His bond was fixed at 5000. This in connection with tho federal ,ascs against him, makes the total amount of bonds he would have to urnish to he given his liberty, Sl0,O00. | There are not less than eight mills The Sonora Development company, q Kansas City concern is building a ten .tamp mill in the Moutezuma district. The Nuqui Shelter and Refining com ,anv. composed of Toledo, Ohio. cap;- alists, is erecting large shelter at Toledo, on the Nauui river. The Lu- quite, near Touis station, has nearly { inisncd it's magnificent new forty ,tamp mill. There is no doubt that in the very near future the mineral wealth of So- lora. Mexico, will excite the interest ,f tho country in degree almost ,oual to that which attracted the rush ,f gold seekers to Alaska. The cop ,cr discoveries and developments with n the last two years Tn that state has .aused wonder among the mining cen- CTS of the country, until the value of copper may be rendered uncertain be-