The copper era., 1908-12-17
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The city council of Phoenix has in
 structed City Attorney Prescott tC
 draw uD an ordinance providing fol
 the sale of $6O,OOO worth of the re
 maining issue of 5 per cent. bonds for
 the improvement of the water works
 system.
 A fine of S25O and the announce
 ment that for the next offense a iail sentence would be imposed. was the
 decree made by Judge Kent in Phoe
 nix in the case against J. w. Jensen
 charged with selling liquor without a
 license. Jensen paid the fine ard
 was released.
 The second car of oranges shipped from Phoenix this fall netted the growers S2, 75O in the New York mar
 ket. This car sold at much better figures than the first ones. Arizona oranges in the eastern markets are
 bringing fancy prices, being prefer
 red to those from the California
 brands.
 Numerous rumors in the Warren district seem to indicate that the Shattuck mine near Bisbee is soon to resume operations. This property has been practically shut down for several months, but recently the company has put to work good num- Der of men in the mine l. is a good property and it's resumption is mat ter of importance for the district
 A big strike has been made at the Holy Moses mine, owned by A. L. McKesson and situated about seven miles south of Kingman. At d depth of sixty-three feet five feet of rich milling ore has been encountered, but owing to the inflow of water and lack of machinery to handle it, work has been suspended until the arrival of equipmenc.
 The Greene-Canauea company has let the contract for the installation of q 6,000-h.p p. compressor, which will be added to the already extensive machinery in that plant There were numerous bidders in the field for this contract, as it represented S4O,00O This will be the largest compressor in the southwest, and willhe installed in the large central air plant to be erected by the company to supply air to the mines and the reduction plant Dr. l.. D. Ricketts, general manager of the company, has given instruction to have the machinery rushed that t may be delivered at the earliest possible date. The work at the Can anea camp is moving forward with encouraging strides and everything is being done to complete the ma and make it one of the most down to date plants in the southwest.
 Master Bernie Stewart was taken to the Old Dominion hospital at Globe last week in a serious condition with of the brain, the esult of q fall in which fourteen other boys who were with him ou a hand car had q miraculous escape from death. Stewart and his party had taken the handcar away from some smaller boys, who were playing with it, and were COasting down the Arizona Com track on Copper Hill when they ran into a stone on the liue to the quarry. The derailed haudcar was thrown off bridge and fell, with its fifteen young riders, to the rocks eighteen feet below. Six of the ucys were badly bruised and lacerated, but Stewart was the only one serious ly injured. His young companions. seeing him lie so still, concluded that he was dead and hastened to call as sistance. It was at first thought that the lads skull was fractured, but tx animation by the hospital surg cons showed only concussion of the brain and badly lacerated face.-Belt.