The copper era., 1907-06-27
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

LaurIto Lassen. of Tempe, was ir
Stafford this week buying cattle to be
shipped to the eastern market. He
has contracted for 900 head in thi:
region and the animals are being
driven to Wilcox, where they will be
loaded for Shipment
A fire of mysterious origin com
pletely destroyed the residence, with
its contents, of w. r. Reed, located
in Layton district near Stafford last
Saturday morning. The house was
valued at about 81, 200, with similar
amount invested in furnishings.
There was no insurance.-Journal.
Wednesday at the West Yankee
mine Juan Mexicano, a Mexican
miner, had a narrow escape from
death. He was working on one of
the levels driving a mule on an ore
car when the ground suddenly caved
in beneath them, the mule falling
Into the hole head foremost being
killed. Mexicano was riding on the
car and seeing the animal disappear
he jumped, landing on the edge of
the yawning chasm. Although
severely shaken up and badly scared
from his close call he escaped injury.
Leader.
Thirteen cars of the grading outfit
of Grant brothers, contractors for the
Southern Pacific, were passed across
the line to day. Saturday thirteen
carloads of mules and twelve carloads
of the grading outfit we're sent down
to Nacozari, making thirty-five cars.
Five of their cars, containing camping
outfit, were burned while on siding
near aricopa.-American.
The Ray company has gang of
men at work repairing their old mill
and will have it in running order in
a short time. They also have gang
of men at work repairing the
old narrow guage railway from Kel-
vim to Ray and will soon have that in
operation. They are employing all
told about $50 men and are increasing
this force as fast as they can get the
men and uSe them.-Florence Blade.
There is something almost sensa-
tional in the operations of the Glib
son company. The company, whose
rise in mining circles has been some
thing phenomenal, expects to earn
close to $4,000 during the present
month. Since this time last month
shipments of ore to the Old Dominion
smelter have been doubled and there
are now thirty-seven teams, or 225
horses, hauling ore from the camp,
eighteen miles away from the smell
ter. Daily shipments average about
eighty tons of ore, which runs better
than p per cent. copper, and it is all
sulphide, which makes it more than
welcome to the Old Dominion. The
Gibson company is working $50 men
at the mines, where more ore is being
daily extracted than can be shipped,
while development is opening new
bodies of ore on three levels. Work
on the new three-compartment shaft
is well under way and if the large
supply of hosting machinery is not
delayed on the road too long the
shaft will be completed in several
months.
In the death of Tim O'Brien at
jerome the mining camps of the
great west lose familiar character,
widely and favorably known for the
past thirty-five years. Deceased was
a native of Ireland. aged sixty years.
Before he reached his maturity he
left his native land to seek a home
in the United States, and imme-
diately after his arrival cast his lot
with the then partially explored
regions of the west. He was a
familiar figure in Virginia City, New,
during the palmy days OF the Com
stock, and when that great producer
went on the decline he left for Mon
tana, where, for many years. ht
worked in the Butte mines. About
twenty years ago he came to this ter
ritory, and after the purchase of the
United Verde mines at Jerome by
Senator Clark accepted position
there, which he filed for many years,
except at intervals, when he visited
other mining camps in the territory,
in many of which he had, from time
to time, made profitable investments.
About seven years ago the effect of
his labors, for more than a quarter of
a century. in the bowels of the earth.
commenced to make inroadS upon his
constitution, and he retired from
active work with competency.
AL Knowles is the recipient of
new automobile: it arrived last week
over the El Paso & Southwestern
railroad. Now, there would not be
much news about this simple an
nouncement, as new automobiles are
arriving in this city almost daily, but
in connection with the receipt of this
particular automobile by Mr..
Knowles is a freight bill which prom
ises to attract the attention of the
interstate commerce commission.
This automobile was shipped from
Detroit, Michigan: it weighed 1900
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