The copper era., 1909-10-07
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

D
 finest in the territory, was opened fo business last week. It is equipped
 with 250O lock boxes.
 The contract for the new county
 jail at Globe was awarded to the
 Pauly Jail Building company last
 week for the sum of s36,OOO.
 The Courtland Copper company has
 been organized at Pearce for the pur.
 pose of developing a group of forty
 seven copper claims in the Turquoise
 district.
 J. B. Girand, territorial engineer,
 has begun suit against the Little
 Butte Mining company to enforce a
 contract and to collect salary due
 him as consulting engineer of the company.
 Fish and Game Commissioner Yer kamp has liberated in Oak Creek, near Flagstaff, 15,OOO trout sent to Arizona by the United States Fish Commission.
 The Bisbee chamber of commerce is preparing to make complaint to the Arizona railroad commission against the high rates of the Wells Fargo express company.
 Con Crowley, of Crowley City, the Cactus camp near Pinto creek, re- ports everything in hourishing con dition at the mine of the Cactus Development company of Globe.
 The building of large customs smelter on the Twin Buttes line of railway at point between fifteen and twenty-five miles from Tucson, is said to be under contemplation by group of eastern capitalists.
 Tucson is mourning over the death of Mrs. E. N. Fish, the woman who had charge of the first public school in that city, and the person, who, more than any other, was credited with building up Tucson's efficient school system.
 It seems reasonably sure now that Secretary of the Interior R. A. Ball. finger and Postmaster General Frank will come to Arizona shortly after President Taft makes his visit in the territory.
 Track laying on the extension of the Southern Pacific from Courtland to Naco began last week. About one 1 and one-half miles per day are being laid. Grading has reached about 30 l, miles to the south. One hundred | more Mexican laborers were added.
 "Arizona is justly entitled to state hood and it is unjust to deprive Ari- zona of this, her right. ."-Statement of Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri at ! Phoenix, Saturday, when he deliv- cred a lecture as a part of the Chau- tauqua course.
 John Frickie, for several years con nected with the engineering staff of the c. & A. company, was last week appointed master mechanic for the Denn-Arizona and Shattuck-A Arizona mining companies, vice Aleck Gil lander having resigned.
 One of the largest mining suits ever brought in Cochise county has been filed at Tombstone by John Glee- son vs. Martin Costello. It involves the ownership of mining property in the Turquoise district valued at more than a million dollars.
 Reports from the Blue Bell mine in county say that the shipping 1f 500 tons of copper ore daily to the Arizona shelter at Hum- 0oldt will soon begin and be continued The Blue Bell mine is owned by the Consolidated Arizona company.
 All nickle-in-the-slot machines about the cigar stands have dis from Douglas as if by magic. The police have ordered hem out, as well as all dice boxes in aloons. Doors leading from cigar tands into the interior of saloons coated in the rear have also been ordered boarded up.
 A Chicago dispatch says: John )'Neill, scout, Indian fighter, civil var veteran and former alderman, lied here September 18th, aged "A. 5e joined Kit Carson in trips through New Mexico and Arizona, in which here was a constant succession of indian fights. He secuted all over he west.