The Benson signal., 1916-06-17


NOV. IL 3-lS-AriZOna state Fair at PhOe
nix.
Chloride will celebrate July 3, 4
and 5.
A carload Of poles for Tombstone's
new telephone system has been re-
ceived.
Splendid values are being obtained
in the Big jim mine in the Oatman
district.
Big reductions in freight rates on
flour and wheat have been ordered,
effective July l.
Fire destroyed the Edwards house
and the Central block in Bisbee, caus
ing a loss estimated at $500.
But three companies of the First
Arizona infantry remain to be mus
tered into the national service.
A depth of $50 feet has been reached
in the Oatman combination shaft
which will be continued to 500.
1t is reported at Tucson that a
movement has been started to abol-
ish the office of state game warden.
Geo. F. Weiland is still getting out
ore and sacking it from his property
at Jefferson Camp, Harshaw district.
Arizona will send a large exhibit of
dry farm products to Ell Paso for the
National Dry Farms Products exposi-
tion
Arrangements are being made to re-
open the old Mowry mine, one of the
most famous mines in the Patagonia
| district.
The state of Arizona has provided
an annual scholarship of $3.50 in the
University of Arizona, to be assigned
to each county of the state.
The Senate passed the House bills
to appropriate 100000 for a public
building for Prescott, and $4,000 for
a site for building at Bisbee.
The Oatman Leader Gold Mines
| Company is getting values of better
than two ounces in gold from quartz
| in the bottom of it's main shaft, now
IS feet deep.
Arizona delegates to the Progress
| sive convention at Chicago selected
| w. 0. Tutt1e as national committee
man, and D. B. Heard as a member
of the resolutions committee.
The bill of Senator Asurst of Ari-
zona, appropriating $4,000 for the
construction of bridge on Interna-
in
ported favorably to the Senate.
A big plant is soon to be received
| and work is to be enlarged immedi-
| ately after it's installation by the Lex.
ington-Arizona Mining Company, bor-
dering the town of Old Trails.
A Cochise county boy, Guy l.. Plye.
is with the expeditionary force of U.
S. Marines now headed for Santo Do
mingo ON board the U. S. S. Salem.
| for the protection of American inter.
ests.
George Powell made almost a clean
sweep as far as Oatman and Gold
| Roads are concerned in his race
| against Charles H. Meyer, for presi-
| dent of the Western Federation of
| Miners
Under the direction of Superintend-
| ent Earls, the work of examination
| of the Leadville mines by the COM
pany now handling the property un-
| der the bond, is being pushed in a
very energetic manner.
Obsessed with the belief that
| another had disrupted his home in an
attempt to gain possession of some
mining property, j. H. Jackson shot
and killed Judge Charles F. Witcher,
| a prominent attorney at Globe.
Work has been resumed at the
TETON mine near Gleeson.
According to Attorney General
| Wiley E. Jones, members of the Ari-
zona national guard now stationed in
| Columbus, will have the right to vote
at the election this fall even though
they are still in camp in Douglas
With the kiss Of the woman he
/ loved warm upon his lips, Fred NJ.
| Calvert, of Pittsburg, Pa, swallowed
the contents of a bottle of strychnine
at hotel in Tucson and was found
by the chambermaid still in death.
Something extraordinary is re-
| ported to have been encountered on
the 1,400-foot level of the Tom Reed
| mine at Oatman Street rumors are
that the values are startling, but the
management of the mine denies this
phase of the report
Yavapai county's silver mining in
dustry-Quiescent and more or less
moribund since the repeal of the sill
yer purchasing act in the early 90s
has been quickened by the recent
advance in the price of that metal
and is now assuming proportions akin
to those of the days of bimetallism
and "16 to l."
Three cent passenger fare on the
lines of the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific, and rates of three and one
$h0