The copper era., 1906-04-12
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Plans have been made for a $50,
600 opera house for Bisbee.
J The Florence Blade reports the salt
of the Ajax mine in Cottonwood can
yon to R. L. Bell, of Globe.
In Tucson the city council raised
the saloon license and the saloon mer
raised the price of beer. Horse anc
horse.
The Paradise Record reports a
strike of ore in the Elizabeth claim
that assays $500 ounces silver, 81
per cent lead and carries good value:
fin gold.
These be strenuous days in Nogales
1t appears that the Oasis and the
Times have been handing each other
some bouquets of smartweeds. Hos
tilities came to a climax when the
editor of the Times smote Colonel
Bird on the ear with his finger tips.
1t is reported by the Yuma Sun
that Public Examiner Foster has
raked number of Yuma county Off
cials over the Goals for shortcomings
of some kind. The Sun states that
the contents of the report have not
been made public.
The supreme court has decided
against L. G. Hughes, editor of the
Tucson Star, in his contempt case.
Hughes was fined 5000 by Judge
Campbell for contempt of court.
The case was appealed, and now
Hughes must dig up the coin.
The Greene copper stock, which
was boosted off the Boston stock ex-
change few weeks ago because the
directors of the company increased
the capital stock of the company
without observing all the formalities
demanded by the exchange, has been
restored to the exchange, and now
can be traded in at that market.
The price of the stock is slowely but
steadily advancing, and is now selling
at S31 per share.
The Guggenheims, which means
the smelter trust, invested a goodly
bunch of money in Yuma county lead
mines last week. The amount paid
is said to be S25O,OOO The property
consists of six lead claims owned
by Coweles g. Brown in the Quartzite
district, and the cash received by
Charley Coweles was $4,000 for his
interest, SO it is stated, although Mr..
Coweles, who was in Yuma Friday
and Saturday, declined to reveal the
exact sum.-Yuma Sentinel.
Adamsville, situated below
Florence on the Gila river is one of
the historic spots in Arizona. it hav-
ing been one of the first settlements
of the whites in the Gila valley. For
years it has been nothing but a ruin,
and it is stated now that the recent
floods in the Gila have washed away
the greater part of the ruins, so that
in few years hence there will be
nothing left of AdamsYille but the
memory of it in the minds of the old
in the official records of the early
days.
S. II. Gould, of the mine bearing
that name, was in last week. He
is working three shifts of men
steadily and making good progress.
Crosscutting at the 3O0-foot level is
now in over sixty feet and indications
are that the vein is not far ahead.
Continued work on the 2OO-foot level
shows up the great size of the vein
and the excellent quality of the ore
which is richer than at the 1OO-foot |
level. The dip of the vein is shown
to be away from the shaft SO that it |
will not be struck as close in the BOO |
foot crosscut as in the higher work
ing ng.-Republican.
Antonio Romero, who recently came |
20 Phoenix from Salome and who was |
to be miner, was muir
dered one morning last week. Ro-
nero was found dead in the vicinity |
OF the Maricopa & Phoenix depot,
near the old "red light district" A
A calibre bullet was found imbedded |
III IuG DdCh VI Ills uSdu. EdO
been drinking in company with a
number of Mexicans. Theparty left
the saloon near the depot about mid
night. At 2:3O O'Clock IN the morn
ing several men were heard talking
loudly. A shot was heard and an in
vestigation resulted in the finding of
the murdered man. His skull had also
been crushed by blows.
A Kingman, Arizona, dispatch says.
Reports come from southwestern
Utah, one of the widest spots in the
west of the finding of immense placer
fields in what is known as Cedar
Basin. The mines are north of Ice
berg Canyon, one of the canyons of
he Colorado and on the east side of
Virgin Mountains. Last summer rich
7eins of gold were found there, but
ack of water made it impossible to
york them. The placers are re-
ported to be rich in coarse gold and
he ground is extensive A rush from