The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-08
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Table Mountain Copper COM
pany, near Kelvin, Pinal county, has
just made a shipment of six cars of
copper matte to the Arizona Smelt-
ing company at Humboldt, where
new smelter has been erected on the
site of the Val Verde. The value of
a car of the copper matte is about
$4,000.
The Detroit News has a story to
the effect that Detroit people in
vested $4,000 in a copper mine near
Tucson which they are 'hollering''
about as the mine has not yet begun
to pay dividends. The company own
ing the mine is give as the Arizona
Copper Mining company and was
promoted by man named Salisbury
Smith. The Detroit paper says the
mine is about to be sold to satisfy 4
mortgage for $500.
Reports from the Olive district
state that some very rich ore has
been taken out of the Paymaster
mine at a depth of 20 feet. The
Prosperity mine in the same district,
in which a tour-foot strike of Galena
was made last week, at a depth of
S5 feet, was showing up remarkably
well. 1t is expected that by the end
of the present month, the final pay
ment will be made on this mine, by
the Keystone Development company.
It is reported that the claims of
Messrs. Clark, Stewart, Taylor, Mar
tin and others on the hills east of
Globe townsite, eighteen in number,
had been bonded by Mr.. Yoeman,
representative of a wealthy syndi-
cate of easterners, who will have
twenty-five days in which to investi-
gate Mr.. Yoeman's report on the
properties and consider the purchase.
Mr.. Joeman say she has never seen
superior surface indications and has
unbounded faith in the future of
Globe district.-Belt.
The list of widows claiming exemp-
tion from taxation under the terri
torial law on file in the clerks Office
has been greatly reduced. Last
spring the assessor returned 153 such
persons involving a considerable
amount of property. The board of
supervisors made an order that only
widows by death could claim such ex-
emption and that an affidavit must be
filed in each case. This reduced the
list to forty-four and that number
have been relieved of taxation. 1t
was suspicioned that in some cases
widows returned property which in
fact belonged to other persons and
number of Investigations have been
in progress.-Bulletin
Sheriff White, of Los Angeles, ar
rived at Tucson last week and re-
turned taking with him Harry
Howard, who with a fellow prisoner,
recently made a sensational escape
from the county Jail in Los Angeles.
Howard was arrested in Tucson by
Lieut.. Wheeler, of the rangers.
Wheeler had recently received de-
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saw him walking up the street i'm
mediately recognized him and placed
him under arrest. Sheriff White had
offered a reward of S1OO for the
capture of Howard, which will go to
Lieut.. Wheeler. Howard is wanted
for burglary and has been held to
await the action of the Los Angeles
county grand jury. His escape will
cost Sheriff White about 5000, as the
sheriff must pay the reward and all
expenses. Los Angeles is supposed to
have the best Jail in the southwest.
The Duluth Evening Herald of
January 15, states that $4,000 worth
of the Arizona & Eastern Consoli-
dated Mining company, whose prop
erty is situated on Mineral creek in
Arizona, was placed with banking
house of Paris, France, for subscrip-
tion. After investigation the Paris
bankers agreed to take up the
proposition. They offered the stock
for sale to the clients at par, and re-
ceived subscriptions for twice the