Tombstone epitaph., 1916-11-05

An athletic club is to be organized at Oatman.
 Aio is lively mining camp of about 2,5OO people.
 Col Theodore Roosevelt addressed about coco people at Phoenix.
 Work has been started on the new Y. NJ. c. A. building at Miami
 The cornerstone for Yavapai's new granite court house has been laid.
 Jerome is now assured of a strong, active commercial and social club.
 Great ore deposits are being found in the Tom Reed mine at Oatman.
 The county agricultural agent at Tombstone is making war on prairie dogs.
 An organization is to be perfected al hingman to protect birds and ani- mals.
 The harness races will be a feature of the state fair at Phoenix, Nov. 1918.
 A better grade of ore has been struck in the Geronimo mine near Miami.
 A new variety Of potato has been originated by Peter Reucher. an Eagle farmer.
 A new road is to be built from the Black Jack to the Gladstone mines near Oatman.
 Joe Martinez. proprietor of pool hall at Golconda. was convicted of iI- legally selling liquor.
 The week of Nov. 20 has been des- ignated by the bazaar committee of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to ded- icate their building al Bisbee.
 Three hundred acres have been cleared on the Continental plantation, south of Tucson, on which guayule will be raised for rubber making.
 The Oatman Water and Sewer Com. pany was granted a permit by the county supervisors to lay sewer and water lines to any part of the district.
 The mining activity extends to all portions of Yavapai county and in. cludes in its scope the mining of cop. per, gold, silver. tungsten, lead and zinc.
 Vicente Sanchez, a Mexican, aged 2 years, died nineteen miles from Miami on Pinto Creek at the head of Box canon. The cause of the mans death was smallpox.
 That minerals of strontiam are found in quantity in Arizona is a fact that is not generally known, accord, ing to a bulletin of the Arizona State Bureau of Mines.
 The Arizona Chicle Company has received two reports that serve to confirm faith in the success of their process for extracting superior gum from the desert Ocatillo.
 Negotiations which, if satisfactor, fly concluded. may result in a rush to the Mineral Point district. six miles west of Jerome on the U. V. & P. railroad, are now in progress.
 Schuyler Line. 27, assistant secre tary of the army Y. NJ. c. A. at Doug las, was struck by a speeding auto mobile on the state highway, a mile west of Douglas. and instantly killed
 Monthly report of the Shattuck Arizona Copper Company at Bisbee for the period ended Sept. 30, states that ore production at the mine con tinues at the rate of $50 tons of cop per ore and fifty tons of lead ore daily.
 The announcement that the business men of Jerome have organized to pre- vent wildcatting is one of the most important steps forward, according to statement made by the Arizona State Bureau of Mines.
 R. T. Root, who made White Hills ! one cf the mos. talked cf mining sec tions of Mohave county in the sos when silver had not gone much below | a dollar an ounce, is making arrange ments to revive the camp and putting 1t in the shipping list again. The third car of concentrates from the Arizona Butte mill in the King man district was loaded for shipment to the smeltsr. They have a value oi ! approximately sl25 per ton and each car shipped or preared for ship ment thus far contained thirty tons giving a total value of s3.750 to the car.
 There are many indications that the scene of the next boom in the coppers | will be in the Ray-Christmas district of which the most notable develop ment work has been done on the prop erty of the Pinal Development Com pany, located between tire Ray Con solidated and the famous Christina; properties.
 That the law is unconstitutional and that it would force an unreasonable conflict with the rights of a corpora ton to conduct it's business, were req sons given by Judge William W. Nor row of the federal court at Phoenix for making permanent the temporar, injunction of the Copper Queen Min ing Company against the state cor poration commission and the attor ney general.
 The State Bureau of Mines is tt hold an exhibition in November at tho convention of the American Miuinl