The copper era., 1909-07-22
VOLUME II.
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

of typhoid fever.
 It is reported that the city water plant of Bisbee has made S27, ,050 dur ing the past year.
 The tenderloin districts of Tucson will soon enter into ancient history, if Mayor Heney can bring it about.
 A new gold strike, running over Sl5 to the ton has been made in the Tonto district, by George A. Feagles.
 The vital statistics report for Pima county for the month of June shows there has been fifty-seven deaths and twenty-three births.
 The building of good road from Douglas to the Grand Canyon is being strenuously advocated at Washington by Delegate Cameron.
 For two months, beginning August l, the force of men building the Roosevelt dam will be cut down to one-half its present strength.
 It was learned at Tucson last week that an important mining deal in- volving the famous Three 'R" group in the Patagonia district, is pending in that city.
 Charles Henry, sanitary officer of the health department of Globe, was discharged from his position last week for "holding out" money of the employees working under him.
 A special train on the Twin Buttes line last week took out additional teams and scrapers to be used in the work of extending the Twin Buttes line from Sahaurita to Calabasas.
 A fire at Humboldt last week des- troyed the Tisdale hotel, and the Humboldt Commercial company's store. The loss was S45,OOO, partly insured. The fire is believed to be incendiary.
 A Los Angeles newspaper estimates that visitors from Arizona spend S5,- 100000 in the Angel City every sum- mer. This summer the influx of peo- pie from the territory has been greater even than usual.
 Owing to the interference of heat and water, work on the raise and winze from the twelfth level of the Gem shaft on the old Globe Consoli- dated group of the Cordova property has been temporarily suspended.
 Latest reports from scientists say that the water in the great Salton sea is sinking at the rate of about three feet year. The government has built three towers on the lake and equipped them with apparatus for determining the rate of evaporation.
 The temperance element of Bisbee declares itself confident that Cochise county will go ''dry" at the next cleo tion. The saloon forces, however, are well organized and have a different opinion of the outcome of the strug- gle.
 As the result of little more than six months work, the Telfair shaft of the Arizona-Michigan has reached depth of nearly 800 feet, an excellent show ing considering the fact that hand work has been used entirely in the sinking of the shaft says the Globe Belt.
 Recent development work in the Limestone shaft of the Superior & Boston mine at Globe has resulted in the discovery of a body of rich iron ore in the limestone. The ore body is about four feet thick and was found while drifting was being done to the eastward from the shaft on the 300-foot level.
 A check for S40,00O was received by the territorial treasurer last week from the treasurer of the United States. The money is the annual allowance of the national government for the maintenance of the agricul- tural college of the University ot Arizona.
 Rumors that new bank and trust company, with a capitalization of S5OO,OO0, is saortly to be established LnC QudI dI IuS UT AQd street and First avenue, were con- firmed last by w. T. Smith, owner of the building and a leading spirit in the movement to induce outside parties to finance such an institution.
 At meeting of the original stock holders of the Keystone Copper com pany of Globe with the holders of the option on the Keystone property, it was agreed that the holders of the option should organize a new company with 8, ,OOO, 900 capital of which sl ,5OO,- 900 will be treasury stock. The owners of the option also agreed, in this deal, to give the original stock holders iu the old company LOGO shares of stock at par value of S5, and, also, to invest S6O,O in develop ment work on the mine within one year.-Belt.