The copper era., 1909-08-26
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Yuma county tax rate has oeel fixed at $3.90 per SlO0.
 During the first half ot the presen year Cochise county expended on he public roads the sum of S3l, ,735 B.
 The funeral of the late w. w Damron at Stafford was one of tht largest seen in the valley in many years.
 John Marshall of Flagstaff has To cated an onyx mine in Sycamore can yon, about thirty-five miles from Flagstaff.
 The Superior & Pittsburg company in the Warren district produced 2, 100000 pounds of copper for the month of July.
 Whiteriver reservation reports the following stock on it's areas: Ten thousand head ot cattle, 5000 ponies and 27,OO0 sheep.
 Joseph Kundsen, an old time resi- dent of Stafford, died suddenly last week. The cause of his death was various complications.
 The board of supervisors of Yava- pal county has fixed the official tax levy for the year 1909 at $40 on the S100 of assessed valuation.
 The academy at Thatcher received a large shipment of furniture last week which will greatly improve in- side appearances of that institution.
 The Globe chamber of commerce will make an effort to induce Pres ideut Taft to visit that city when he makes his tour through the west.
 It is reported in Kingman that O. F. Posey has taken over a controll- ing interest in the Ruth Mining com pany, the price being above S1OO, ,OOO.
 At meeting of the Cochise county board of supervisors last week the tax rate on patented non-producing mines was raised to s39.67 per acre.
 The receipts of the Mesa postoffice for the month of July were S652 80, gain of nearly s2O0 over the business of the corresponding month of last year.
 Operations on the Octave mine in Yavapai county, have been tenn porarily suspended during the in- stallation of a large amount of new machinery and equipment.
 Charles Purdon and James Hart have taken bond and option on the Abril-Herrera group of claims in the -Dragoon mountains for two years. The sum named is S30,000.
 Since receiving the appointment as United States Marshal, c. A. Overlook has been notified from gov ernment headquarters that his office shall be located at Tucson.
 Speaker Cannon has appointed Ralph Cameron, delegate to congress from Arizona, on three comittees- postoffice and local post roads, Indian affairs and mines and mining.
 The Los Angeles chamber of mines is about to install large permanent mineral exhibit at its headquarters and has written to the mining cities of Arizona asking them to send. ex- hibits.
 The Greene Cananea Copper com pany at Cananea for the month of July produced copper to the amount of 3,5OS, 900 pounds, a good increase oyer the output of the previous month.
 Reports from the North Star mine in Yuma county are to the effect that the company is being driven to desperate straits to stop the stealing of high grade ore by miners working in the shaft.
 The Yuma Copper company, cap italized under the laws of Arizona for S2,O00,0O0, is one ot the new or ganizations of the territory. The mines of this company are located in Yuma county.
 On September l, the Coronado and Garces forest reserves will be merged into one, so far as the administration of them is concerned, with R. J. Sel- kirk in charge. He will maintain his offices in Tucson.
 A number of public spirited Bisbee men are raising funds for the sinking of an artesian we'll in the Bisbee City park, for the purpose of demonstrat- ing what can be done in that direc- tion in the Bisbee district.
 At mass meetings of the temper ance forces of the Tempe district Friday evening it was decided to petition the board of supervisors for local option election on or about November l to decide whether the district shall go "wet" or "dry."
 According to Cochise county papers, the Southern Pacific company has during the past week had surveying party at work on the prospective line from Gleeson to Osborne and on to Douglas. and visions of new road through that section loom large in the minds of Cochise county people.