The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1911-01-21

held at Prescott, Arizona, January 1S,
19 and 20
Prof j. J. Thorber of Tucson, is ex-
! perimenting with black grass and
hopes by it's use to fit the desert re-
| gions for pasturage.
In the District Court at Prescott, N.
King, convicted of forgery, was SEN
fenced to serve three years in the ter
ritorial prison at Florence.
The 2-year-old child of John Mundal
was burned to death and its mother
badly burned in the destruction of
their home, three miles from Phoenix.
Leaving his beautiful wife and four
little boys without a sou, among
strangers in strang land, Heyman
Bloom of San Francisco disappeared
from Phoenix recently.
Between forty and fifty Arizona
cattle growers attended the annual
convention of the National Live Stock
Association held in Fort Worth, Tex
as, January 10, II and II.
The fact that there were so few
neglected claims in Arizona at the
end of the year 1910, shows that there
is no lack of confidence as to the fu-
ture of the territory in the minds of
the prospector and miner who is in
| tereSted,
Arizona is to be removed from the
jurisdiction of the Denver postal serv-
Ice district and will be transferred to
the San Francisco district February
1st. This change has been under con-
sideration for some time in Washing
ton.
Arizona is again the leader of the
great copper producing sections in
the world, she having outstripped all
other states and territories in the
production of the red metal, accord
ing to the report of the United States
Geological Survey.
Developments in the shaft are be-
ing made On the Jerome-V Verde Cop.
Per Company's holdings, where at a
depth of over $40 feet, considerable
high grade sulphides are being en-
countered. The locating of sulphides
at this depth, and at this particular
place is considered of great signifi-
canoe by the mining wise.
Phoenix will attain a new place on
the railroad map this year. While
it will be physically impossible with
in the next year to complete either
the Arizona Eastern through the Gila
canyon, or the Ell Paso & South
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lines will be under construction be-
fore many months.
Reports that gigantic mining deal
as important to Arizona as any ever
made has finally been consummated,
have reached Phoenix from New York
end Winkleman. These reports are
that the Saddle Mountain, London
Arizona and other adjoining or ad-
jacent copper properties have been
consolidated and will be taken over
by the Guggenheim interests.
Announcement has been made at
the offices of the Arizona Eastern
that the controversy of some months
between the railroad company and the
| Old Dominion Mining Company re-
garding the right of way through the
Old Dominion property having been
settled in a compromise just effected,
preparations are to begin at once for
starting work on the construction of
the line out of Globe with Durango,
Colorado, as the ultimate destination.
The immigration Service of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor is
preparing to hold series of exami-
nations to determine the eligibility
and fitness for service in new
branch. The new office which is to
be created is that of Mounted In
! spector.' The examinations will be
conducted on February Sth, in all
cities in which city free delivery has
been established in Arkansas, Okla
homa, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado,
and California.
During the year approximately 700
miles of road were surveyed under the
direction of the territorial engineer.
These surveys followed in general the
course of the two territorial high
! ways WuICu were u0SlSudISu Dy INC
board of control last year. One of
these, beginning at the town of Doug
las, runs in northwesterly direction
through Bisbee, Tucson, Florence,
Mesa, Temple and Phoenix, and
thence north over the Bradshaw
mountains into Prescott, and thence
runs east, crossing the Verde river
near Camp Verde into the Mogollon
mountains, and thence runs north
through Flagstaff to the Grand Can,
yon. The other highway, beginning at
Yuma, runs approximately east
through Phoenix, Temple, Mesa, Globe
and along the Gila river to Clifton and
Morenci, with branch of the latter
road running south from a point in
Graham county through the Sulphur
| Springs valley to Douglas.