The copper era., 1911-02-03

MT. Chas. Sands of Duncan, wh has been i'll in the A. 0. Hospital ha
 so far recovered as to be able to rt
 turn with Mrs. Sands to their home
 Dr. James Douglas, president O
 the Phelps Dodge interests, was
 visitor in Morenci for two days thi
 week.
 w.. T. Sanders, of Duncan, ha
 bought Jim Gosper's entire brand (
 cattle on the Hue, in the north en,
 of Greenlee county.
 The funeral of Mrs. Myrtl
 Chambers will be held Saturday al .ternoon at 2 o'clock from the Pasco
 Undertaking Parlors.
 Plans to bring Colonel Roswell t
 Globe from the RoosYelt dam on tn
 occasion of his visit to the dam ol
 March IS depend somewhat upou th, elasticity of his itinerary as at pres ent arranged.
 Chas. Hanson, and E. G. Suits, ot D juglas, arrived here on Thurs1al evening and will remain several dayl looking over the district. MT. Hanser was a former resident of Clifton bur has not been here for twenty four years.
 Alben H.Brown, of Denver, Colo, a mining man of wide experience who has been visiting the Twin Peaks property near Duncan. is of the opin- ion that the Twin Peaks property, with more development, will make a big producer.
 Bob Merrill, the Duncan rancher, who raises more melons and rolls more pumpkins than any other farm CT of the upper Gila Valley, spent Tuesday in Clifton. He was accom- panied by shorty Roark, one of his farm hands.
 Dr. James Douglas, of the Phelps Dodge Co.,, who has been in Arizona this week, states that an extension of the Fl Paso & Southwestern rail- way from Benson to Phoenix and Tue son is under favorable consideration, terminals having been bought in the two Arizona cities,
 The Shannon Copper Co. earned be- tween S25, ,OOO and s3O,OO0, net for the month of November, which is at the rate of about SI per share fo the stock, producing it's copper a little under 10f cents a pound for the month. This is at the same rate that Shannon earned in August and 
 A. Aguilar is the newly arrived Mexican consul and will be located in Clifton in future. MT. Aguilar arrived the first part of the week and will have his office on Hills Flat. The new Mexican consul comes from the state of Puebla an was formerly with the Treasury | of Mexico and was located at El Paso.
 Active construction work is now underway in the building of the long | distance telephone lines which will | enable Clifton people to ak to Kansas City in the east and Sacramento in the northwest. The Telephone, Telegraph | md Electric company now has 16 men working east from Yuma, nineteen working west from Tucson and on March l six others will be put to work striuging wire from Maricopa % Phoenix according to c. w. general manager. This wire will bestrung on the compauy's present poles
 Jim Baker the locomotive special .ngineer, who pulled the Fl Paso & into Clifton Wednes- lay, composed of the official car 'Nacosari" and another coach, bring ng to Guthrie Professor Douglas and 'ther Phelps-Dodge people, several ears ago was an engineer on the A. z N. M. railway and we'll known to Jlifton old-timers. While in Doug as, Tuesday night, he saw the troop # Uncle Sam's soldiers who are to ruard the border from Douglas to Iaco, and remarked that they were fine lot of men, and equipped up to he very latest standard of military )erfection.