The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-07-04
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.


ties arrived at the port of Guaymas,
consigned to the C. Y. r. and P. to
be used on their extension lines.
Many of them will be used on the
-Nacozari line. = Ameri-
can.
The automobile owners at Bisbee
and in Douglas are now building a
first-class auto road between these
two cities. Some thirty men are en-
gagged in the work and it is expected
to be completed during the next two
weeks. When this road is finished
there will be much auto travel be-
tween the two cities. The present
road is not a bad one, but the new
one will be the best in the territory.
J. L. Brown, of Douglas, holds the
record for an auto trip made between
Bisbee and Douglas, having come
down from that city one afternoon in
one hour and fifteen minutes. Over
the new road it is expected that the
trip from Bisbee to this city can be
made easily in one hour.-American.
The case of Smith versus King, of
Arizona, was tried last week before
Judge Campbell, and September 3Oth
was set as the day on which the
argument will be given. This case is
of interest for various reasons. The
documentary evidence that is being
offered surpasses in quantity any
case that has ever been tried here.
The case is nov being conducted by
the third generation that has had to
do with it, having been begun by S.
Morgan Smith in 1898. The death of
the plaintiff caused his son, Beecham
H. Smith. 20 substitute in the case,
and he also having died the case is in
the hands of his sons, G.. Ebert and
). F. Smith. The plairtiff is en-
deavoring to recover $500, 900 claimed
to be due from the King of Arizona
Mining ompany.-Citi5ens
Almost every line of industry in
the Salt river valley is paying better
than mining camp figures, and that is
having greater difficulty than ever
before in getting unskilled labor.
Clinton Campbell, who has the con-
tract for constructing several new
buildings at the Tempe Normal,
stated that he had offerd Mexicans 81
more than he ever paid before and is
still unable to get them. Farmers
around Phoenix are paying as high as
$3.50 and board for men to work in
the hay fields, and around Tempe and
Mesa 81 and s. have been offered for
men to gather cantaloupes. Camp
bell attributes the scarcity of labor
in the valley to the employment of
about 300 MexicaHs at Granite Reef.
They got only 81 day and board
there, but prefer to work eight hours
for that than to work longer hours in
the fields for more wages.-Republi-
can.
There is a noble str uggle in pro-
gress between the old war horses of
the "Grand Old Party" for the posi-
tion of register of the Phoenix land
Office to succeed the late Milton r.
Moore. James H. Creighton and N.
A. Morford, of Phoenix, are the
latest to plunge into the fray. They
are giving Charles E. Arnold, of
Phoenix, and L. W. Wakefield, of
Tucson, the time of their lives in the
way of a contest. Besides these
there are many clark horses" and
the wires to Washington have been
hot with endorsements of this or that
candidate and the selection is liable
to play a prominent part in the
swinging of the next republican dele
CATION to the national convention.
The report that Gen. Thomas F.
Wilson was candidate is erroneous.
Many of General Wilson's friends be-
lieved that he would be an ideal man
for the place, but the general de-
clines to even think of accepting tie
Office.
Last week 4 sample sack of copper
ore was brought to the Office of the
Hub Mining Investment company
which is remarkable because of the
tact that it is richer than any other
ore in this region taken from the sur
face cropping of a large ore body in
place, and because it was discovered
on INDICATED ground which has been
passed over by hundreds of prospect
ors during the past thirty years, and
because IL is within 200 yards of
good wagon road, over which the ore
can be hauled to the copper smelter
at Benson, within a distance of
twelve miles, or loaded on cars at the
same point and shipped to other
smelters over two different railway
systems, says the Benson Press. The
ore ledge is six feet wide, and the
samples brought in are said to fairly
represent the entire width of the ore
body. They consist of quartz blocks
and boulders with thick veins of red
dish brown metal all through the
bright green rock. The brown veins
are not decomposed, and constitute
between one-third and one-fourth of
the weight of samples brought in.
Those metallic veins are thought to