The copper era., 1908-03-05
In Every department. Of Banking the First Natl
sank OF Clifton is Prepared Serve You in 2
Manner. - =

to the bottom of the main shaft
E. the mine and the injured are I
J. Stebbins, eager and Henry Caldwell
e miner, neither of whom are serious
W ly hurt, although their escape fro1
5 death as horrible as that of Davidso
l. was almost miraculous. The acc
e dent was due to a mistake of th
f hosting engineer in reading his in
0 dicator. The cage on which wer
Stebbins and Caldwell was on the iftI
level and Stebbins signalled to b,
lowered to the tenth. Thinking tha
the cage was on the fourteenth leve
the sengineer started hosting the
cage at considerable speed, and wher
1t reached the top landing the en-
gineer who could not see it, thought
1t had hundred feet further TO go,
The cage smashed into the top OF
the gallows frame and Davidson, who
was standing above the shaft, doing
some work on the water column, was
struck by the cage and losing his
bllance tumbled head foremost into
the shaft.-Belt.
Tucson Odd Fellows are working
hard to capture the 1. o. o. F. home.
which is to be located at some point
in the territory. They are at pres
ent engaged in securing options on
land.
At the Hollenbeck hotel, Los An
geles, Allen r. English, prominent
tombstone attorney, was united in
marriage to Mrs. Josie Alexander. of
Shreveport, La. Returning to Ari-
zona in the near future, Mr.. and Mrs.
English will make their home in
Bisbee.
at O'Clock last Saturday morning
the First National Bank, which has
been closed since the latter part of
November, resumed business. An or
der was received from Judge Nave in |
the district court, permitting the re-
ceiver to dispose of the banks worth
less assets, a requirement of the gov
ernment before the bank can resume,
and that was the last necessary de-
tail. The officials and clerks of the
b1nk worked almost the entire night
IN order to have everything in shape.
The stockholders, old and new, of the ]
oank will hold a meeting at which ]
lew directors and other officials will {
De elected.---Belt.
Globe mining circles have been a
stirred up by new strikes g
It the Globe Consolidated and the t
ron Cap mine of the National and Il
ews OF two more important deveI- 8
pments was added by another strike n
t the Consolidated and authentic S
ntormation that the Iron Cap strike G
Tas on the Black Hawk fault. This =.
iscovery is of more than ordinary
Importance to the district. Develop
tents in the west drift of the Iron
ap added to the Importance of the :,
-rlke as regards ore, the vein wild -
ming out two feet more, giving a m
1tal width of eight feet. The last ..
Ssay return received by Manager IN
Ioodward showed 80 per cent. cop. i
er, Ii per cent. iron, per cent. sui -,
"nN pei Oent' lusoluole. When ST
lie strike was made a few days ago Al
assay showed 13 per cent. copper
nd trace of sulphur. 1t is believed =,
lat the eight feet of ore will aver =.
ge about II per cent. =,
Colonel Epes Randolph, head of the ar
lines in Arizona and Mex ia
o, is authority for the statement ce
lat the projected custom smelter at th
azatlan will be built A concession in
r a smelter at that Pacific port was au
cured by the w. G. Greene interests eli
tie in 1906. ga custom smelter will on
built at Mazatlan," said Colonel
andolph during mis- stay in FL Paso fo
st week. "The location is ideal, TT
ID plant there will have the ad- As
ntage of comparatively cheap fuel. NJ
lie ore supply will be dra wn from NJ
e mines tributary to the Southern Te
lcific extension. I expect to see
Mazatlan smelter secure the bulk
the ore and concentrates shipped g.
OF the HostotipaquillO district of :.
Is state, and undoubtedly other -
lisco districts will also contribute
its supplies" In discussing the "e
of the Hostotipa quillo W
trict Mr.. Randolph said the South -"'
l Pacific might decide to build a
inch to serve some of the principal
mes of that section. Colonel Ran
ph was accompanied to Guadala- AM AM
a by Philip N. Moore and Arthur 6n' Jn.
atcher, mining experts. Moore aft
Thatcher left Ell Paso last week on
the Hostotipaquillo district to 1
over mining properties in the pes
erests of Colonel Randolph and as Ie
iates.-El Paso Herald. lar
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