The copper era., 1909-09-30
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

COl. w. J. brydn ndS pIOmlSeu us son at Tucson that he will spend Christmas with him. The old mar likes Arizona pretty well.
 Ground was broken and the req work of grading for the Ray Consol idated's 5OOO-ton concentrator and smelter plant begun last week.
 c. H. Carr, of Yuma, has been ap pointed agent of the Southern Pa cific at Benson to take the place ot Carl Book, who died suddenly last week.
 It is rumored that Mulford Winsor territorial historian, is to be relieved of his official duties and Sharlot M Hall, lady, named in his stead by Governor Sloan in the near future.
 Work has begun on a new automo. bile highway between the cities of Bisbee and Douglas, which should bring delight to the heart of the buzz wagon fiend.
 The Fl Paso fair and exposition, which opens in Fl Paso November l, has decided to devote large space to mining exhibits and is anxious to receive exhibits from Arizona mines.
 Boys and girls under IA years of age living in Douglas must go home at 8 o'clock unless accompanied by older persons, according to recent order of the Shelter City chief of police.
 The surveying party for the resur Yey of the Southern Pacific line from Cochise to the Lower California gulf coast of Mexico has arrived at Naco and expects to finish the work within ten days.
 The North Star, Yuma county $ bonanza gold producer, has the dis function of being so rich that two deputy sheriffs are constantly em- ployed to protect the men from high graders and ore thieves.
 Walter Taylor, a bar tender who has resided in Tucson several years, was assassinated one night last week after he had arrived at his home few miles from the heart of the city. So far his assa ssin has not been ar- prehended.
 As the result of the completion of the Santa Cruz reservoir, two thou sand acres of desert land just west of Red Rock will this year be trans formed into rich fields of green, way ing barley, that being the principal crop of that section.
 General Manager White of the Warrior Copper company at Globe is authority for the statement that he is shipping regularly 100 tons of high grade ore daily ftom the mines. There are now 60 men employed on this property.
 The Wayne Development company, recently organized in Tucson, has se- cured the mill and other equipment of the Weldon mine in the Quijotoa district, eighty miles west of Tucson, and will soon begin active operations in that section of Pima county.
 The Gibson Copper company of Globe is to become a live one. An electric plant is to be erected and powerful machinery installed for the sinking of a vertical shaft on the property. It will take six weeks to install the new machinery after which sinking will be commenced.
 The hearing of the rate case brought by the business men of Phoe- nix against the railroads and which is of great general interest to Tucson and other Arizona cities, which will be affected by the decision has been set for argument in San Francisco on October 19.-
 The Wickenburg board of trade will present President Taft with silver canteen, inset with a miners miniature gold pan and filled with Hassayampa water, as the most ap- propriate gift from that quarter of the Globe. The president will make a brief stop at that village.
 The board of supervisors of Mar copa county has formally refused to segregate Tempe from the rest of the county for the purposes of local option election, as requested by petition of the people of the village. This is done for the purpose of get ting the matter into the courts and getting final decision on the validity of the segregation law.
 At meeting at the headquarters of the executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America at Phoenix last Saturday, President H. A. Hughes was instructed to wire Dr. William Maxwell Burke, superin- tendent of the northern division of California, an offer of S2,000 per year to act as superintendent for Arizona.