The copper era., 1908-10-29
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The crop of dates on the asylum
grounds at Phoenix this year is re-
ported to be record breaker.
Bisbee Elks are planning a fine new
building to take the place of the one
recently destroyed by fire in that
city.
The Knabenshue airship has arrived
on the grounds of the territorial fair
and is attracting much attention in
Phoenix.
The second annual convention of
the Arizona Postmasters' association
will be held in Phoenix beginning
Noyember IL.
Twenty-three new buildings have
been completed for the accOmmo-
dation of officers and enlisted men at
Fort Whipple.
Hoval A. Smith, chairman of the
republican territorial committee, is
claiming victory for Cameron by a
plurality of LOO.
The latest dope on the Humboldt
smelter situation is that the property
will be sold at public auction in Pres
colt November 10.
F. NJ. Camp, inspector of pOstotfices
for Arizona, has resigned on account
of i'll health. His successor has not
yet been appointed.
The postofice department is max
ing efforts to introduce instructions
in the postal service into the public
schools of the territory.
Mrs. LaChance was reelected presi-
dent of the Arizona Women's :
Christian Temperance union, which
closed its annual convention at
Tempe.
The instruction car for the Santa
Fe system, designed to drill nOvices
in the different departments of
service in the railroad business, was
located in Phoenix last week.
Yuma County Commercial club has
received notice that the freight rate
on hay from Yuma to Los Angeles
will be reduced from IS to 1915 per
ton, as Eper the request of the club.
Jose Corales and Mauricio Leor g,
convicts working on the new terri
torial prison at Florence, have been
granted combinations of sentence
by Governor Kibbey on account of
good behavior.
Supervisor Roscoe G. Wilson of the
forestry service, with headquarters
at Nogales, has received notice of his
transfer to a better post in the
service of the department at Albu-
querque.
At a meeting of the SIN Carlos
Copper & Lead company, the follow
ing officers and directors were
elected: Dan w. Mitchell, presi-
dent; NJ. E. Conboy. secretary and
treasurer; Dan w. Mitchell, NJ. E.
Conboy, DIR. Carl B. Boyd, Thos. Han
Ian and Thos. Theeley, directors
Globe Belt.
Bert Noftz, under seven years SEN
tence for mauslaughter in Bisbee in
1908, during a saloon hOlG-up, was re-
leased October u by Communication of
sentence on accout of efficient labor
as a carpenter on the new prison.
His sentence would expire next
February. Noftz always maintained
his innocence and was convicted on
circumstantial evidence.
Twenty acres of arabic Ian |, excIu-
sive of sand hills, alkali deposits
and canals, is the farm unit estab-
lished for homesteaders on the Yuma
Indian reservation, which will be
open for entry shortly after the
closure of the Laguna dam. A gov
ernment expert, w. H. Marean, is
now there, dividing the land into such
units. The reserve holds L, 900 acres.
The Balaklala Copper compIny
smelter at Coram was blown in Octo-
Der 2lst. This is the fifth smelter in
the Shasta county copper belt. The
company spent $2,O0O,000 on the
smelter and other improvements and
never got a single dollars return I'M
til the 2lst, when the first tap of cop
per was made from one of the
furnaces started. The mine and
smelter will now employ $50 men.
The presence of twenty-sx head of
mules and a considerable quantity of
TOOLS used in railroad grading near
Silver creek, which are said to be a
portion of au outfit belonging to A.
Wallis, a railroad contractor, has
caused considerable speculation
among those who know of the wheres
abouts of the outfit, in view of the
recent railroad surveys in the vicinity
of Cabullona. A theory is that the
outfit now at Silver Creek is but
forerunner of others to arrive lit
tie later for the purpose of railroad
grading