The Benson signal., 1916-11-04

Ajo is a lively mining camp of about
$500 people.
Col Theodore Roosevelt addressed
about 5000 people at Phoenix.
Work has been started on the new
Y. M. 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
at Kingman to protect birds and anil
mails.
The harness races will be 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 il
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 at 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 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 it's scope the mining of cop
per, gold, silver, tungsten, lead and
zinc.
Vicente Sanchez, Mexican, aged
27 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 fact
that is not generally known, accord
ing to 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 a superior gum
from the desert Ocatillo.
Negotiations which, if satisfactor-
lily 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. M. G. A. at Doug
las, was struck by speeding auto
west of Douglas, and instantly killed.
Monthly report of the Shattuck-
Arizona Copper Company at Bisbee
for the period ended Sept 80, 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 of the most talked of mining Sec
tions of Mohave county in the '90s,
when silver had not gone much below
a dollar an ounce, is making arrange
ments to revive the camp and putting
it 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 smelter They have value of
approximately $125 per ton and each
car shipped or preared for ship
ment thus far contained thirty tons,
giving a total value of $3.50 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 the Ray Con-
solidated and the famous Christmas
properties
That the law is unconstitutional and
that it would force an unreasonable
conflict with the rights of a corpora
tion to conduct it's business, were rea-
sons given by Judge William w. Nor.
row of the federal court at Phoenix,