The copper era., 1910-01-20

pany that will erect the smelter is
composed of New York and Boston
capitalists and will operate under the
name of the Pioneer Smelter COM
pany.
The report of the rich strike made
two weeks ago in the property of the
Mint Gold Mining and Milling COM
pany in the Copper Basin district has
been confirmed and proves to be even
richer than at first supposed. Ledges
and veins in that vicinity which haye
been neglected are now being pros
pected and developed.
The Globe Belt says Anderson &
Stevenson have about completed a
handsome store building in the
! Toombs end of Miami and will open a
fine bakery, serving people through
out that entire section. They
thoroughly understand the business
and that they will meet with success
goes without saying.
The total production of copper in
the Douglas smelters for the year
1909 was 100, 800, 900 pounds, monthly
average of 3,375, 900 pounds. OF the
total the Copper Queen smelter pro-
ducedl $780, ,OOO pounds, and the
Calumet & Arizona 100000 pounds.
The December output for the Copper
Queen was 9,45O,OOO pounds and for
the C. & A. 100000.
Seventy three Cinnamon were
loaded on a westbound train at Tue
son one day of last week, and sent to
San Francisco, from which point they
will be deported to China. 1t is be-
lieyed that nearly all the Celest1als
want to go back to China anyway and
after selling their chock gees are
working Uncle Sam for free trans
portation.
Sheriff White of Cochise county is
in receipt of a letter from II. D.
Hardman, of Fort Worth, Texse, in
quiring the whereabouts of one John
R. Swancoat, who is thought to have
settled in Arizona some years ago,
and who is now sought for by the re-
preventative of an estate in which
the missing man has considerable
interest.
A Washington dispatch says:
Chairman Hamilton said 81 expect
statehood to pass the the house with
in a reasonable length of time. I
shall be greatly surprised if any op-
position to it worthy the name de-
velops. I cannot predict what op-
position may develop in the senate,
but have no doubt that the bill will
become law at the present session."
The annual meeting of the terri
torial bar association, which is always
co-incident with the regular session
of the supreme court, was held at
Phoenix Monday and the following
officers were elected for the coming
year: President, LIE Roy Anderson
of Prescott; vice president, Frederick
S. Nave of Globe; secretary, Paul
Burke'of Prescott; treasurer, Joseph
II. Kiobey of Phoenix.
J. w. Curran, au itinerant preacher
who recently stopped at Benson en-
route to Monterey, declares that
Christ is now in New Y ork state and
that on October 26 next he will step
out and take the world in charge,
taking the place of all earthly rulers
to rule the world for 1000 years. He
also believes that he himself will live
961 years more, being now 40 years
old.
Reclamation officials are in receipt
of news from Washington, stating
that the interior department has
found a legal provision by which GER
tifcates issued and work done under
indirect contract contract on irriga-
tion systems will be paid for in cash
out of the reclamation funds, About
S92, 900 will be applied in Arizona on
the payment of the construction work
for the Eastern canal near Mesa.
The Rhodes scholarship board for
Arizona, composed of President Bah
cock and Drs. Bates and Guild of the
University of Arizona has awarded
this great and much sought for prize
to Lester Disney, a student at the
University. The scholarship carries
with it to the fortunate scholar a
I three years residence at Oxford
University, in England, with $500 per
year allowance. The examinations
for Arizona were held at the UniYer-
sity last October but the board of ex-
aminers made its report only last
week. Young Disney will be gradu-
ated from the college of liberal arts
at the University in June, and IN Oc-
tober of this year will sail for Eng
land to take up his work in law in the
famous old English school.
New Company.