The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-03-10
VOLUME II.
NEWS OF THE TERRITORY.

The new Citizens Bank building at
Thatcher will soon be ready for occu-
pancy and it is expected that the
bank will open for business some
time this month.
Under the direction of Prof: E. M.
W. Jones, the public school children
of Thatcher are preparing to pre-
sent the cantata, ''The Village Black
smith, :" on March 10.
The parole of George Campbell has
been revoked by Governor Sloan aid
he will be sent back to the peniten-
tiary. Campbell had broken the
conditions of his parole.
The Supreme court of Arizona will
reconvene on March Goth and de-
cissons will be handed down on March
26th in most of the cases taken un-
der advisement at the January term.
The Arizona Eastern railroad COM
pany has concluded a lease on the
Phoenix & Eastern. railway, which
went into effect March l, and will
continue until June 30, 1885.
Samples assaying as high as $1,000
to the ton were taken to Yuma from
another gold strike in the neighbor-
hood of Thumb Butte. The strike is
of free gold and was made by Ed
Grady.
Luther c. Day was crushed to
death at the Copper Queen smelter
at.Douglas last week. He was an ex-
perienced employe and at the time
of the accident was engaged in re-
pairing crane.
A company of wealthy Philadel-
phia capitalists, to be known as the
Nelson Mining company, has pur-
chased the Nelson group of mines in
the Bradshaws and will begin oper-
ations Immediately.
The canal system of the Palonas
valley in Yuma county is to be. re-
stored, work being now in progress.
The canals were destroyed four years
ago by the inundations of the Gila
and the shifting of its bed.
Charles Harold Howard, of Wins
low, has been nominated by Delegate
Cameron as an Annapolis cadet.
The first alternate is Stanley Living
ston Wilson of Prescott, and the sec
ond alternate Alfonso Lawrence Dun
can of Winslow.
Postmasters for Arizona have been
nominated by President Taft as fol-
AT-CtIi-fA~L~
nix; Frank P. Burnett, Globe. Bur
nett succeeds Ralph S. Sturgis, the
present incumbent.
An effort is being ma de by Capt.
n. Martin to secure for Tucson
the preliminary encampment of the
Arizona National Guards prior to the
national encampment of guards at
Atascadero, Cal, beginning Septem-
ber 20.
Henceforth graduates from the
Tempe Normal school will he per-
mitted to teach in the state of Wash
ington without having to take any
examination, their diplomas being
accepted as certificates under recent
action of the board of education of
that state.
Hereafter the captain of each
company of the Arizona National
Guard will be required to make a
semi-annual report, concerning prop
erty and equipment, to the adjutant
general upon blank specially pre-
pared for that purpose.
The new Gila canal near ella Bend
is about half built and wnen COM
pleted will be twenty-five miles long,
taking the water from the Gila river
above the Wolhey damsite and dis
tributing it over several thousand
acres of fertile land below Gila Bend.
Representatives of company of
New York capitalists are in Douglas
arranging a vast scheme for the ex-
ploitation of rope and basket pro
ducts from the. desert plant known as
palmiHa. 1t is to be harvested on
the desert and the fiber sent to New
York.
Quinn Brothers, the Douglas theat-
rical managers, propose to establish
vaudeville circuit including nine
Arizona cities. They have already
secured control of houses in Douglas,
Bisbee, Clifton, Morenci and Globe,
and hope to add houses in Tucson,
Metcalf, Phoenix and Prescott.
Within few weeks the Office OF
c. w. Hinchclif, general manager of
the Consolidated Telephone company,
will be moved from Tucson to Phoe-
mix and will be rapidly followed by
the removal from Tucson to PhoeniS
of all the other executive Offices Of
the company.N