The copper era., 1905-06-22
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

DOOl OA lhC Oh1LCO States. Their constant fight for the upbuilding of their home is proof positive of this fact.-Gazette.
 Edward N. Buck, the proprietor of the Naco Budget, and up to recently the editor of that paper, was taken to Tombstone by Deputy Sheriff Ben nett, to answer to an indictment found against him for criminal libel. The editor was brought before Judge Doan who fixed bond in the sum of 5000, and on furnishing the same Buck was released.-Star.
 According to the United States Geological report which was issued recently the most noteworthy in- crease has occurred in Arizona in the production of copper, where both the Bisbee and Globe districts added largely to the product, as the follow ing figneres will show:-in 19O0-118,- 317,7 pounds; in 19O1-13O, ITS, ell: in 1902-119, ,944 944; in 19O3-I47, ,648,- 271; in 19O4-191, ,6O2, ,95s, which ranks Arizona second as a copper producer Montana being in the lead.
 Senator Flint, of California, was a visitor in Phoenix last week. At a banquet he said, speaking of state hood for Arizona: ''I have entered into the campaign of single state hood" he said, ''and don't believe in the annexation of Arizona to any state or territory. Home is dear to all of us and we should speak well of our home. I don't believe it is any more possible to legally marry Ari- zona and New Mexico than it would be to marry man and woman against their will"
 Naco is to have a 200 ton Smelter, which will be located at sonie point north of the townsite and at only a short distance from it. The company has already been incorporated under the name of the Naco Smelling and Refining company and is capitalized at S.0),0)O. Robert E. Morrison and Allen Hill, we'll known Prescott at torneys, are the incorporators. The board of directors for the first year are C.. B. Lewis, H. J. Stevens, Rob ert E. Morrison, N. M. Edwards and Robert Mitchell.-Prescott Herald.
 According to the SearchHght, the Quartette Co. are preparing to make regular shipments of smelting ore. The weekly shipments are estimated to be about 15O tons. Depth on the Quartette properties has brought about the usual conditions of free gold ores of the surface gradually oh lnging below the water level to refractory ores. In this case the ores, however, have lost none of their values as is sometimes the case and the consequent conditions prove very certainly the stability of the already great mining camp of Searchlight.
 Now there is a vacancy in the uperintendency of the territorial prison at Yuma. Notwithstanding the heat of Yuma at this season of the year it's dollars to doughnuts that there will be plenty-~ef Arizonians ready to shed tkefr linen and take the job. 1t has been stated that Capt. Rynning is slated for this posi- tion and his Cochise county friends would be glad to see him get it, es- pecially if he would promise to take some of the objectionable members of the rangers with him and put them on the prison wall as guards American.
 Judge ThOs. D. Satterwhite, of Tucson, a well known lawyer, con- mittee suicide in that city one morn ing last week by shooting himself. Financial troubles are assigned in the report as the cause of the deed. best Judge Satterwhite was one of the known lawyers in the territory. He came here from California in the year 1883 and has practiced law in Arizona ever since. He was at one time attorney general of Arizona serving under Gov. Hughes in the sos. Deceased has a son, Raymond Satterwhite, who is employed as chief clerk in the office of Surveyor General Ingals.
 While standing in a hayfeld to welcome his father the four year old son of Jos. Foster, farmer residing near Mountain View, had both feet cut off by moving machine. Eos ter was cutting hay for I. H. Smith on the San Francisco road near Oak Grove last week, and his little son went to meet him. He had hidden in the grass, and just as the mower reached him, he stood up to shout to his father. At the same moment the knife of the machine struck the boy and terrified scream caused the father to stop the team. Jumping off the machine, he found the lad with both feet cut off above the ankles.
 That life hangs by only a little thread was never better illustrated than in the recent accidental death of o. L. Boggs, one of the pioneer miners of the territory. While