The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1911-04-08
STATE NEWS
ARIZON MA
IN BRIEF


Jerome and surrounding country
have been enjoying fine rains lately.
A company of boy scouts will be or
ganized at Jerome in the near future
Ten thousand new fruit trees are be-
ing set out in the Verde valley this
spring.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
decided to establish a postal savings
bank at Bisbee
Miss Katherine Elkins is said to
have honored Arizona recently by get
ting married at Grand Canyon
Arthur H. Wild of Evanston, ILL.,,
decided to accept the presidency of
the University of Arizona at Tucson.
Confirmation of the reported big
strike made recently in the Little
Daisy mine at Jerome has been OBJ
tanned
Congress annually appropriates the
approximate sum of 100000 for the
survey of public lands in the United
States.
The postoffice of Miami and Win
kelman in Arizona will be advanced to
first class, with salaries of $1,5OO and
$1,000 a year respectively.
The United Verde Copper Company
Of Jerome, have issued an order re-
ducing the working hours of all it's
employees to nine hours day.
The Amalgamated Metal and Devel-
opment Company continues work at
its property near Jerome. Experts
who have examined the company's
ground all say they are in pay min
erai zone.
That the Reidville Oil Company's
well in Davidson's canon will develop
into a gusher and will shoot at the
800-foot depth, is the opinion of Will
liam Reid, president of the company,
gained from the company's drillers at
Tucson.
DR.. E. A. Douglas, professor of as
tronomy and physics at the university,
announces that the wireless telegraph
station being installed at the science
building has been completed and mes
sages may be sent and received at
the university.
A. w. Hawkins, a Wells-Fargo ex-
press messenger who has been miss
ing some time from Nogales, co-inci-
dent with the disappearance of an eX-
press package containing $4,000 in
new bank notes, was arrested at Aut-
Ian, together with a Mexican named
Arguelles.
According to census figures made
public, the products of manufactures
in Arizona are seven times as great
as those of New Mexico. Twice as
many men are employed in manufac-
turing industries in the territory than
in New Mexico, and the average cap
ital for each manufacturing plant is
five times as great as in New Mexico.
The Ray Consolidated mill at Hay
den, the starting of which was sched
uled for March 10, has finally been
placed in operation and the crushers
are now grinding ore. The machinery
has been fairly tested and tuned up,
and between 1000 and 1,400 tons of
ore are now being sent daily to the
mill
Advices have been received from
]. Parke Charming, consulting engi-
neer in charge of the Miami Copper
Company, that the first unit of the
cOncentratOr has been started ana
the company is now engaged in the
production of concentrates which it
is under contract to ship to the
Green-Cananea smelter for reduction
in pig copper.
Reliable reports received in Pres
colt state that a very rich strike of
silver ore has been made at the Monte
Cristo mine, owned by Ezra w. Thay-
er of Phoenix. This bonanza is situ-
ated near Constellation, and has been
operated for several years by Mr..
Thayer, from his own resources. AS
says taken from a fourteen inch
streak gave $4,000 to the ton.
Chief Yukeoma, a thin, dried-up-
looking little Hopi Indian from the
Moqui reservation in Arizona, clad in
the trappings of his tribe, and stub
bornly protesting against the march
of civilization, appeared at the White
House recently in Washington, and
made plea to President Taft on be-
half of himself and several hundred
of his tribesmen to be left alone.
The Supreme Court of Arizona, at
Phoenix, affirmed the judgment of
the lower court of a year ago filming
the Grant brothers of Los Angeles
$45,000 for the violation of the con-
tract labor laws in importing forty
five men from Mexico for railroad
construction work. 1t is expected the
case will be carried to the United
States Supreme Court. The defense
admitted that the law had been Vlo-
lated, but contended it was done by
a representative who acted for the
company and without it's knowledge in
thus securing the men. 1t was claimed
the company instructed that men be