The copper era., 1909-09-02
VOLUME II.
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Tucson will have a new country
 club building costing slO,OOO if pre-
 sent plans are carried out.
 President Taft will be in Phoenix but single hour on his tour of the western states in October.
 Advance agents of Ringling's circus are in Arizona and the famous show will tour the territory in October.
 The Tempe Normal is to have it's own gas plant and equipment for the new department. It is arriving at the school.
 President Epes Randolph ot the s. P. lines in Arizona, has left for his old home in Kentucky to be gone several months.
 It is reported in Kingman that O. P. Posey has taken a controlling in- terest in the Ruth Mining Co, the price being above slO0,OOO.
 At an election held last week, Tue son voted bonds to the amount of Sl5O, ,OO0 for the construction of rail- road extension to Twin Buttes.
 A small detachment of mounted soldiers from Fort Huachuca is SCOUT ing the territory in search for two deserters who got away from the fort some time ago.
 The Roosevelt dam at its highest point now reaches 1S2 feet, while the lowest point towers 1O6 feet, where the waste or surplus water of the dam passes through.
 The Irish Mag shaft of the Calumet & Arizona in Bisbee is to be shut down the first of the month for the purpose of retimbering the shaft and making other necessary repairs.
 Vivian M. Dye, an eighteen-year- old lad of Lowell, was instantly killed Monday by the accidental discharge of shotgun in his own hanls. The entire top ot his head was blown off.
 Prescott is experimenting with the relative values of granite and con- crete for sidewalk building. Test walks of the two materials are to be laid side by side and to the most dur able will the palm go.
 Southern Pacific surveyors are said to be as busy as the proverbial bee in the vicinity of Douglas, and the news papers of Cochlse county predict all tion of the desert.
 The copper mines of Arizona are outputting at the rate of 1860, 900, ,000 pounds ot the red metal per annum at an average cost of 10 cents per pound, which is cheaper than at any place else in the world.
 Shirley Christy, district manager of the Mutual Life Insurance com pany, with headquarters at Phoenix for more than ten years, has resigned from his position and will remove to his ranch in the Salt river valley.
 Eight carloads of eighty-pound steel rails have arrived in Kelvin for the track laying on the standard guage line for the Ray Copper com pany, which will connect then with the main line of the Southern Pacific. |
 The Ray Consolidated Copper com Pany has placed afi order with the National Lumber company of Los Angeles for 100000 feet of lumber to be used in the construction of the new concentrator and mines.
 General orders for the annual en- campment of the National Guard of Arizona, to be held on the outskirts of Prescott from September F to 19, have been issued by Colonel James H. McClintock, acting under orders from Governor Sloan.
 The Prescott Courier reports that in less than six months from now the Postal Telegraph company will be in operation in that city, coming in from Phoenix over the wires of the Overland Telephone & Telegraph company.
 The sisters of St. Mary have opend their new hospital in Douglas to the public. It contains big mans ward WlIl nlue COlS, two WOmeu'S WdIuS, an operating room, sterilizing rooms and bathroom, and is thoroughly up-to date in every respect.
 J. C.. Philipson, who has been in custody at Globe several weeks on charge ot embezzlement, was re- leased on S1 800 bail last week. Eight bondsmen were named as sureties for various portions ot the amount.
 Stockmen grazing their cattle on some ot the Arizona ranges this sea son have experienced great deal of loss from the cattle eating oak leaves which contain large percentage of tannic acid and are fatal to domestic animals.
 A combination of Bisbee and New York capitalists has been organized |