The copper era., 1906-01-11
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Gus Becker, ot Springerville
 Ariz., has made delayed sale o
 wool for shipment to Boston, the COT
 sideration being $25,OOO The wool i
 secured and of exceptional quality
 bringing 6l cents a pound.
 James Gatlin, an inmate of tn county hospital, died last week O consumption. Gatlin was a youn. man who formerley worked on th' cattle ranches of this county. Ht had been in the hospital for severa months.-
 The Troy-Manhattan Copper Min ing company has bonded forty claims owned by J. B. Newman adjoining their Manhattan property and ex tending to the Dripping Spring: wash. The consideration named was S170,O00. On the Newman claims i: an iron lead 300 feet wide which car ries ? per cent. in copper, S4 per tor in gold and 65 per cent. of hematite iron.-Globe Belt.
 The capital stock of the Globe Ice and Cold Storage company has been increased from S2O,0OO to S5O,OOO, N. L. Amster have purchased a large interest in connection with J. N. Por- ter and s. F. Sullenberger. The plant is to be enlarged at once by the addition of machinery which will produce twenty-five tons of ice per day, where only ten tons has been the daily output heretofore.
 During the past month it is report ed that a few fields of alfalfa re- ceived their eighth cutting. Farm CTS have been very busy and large acreage of wheat and barley has been planted The earlier plantings of grain are showing splendid growth Bulletin.
 w. H. Kirkland, of Martinez, Yavaipa county, and wife won the prize at the fair as the oldest mar ried couple, married in Arizona. It was just forty-five years ago that William Kirkland and Anne Bacon were married in Tucson, being the first white couple ever married in the old pueblo. At the time this mar riage occurred, Arizona was not d territory, and did not become one until three years after. MT. Kirk land at one time owned the town of Tempe and a good part of Phoenix, the east half of the present Monihon block being his property, which he traded for a yoke of oxen. There are many old timers in Arizona, but Kirkland is at the head of the list Enterprise.
 A contract was closed last week between the Globe Electric Light & Power company and the Western Gas Construction company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a gas plant capable of making 150,OOO cubic feet of Illuminating gas every twenty-four hours. The plant will be of the most modern construction and the capacity should be adequate for Globes neCes- sities for some years to come. Ship ments of machinery are to commence within thirty days and not day will be lost in completing the works. The laying of mains and distribution pipes will be prosecuted vigorously as soon as the material can be se- Belt.
 At regular meeting of the share holders of the Globe-Boston Copper Mining Co.,, held in this city last week, a proposition was considered for the sale of the entire assets of that corporation to A. Hoval Smith and associates of Bisbee, Arizona, for the sum of $l35,OOO, the purchas- CTS assuming mortgage of $3O,000 on the mines, held by the former own CTS, MT. and Mrs. w. J. Mallory. Present at the meeting were Wm. Magley, president, and E. Schaeffer, secretary of the company, from Gin cinnati, Ohio, and proxies represent ing 1,1S1 ,551 shares of total issue of l, ,457 ,9S7 were voted unanimously in favor of the proposed sale. s. E. Hazard represented the buyers and the transfer was completed without delay. The first payment has been made in cash and approximately one half the purchase price is to be paid within six months. The final pay ment of $27, ,5OO is due January 15, 1907. All payments are to be made in cash. This deal marks the enter ing of the c. & A. wedge into the Globe mining district, and the dawn of an era of increased prosperity for this camp.
 The noted Fl Tigre mine of So- nora, which was forcibly taken from