The copper era., 1908-10-08
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

departments.
The North Star of Arizona neal
Yuma shipped during the past month
100000 worth of bar bullion.
Tucson delegates at the irrigation
congress are making a strong fight
to get the 1909 meeting for that city
The oilwcll being drilled near Del
Rio is down 100 feet and is in oil
sand of very encouraging character.
Only co. 900 sheep will be allowed or
the Verde division of the Prescott
national forest this winter and sheep
men are on the warpath.
,Cochise county newspapers are of
the opinion that H. E. Bemer, of
Tombstone. will succeed Mr. Wake
field as register of the land office.
Judge Kent, returning to his home
eastern trip, says statehood for Ari-
zona this winter is cinch, no mat
ter who is elected president.
A. Weisbecker, who has done such
clever work for the famous Eagle
base ball team at Globe, has pur-
chased the White House barber shop
and will embark at once in the barter
Business on his own hook.-Belt.
Chas. Worthington, a miner woI k
ing in the Gladstone mine in Yavapai
county, met with sudden death one
day last week. He was working in a
stope when cave-in took place and
he was buried beneath a ton of rock
Arthur Houle, of the firm of Houle
& Houlton, returned recently from
an eight weeks visit in Duluth and
other points of the Lake country,
where he went in the interest of tt
Anderson-Apache company says the
BisLee Review. He brings back only
the best of encouragement and was
entirely successful securing ample
capital to promote the company.
President J. N. Porter, of the First
National Bank, is in receipt of let
ter from Cashier J. N. Robins on, who
is one of the delegates to the bank
ers' convention at Denver, informing
him that Cashier A. G. Smith, of the
Globe National Bank, is being doomed
for vice-president of the American
Bankers association. Mr.. Smith is a
and the convention is being fast
brought to a realization of his merits,
with the result that prospects are
bright that Globe will be represented
among the new officers of the asso-
ciation.-Belt.
The secretary of commerce and
labor issued an order dividing the !
present immigration district, which |
takes in California and the southern
border of Arizona. Commissioner
North will continue in charge of the
northern part of this district and |
will remain in San Francisco. The
southern district will be in charge of
Commissioner Waddell, whose juris-
diction extends as far south as Yuma
with headquarters in San Diego. BY
this division change stricter watch
will be kept upon the Mexican bor-
der, so that the entrance of Chinese
not entitled to come into the United
States may be prevented.
Oscar w. Roberts. one of the
prominent cattlemen of the San
Simon valley with headquarters
ranch three miles north of San
Simon station, was in Douglas last
week went EN- route to Bisbee. He is
one of the pioneer cattlemen of the
southwest and years ago was general
manager of the Diamond a ranch in
New Mexico. He says that last year
the San Simon valley suffered by
the drouth, but that the range is in
good condition now and cattle will do
we'll through the winter season. Cat
tie owners are now getting ready to
make fall shipments and they are in
A satisfactory mood over conditions.
Mr.. Roberts says that about Rodeo
there are many people taking up goy-
ernment land, but that in the north
end of the valley the conditions are
not so favorable. The range feed
for cattle about San Simon station
consists mostly of browse such as
sage brush and other kindred growth.
On this the cattle thrive WE'LL
mariran