The copper era., 1908-12-17
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The official thermometer of tn University of Arizona last wee touched as low as 20 above zero which is below freezing point and un usual weather for this season of tn year in that section.
 The Yavapai Oil S Mining cOmpan now has its drill, near Del Rio, in tn Prescott district, down 1890 feet The drill has penetrated through tw' layers of oil sand and is now in sandstone formation.
 The new town of Chambers, il Apache county, is being promoted b, new development company, whici has about 5O,OOO acres of land, witt water rights attached, for sale tC settlers in that vicinity.
 A civil service examination fol railway mail clerks will be held 1T Tucson January 13. There are sev eral vacancies to fill and it is expect ed that there will be big class tC take the examination.
 Operations are under way for the actual closure of the coffer dams or the Colorado rlver at Laguna. The preliminary work it substantially completed with the exception of FOG feet, which represent the length of the coffer dams.
 A contract has been entered into between the National Mining Ex- ploration Co. and J. S. Anderson, which begun December 1st, by which Mir. Anderson runs a daily hack from Safford to the mines to deliver sup plies and haul passengers.
 Last week Paradise entertained a mining man who was in quest of zinc properties. Zinc has been a drug on that sections market for a long while, but it is thought that this metal will be taken more seriously, now that it is coming in demand.
 It is reported that Captain John Burns, of Cochise county, and some eastern associates have purchased some valuable copper and gold prop critics near Dos Cabezas in Cochise county and that the final payment was made last week.
 The hoisting plant of the Juno mine, at Chloride in Mohave county, was last week destroyed by fire. The upper set of .timbers in the shaft was burned out and it is feared that the boiler and machinery have fallen in to the shaft. The loss will aggregate several thousand dollars.
 Miles Archibald assumed charge of the affairs of the United States GUS tom house at Yuma last week on ad- vices flom Washington, pending the arrival of the man who is to take the place formerly held by Pat J. Sulli- van. As this is a civil service posi- tion the successor to MT. Sullivan cannot bo named permanently until an examination is held.
 With samples of gold-bearing quartz assaying from S3OO to S6OO per ton, George Uhl arrived in Tucson last week from his Hobo group of mines in the Skull Valley and Thumb Butte districts divide. The rich ore was taken out of a shaft forty feet deep in which the pay streak varies from three to nine inches in thick ness.
 Henry Aiken and w. J. Buford, who went as representative of d party of Bsbee people, to inspect certain lands in Oxaca which were being offered for sale by a Kansas City syndicate have returned and denounce the proposition as a fraud in the strong est possible terms. They state that the land is worth about twelve and a half cents per acre.
 Bisbee is threatened with an epidemic of scarlet fever, and it is said that the disease is springing up all over the city. Up to the latter part of last week fourteen cases were known to exist and parents were ask ing permission of the school trustees to keep their children at home from school until the trouble is over.
 The official count of the vote for delegate to congress from Arizona has been given out. It shows that total vote of 26,3 ,367, out of a regis tration of 37,2lS, was cast for dele gate. Of this vote, Cameron, repub- lican, received 12,435; Smith, demo- crat, 11,727; Cannon, socialist, 1912; Cleary, independence, 11S; Stewart, socialist labor, 69; Sibley, prohibition ist, 1O6. Cameron's plurality over Smith is 708. The returns show a big drop in the socialist vote, and also a material falling off in the prohi- bition vote. They also show that about ten thousand voters in the ter ritory failed to vote.