The copper era., 1909-07-01
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The Arizona Wool Growers associa tion will hold it's annual meeting at Flagstaff on July T.
 Maricopa county sold s3O,O road bonds to the Valley bank Monday for a premium of s1 300.
 Indians are being used to relieve the shortage of labor in the harvest ing of beets in the Salt River valley.
 The big railroad shops of the South er1 Pacific, which are being built at Empalme at a cost of S1,5OO,OOO, are nearing completion.
 H. Q. Robertson, formerly of Globe, has been elected superintendent of the Mesa schools to succeed Professor J. D. Loper, whosrecently resigned
 The Prescott sJournal-Miner- says the receipts of the Prescott banks in gold bullion from the Yavapai dis trict average $40. .OeO per month.
 Forest Supervisor Pooler has re- ceived word that the Coconino forest will receive the stun of Sl1 1000 for i'm provements, which will be available after July l.
 The Arizona Central Copper com pany announces that it is it's purpose to at once begin the development of the Shylock property in the Yavapai county district.
 The present term of the district court in Cochise county has already sent twenty-five convicts to the terri torial penitentiary for varying terms, seventeen of whom plead guilty.
 A Tempe dairyman is right up to the minute in the matter of labor say ing machinery. He milks his COWS by machinery and has four of the little machines in use at his dairy yard.
 Callantano Lopez, found guilty in the Prescott district court of dynamit- ing the restaurant of Charley Honk in Jerome, was sentenced to serve ten years in the territorial penitentiary.
 The contract for the construction of the National Bank of Arizona building in Phoenix has been let to Clinton Campbell for SSO,OO0. It is expected the building will be com pleted by the first of the year.
 The Douglas Daily Dispatch has passed from the ownership of the Dis patch Printing & Publishing company to a combination of former employees of the paper who will operate it in the future.
 Forty-five thousand dollars of the necessary $50, 900 bonus for the Phoe- nix Center street bridge has been raised and it is expected that the other 5000 will be raised in a few days.
 The Southern Pacific will attempt to develop artesian water in the Sulphur Springs valley, and has sent a deep-well boring outfit to Kelton. where operations on test well will be begun at once.
 Reports from Prescott are that the United Gold & Silver Mining com pany operating in the Hassayampa district will in the near future put on a force of forty men in the development of their properties.
 The tale of a new road to be con- structed between Cananea and Doug las is going the rounds of the terri torial press. Responsibility for the new raih oad is fastened upon the Cananea Consolidated Copper com pany, and developments will be watched with interest.
 Discovering that the deputy sheriff who was taking him back to Kansas to stand trial for forgery was asleep, Louis A. Marsh, an eX-convict, last week robbed the officer at Benson of $40 in money, his watch and hand cuffs, and made his escape from passenger train No. 4, on which he was riding.
 Last week, one of the Globe grand jurors who had been rather hurriedly summoned to fill vacancy on the grand jury, appeared in court with out coat. "Mr. Blank" you step forward and show cause why you should not be held in contempt of court for appearing as juror with out your coat?' commanded Judge Lewis at Globe last week. Blank made his excuses. He was not fined, but he was dispatched to get lis coat. Others will probably take notice in the future and save themselves the annoyance of having to duplicate MT. Blanks performance.