Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-27

The lid" has been clamped on at Oatman.
 A bumper crop is reported in sight in Santa Cruz county.
 Jack Ryan, who was prostrated with heat died in the Yuma hospital.
 Chas. w Herndon has resigned as county attorney for Mohave county.
 New Cornelia has donated the sum Of $10,00O to a Catholic church and priest house for the new town of Cornelia.
 T. NJ. Word, a buyer of horses for the entente allies, is in Phoenix cor railing shipment which will be sent on it's ions journey.
 Five thousand bales of long staple Egyptian cotton will be produced in the Salt River valley this season, and will net growers 30 cents a pound.
 Fifteen thousand fish for re-stock- ing the Sabine Canon stream are ex- pected by Supervisor Don P. Johnson Of Tucson, in September or October.
 As the work of cleaning out the old Empire goes on, unexpected workings are disclosed, showing that the early CLloriders were busy getting out only high grade ores.
 A large number Of Chloride men ap- peared before the board of supervisors with a request for the building of a new road between the county seat and the big lead-zinc camp. Flagstaffs new hotel is to be erect I'd on the north side Of East Aspen | avenue between Agassiz and Verde streets and is to consist of eighty-five rooms instead of fifty rooms.
 Attacked by an enraged bull in Fish Creek Canon, near Phoenix, Fred Green and Nick Loomis. two Oklaho- ma cattlemen succeeded in roping the animal and escaped without injury. Many Prescott stockholders of the United Verde Extension Mining Com pany received dividend payments of | 90 cents a share on their stock, the | disbursement aggregating several | thousand dollars.
 The thirteen national banks and fifty-one state banks of Arizona have | deposits of nearly s60,000 ,0OO; an in crease of nearly s15,O0O,OOO over last year Their total resources are near ly siO,O0O,O
 The army investigation into the l death of Lieutenant James Cornell of Hoboken, New Jersey, as the result | Cf a collision between the street car and an automobile at Douglas ended | with a report blaming the car com. pany.
 The Douglas Chamber of Commerce through Secretary Coll is making an effort to obtain a part of the national | good roads fund for the improvement and reconstruction Of the post road leading from Paradise, Cochise county, through the Chiricahua for est reserve and if possible to Cave creek
 | The Miami mill of the Inspiration Company has taken its place as the second in the world in point of ton mage treated. The first is that of the Utah Copper Company, which handles l 9o.000 tons a day. The Inspiration lately worked up 16,7O0 tons, dry weight, in twenty-four hours. It will b., enlarged to 2O,00O tons before thu end of the year.
 The First Troop Cavalry, Montana I rd ;r and is encamped with the Second Montana Infantry near the shelter | In two drifts east and west on the 4s5-foot level of the Telluride mine in the Oatman district, a material that is solid ledge matter and is iden tical in every apparent respect to the United Eastern, Tom Reed and Bis Jim veins, has been opened by three o- four shots. That it will breal into good ore in a few shots there hardly seems a possible doubt.
 Right at the door of Kingman is one of the greatest mining propositions 1T the state, controlled by the Arizona Butte Mines Company. It contem plates the piercing of the great Stock ton Hill network veins This great tunnel scheme is now under way Miners are grading out and openins the portal preparatory to the installa tion of a big engine and compressor The tunnel is surveyed through tho Prince George vein, one of the larg est lodes in the county, having a width of nearly 100 feet, and in which great bodies Of ore are known tc exist.
 A noteworthy feature in connection with the increasing mining activity fir Isvapai and adjacent counties is the number of old-time bonanzas that are being operated under mineral condi tions which indicate they are soon again to occupy a position in mining affairs akin to that held by them ir former years.
 Two horses were drowned and a man and his wife and two small chil dren narrowly escaped the same fate ,n Silver Creek, twelve miles east ol