The copper era., 1910-01-20
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

Pueblo mine, six miles west OF Iuc-
son.
The railroad shops at Tucson are to
be materially increased in size and in
Importance in the near future.
J. Frank Reader, at one time attor-
ney general of Arizona, died in hos
pital at Los Angeles, last week.
Benson, Arizona, is having another
epidemic Of scarlet fever. The
direase is confined to Mexican
families.
The Douglas chamber Of commerce
has decided to start a publicity
bureau, which will be in charge of
Aloysius Coll.
1t is verified by the board of super
sisors that Cochise county had on
hand December. 31st a cash balance
of s419, ,s41.98.
At the recent meeting of the Society
of Arizona Pioneers at Tucson, it was
found that only 13 of the original
members were still alive.
Architect Fred Hurst has completed
the plans for the new Elks' temple to
be erected at Bisbee and the work of
construction viii begin very soon.
During the month of February civil
service examinations for several diff
ferent positions will be held at Phos-
nix, Tucson, Prescott and Douglas.
If plans under serious contemplation
by Tucson capitalists are carried out,
one of the largest department stores
in the territory will soon be added to
the business district of Globe.
Kuntzite, a valuable gem stone
found in only one other place in the
United States, has been discovered
near Phoenix, according to Frederick
Webb, mining man of Phoenix.
Hon. Marcus A. Smith is spending
the winter at his old home in Cynthi-
, ana, KY, and will later 60 to Wash
ingtou to be on hand when the state
hood bill comes up for discussion.
Ore samples running very high in
gold and silver values were recently
taken to Prescott by Lester Jackson
from the Gladiator and War Eagle
claims in the Bradshaw mountains.
A six-foot vein of ore running high
in both copper and gold has recently
been discovered on the Old Kentuck
property nineteen miles north of
Phoenix, in the Cave Creek district.
]. L. B. Alexander, former United
States district attorney, is plaintiff
in the case of Street and Alexander
against Shattuck and others to collect
s6O,OOO fee for legal services per-
formed.
AS had been predicted by the Silver
Belt, the Globe city council adopted
a salary slashing plan and as the re-
suit, the designations of Mayor Kin
ney and Councilman Higdon we're not
acted upon.
According to the report of DIR. John
Hagan, city physician of Bisbee,
Warren and Lowell, for the year 1909
there were al deaths and IA births
in the district. OF the latter 225 were
white, II were Mexicaus and were
negroes.
John Middlesky, the big Indian
wrestler and chief of the Cocopah
tribe, is on the way to New York with
his manager, Ollie Donaldson, of Bis
bee, where he will engage in series
of wrestling matches. He weighs 367
pounds.
Pupils of the Mesa high school are
instituting reform movement look
ing toward simplicity in dress. The
girls have abolished rats and artificial
hair and the boys are wearing over
alls and substituting red bandanas
for starched collars.
On February 24 special election
will be held at Phoenix to decide
whether or not the city shall ask con-
gress for an enabling act permitting
the city to bond itself in the sum of
not more than $500, 900 for the purpose
of acquiring a municipal electric, gas
and power plant
Duncan Mcdonald, who is charged
with having killed President B. w.
Clair of the Pawnee Mining company
at Paradise, justifes his act by de-
claring that Clair and a man named
Butner jumped his claim in the
Chiricahuas on New Years day.
Colonel w. y. Root, a we'll known
newspaper man, who has traversed
Arizona numerous times in the inter
ests of various mining papers of
Chicago, Denver and California, is
now doing the territory as repre-
sentative of the Engineering and
Mining Journal of New York.
A telegram has been received at
Tucson from New York stating that
all papers had been signed and that a
check was on the way for the erection
of a customs smelter at the Gould
mine, located IL miles from Tucson,
in the Tucson mountains. The COM