The copper era., 1908-11-12
NEVIS OF THE TERRITORY.

Prescott boiled 1.244 votes at th'
 general election last week.
 Arizona navel oranges are now ol
 the market and the Salt river vallel is yielding a very satisfactory crop
 Five thousand copies of the Daily Fair Bulletin will be distributed fret each day during the fair at Phoenix
 A new twenty stamp mill is being erected on the gold property of the United Gold So Silver company neal Prescott.
 Jerome Miners union has voted resolutions protesting against public gambling and asking for the sup pression of the traffic.
 Bisbee is rapidly rebuilding struct- ures destroyed in the recent fire in that city, the buildings being erected better than ever before.
 The latest assay from the deepest working of the Wake-Up Charley mine in the new Sylvanite district, at 74 feet, shows value of S2,636.
 Roscoe Moore, a pioneer of Ari- zona. California and Nevada and well known throughout the territory, died last week at Phoenix of heart disease.
 At meeting of the Phoenix Min isterial association, held last week, Dr. J. w. Atwood of Trinity Epi-- copal church, was elected president for the ensuing year.
 H. w. Chittenden. of the mining engineer corps of the Greene com- pany at Cananea, was last week welded to the daughtero of a professor of Yale college at New Haven, Conn.
 Scott T. Linn, of Flagstaff, has been appointed deputy supreme chief -ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters. MT. Linn will have his headquarters in Phoenix during the winter and in Flagstaff in the sum- mer time.
 Manager E. M. Hurd, of the local branch of the Gila Valley Bank & Trust company, returned last week from Chicago, where he purchased a complete outfit for the new building which the bank is shortly to erect at the corner of Broad and Mesquite streets Belt.
 The grand jury at Phoenix last week ignored the charge against Richard Fletcher, better known as ''Pompadour Dick" who about two weeks ago shot and killed Tom Clark, claiming self defense, the incident being the result of Clark's az gressiveness while intoxicated.
 Preparations are being made for the convention of the territorial branch of the American Bankers association, which will be held at Bisbee November 20 and 2l. The convention was slated for Bisbee last year, but, owing to the panic, was postponed until this year. Current news from the financial world justify the prediction that the Arizona bankers will have nothing to prevent their convening all they like thisyear.
 In doing the assessment work on mines in IXL Canyon near Kingman, Ed Swope recently discovered the source of the gold float that was found in the locality in years gone by. The ledge is of good width and samples from the shaft show big gold values. w. A. Studley, of Kingman, is interested in the strike with the boys. The mine lies to the east of the J. F. T. claim, owned by Gaddis X Perry Co.,, Smith SC Sawyer and the estate of the late Herbert J. Della mer.
 John M. Burnett died in Phoenix November 5th after lingering ill., i ness. He was well known in Wash iugton and New York, having been for many years in the service of the pension department as special az ant. For the last fifteen years or more he has lived in Arizona and is well known in newspaper and court cir cles, having been connected part of the time with the press and the rest of the time practiCing law.