Tombstone epitaph., 1916-11-19


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 Tempe cotton growers are being of fered forty cents pound for long staple Egyptian cotton. The people of Jerome are unanimous in their demand for a shorter, better road to Prescott, the county seat.
 Plans for the establishment of an | aeroplane factory and school of aero nautics at Phoenix are being consid- l cred
 The next annual convention of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association will be held in Globe on March 5, G l and :.
 The Oatman Coalition will start ac- tive development of its property in | the southern part ot the district dur ing the coming month. Twenty-Five companies filed their articles of incorporation with the Ari- zona Corporation Commission during the week ending Oct. 2s.
 Preparation for the installation ot ! three new Diesel oil engines at the power plant of the Miami Copper l Company is now under way.
 Baird Stone, young man employed al the Jerome Verde. was killed b. | falling from the collar to the 500-foot level of the Jerome Verde shalt. That the Tom Reed Gold Mines | Company will soon begin the erection | of a 50O-ton mill is the report that is going the rounds in mining circles Of | the Oatman camp.
 A sS0,O00 damage suit was filed against the Arizona Hercules Copper Company at Phoenix by F. A. Delga- | do, administrator of the estate of Joe Delgado, deceased.
 Eleven men, all residents of Tucson. | were arrested al Tucson by federal au- thoritles on charges of being impli- cated in a plot 10 furnish arms anu ammunition to revolutionists in Mex ico.
 concentrating plant for treatment of the ores of the Wandering Jew and Royal Blue mines, in the | Tyndall district. was received in Pat agonia and freighted out 10 the prop l erty.
 | Plans for the construction of a 900 ton reduction plant for custom pur- poses are being considered by owners of the Silver Hill mine acting in con | junction with a committee of Chloride business men. Prohibition has caused a scarcity of | labor in the prison camps and il is probable that one of the camps will be abandoned, according to the report of the state engineer to the state high way commission.
 Churn drilling operations at the property of the Arizona Ray Copper | Company have penetrated the dacite capping and are now in oxydized schist, the formation which carries disseminated ore in that district.
 Numerous stringers have been cut al the Crescent mine at Oatman re- gently. and the management Is of the opinion that the vein will soon be re. vealed. Samples taken from the stringers gave values of sS per ton.
 Henry E. Aplustell. shift boss at the ! United Verde mine, in charge of all levels below the lGJ0, was killed at Jerome by falling down No. 4 shaft He fell from the 1850 to the 1890 and landed on top of the cage. His body was horribly mangled and death was instantaneous.
 At the conclusion of the prelimin ary negotiations at Globe, arrange ments were made to have two min ing engineers, representing a syndi cate of Oklahoma oil men. investigate the property of the Cypress Queen Mining Company in the Twin Buttes district, near Tucson.
 Postoffice receipts at Tucson for the month of October, 1916, show a decided increase over the same month in 1915, according to figures made public by Al Roshe, assistant postmas ter. In October, 1915, the total re ceipts were s4.s25.64, while in octo Der, 1916, the receipts were s6,24517 an increase of s1,+19.53.
 Recent discoveries in Oatman are ot rich ore, and are taken by the own CTS of properties there to mean that the deeper the mines are sunk the greater is the value. The Tom Reed mine, which is one of the largest in the district, has reported good strikes in lower levels. but the management, has not made public the full particu lars Recent discoveries in the Nellie tunnel are also reported to be of rich ore.
 The. flag of the historic frigate Constitution" will be placed on ex hibition in the rotunda of the state house at Phoenix as soon as an ap propriate case can be built for the ensign. The flag was presented to the state of Arizona by the town oi Flagstaff.
 A streak of high grade ore has been struck at the famous Glory Hole mine near Salome, a crosscut from a pit on the brow of the hill above the old Glory Hole breaking into ore running up into the thousands and hornine coarse gold as large as wheat grains