The copper era., 1905-09-21
Our Business is increasing V6rQ rapidly. W6 attribute 1t to the fact that W6 dr6 th6 OnIu National Bank in Graham County


 will employ at the start about sev
 enty men. I am confident, however that the business will come to us dnC
 make this force entirely inadequate to our needs within very short time
 and that within year after we
 started we will be working a force ot very much greater proportions. ,
 For ore supply the new company will
 probably look to Sonora for the chief
 portion at the immediate start of its
 operations, but it is felt certain that
 within short time various districts in
 Arizona will be coming in with busi-
 ness for the concern. Mir. Mitchell's
 own properties it Sonora will afford
 no small delivery of ores from the
 beginning of operation of the Naco shelter. Indeed, it is said that there is enough ore of high grade on hand at the Mitchell properties to operate the new shelter without assistance from other sources for long time to
 come.-Review
 The custom shelter meeting last week was a marked success. The character of the audience showed that the strong element of the city was interested. They were there They were there for business. The address of Mayor Rose was a busi- ness talk. It was a statement which appealed to business men, because made up of business facts so stated that all appreciated the situation, and the advantages to be derived from the COnsummation of the smell ter project. Mayor Rose demonstra ted the importance such an industry would be to the miners with proper ties tributary thereto. The encour- agement and assistance it would give in extracting the ores therefrom. The large number ot miners required to take out the ore to feed such an in lustry and the fact that the ore was within easy reach of this local ity. The commercial advantages to Tucson and her business interests was made clear and the conclusions reached were convincing. Star.
 Bids have been called for the re- construction of forty miles of the G. ", G. & N. from Thatcher to San Carlos. This has been necessitated by the serious washouts on this part of the line during the last year and the new line will lie a quarter of a mile further up in the hills and well out of the way of any serious floods. The approximate cost will be in the of five hundred thous- and dollars, the best of everything being required. A seventy-five pound rail will be used. The bids will be opened shortly after the mid dle of the month and work will prob ably commence the latter part of this or the first of next. Besides this the company has begun oiling the roadbed. This work was started at Bowie last week. It is also the to put on the line a thor oughly equipped and full vestibuIed passenger train. Two new oil burn ing engines are also to be put on.-I Guardian.
 Geo. B. Gamble is in receipt of a letter from his son, Will, announcing that he has entered a law school in San Francisco. We predict now that Will Gamble will eventually be- come a brilliant lawyer.-Guardian
 A report from Fl Paso says that Col. Greene is about to sell the Sierra Madre railroad, running from Fl Paso into Northern Mexco a distance of 240 miles, to the Rock Island sys- tenn. In the event of the purchase it is said the Rock Island will extend the road through to the Pacific at Guaymas and the proposed Benson San Diego line would be abandoned.
 An unknown Mexican met terri ble death beneath the wheels of moving freight train on the G. ", G. & N. railroad a few miles this side of San Carlos last week. The train had stopped and the train crew saw two Mexicans go ahead a few hun dred yards and wait. As the train passed them they attempted to board it. One was successful but the other fell across the rail and num- Der of the cars passed over the spot where the Mexicans had stood, the who was standing on the IhIl he f,-Y,, l. 1,-.= between the rails and the legs and one arm fully twenty feet away. The other Mexican was unhurt and IS soon as the train stopped, went back to where his partners body was and said that the dead man had got the car when he lost his hold and fell on the rail. rlnudhurck ak Cnl M ( Cnnnno,o I a