The Benson signal., 1916-12-16

Jan. 6-7-Annual Show Bisbee Poultry
and Pet Stock Association at Bisbee.
Jan. 1921-Convention of Arizona Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs at GLOBE.
The postoffice at Columbus has
moved into new quarters
Judge William F. Cooper of the
Pima County Superior Court died at
Tucson
Fifty carloads of sheep-about 1880
head-were shipped to the Imperial
Valley to be pastured.
The demands of the striking miners
at Ajo were refused by Manager ]. c..
Greenaway, of the New Cornelia.
Articles of Incorporation for two
new Verde district mining companies
have been filed with the corporation
commission.
Vice President and Mrs. Thos. r.
Marshall will spend Christmas at their
winter home at Scottsdale, fourteen
miles northeast of Phoenix
Beautiful specimens of silver glance
ore, taken from the new workings on
the second level of the Worlds Fair
mine, were shown at Patagonia.
A gain of 2,7S7 in the population of
Phoenix in the past year is shown by
the latest directory. The population
of Phoenix according to the directory
is 27,537.
For $4,000 Boston capitalists have
bought the properties of the Tucson
Copper Company, located 40 miles
west of Tucson in the Silverbell min
ing district.
There is great activity at the Cop
per Age, due to the carrying out of
the development policy of it's owners,
the Arizona Ore Reduction Company
of Kingman.
The Magma-Arizona railroad, which
connects Superior with the Arizona
Eastern lines at Magma, is to be
changed from a three-foot gauge to
standard gauge.
of cattle and sheep were shipped out
of Holbrook during the past year, ac-
cording to figures furnished by the
Holbrook railroad office.
The Carlson mines, located directly
across the Gila river from Stafford,
have been purchased by the ,Cowan-
Walker Company of Salt Lake City
from syndicate of Stafford business
men.
That old story about the Jerome
Verde shaft passing through ledge
of quartz and chalcopyrite ore at 600
| feet was proven when the miners
reached that point in enlarging the
| shaft.
State authorities may be appealed
| to in order to aid in the campaign
| to stamp out an outbreak of blackleg
which has appeared among cattle in
| the Huachuca division of the national
| forest
Mechanician brennan of Oklahoma
| City, Okla, driving with R. B. Arm
strong in a hundred-mile automobile
| race on the State Fair grounds track
| at Phoenix, was almost instantly
killed when the big racer plunged
| through the fence while attempting
to pass another car at one end Of the
oval.
Messrs. Andreas Jepson and John
Debson, living west of Chandler, have
100 acres of what is considered the
most valuable cotton ever grown in
the Salt River valley. "Jep" refused
40 cents a pound for the lint and an
nounces that he wants so cents a
pound for the staple He will average
bale to the acre, which would give
him $3.50 an acre for the cotton
Fifty-six cents a pound for mohair
is the price offered Arizona growers
by eastern buyers, according to w. S.
Holden, owner of large goat ranch
at Kirkland. A flat offer of $4 a
head for goats on the range has also
been received.
Members of the Globe local, West
ern Federation of Miners, will take no
action, either now or in the immediate
future demanding the closed shop or
an increase in wages. This question
| was SCILlCO uOllAlCO1y CL q 11OCIA16 VI
the Globe union.
Returns from a recent shipment of
ore from the Night Hawk mine was
received at Kingman by Frank Fer
raris and others interested in the
lease on that rich old property. The
ore gave a net return of $500 per ton
in gold and silver.
The recently formed Louisiana-Ari-
zona Copper Mining Co., with it's
head office in Bisbee has recently
acquired thirty-one mining claims
north of Bisbee, in the Warren-Bisbee
mining district, on which valuable
ore has been located and the actual
development of the property will be-
gin in a few days.
The frost has killed all the green
bolls on the cotton stalks. Most of
the bolls, however, have reached that
state of maturity that the frost will
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