The copper era., 1910-03-24
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

A commercial club numbering fifty
charter members was organized al
Winslow last week.
Friends of local option are epdeav-
oring to secure an election on that
question in Apache county in the
near future.
Only two applicants appeared tc
take the quarterly examination for
teachers certificates in Apache
county last week.
A petition, having the required
number of signers, for local option,
has been presented to the board OF
Supervisors of Yavapai county.
According to the report of the ter
ritorial board of health, the total
number of deaths in Arizona during
the mouth of December was 22S.
H. C. Hudson, rancher near Hig-
ley, struck good flow of water at a
depth of 90 feet in a well he was bav-
ing drilled on his homestead last
week.
The work of assembling the cor
centrator mill at the Redemption
mine in Mohave county is under way
and in a short time the plant will be
ready for operation.
A warm controversy is going on in
the Salt river valley as to whether
B. A. Fowler or J. F. Orme shall be
the candidate for president of the
Water Users association.
The necessary bonus has been
raised and the required concessions
granted for the proposed Phoenix
Buckeye railroad and construction
will begin within few weeks.
A big pump is being installed al
the Tennessee mine, Chloride, and as
soon as the mine can be unwatered
work win be rushed and regular ship
ments will be sent to the smelters.
Work is being rapidly carried on in
the Mohave valley by the new Cotton
Land company and it is probable
that a large portion of the available
lands will be planted in cotton this
year.
The board of supervisors of Mari
copa county has adopted rule that
hereafter no retail liquor licenses
may be granted to corporations, but
must be issued in the names of in
dividuals.
AS soon as the Needles smelter has
installed its new concentrating plant,
designed for handling zinc and lead
ores, shipments will be started from
the United States navy and Balti-
more claims in Copper Basin.
The Mildred Mining and Milling
company, which recently purchased
the big mill at Humboldt, has dis
mantled it and will move it to the
mines near Stanton where it will be
erected and operated.
A. W. Stewart, chief of electricity
of the S. F. p. & p. system at Pres
colt is the inventor of new aerial
craft. He expects to have a machine
built on his plan navigating the air
about Prescott in the early part of
the summer.
Several carloads of horses and
large numbers of men arrived in
and Williams last week to
begin work on the Santa Fe dcu' lie
track to those points. Williams will
be made headquarters for the con-
struction work.
A reform platform has been adopt
ed by Douglas republicans for the
city election, advocating
a serict enforcement of city ordi-
naces, high licenses for saloons and
saloons.
Daily stages are now running be
tween Kingman and Golconda mine
by way of Cerbat and between King
man and Stockton Hill, and it is
possible that automobile service will
soon be put on the two routes.
Between 10 and 100 Phoenix Elks
are preparing to attend the Elks'
at Detroit in July, and if
present plans are carried out, they,
together with Elks from other parts
of Arizona, will make the trip in a
special train.
Official information has been given
out that the Arizona Mine Supply
company of Prescott .has been
awarded the contract to furnish the
steel to be used in the construction
of the big bridge across the Gila
river at Florence.
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