The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1915-11-06

Nov. 19.-Postmasters' State Conven-
ton, Phoenix.
Dec i7-1S-State Poultry Show, Tue
Jan. 5-7.-Annual Show, Poultry and
Pet Stock Association at Mesa.
Jan. 10-12.-Annua1 Convention Ari-
iona Cattle Growers Association at
Prescott.
Oct. 80 was cleanup day at Jerome.
The first half of the 1915 taxes were
due and payable Nov. 1.
Applications for three new rifle
clubs in Arizona have been approved.
The Postal Telephone company has
installed a direct wire from Oatman.
There is an optimistic feeling among
miners throughout the Warren district.
Three persons were injured when an
auto plunged into the canal at Pres
colt.
Petitions asking the recall Of Gov
ernor Geo. w. P. Hunt are being circu-
lated.
What looks like big gold strike has
been made near Klondyke, in Cochise
county.
Development work is being done at
the Blue Lead mine IN the Patagonia
district.
Warren roads have picked up good
looks with two Sundays as road
building days.
A division of the Globe Miami Catho-
lie parish into two separate parishes
has been announced.
Jacob G. Lang has been appointed
postmaster at Orabi, in place of e. G.
Stanley, who resigned.
Yavapai county received a check
for $243,000, the result of the sale of
her court house bonds.
Mrs. Dora l. Menager has been ap-
pointed pOstmistress at Indian Oasis
in place of her husband.
Miami working miners contributed
$1,000 to the strikers in the Clifton
Morenci-Metcalf districts.
A postoffice has been established
at Sahuarita, Pima county, and T. G.
Dumont appointed postmaster.
Governor Hunt ordered 100 members
of the Arizona National Guard to Cliff
ton to preserve order among the strik-
ers.
Ten townships in Southern Arizona
are to be thrown open 80 entry Nov.
8. This big tract of land is included
in Pima county.
There were 424 births recorded in
Cochise county from Jan. II to June
80. The deaths during the same pc
Rod were 211.
Temperance advocates throughout
the state are to unite on Sunday, Nov.
z, in a jubilee anniversary celeration
of DRY Arizona
Two trunks loaded with liquor were
seized by Sheriff Haynes deputies at
Globe and one man was bound over to
the superior court.
r. N. Atwood of the state engi-
neers staff arrived at Nogales to SUI
perintend the construction of the new
bridge on the road to Calabasas.
1t is going to be utterly impossible
to forecast the far-reach;ng effect on
the mining industry by the discoveries
and production of the Oatman mines.
Allen G. Burris, for mary years iden-
titled with the mining industry of the
Cripple Creek district, has, with east
ern associates, taken over 70 acres of
the famous old Pioneer mining estate,
one of the most valuable in the Tom
Reed-Gold Road district, and concur
rently with the closing of the deal
work was resumed in this one-time
bonanza under the supervision Of
George F. Moser.
Fraser brothers report new discov-
cry of high grade gold ore in shaft
No. 1 on their New Strike" property,
located in the Twin Peaks district
Several average samples taken across
approximately five-foot width runs
between $26 and $43 ton.
BY resigning as president and secre-
tary, respectively, of the Clifton local
of the Western Federation of Miners,
Juan Guerra and Ricardo Rodriguez
saved themselves from recall. Both
were accused of treachery. M. J. Lu-
cero was unanimously elected presi-
dent at a special meeting of the Cliff
ton local. A new secretary is to be
named by the executive committee.
A proclamation requesting the peo-
pie to aid residents in the Clifton
strike zone was issued by Gov. Geo.
w. P Hunt. The governor asked that
food and clothing be sent to the dis
trict where several thousand copper
miners have been ON strike since Sept
II. The strikers at Moc9nci and Met
calf were reported to be restless and
to be blaming a faction Of the miners
at Clifton for the defeat of the arbi-
tration proposal, voted on at the
camps.
the Oatman district is getting live
lier every day. With a population
uorioucIu octimatad of frOnn I non to