Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-15

,.,p,a. and New York, attorney R. E. Nf.rrison arrived home on Thursday | morning. Vb;lo east he was successful in ad. | ,u,tifg the affairs of John s. Jones, rrcsidcnt and general manager of the Little Jessie Mines Co.,, who was ar rested by the United States authori- ,ics and taken for trial to Columbus, Ohio. on the charge of misuse of the Tinted States mail.
 lo company with attorney E. M Sonford Mir. Morrison made such a presentation of the facts of the case Co tbc United States district attorney al rolumbus. Ohio, as to cause that off. .ial ,o express astonishmcnt ss to tho merits of the indictment. Afterwards 70 pcr cent of the stockholders of the Jessie Mines company, residing fin tho state of Ohio, presented petition to inc United States district attorney, .xprcssing confidence in the manage. mcnt of the company's affairs by MT. Jones. and declaring their utmost con ddcnrc in him. X short time after wards the federal official called MT. Morrison and Mir. Sanford, attorneys for MT. Jones, into his private office, md asked them if they would be satis- fed if the case against MT. Jones was continued until he had time to make further investigation. To this they agreed. and n short time afterwards the United States attorney, in oper court. asked a dismissal of the ease which was granted.
 The effect of the proceeding wal really in the nature of a boomerang, fo' it resulted in m increased favor fol inc stock of the Jessie Mines com pany. and now MT. Jones, so MT. Mor ri.on declares, is experiencing no diff enlty in securing the necessary fund with which to inaugurate the magn' fccnt development project planned b him some time since for the proper ties of the Jessie Mines company 'haparral.
 Mir. Morrison is also the gencr' ,ounscl for the Mitchell Mining con pany. and the affairs of that corpor' 1ion occupied much of his attenuo turing his lengthy stay in the eas This concern owns enormous copper pr pcriics at La Dicha, in the district Gucrcrro, Mexico. The value oi u mines is indicated by the fact that an expenditure of $2OO,O00 in deve'o ment work, consisting entirely shafts, Iaterais, and crosseuts, oV s3OO.OOO worth of ore was taken o' although no stoping was ever at'e"i cd. The company owns 's o' smeiting plant and converters, ana IN a position to reduce the raw ma'e'' into blister copper. The maghi'" If the deposit can be imagined when has been proven by actual meas" ment of the underground workings extend for a distance of 4,ooo ie having an average width of l,2lo re
 A corps of engineers employed
 he company recently completed 5 veys for n railroad from the camp Acapulco, the construction of wh'cn IS proposed to at once commence ! road will not only afford cheap 'ri portation to tho seaboard of the r ,luct of the mines as well as the
 livery on the ground of all suppl but it will be the means of getting market the immense lumber products the forests of the region pas through, it being the intention of
 owners of the large tracts covered heavy growth of oak and pine to
 stall sawmills on their holdings
 transport the lumber to Aeapu where it can be loaded on steamers distant markets.
 During his absence, Mr. MOT
 had a chance to converse with u number of the principal business
 of the east, in regard to the state' question. He found that the prime and only opposition to single state'
 for Arizona was among the po'i''c
 who are anxious to curta'i the ''
 scntation of the west in both house
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