The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-03-22
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Arizona Smelt1ng company eX-
poets to commence smelling opera
tions within a few days. Ore and
concentrates are piling up at their
plant at Humboldt, Yavapia county,
and it has been found necessary to
provide more bin capacity.
The recently rejuvenated Black
Diamond company, owning the cop
per mines of that name near Pearce,
is doing most effective work, accord
ing to all reports. A good force of
men with machine drills are at work
and the showing is said to be ex-
cellent.
With his head crushed in a horri-
BILE manner, his left arm torn from
its place, and otherwise badly man.
gled, Chris Vucurovich, a miner en-
ployed at the Shattuck-Arizona nine,
600-foot level, after which he fell
300 feet to the bottom of the mine
Reyiew
two weeks run of the Common
wealth mill at Pearce, Cochise coun-
ty. gave result of thirteen bars of
bullion. These bars each weighed
$50 pounds, a total of 1850 pounds.
The bullion is said to be about one
fourth gold and the balance. silver,
which at the present price of these
metals would bring the result of the
cleanup into the neighborhood of
$3.50
Douglas is only five years old and
now has a population of 5000; be-
fore it doubles its age the outlook is
that it will have a population of 25,
900. Besides population Douglas has
every up-to-date public utility
street railway, electric lights, tele-
phone, gas plant, as good schools as
are to be found in the territory, and
five handsome churches, with more
under construction. 1t has the only
Y. M. c. A. building in the territory
built for that purpose, which was
completed in January at a cost of
$4,000
''Star'' Williams has determined
on an attempt to put the Review out
of business by drumming up bogus
damage suits on a fat contingent
fee. P. Sax is the first dupe to be
roped into the game. After the Re
view has put this suit out of harms
way, we are informed that Mrs. Kate
- Savage, at present under Indictment
for murder in this county, is 10 be
brought forward to do a damage
''stunt." If this fails, Tom Bennett, |
a member of the law firm of Bennett |
& Williams, will be the next attraC- |
tion in this comedy of damage suits |
against the Review.-Review.
Helvetia's smelter went in commits |
sion last week and is reported rum
ming very satisfactorily. The plant
is expected to treat about 200 tons of |
per cent. ore daily, and therefore |
should make at the rate of 10000 |
pounds of copper annually. Excel
lent mining authorities who have ex-
amined the ore developed by the |
company during the past year and a |
half express the belief that it could |
be treated at profit on cent cop |
per market. If the company can
make 100000 pounds of copper dur
ing the remainder of this year at a |
cost of II cents per pound, it will |
secure a profit of S360,000 or at the |
rate of more than 81 per share an
nually on its stock.
1t is believed that the rangers are |
about to move against a band of cat
tie rustlers who are operating in the |
Santa Rosa valley about seventy |
miles west of this city and on the
east side of the Quijotoa range. |
Four of the territorial officers were |
in the city last week. The rangers |
here now are Captain Tom Rynning |
of Douglas, Billy Olds, of Nogales, |
MCGEE, of Silver Bell, and Round |
tree, who stays in the district.
Rangers Stanford and Burnett left
here late last week, supposedly for
the Quijotoa district. Frequent
complaints haye been made to the
officers that cattle rustlers are run
ming affairs with a high hand in the
Santa Rosa country.-TuCson Citizen.
The Holbrook News gives the fol-
lowing details of killing at Fort
Apache: Word has been received
here of the killing of Sergeant John
McJenkins at Fort Apache last week.
After shooting McJenkins, the as
sassin, Sergeant Louis Loden, re-
marked: "You brought it on your
self, Mac" and then turned the gun
on himself and put bullet through
his own head. McJenkins was in
stantly killed. Loden is still alive,
but has regained consciousness once,
only for a few minutes, since he COM
mitted the deed. At the time of the
killing there were no words passed
between the two men, but in the past
they had had trouble. McJenkins
ranked Loden and, it seems, was al
ways giving him the worst of every
thing. A note written in book
found on Loden's body read: Il am
on my way to kill my worst enemy"