The Benson signal., 1915-09-11

The deed for the Orc Plata group
of mines passed to the Golconda-Ex-
tension Mining Co.
A shipment of $500 gallons of the
gas mixture for killing prairie dogs
was received in Snowflake.
Patriarch and Mrs Claridge cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Thatcher.
Ranchers of Coconino county have
organized cooperative selling system
for potatoes and other farm products.
The Ell Paso-to-Phoenix automobile
road race has followed it's big brother,
the Los Angeles race, into the discard
for 1915.
The Board of Supervisors of Santa
Cruz county appropriated $500 to help
defray the expenses of the county
farm advisor.
The auditors office has refused to
issue warrants longer for the salary
or the expense account of the Board
of Control
Chief Deputy Game Warden o. F.
Hicks states that it is dryer in COchise
county than at any time in the last
seven years.
J. Ruby OF Yuma says that on his
farm in the valley there are oceans
of watermelons going to waste for lack
of a market.
Hunters are having good sport
these days, as there are plenty of rab-
bits, doves and whitewings to engage
their attention.
Four persons were reported killed
and dozen injured in wreck on the
Santa Fe, Prescott & Arizona railroad
near Date creek.
Twenty-seven building permits, to-
taling investments Of about $150,000,
were issued in Miami the first twelve
days of August.
Mohave county recently voted to is
sue another 100000 in bonds for the
construction of the northern highway
through the county.
A sheep dog was sold by a Bisbee
man recently for $1O0. The dog was
cross between a Siberian wolfhound
and a Shepherd dog.
The first bale of Egyptian cotton
for the season of 1915 was taken to
Nogales by Japanese farmer from
the Glendale district.
When Arizona counties get through
voting bonds for good roads, the state
will be in position to have the finest
roads in the Southwest.
The revival of the mining interests
in the Payson district is increasing
daily and reports of some unusually
big finds have been confirmed.
Mineral conditions indicate that the
Gold Ore mine, located in the Gold
Road section of the Oatman district,
will soon resume shipments of ore.
Word has been received at Oatman
that the Union Basin Mining Com
pany, owner of the Golconda mine,
has entered the dividend-paying class.
The four lead horses of ten-horse
team which was hauling ore from the
Warrior mine were killed by coming
in contract with fallen wire on the
Miami Burch power line
Mrs. Reese r. Webster of Clifton
was almost instantly killed and her
husband seriously injured when their
car overturned on a bridge over the
Mimbres river, near Deming. N. M.
A plant of machinery is being in
stalled under rush orders at the prop
| erty of the Big Jim Gold Mining Com
pany, adjoining the Black Eagle work
| ing of the Tom Reed Company at Oat-
man.
A masked man entered the State
Bank at Metcalf in broad daylight,
and, after locking the cashier in a
| closet in the rear of the room, took
| between $4,000 and $4,000 from the in
I stitution and escaped.
The Lone Star Consolidated Cop
! per Company has received a carload
| of new mining machinery, which will
| in the Lone Star mining district, about
| ten miles northeast of Stafford.
| Three and one-half feet of ore carry
| ing high values in gold, and showing
| considerable free gold, were recently
| encountered at depth of $50 feet in
| the incline shaft on the Gold Reed
Company's property at Oatman.
| The historical smelter of the United
Verde Company at Jerome has passed
into memory. On Sept l the fires
were banked the old plant giving way
to the new, and henceforth Clarkdale
will be the reduction center of the
big mine.
The State Fair Commission at its
recent meeting perfected plans and
program for what will no doubt be
the best state exposition and greatest
week of sports and amusements ever
| held in Arizona. The dates selected
| this year are Nov. 1920.
Jim Dodd, who is operating the
| Dodd & West property near Gibson,
was in Miami arranging for the ship