Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-08-02
What Has Happened in the Ter
ritory Since Our Last
Issue
A INTERESTING COLLECTION
OF Clippings From Newsy Contempor-
aries Gossip Of the Busy Week
Activity in the Southern Counties Is
Pronounced

this year at Oraibi from August Is to
20. Oraibi is seventy miles north of
Winslow, and hundreds of tourists see
this interesting celebration every year
While it is not generally known fact
the largest life insurance policy ever
written within the confines of the ter
ritory of Arizona was written on Bis
bee man, says the Review. The amount
of the policy and the sum which the
heirs of Hoval A. Smith, mining man,
and prominent in the upbuilding of
the Warren district will get in case
of his death, is Sl0O, 200. The policy is
in the New York Life Insurance Co.,
and was written by John Cogan, the
well known life insurance man who
came to Bisbee eighteen months ago,
and who since that time has made a
record for being the writer of the iarg-
est policies being placed in the Terri
tory.
Monday evening the following gen.
tlemen met at Judge Fonda's Office
and organized an association and per-
fected plans to locate a large tract of
coal land in the Mogollon forest: Geo.
A. Olney, z. c. Prina, John j. Birdno,
Lee N. Strattoi, John w. Casteel, Joe
Mckinney, Billy Robertson, Y. Hud-
son, w. b. Fonda, Peter Anderson,
Thomas Cunningham and Nat Wanslee.
Mr.. Cunningham was elected superin-
tendent and general manager, and left
yesterday morning with Mr.. Mcneil, of
Globe, to make the locations and estab-
lish monuments on the land 1t is un-
derstood that one of the company who
has prospected on the land found large
bodies of coal. Stafford Guardian.
Jake Rigler, an old time miner in
Bisbee, fell 200 feet to his death in the
Sbattuck Arizona shaft about l0:30
Thursday night. Rigler was pipe
man at the Shattuck, and was work
ing in the cross-head compartment
fitting some new pipe. There
were two other men working with
him, but they had just stepped off the
cross-head before the accident. A
clutch broke loose in the engine house,
and Rigler went down 200 feet to the
bottom of the shaft. He was killed
instantly. When the body was brought
to the surface it was found that his
skull had been very badly fractured,
probably hitting against the timbers as
the bucket flew past on its way to the
bottom.
Captain Jack Crawford, the ''Poet
Scout" whose home is at San Marcial,
New Mexico, was interviewed one day
last week at Williams while he was
enroute to Long Beach, Calf, on the
subject of joint statehood. Captain
Crawford said that jointure would be
defeated in New Mexico. He believed
he knew the sentiment of the people
among whom he had spent his life bet
ter than the territorial politicians did.
He had mingled with them much since
the agitation of the joint statehood
question, and he felt absolutely sure of
the defeat of joint statehood. Captain
Crawford said that after brief stay
in California he would return to New
Mexico and take the stump against
jointure at the request of an organiza-
ton that has been formed for the
defeat of it.
Report has it for some time that the
Southern Pacific was about to build
into Bisbee and tap the rich copper
belt of Southern Arizona which hereto
fore has been the sole possession of the
Ell Paso & Southwestern. The reports
have been branded as mere stories, but
according to the Tucson Post, inquiry
reveals the fact that surveys made by
the Southern Pacific, not into Bisbee
proper but into the new town, Lowell,
and it's extensions south of Bisbee, are
complete and that new line will in all
probability soon be thrust into this
territory. Though the officials of the
Randolph lines will admit nothing. yet
from Southern Pacific sources it is
barely admitted that there is more than
a probability that Col. Randolph will
have the job soon of running an extern
sion into Bisbee. The business aimed
at is the freight traffic, and therefore
quick passenger connection is of minor
Importance. The Southwestern is
without a doubt planning to build
through to the coast, and meanwhile
the Southern Pacific, it seems, intends
to delay that move as long as possible
by keeping the rival road as busy in
the territory now occupied as possible,
and also to be prepared to give every
competition to the new transcontinental
line when that is completed.