The copper era., 1909-01-28
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

With the building boom that has struck Tucson within the past few months comes the good news that there is a plan on foot to construct a home for the Fraternal Order ot Eagles in that city, at a cost of al least s25, ,OOO, and possibly more.
 Supt. Scott of the M. & P. railroad has received word that the two motor cars ordered for use on the line be tween Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, and Mesa and Phoenix and Maricopa, will be delivered by June l, says the Democrat.
 The Safford Guardian says that during the year 1908, the Big Six has shipped out of the valley 538 cars of alfalfa hay and 3S cars of barley. They have done business the past year amounting to sl5O,OO0. Over SlOO,OOC has been distributed among the peO- pie for produce. This says nothing of the heavy fruit crop, of the dairy and poultry products and other farm and garden products.
 The Arichise Copper Company started to work with full force on the 25th of this month, on their property y in the Lone Star district. We under stand that the company is now in good shape financially. The develop ment work will be done according 10 the plans drawn by their engineer. The value of this property is unques- tionable and with the proper develop ment they are certain to get good re- sults.-Safford Journal.
 Captain Thomas H. RynnIng, super intendent of the territorial prison, has removed twenty-five more pris- oners from Yuma to Florence, where they will be worked on the peniten- tiary which is being constructed at that place. Captain Rynning says that the new penitentiary building is making steady progress and will be in condition for the reception of all the prisoners at Yuma not later than the first of May. There are now only 246 prisoners in the old prison at Yuma.
 Everything squiet on the Roosevelt dam since the power has been turned on, and will remain so until about the 1st of February. The contractors are taking advantage of the shutdown and have a bunch of Mexicans busy cleaning out the canal. The water, which has been steadily filling up the lake since the gates in the dam were closed, is now within about seven feet of the top of the lower part of the dam, and the lake is spread over con- siderable territory, but is not near so high as at the time of the recent flood.
 The railroad project through the Miami district near Globe has been temporily, at least, abandoned. This is due to the fact that men, hearing of the company's intentions rushed in and bought up for $50 an acre, the land which was to be used as q right of way and then asked the railroad $500 an acre for it. This was more than it could stand for. On Monda Y of last week fourteen cars of grading outfit with large number of hands passed through Stafford with No. II on the way to Pearce where active con- structioH on the extension to Court land has already been begun.-SaffOrd Journal.
 Dr. c. w Marsh, of the bureau of plant industry of the department of agriculture, writes E. s. Gosney, president of the Arizona Wool Growers association, that if suit able situation can be found, the de- partment contemplates establiShing a temporary experimental station in Arizona for the study of loco and other poisonous plants. To conduct the experiment. in the best way there should be loco pastures and loco free control pastures, with opportunities also for corral feeding, and such labo- ratory work as could be carried on under field conditions.
 It is stated that Bisbee and Douglas merchants have formed an organiza- tion, the purpose of which is to get a bill through the coming session of the legislature which will provide that all corporations and mining companies shall have two pay days a month in- stead of one, as is now the general rule. The purpose of the law is to dc away with the so-called "boleto' system which is in use in some camps. But just how two pay days will dc away with that unhOly system is not stated, and is difficult to conjecture says the Prescott Courier. There is a law already on the statute books against such practice.