The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1909-12-30
MEMS OF THE TERRITORY.

location OF the Globe-RooSeVelt ROAD
was completed through its entire dis
lance.
It is reported that the construction
of many new buildings for the Colo
RADIO river Indian agency will be
commenced at an early date.
Former Senator W. A. Clark, of
Montana, with his United Verde Cop
per company and other interests, is
the largest individual taxpayer in
Yavapai county, having paid in the
treasury total sum to s47, 564.58.
A revision of city water rates has
been made in Tucson, eliminating
any charge on lawns and trees and be-
sides making a general reduction of
five per cent. in favor of the water
consumers of the city.
James Griswold, an old man who
conducted a shoe shop on Naco road
near Bisbee, was found dead in his
bed one day this. week from a cause
unknown, but believed by the coro-
ner's jury to have been heart disease.
A new course of study for Arizona
high schools has been outlined by the
territorial board of education and
will go into effect after December,
1910, the date having been set off for
a year so as not to disturb existing
conditions.
A report from Wickenburg states
that Harry Van Brunt returned last
week from Bonanza bringing with
him about SO worth of nuggets and
gold dust, the largest of the nuggets
having come from the top of Rich
Hill.
About forty or more squat ers or
claimants have during the past few
weeks settled on the lands of the
Winkleman townsite and erected d
large number OF small houses. The
land had been previously filed upon
by a number of Phoenix promoters
who will doubtless proceed to fight
for their rights.
A crew of seventeen men is at
work on the Tucson end of the new
telegraph line the Western Union
company is putting in from that city
to Globe. With the two Randolph
lines and the Western Union line al
ready make a total of four between
the two cities.
A gold bar weighing 225 ounces was
received at the Prescott National
Bank last week from the Congress
Consolidated Mines company; having
been Extracted from ores of the Con-
gress mine, which is developed to
greater depth than any other mine
in the territory.
During the month of January, a
committee composed OF the most in
nuential officials of the Knights of
Columbus of the United States will
visit Tucson in connection with the
proposed construction of a sani-
tarium in the southwest for the
treatmenfand care of the tubercular
members of the order.
The big smelter of the Clara Con-
solidated company at Swansea is
rapidly nearing completion and after
making a thorough run of their own
ore, which will require about a month
after the blowing of the smelter, the
company intends to handle custom
ores from the surrounding district.
Phelps, Dodge & Co., operating at
Bisbee, Globe and Morenci, ARE paying
at the rate of 10 per cent per annum
on their capitalization, which calls
tor a yearly distribution of S5,000.000.
Last year the company produced
l15, 1911 ,3O4 pounds of copper and paid
dividends amounting to S3,4S0, 900.
The directors have just declared
regular quarterly dividend of , IL per
cent.
Several members of the party of
sixteen Americans, who passed
through Nogales two months ago to
explore Tiburon island, in the Gulf of
California, for hidden treasure and
mines, reached home last week. For
weeks it was feared that they had
been lost or killed by the cannibal
Seri Indians. They reported they
had met with no accidents, but were
mute on the success of the search.
The government filed suit in Tomb
stone last week against the Grant
Bros. Construction company, charg-
ing violation of the contract labor
law in importing forty-fve unskilled
laborers from Mexico to work on the
Southern Pacific branch line in this
country. The contra ctors, who have
just completed a large railroad con-
tract in Mexico, brought 400 Mexican
laborers across the line for some
months work in American territory.
The government charges that at
least forty-five were solicited and in
duced to come to the United States,
transportation being furnished each,
II violation of the alien labor law.
Each offense carries fine of 81, 900.
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