The copper era., 1908-07-16
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

a meeting of the committee to be
held in the city OF Douglas on Satur-
day evening, July Is.
r. A. Kirk, editor of the Bisbe e
Miner, has been appointed secretary
of the Arizona Fair commission at
Phoenix. The Lest wishes of the
many friends of Mr.. Kirk in Cochise
county go with him in his new field
of endeavor.
A high honor has been conferred
on a little Arizona girl, the
daughter of A. w. Forbes, of Tue
son, who was selected as the mascot of
the Alabama delegation at the demo-
cratic convention at Denver. A re-
port received from Denver states
that little Miss Forbes made a big
hit with the Alabama members and
she was consequently selected as
their mascot.
In every city in Arizona that has
had a ball team of any consequence
during the past few years, the fans
and players are talking about the
phenomenal rise to face of big
Chief" Meyers, the Indian catcher,
who has been connected with several
Arizona teams, was recently sold by
the St. Paul club to the New York
Nationals for $4,000.
Notice has been received from the
department at Washington that on
and after July 1st witnesses in the
United States courts will receive
compensation at the same rate OF
pay as do the jurors, that is S3 per
day for each day in attendance at
court, and Is cents per mile for each
mile travelled by stage or private
conveyance and cents per mile by
rail. Heretofore the witnesses only
received S1.50 per day. The fees al
lowed before the U. S. commissioners
to witnesses remain at the old figure
of Sl.50 per day.
Some day Mohave county will sup
ply the steel plants of the world with
molly ybdeum. The mines of molyb-
denite ores, in the Cedar district, are
the largest ever discovered in the
world and are, so far as known, the
only veins in which the ore occurs in
quartz in regular streaks, or dissent
mated through the vein. In that To-
cality there are veins averaging fror-
one foot to fifteen feet in width, every
one of which carries molly lybdenite.
While the ,niper-l n.-.-urS with conner
it can be readily separated, less than
one-half of one per cent. copper re
manning in the concentrate.
The million dollar steel bridge over
the Colorado river at Parker, has
been formally and officially accepted
by the railroad company, the struc-
ure having been completed and the
Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.
this gratifying announcement comes
also the statement that the bridge |
has been completed within the esti |
mates made in the beginning, both as
to time and cost of construct on.
This makes three bridges ACROSS the
one at Mellon. the longest
bridge in the United
States, built by the Santa Fe, ard
the S. P. bridge at Yuma.
Two suicides in twenty-four hours
is tie record on the books of Coroner
Hinson Thomas at Globe last week.
The first was that of the cowboy,
planned by the receipt of a letter
from him by Sheriff J. H. Thompson,
saying that the writer had "just
tired of life' and was mot at all !
crazy" The second case was that of
E. A. German, who was found dead
in a gulch about mile and half
south of Globe. He had swallowed d
half pint of whiskey, corked the bot
tie, laid it beside him with lis hat |
and coat, then drank an ounce of
carbolic acid, corked that bottle |
tightly and threw it short distance |
from him.
Returning from Phoenix, Buckeye |
and Sacaton, where he went to iu-
spect the progress of governmental
with Egyptian cotton,
w. a. Peterson, OF the experimental
farm, said: "We have not grown
cotton in commercial quantities and |
so cannot give positive figures about
what Egyption cotton might net the
Yuma and Salt river valley farmers
per acre. Our returns Indicate that !
we are producing about $500 worth of
cotton gross to the acre, and this
would leave d net earning of about
$50. Under ordinary conditions, l
think that one-half such a crop would
ne a fair average. Now, while al
falfa is bringing the abnormal price