The Benson signal., 1916-10-21
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Prescott.
Oct. 27-29-Southern Arizona Fair at
Tucson.
Nov 13-1S-Arizona State Fair at Phoe.
nix.
Col. B. Hattich died at his home in
Tucson.
Apache county is planning new
court house.
A dairy business is growing in the
Chandler district.
The new Cornelia company has
shipped it's first ore from the Ajo
mines.
The short course for miners at the
University of Arizona starts on
Oct. 80.
Oatman is again assuming the bust
ness appearance that was SO evident
a year ago.
John Ellis, charged with bootleg
ging, was convicted by jury in the
Superior Court at Tucson.
Jess Willard, who was a cowboy be-
fore he became heavyweight cham
pion, will visit Miami Oct. %.
Arizona's revenue from automobile
and other motor vehicle licenses for
the year 1916 will be approximately
$4,000.
A reward of $25 has been offered
for the detection of the party killing
mountain sheep along the Oracle
road, near Tucson.
The keystone, in the Kingman dis
trict, has entered big body of ore on
the 3O0-foot level, the cross-cut having
already entered seven feet of high
grade.
The Civil Service Commission has
announced an examination for the pO-
sition of forest ranger on Oct. 80 at
all forest headquarters in New Mex
leo and Arizona.
Two rounds of shots fired in the
Venture Hill tunnel at Prescott have
apparently demonstrated that a per-
manent body of high-grade copper ore
has been discovered.
The reports sent in to district
headquarters of the Forest Service
for Arizona and New Mexico indicate
that the forest fire season is practi-
cally closed for this year.
A large brass cannon of the vintage
of '63 is going to grace the state
house grounds as soon as Curator Jim
Keene can find time to mount the
field piece on it's carriage.
Globe mining men who have exam
ined the 1900 acres of ground owned
by the Miami Consolidated Mines
Company, are enthusiastic over the
possibilities for the new company.
BY way of preparation for the enor-
nous placer plant which is to be in
stalled to work the old La Paz gravel
beds, the construction of 2,000,000-
gallon reservoir is being pushed to
completion.
The United States Vanadium Devel-
opment Company of Ray has over 500
tons of ore in the dump taken out of
the tunnel in prosecuting their
ledge, of ore which assays 365 per
cent vanadium pentoxide.
In the United States court at Pres
colt Assistant Attorney General R. w.
Kramer was permitted to withdraw
the former motion to dismiss what
are known as the Scent fare cases,
three in number, and file answers to
the complaints.
The mill of the Arizona Butte Com
pany is turning out the highest grade
concentrates ever produced in Mohave
county. Samples taken from the bins
show the concentrates to have a value
of &c per cent lead, $45 gold and IL
ounces silver to the ton.
Charging that he was connected
with the operation of a disorderly
house at Sasco, United States immi-
grafton authorities arrested Lin
Coon, Chinese merchant of Tucson
He was released on $1,000 bond and
his hearing set for Nov. 1.
Hundreds of ancient relics of in
tense archaeological interest have
been recovered from the cliff dwell
ings of the Aztecs and Navajos in
Nitsie and Segia cailons on the Nav.
ajo reservations by Prof. Malcolm
Cummings of the State University.
If the Supreme Court affirms the
referee in his decision relative to the
eastern boundary line of Yuma county
and the western boundary line of Ma
ricopa county the four and half
mile strip over which the controversy
arose will be retained by Maricopa
The McNeal Fair Association is not
alone anxious to better the grade OF
livestock and foodstuffs raised in the
Sulphur Springs valley, but the crop
of human mites as we'll For that
reason "better babies" show will be
a leading feature of this years fair
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