The Benson signal., 1916-03-18
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
April 68-Convention and Reunion OF
Elks, at Bsbee.
April 12.-State Teachers Association
meeting at Tucson.
Nov. 1318-Arizona State Fair at Phoe
nix.
The big warehouse at Nogales
which is 326x76 feet in size is com.
pleted
At Prescott, company is being or.
ganized to work the Tuscumbia sill.
Yer mine.
Phoenix stands in danger of losing
her three National Guard companies,
A, B, and F.
Stafford, Winslow, Jerome and
Ciarkdale are organizing new nationa,
guard companies.
The state will build a $4,000 build
ing On the Capitol grounds at Phoc-
nix for the Supreme Court.
Offers of $75 per unit for 60 per
cent grade of tungsten ore are being
made to Prescott producers.
Good gold values have been struck
On the 300-foot level of the Black
Range, five miles from Oatman.
Shipment from the MacMahon
mines at Kirkland, which has just
been resumed, will continue all sum
lner.,
The great Bradshaw tunnel, which
has been planned for the past four
mer.
Several trucks are hauling cOncen.
trates from the Shooting Star mill to
the railroad at Kingman for shipment
to Oklahoma.
A. l.. Andrew was the first man in
the history of the state of Arizona
tu step up and bid in a parcel Of
state school land.
A mysterious epidemic believed 70
be poisoning, among cattle in PIMA
county, west of the Xavier Reserva-
ticn, is causing deaths.
Under the law, all residents of
Arizona who desire to cast their votes
at the primary and general elections
held this year, must register.
The return of the saloon under rigid
restrictions will be the object of the
Initiation Association, fifteen mem.
bers of which met at Phoenix.
For $41,50O Levi Young and w.
Wilkins of Phoenix, have purchased
the holdings of the Pablo Cassie cat
tie Company in the Lonesome Val
ley.
The Florence Chamber of Com
merce, will hold luncheon meetings
every two weeks and will be af
filiated with the State Board OF
Trade.
The new milling machinery for the
Williams tungsten mines is being
moved out to the property, and with
in the next thirty days will be in com
mission.
A movement is on foot in Phoenix
to have the state fair held the week
before the November election, instead
of the week after. The election
comes Nov. Z.
BiSbee mining men, who recently
took over the First Home group OF
mines On Upper Big Bug Creek, have
bought the Oriental Mill, half mile
from the main workings.
A fully equipped assay office has
just been installed at the Lake Shore
Copper Mine, near Casa Grande,
where sulphide ore has been devel-
oped on the 300-foot level.
Work on the new 1OO-ton mill at
the old Yuma mine fifteen miles west
OF Tucson is being rushed to compile
tion and the mill will be treating
molybdenum ore within a month.
Ore shipments from Pima county
mines for the coming months will
be limited only by the ability of the
railroads to furnish cars for the traf-
fic according to Tucson traffic Of
ficialS.
Arizona farmers, particularly those
living in the Sulphur Springs Valley.
are counting danger by locating their
houses in washes instead of mesa
land, according to warning issued
by the State University.
All records for ore tonnage were
broken at Prescott by the Santa Fe,
Prescott and Phoenix Railroad, whicn
handled $50 cars of raw ore and t.
100000 pounds of copper bullion, hav-
ing a valuation of $34G,000
H. Whitcomb, general manager of
the National Tungsten and Whit
comb Tungsten properties near Ari-
Vaca has gone east for the purpose Of
promoting a $1O,0O0,OOO corporation
to take over the properties.
Thirteen members of the local cleo
trical workers union have contributed
strips of flern to assist in the recov-
cry of Gordon Hooker, fellow