The copper era., 1907-03-28
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

F. H. Eddy, miner at the Old Do
minion, was badly injured by blast
in B shaft one day last week. His
skull was fractured and his face and
limbs fearfully lacerated by the
whirling rocks. He and four other
men had been working in the shaft,
and when a blast went off prema-
turely Mr.. Eddy and Joe B. Walls
were standing dangerously close.
Upon seeing his companion thrown
to the ground, Mr.. Walls who had
fortunately escaped without a
scratch ran forward to his assistance.
DIR. Holt, of the Old Dominion hos
prtal, reports favorable progress.
Eddy has been in Globe a year.-Belt
Mexican mescal smugglers are be-
coming quite smart in their efforts
to get the cactus juice over the line
free of duty, and it is quite fortunate
for the customs service that the line
: riders and inspectors are themselves
up to smart tricks. For instsnce a
Mexican started over the line having
innocent looking sort of case and
to the ordinary layman would not
have suggested anything out of the
ordinary. Whether his olfactory
nerves are more susceptible to the
peculiar odor of mescal or whether
it was just an intuition, Line Rider
Berry could not explain, but at any
rate the rifle case did notlook good to
him and he stopped the Mexican and
relieved him of the case. He opened
it and as he did so a mescal gusher
developed. The case was chock full
of the national drink of Mexico and
several bottles we're required when
it was mptied.-American.
A caye-in at the L. S. & P. shaft
of the Superior Il Pittsburg Mining
company last week crushed out the
life of Ethelbert Hayes, Cornish
man, and injured Frank Earl Allen,
another miner. Hayes body was re-
moved to the Palace Undertaking
parlors soon after the deplorable ac-
cident, while Allen lies at the c. &
A. hospital suffering from contussions
about the shoulders. No bones are
reported broken and Aliens recovery
is said by the physicians in charge to
be but a matter of few days at
most. The accident which claimed
the life OF Hayes occurred on the
1000 level IN No. sulphide stope.
Hayes body was completely buried
beneath the debris and falling rock
and his life was literally crushed out.
No bones appeared to be broken.
Hayes was about twenty-three years
of age and native of the Province
of st. Erth, England. An uncle re-
sides in this district. Hayes resided
during his life time here, at Don
Luis.-Review.
According to advices from Benson,
the Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany, realizing the Importance of
opening up the strata of artesian
water in Benson, which was recently
struck, has ordered six inch casing for
Car & Saylor to sink another well
through the quicksand, and open up
this newly discovered artesian forma-
tion which has never before been tap
ped in the San Pedro valley. 1t is
intended to put the six-inch casing
down as far as possible, then insert
smaller size and continue down with
the latter until the quicksand below
the lower artesian hard pan shall be
shut off, and also shut off all the up
per flow that has heretofore furnished
the only artesian water supply for
this valley. By this means an exact
test can be made of the new strata,
which Road Master Mcmahon thinks
will probably produce great gusher,
as the quicksand rose eighty feet in
the hole and was so solid the tools
would not sink into it. 1t viii take
five or six weeks to have the larger
casing on hand, so that work cannot
be resumed until the latter part of
April.
Mr.. Cooley, formerly guard in the
Territorial Industrial school, who has
some property in Benson to look
after, was in town last week en- route !
to Mexico, where he goes on pros
pecting trip says the Benson Press.
He said that Jake Shearer, who re-
Gently sold a cattle ranch in this |
county for $4,000 is in California
with his family, but they will come
to Benson next June when work will |
be started on copper property which
Mr.. Shearer owns in the undeveloped |
region north of Benson. Mr.. Shear
er has twenty-seven town lots in Ben
son, and Mr.. Cooley states that the |
ex-cattleman has $4,000 on hand !
which he wants to invest in such a |
way as to boost the junction town,
provided he can at the same time |
realize a fair income from it. One |
proposition he has in view is a flour |
mill, and Peter Corpenstein, a lum- !
herman of Phoenix, who thinks of as
sociating with him in the enterprise
intends to come to Benson the latter
part of April, and look over the situa-
tion to see if such an industry would