The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1907-10-10

richer ore, the average of the ore
from its own mines being 90 per cent.
Inquiry is heard why with increased
smelling capacity the Old Dominion
output of copper shows no increase
over year ago, when The production
was around 3,5OO,OO0 pounds per
month. a year ago the Old Dominion
was treating many high grade con
centrates from other camps and also
treating 40 per cent. matte from the
Greene Consolida ted, which padded
the production, but not the profits.
Whereas a year ago the production
from the Old Dominion mines proper
was but 100000 to 100000 pounds
per month, the production from the
Old Dominion mines proper now
ranges from 100000 to 2,500,000
pounds per month. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that Old Dominion costs can
materially be reduced so long as it is
sinkingsthree shafts and connecting
up its various ore bodies, whicL dead
work adds measurably to the cost of
production.-Boston News Bureau.
Asking that the court award him
$4,000 damages, Peter Mohn has
filed suit in the district court against
J. L. Irwin, who accidentally shot
him while the two were hunting near
Roosevelt on March % of this year.
Mohn's suit is one of the biggest
surprises that has come out of the
Office of District Clerk Dunlevy in
several months, and has been the
subject of several comments in Phoe-
nix. Except for the filing of this
suit an impression prevails that
Mohn and Irwin were on the friend
liest terms, and had reached a per-
feet understanding regarding the
accident that almost cost Mohn his
life and has caused much suffering
and regret to Irwin. Mohn asks for
81 900 expended in medical attention,
s., 900 for the profits he lost in busi-
and the remaining $1,000 for perma-
nent injuries he claims to have sus-
tanned as a result of the shooting
Phoenix Democrat.
The Southern Pacific. has seen the
last of its trouble with the Salton
sea, and unless the Colorado river
breaks away from the levees and runs
into the sink again, the railroad COM
pany will have no occasion to worry
over the desert lake. The water has
receded from the tracks of the main
line near Imperial Junction, Cal, un-
til all danger to the tracks from the
waves when the wind is high is past.
The force of section men that was
stationed at the edge of the inland
sea to prevent it from washing out
the roadbed, has been transferred to
other points along the line, and the
large supply of ties that was stacked
up around the station at Imperial
Junction has also been shipped away,
as there is no further use for any
ties ia the emergency work. While
the closing of the break in the Colo
RADIO river was heralded throughout
the country as a great piece of pub
lie charity on the part of the South
ern Pacific by which thousands of
acres in the Imperial valley were
saved as we'll as the homes of the
settlers from the ravages of the
river. The truth is that the divert
| ing of the river to the gulf was a
hardheaded business proposition on
the part of Hartman and was car
ried by Col. Randolph, who was in
active charge. BY the expenditure
of a large sum of money in turning
the river, he could save a large sum
that would be necessary to construct
high line at an elevation that
would be safe from the encroachments
of the Salton sea with the Colorado
| pouring its waters into it. Incident
ally, the Imperial valley was saved to
develop into one of the richest feed
.ers of the Southern Pacific branch
| line to CaleXico.