The copper era., 1907-04-25
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.


with jump within the year, as con-
tended for the past few months, is an
assured fact, says the CoChise County
Press. This paper has repeatedly
held, in spite of all doubling Thomas
es, that movement looking toward
the operation of the Benson smelter
would be on foot in April. Tt is with
a great deal of satisfaction that we
announce the fact again. For some
time past work of clearing all in
debtedness on the smelter plant has
been put forth with the result that
today the property stands clear of
any and all debts whatever. The
owners, the Southwestern Smelling
company, haye disposed of and turn
ed over all the holdings with clear
title to the Boston & Arizona Smelt-
ing company, and is matter of
record. The people composing the
new company are among the wealth
lest men of Boston and New York,
men of wide business reputation.
The company is incorporated under
the laws of the state of Nevada, with
a capital stock of S2,5OO,OO0, divided
into $4,000 shares of the par value of
Sl00. Actual work of putting the
smelter in shape will commence very
soon. This is given on good authority
and is no idle talk. What it means
for this district and Benson can be
judged when it is known that some of
the wealthiest men of the country
have taken over the present plant
and will put in operation and add
what will be one of the biggest GUS
tom ore smelters of the southwest
copper district. The men composing
the Boston 81 Arizona Copper COM
pany recognize in Benson's location
that it will be in the very heart of
the richest copper belt ever discov-
cred; that railroad facilities are un-
equaled by any point in the southwest
being on the main line of the South
ern Pacific, the northern terminal of
the Sonora railway and the western
terminal of the E. P. & S. w. The
Santa Fe, which is to enter Benson
from down the river on the north,
will be building to this point within
the year. This will connect Benson
with Phoenix, distance of l85 miles
1t is also recognized that all hauls
will be on down grade. After two
months work, comprising changes and
repairs, will be required before the
smelter can be blown in.
The Bean Amalgamated Copper
company is the name of a new COM
pany that has been organized under
the laws of Arizona, with a capital
of S6,OOO,O 900, to do business in the
district south of town.
The company is organized to take
over the properties of Bean & Good,
ing of some fifteen hundred acres of
land. Bean & Good have
been working on this property for
some two years, and have acquired
some of the best properties in the
district. Henry Setter,
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, is con-
nected with the new company. Mr..
Setter was formerly president of the
Stevens Copper company, of Clifton,
which recently went into the big
Amalgamated deal. This
eft him free, and he has gone into
the Bean Amalgamated. Major
Of t1r-fI
New York, who is the con-
sulting engineer of the Arizona |
Amalgamated company, is also en-
gineer of this company. The devel-
opment plans of the company are
not yet completed, but it is already
decided to sink at least three shafts
to a depth OF a thousand feet, and |
the future development will be gov
erned largely by what is shown in
these shafts, and the reduction works
will depend entirely on what is
shown by this development. There
IS an abundance of capital behind
the company, and when work is COM
menced it will be pushed forward as
ID plQIy dS pOSSlDlC' HC SSLdUlISn-
ment of this company means great
ieal to Lordsburg, for it will employ
hundreds of men.-Liberal.
Death by strangulation was the
horrible fate of G.. NJ. Williams, who
was accidently killed last week at
ella Bend. His neck was caught be-
tween the drum and the wire cable
IN hoist used in drilling a well at
ella Bend and he was strangled.
lust how the accident happened
;ould not be learned but it is the
that Williams was stoop-
ng aud in some manner his neck was
taught between the drum and the
leavy cable used on the hoist. In an
instant the unfortunate man was
caught and drawn up to the drum.
The engineer of the hoist noticed the
accident and stopped his engine i'm
but not in time to save
Williams Had the Engineer not
stopped his engine it is probable that
he wire cable would haye severed
Williams head entirely from his
body. Although there were fright
full bruises on the neck and side of