The copper era., 1907-08-29
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.


county, that another large cattle
deal has been made in that section,
Geo. w. lakewood having sold his
cattle to Percy Hooker. The consid-
Grafton was not made public, but it is
said to be large eamount.-Democrat.
Colin Cameron, one of the biggest
cattlemen of the territory, returned
to Tucson last week from the south
ern part of the county and stated
that the weed which cattle thrive on
is crowding out the grass. The weed
resembles Il miniature tree and its
species is unknown.
That Arizona has the two best rock
drillers in the country was demon
strated at Butte, Montana, when
Jack McIver and his husky partner,
Jim Pickens, formerly of Bisbee, but
now of Globe, defeated all the teams
in the doubled-handed contest that
was the feature of the annual OBJ
seryation of Miners day in the big
Montana copper camp.
The Ell PLso & Southwestern has
been sued in the courts of Tucumcari
for damage of property through fire
from it's right-of-way lands adjoining
]. p. Donahue, Annie /. Parish, f.
Donahue and Walter Purden have
each fled d suit, the amounts asked
aggregating nearly 5000. The suits
are the result of damage done to ad-
jacent lands from fire of dry grass
al La >, rim of
1t is said that these suits will be fol-
lowed by others of the same nature,
the aggregate amount asked for by
the conplainauts reaching the sum
of 5000
Attorney General Clark, when ad-
yised of the request of the telegra ph
comp lnies that the pFeSid elt would
send troops to Ash Fork, states that
there is no necessity for such action.
He is in touch with the situ1tiol and
is advised that the rioters are under
arrest and thlt the town is quiet.
Citizens of Ash Fork, including the
striking operators, denounce the at
tack on the Postal Office and have
volunteered assistance to officers to
preserve order should there be a
further outbreak, which is by no
means expected. None of the
strikers or their friends participated
in the riot, which was started by
drunken cowboy, Smoot, who was
convicted of homicide in Flagstaff in
1898. Mr.. Clark says the call tor
troops is absurd.-Democrat
Quite number of Mexicans, proba-
bly, thirty or forty, have arrived in
the valley from Winkelman, and are
searching for employment in the
fields. The report they give out is
that the Saddle Mountain company,
which is operating the Christmas
mine, shut down work without warn
ing and threw out of employment 300
men because of the high rates on the
Phoenix & Eastern, but it must be re-
membered that the ore in Pinal
county is a very low grade, being
only to 81 per cent, and it must be
worked on close figures all around.
There is an endless quantity of ore,
but it takes close figuring to meet ex-
penses and get profit by shipping
ore at ; per cent. This was being
done, however, until the sudden turn
in the Embellishments.
On account of the Judgment given
in the district court at its session
held last week, an order of sale has
been made of the property of the
Cochise Consolidated Copper COM
pany, located in the California min
ing district, or more properly speak
inp, in the vicinity of Paradise. The
Judgment was rendered in favor of
Madison d. Larken, of Scranton, Pa,
who he'd a trust deed for the prop
erty to secure a loan in the sum of
81, ,O3O. The suit was filed several
months ago and the company through
its agents duly served with sum-
mons, but they failed to answer and
allowed the case to go to judgment
by default. The company gave its
note on March %, 1907, to the plain
tiff, Madison d. Larkin, for S2l 800.
The property will be sold by Lionel
NJ. Jacobs, who was appointed as
trustee in the matter, and will take
place in front of the court house in
Tombstone on the 14th day of Sep
tember at o'clock in the afternoon.
c. S. Gilpin, of the ella Valley
Copper company, was in Stafford and
reports great activity at that COM
pany's property at present, with an
excellent outlook for the future.
There have been twelve men employ
cd at the mine for some time past,
and the company has just decided to
employ fifteen more miners at once,
thus more than doubling the output.
The mine has been shipping eighty
tons of ore to the Globe smelters per
month for some time past, and the
ore is of an excellent grade. 1t is
Don't Grumble
N-ot, GIL fer