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The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
SERVICES
AT NORTH CLIFTON

On Sunday last at $3.50 p. IN. at
the Salt Spring above North Clifton
Baptismal services were held by the
Seventh Day Adventist church, con-
Quoted by the Rev. I. P. Dillon and
L. L. Hutchinson. Six candidates,
two of whom were children, were i'm
mersed according to their profession
and faith In Jesus Christ.
Text Matt. XXVIII-19-20.
The services opened with song and
prayer Rev. Dillon offered in sim
pie but expressive language the mean
ing of the beautiful rite. The day
was ideal, warm and balmy and all
nature seemed tuned in harmony with
the soremnity of the scene. In fact,
anyone could easily imagine typi-
cal Holy Land" scene with the little
band of onlookers and the gentle, pa
tient burros at a distantce.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
Morenci Southern Railway Company
BIDS FOR GRADING.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Morenci, Arizona, Feb. 9th, 1915.
Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned at Morenci, until Febru-
airy 20, 1915, for the grading of LOS
miles of road-bed, approximate guam
tity of excavation 1900 cubic yards.
The Company reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Blue prints of profiles and maps
will be furnished on application.
A certified check for-the sum of
$3.50. 90 must accompany each bid.
Morenci Southern Railway Company,
By A. T. THOMSON, Manager.
PIP to 2-19.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19

DR.. Ricketts,. is a more frequent visit
or to Phoenix than he had been in
the past He is one of the reorganiz-
ers of the Valley Bank, though it
cannot be said that the new Valley
Bank is reorganization of the old
one. 4
Speaking of the copper situation,
Dr. Ricketts, said last night that he
looked for an improvement. 1t will
be remembered, last fall when the
mining men generally were taking a
hopeless view of the copper mining
business in consequence of the British
declaration and the seizure by Bri-
ish warships of American cargoes,
Dr. Ricketts, preserved a degree of
optimism and declared that there
would be no cessation of the industry
in this seate He then looked for an
early Improvement which shortly
after appeared.
Dr. Ricketts, has lately emerged
from camping trip with party of
men like himself who wanted a rest
They did not go hunting; they had
no other object than to get out on
the desert. away from railroads and
remote from telegraph stations,
where they could just rest
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX
PAYERS.

By Special Act of the Legislature
of Arizona, the time for payment OF
April 18th, 1915, and all penalties and
costs accruing before that date are
hereby RENTED, but taxes not paid
prior to April Is, 1915 will be sub
ject to penalties and costs the same
as before the passage of this Act
Any erroneous assessment or ex-
emption should be reported at once.
SO that same may be taken on the
roll.
Yours respectfully,
PICKENS ANDERSON,
Treasurer and Tax Collector. Green
lee County, Arizona.
2-5 to 2-26 4
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
described in the bill as follows:

described in the bill as follows:
The flag of the State of Arizona
stall be as follows: The lower half
OF the flag shall be blue field; the
upper half shall be divided into
thirteen equal segments or, rays,
which start at the center, on the
lower line and continue to the edges
of the flag, colored alternately light
yellow and red, consisting of seven
yellow and six red rays; in the CEN
ter of the flag, super-impose a
copper colored five pointed star, SO
placed that the upper point shaall
be one foot from the top of the flag
and the lower points, one foot from
the bottn the flag. The red and
blue shall be of the same shades as
the colors in the flag of the United
States; the flag to have a four-foot
hoist and six foot fly, with two
foot star, the same proportions to
be observed for flags of other sizes.
The flag represents the copper star
of Arizona rising from blue field
in the face of setting SUM-"
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19

The year 1914 has been the most
extraordinary in the history OF mod
ern times. 1t has witnessed the out
break of the great European war. .
struggle so titanic that it makes an
others look small.
You live in momentous times. and
you should not miss any OF the ire
mendous events that are occurring.
No other newspaper will inform you
with the promptness and cheapness
of the Thrice-a-Week edition Of the
New York World. Moreover. a years
subscription to it will take you far
into our next Presidential campaign
THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only 500
per year, and this pays for 156 pa
pers. We offer this unequalled news
paper and THE COPPER ERA to-
gether for one year for SAYS.
The regular subscription price OF
the two papers is $3.50
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
NATIONAL FORESTS MUCH USED.

Selling some billion and a half
board feet of timber and supervising
the cutting on several thousand diff
ferent areas, overseeing the grazing
of more than 100000 cattle and T.
100000 sheep, and building more than
600 miles of road, 1000 miles of trail,
5000 miles of telephone line, and 700
miles of fire line are some of the
things which the government forest
service did last year, as disclosed in
the report by the chief forester for
1914. These activities were all on
the national forests, which at pres
er: total about 1875, 100000 acres.
There is need, says the chief for
ester, to increase the cut of timber
from the national forests wherever a
fair price can be obtained for the
stumpage, because a great deal of
it is mature and ought to be taken
out to make room for young growth.
Unfayorable conditions in the lumber
trade caused new sales of national
forest timber to falleoff somewhat dur
ing the past year, though the opera
lions on outstanding sales contracts
brought the total cut above that of
the previous year oy 1000 900 board
feet. There was, however, big
increase in small timber sales, these
numbering S,29S in 1914 against g.
1872 the previous year. Desirable
blocks of national forest timber have
been appraised and put on the market
and it is expected that these will find
purchasers when conditions in the
lumber industry improve. All told
the government received $1,3O4 ,053. Sc
from the sale of timber on the forests
in 1914. The receipts from all sour
ces totaled s2,497, 71O.21.
After eight years of experience
stockmen are well satisfied, says the
chief forester, with the way the graz
ing of livestock on the forests is
regulated, and have even urged upon
congress the application of the same
method of control to the unreserved
public range. Almost $4,000 permit
tees Craze stock on the national for
ests. and these paid to the government
in the fiscal year 1914 fees amounting
to over a million dollars. The pres
ent tendency to raise fewer sheep
and goats and more cattle and horses
is shown in the fact that the number
of cattle and horse perm1ttees on
the western forests increased last
wear by 1879, while the number of
sheep and goat permittees fell on
by a total of 26S. The western stock
business, the forester points out, is
becoming attached to the soil, and
the Inherent sheep grower and the
specuIator in cattle are giving place
to the permanent resident and owner
of improved ranch property The
latter is always given preference in
the use of national forest range.
Some 100000 was spent by the
forest service during the year for per
manent improvements on the ma
tionaI forests to make them accessi
bic and to insure their protection
from fires. These improvements In
c1nde 27O miles of new road, 2,15S
miles of trail, 6,O63 miles of telephone
line. IT'S miles of fire line, and LOG
lookout structures, besides bridges,
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19

capital look upon such freak or class
Legislation.
Arizona Gazette"
To this Manager ]. w. Bonnie re-
Piled
If we thought the Claypool-Kinney
bill would pass into law our prep
arations to resume smelling here by
the goth instant would be immedi-
ately stopped and all operations of
this company would Immediately
cease, not as a protest against the
law but from the impossibility of our
fulfilling its conditions.
Freak legislation is disease
which carries within itself the germs
of its own destruction. Capital can
and will await its early demise In
favor of saner and better times.
Signed j. w. BENNIE.'
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
A STATE FLAG FOR ARIZONA

Among the new bills introduced in
this session of the legislature, is one
fathered by Speaker Brooks of the
House., which will undoubtedly meet
with universal favor.
Speaker Brooks bill purposes the
adoption of a State flag, which is
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
O23225
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
u s, Land Office
At Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 6, 1913.

At Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 6, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that Will
liam C.. Bell, of Blue, Arizona, who,
on October 4, 1913, made Homestead
Entry No. O23225, for Sc IA NE IA,
NE Ia Sc IA, Sec. SO; T. NJ, r.
80 E.; SW IA NV IA, NV IA SW
IA, Section 81, Township 1 N, Range
81 E., G. & S. R. B. & Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
three year Proof; to establish claim
to the land above described, before
Ben M. Crawford, Clerk Superior
Court Greenlee County, at Clifton,
Arizona, on the 18th day OF March,
1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
JOHN C.. SMITH,
HARRY HINCK,
i THOMAS F. ARNOLD, all of
Clifton, Arizona.
GEORGE w. BURNS, of
Blue, Arizona.
THOMAS F. WEEDIN,
Register.
PIP to s-12 st
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19

Dr. LID. Ricketts,, the advisory en-
gineer of most of the large mines in
Arizona, and of some in other states,
arrived in Miami last Sunday night.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
COPPER WILL BE IMPROVING

Dr. L. D. Ricketts, Believes Situation
is on Mend-His View Held Even
During the Late Depression.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
THE THRIcE-A-WEEk EDITION or
THE NEW YORK WORLD

Practically a Daily at the Price Of =
Weekly. No other Newspaper n
the World Gives So Much at 50
Low Price.
The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-19
cLAYPoOL BILL A
DETRIMENT TO MINING

I'm possible to Comply With condi-
tions Says President of Copper
Company.
That the pending Claypool-Kinney
bill will, if passed, work irreparable
injury to the state is evidenced by a
telegram from the manager of the
Shannon Copper company received
in reply to an inquiry from the Ga
zette, which reads as follows:
= w. Bonnie, Clifton, Ariz.,. ~
VIII the passage of the Claypool-
Kinney bill delay the opening of the
Shannon in any way? How does
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
Notice of Forfeiture.

To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad-
 ministrators and to all it may con-
 cern:
 You are hereby notified that we have expended during the years 1912, 1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun dred dollars ($3OO.00), lawful money of the United States, Tn labor and improvements, upon your one-sixth interest in those mining claims lying and being on Mineral creek, in the recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are known as the Monte Carlo group consisting of the Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No. 8, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the location notices of said claims being of record in the office of the commissioner and recorder, at Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322, 323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min ing Records, in order to hold said claims under the provisions of Sec tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, concerning annual labor on mining claims, being the amount required to hold said lode claims for the period ending Decem' Der, 1914.
 And unless within ninety days af- ter the completion of the publication of this notice, to-wit: within ninety days after the 9th day of May, 1915, you contribute your proportion of such expenditure incurred in perform ing said annual labor and improve ments, which is the sum of three hundred dollars ($3OO.O0), your inter- est in said claims will become the property of your co-owners, who have made the required expenditure, by the terms of said sec+'on.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th lay of February 1915.
 MIKE BARRETT.
 JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
 Last publication May 6. 1915.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
ANCIENT MEDICAL HUM0R.
Specimens From the Rome of Nearly
 Twenty Centuries Ago.

Specimens From the Rome of Nearly
 Twenty Centuries Ago.
 That there was no lack of medical humor in the classic days of Rome is made sure by the ancient epigrams of Martial of nearly 1000 years ago. The London Lancet shows that the poet bore a grudge against the specialists of his day, for it seems they had this variety of practitioners then and pokes fun at the oculists and at the surgeons who indulged in clinical teaching. Of the latter he has a patient complain in good Latin, and this complaint has been made over into current English: I lay i'll, but soon Symma chus sought me With class of a hundred young men. Whose hundred cold paws have brought
 me
 The fever I lacked till then.
 The journal of the American Medi- cal association calling attention to the medical ways of the ancient city notes that diseases due to luxurious habits had multiplied greatly in Rome. What was called gout-that is, pains and aches in joints and muscles and the vague conditions that we now call rheumatism-had also greatly increas- ed. Pliny, who was an older con temporary of Martial, says, "Gout used to be an extremely rare disease. not in the times of our fathers and grand fathers only, but even within my own memory" Although the gouty were usually rich and of luxurious habits, some of them evidently were not good pay. An evidence of this is thus given:
 Diodorus, while he sues in court,
 On gouty feet can stand,
 But when the lawyers bill is brought
 The gout sets fast his hand.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21

 CANNOT RECOVER
Unless They Have Complied With Requirements of Law Is Decis-
 ion of Judge Brown.

The case of Van Schuyver versus Oscar Freedman was dismissed in the district court this morning, the court holding that as the plaintiff was a foreign corporation, and had not filed it's articles of incorporation and ap- pointed local agent upon whom leg al papers might be served, as requir- ed by the Alaska code, it had no standing in court.
 court last Friday, wherein the plain tiff, wholesale liquor dealers of Portland, Ore, had sold to the de fendant, Oscar Freedman, a saloon keeper in the Copper River valley, merchandise to the amount of $500.
 Freedman admitted having receiv' ct the goods but refused to pay for them, claiming that the wholesalers had not compiled with the law. II was purely a technical defence, but the court has sustained it and it will now go to the circuuit court of ap- peals.
 The case is of great interest to the people of Alaska, because if Judge Brown is sustained in the higher court all foreign concerns doing busi ness in Alaska will be called upon to pay the same tax as Alaska con cerns are forced to pay the federal government. It may even result in suits being filed by the district at torneys of the different divisions fo1 the payment of back taxes for the time that the foreign concerns have been doing business in the north.
 Attorneys Donohoe & Dimond will take the case to the circuit court o1 appeals at San Francisco. Attorney Capers, of Cordova, represented Os car Freedman.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
FATE OF THE ABSOLUTE.
British Economy and the End of
 Franklin's Exploring Ship.


 The story of how the brave little ex- I ploring ship the Resolute was found by an American vessel in Davis strait aft CT q thousand mile cruise from Mel | vile island without a soul on board is easily the most captivating in the his- | tory of arctic exploration. The Reso- lute. locked in the ice, was abandoned on May 15, 1854. sorely against the will of her captain by advice of the leader of the Belcher- Franklin expedition The reappearance of the vessel on Sept. 17 caused great sensation, and the United States brought the vessel with great ceremony to Cowes ill order to present it to the queen of England. l The queen, the prince consort and others of the royal family then at Os- borne House inspected the vessel, which had been carefully repaired and all the original furniture retained in position down to the smallest trinkets. The American skipper traced before her majesty the thousand mile course of the vessel and expressed his belief that Sir John Franklin was still alive. living among the Eskimos.
 After many banquets the actual transfer of the vessel took place on Dec. 30, 1S56 when the American flag was replaced by the British. And now comes the tragedy. The admiralty had no sooner come into the possession of the vessel than it proceeded to break it up on the good old principle of pub lie economy!-London Chronicle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
A TRAP FOR MARINERS.
saImadina Bank, Of coIombia's Coast,
 Is PerIous ShoaI.

samadina Bank, of coIombia's Coast,
 Is PerIous Shoal.
 One of the most dangerous places for navigation is the Salmadina bank, which lies just outside the harbor of Cartagena. Colombia. Many vessels have come to grief on the treacherous sands of Salmadina in the past, and because of tue impossibility of keeping buoys on it the shOal is constant menace to ships plying those waters.
 This dangerous bank is about four miles long and two miles wide. There is scarcely more than twelve feet of water over 1t at any time. The sea is usually smooth in that part of the Caribbean. and unless there is ground swell enough to cause waves to break on the reef there is nothing to warn the navigator that he is approaching this shallow spot. He may have his lead going and get plenty of water one minute and be bang up on the shoal the next.
 The lighthouse people will probably never be able to put buoys on Salma- dina that will stay there. They are in- variably carried away in the terrific hurricanes that periodically sweep these waters. So it seems as if Salma- dina was bad spot put there for the permanent worriment of shipmasters. New York Sun.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
Masked Women.

Upper class Swahili women wear curious masks. which are made of leather and beads on wooden frame. The mask is derived from the tradi- tional usage of Moslem women. who must keep their faces covered in the presence of men. For several cen turies Arab traders have frequented this east African coast, and to their influence are due most of the civilized customs found today among the na- tives of the district. The clothing worn by these prosperous danes is of silk, their shoes are partly of silver, and they wear much silver jewelry. The Moslems in Zanzibar, by the way, are less fanatically strict about religious usages than their brethren in Morocco and Turkey.-Wide World Magazine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
:. WINNING HAPPINESS.
Get on Good Terms With Yourself and
 Everything About You.

Happiness can never come from the outside to the inside unless happiness already exists in the inside. We be- come happy because there are certain elements within us that respond i'm mediately to the things that make up happiness.
 To be thoroughly happy you must be on good terms with yourself.
 Also it means that you have fath- omed the mystery of happiness ill every growing thing about you. 4 man that is not on good terms with the trees and flowers and birds and houses and the scores of other gifts of nature can never be upon good terms with himself. For nature, though silent in it's expression, speaks truths more wondrous than the eX- pressed truths of men.
 To be thoroughly happy you must be on good terms with everything about you.
 Did you ever look up into the sky and ask yourself whether or not you were on good termsswith the stars. with the planets-with the moon? And during the day, with the clouds and the marvellous sun that so greatly affect your disposition, as these things do affect the dispositions of every one?
 To be thoroughly happy you must make the wonderful truths and ex- pressions of nature your mental com panions.
 It is impossible for you to be upon good terms with all people unless you fall in alignment with their sympa- thies and with their viewpoints. It is impossible for you to bring out the best that is within unless you use as basic standing a perfect equality of terms.-Toledo Times.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the reg ular annual meeting of the stockhold CTS of the Alaska Water, Light and Telephone Company will be held at said company's office. in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on Monday, the third day of May, 1915, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at which meeting the di rectors of said company shall be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business shall be trans. acted as may regularly come before said meeting.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska. this 17th day of April. 1915.
 JONES H. KIRK,
 Secretary. First publication April IF, 1915. Last publication May l, 1915.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
China's Millions.

Any figures for the population of China must necessarily be more or less unreliable, inasmuch as the census man is not much in evidence in the land of the Celestials. The estimate, which is probably somewhere near correct, is 4O2, 100000 As to whether the mill lions of China will ever become thor oughly modernized in the sense that the Japanese are remains to be seen. The Chinaman possesses plenty of good sense and there seems to be no valid reason why he should not some time ''catch on" to things and forge ahead with the rest of the folks.-New York Journal.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
Bob" and "cob" In Money.

Most people would know what was meant by the term bob" when speak ing of money. But would they be able to say offhand what "cob' is or was in a similar connecticut? It was used in polite circles in the seventeenth cen tury, for it occurs in letter from the Earl of Essex-"So my wife gave her a cob, for which she seemed very thank
 ful"-printed in the new volume of the "Camden" series, the editor of which gives the information that the cob was "a piece of money the value of which varied from shillings to-as much as 6 shillings in 1675."-Iondon Chronicle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
Penalties For Sabbath Breaking.

Sabbath breaking in Dundee was an expensive business in former times, to judge by the table of fines, etc., drawn up by the local Guild of Bonnetmakers in 1865. For travelling or drinking in a tavern on Sunday the fine was fixed at 40 shllings for each offense. For hanging out bonnets, clothing or fish to dry-penalty for bonnets, 6s. 3d.; for clothes. shillings; for fish, shil- lings. Carrying water from the well or washing meat thereat in time of sermon. penalty, 8 shillings; gathering kali in time of sermon. penalty, shil- ling& going to neighbors' houses in time of sermon without lawful excuse. such as sickness. penalty for first fault, 12 shilIings. and for second twice as much, with rebuke before the craft. and for the third, summons be- fore the kirk session" ."-London Chron- icle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-04-21
AS She Is Spoke In Lancashire.

As She Is Spoke In Lancashire. First Lancashire schoolboy from the top of a passing tramcar to school friend:
 "Gooin' tn all t'neet?"
 Second L. S.-Yi.
 "Hayve past?"
 "Aw rect"
 The two, explains the Manchester Guardian, have made an appointment to meet at half past 6 for the first show of the local picture hall. which will be faithfully kept.