The copper era., 1903-07-09
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Prescott last week
 Arizona produced :J.OOO, ,OOO in golC
 la-t year and was third in copper pro
 ,luctiun.
 Prof. Douglas Of the United Globe
 Mining company, has donated tine
 magnificent library owned by the U
 C. to the Globe Athletic Association.
 The girls dormitory, which is be- ing erected at the Tempe Normal school, will cost $32, 900. The build. will be l80 feet long and will accom-
 Dodatc seventy pupils.
 The cyanide process was first used in Arizona in 1891 by Mr. Lewis F.. Nubury, now State Miueralogi9t of California, who was then operating the Mayllowcr mine of the Tom 5stone district under lease.
 All the Jerome mining companies but one have started to observe the eight hour law. The exception i. the Trcadwcll company. which will here after have all it's work done by con tract.
 John T. Morrow will become gen cral manager of the Cananea Con-ol- dated Copper company on or about July Ij. He is from Great Falls. Montana. The authority fo" thi, statement k Colonel w. C. Greene
 Mark smith has just won biz min ;,, |. ;,t, ~. |. ownership to mine in the Hcrmosillo district. The parties who were con testing Marks title to the property refused an offer of three hundred thousand dollars for it.
 Hold-ups are of nightly occurrence at Douglas. In fact the Dispatch -ay- that these men of darkness work in regular shifts. So glaring have been these hold-ups and robbcrics that the police of the line city are petition ing the board of supervisors or 7hcrif to grant them some more officers.
 The funeral of Mr-. NJ. II. McCord. wife of the United States marshall . took place at Phoenix June 3O from 1. the Presbyterian church. Rev. Hal | ~cy preached the sermon, and solos l and hymns were sung by Mrs. sloan, | Miss Utlcy, Dr. Dodeworth and Mir. 1 Coggine. The intcrmcut was private. 1
 George Payne. q Santa F,n engineer. wa, instantly killed hy being run over hy his engine at Fraucouia last week, ilc wa, under his engine oiliu% it, when the puudcrou~ machine started, 1 grinding him beneath the wheels, ! \ teal, in the throttle was the cause of . the accident.
 The war department has announced ! the provisional appOrtionmcnt to the . states and territories 0; 5O per cent. of . the S2.OoO, Oo0 appropriated by the act 1 for arming and supplying the militia . to correspond with the regular army. ] The west received the following ap- . organizations: Colorado, SS.S42; . Wyoming, S3,92S; Arizona, 2,56o; New Mexico, S4,ll7.
 Senator W. \. Clark has recently ! purchased the Rosario mining prop crty at Guadcloupe y Calvo, Chihua- hua, Mexico, fer Sl00,0oo. This mine Ina, produced upwards of 5.O00,G00 in gold The new owner has had in" property under lease and bond for one year and has iuauGuratcd extensive development at greater depth.
 An officer ot the Gold Road con- panv made the statement in Kiugman a few days ago that the cyanide plant at the mill of tha' company is saving in excess of ga per cent. of the values ot ore, and that net cleanup of moro than .S2O, GOO would be made this month. So far the mill has not been run to its capacity, but hereafter it wilt be crowded to the tankage ca pacity of the cyanide plant. The sue cess of the Gold Road plant means great things for that section of the county. Mohavc Miner.
 Judge R. F.. Sloan rendered an i'm portaut decision yesterday in the case of tho United Verde Copper company against Eavapai county. The suit was brought by the company to resist the payment Of taxes on Il valuation Of Sl 100000 on the ground that the valuation is excessive. It has been in the court for some time. Judge Sloan dismissed the case on the grounds that the company failed to comply with the law by first paying it's taxes and by then bringing suit to adjudicate the question at issue. \ similar decision was rendered in the tax case of F. B. Pcrrin.-Jourual Miner.