The Benson signal., 1916-08-26

Douglas.
"The lid" has been clamped on at
Oatman.a
A bumper crop is reported in slght
in Santa Cruz county.
Jack Ryan, who was Frustrated with
heat died in the Yuma hospital.
Chas. w. Herndon has resigned as
county attorney for Mohave county.
New Cornelia has donated the sum
of $4,000 to a Catholic church and
priest house for the new town OF
Cornelia.
T. M. Word, buyer of horses for
the entente allies, is in Phoenix cor
railing a shipment which will be sent
on it's long journey.
Five thousand bales of long staple
Egyptian cotton will be produced in
the Salt River valley this season, and
will net growers 80 cents pound.
Fifteen thousand fish for re-stock-
| ing the Sabine Canon stream are ex-
pected by Supervisor Don P. Johnson
Of Tucson, in September Or October.
AS the work of cleaning out the old
Empire goes on, unexpected workings
are disclosed, showing that the early
Clloriders were busy getting out only
high grade ores.
A large number of Chloride men ap-
peared before the board of supervisors
with a request for the building of a
new road between the county seat
and the big lead-zinc camp.
Flagstaff's new hotel is to be erect
ed on the north side of East Aspen
avenue between Agassiz and Verde
streets and is to consist of eighty-five
rooms instead of fifty rooms.
Attacked by an enraged bull in Fish
Creek Canon, near Phoenix, Fred
Green and Nick Loomis, two Oklaho-
ma cattlemen succeeded in roping the
animal and escaped without injury.
Many Prescott stockholders of the
United Verde Extension Mining Com
pany received dividend payments OF
| SO cents a share on their stock, the
disbursement aggregating several
thousand dollars.
The thirteen national banks and
fifty-one state banks of Arizona have
deposits of nearly $6O,OO0,OOO; an in
crease of nearly $15,00O,OO0 over last
year. Their total resources are near
ly $40,000,000.
The army investigation into the
death of Lieutenant James Connell of
Hoboken, New Jersey, as the result
Of collision between the street car
and an automobile at Douglas ended
with report blaming the car COM
pany.
The Douglas Chamber of Commerce
through Secretary Coll is making an
effort to obtain a part of the national
good roads fund for the improvement
and reconstruction of the post road
leading from Paradise, Cochise
county, through the Chiricahua for
est reserve and if possible to Cave
creek.
The Miami mill of the Inspiration
Company has taken it's place as the
second in the world in point of ton
mage treated. The first is that of the
Utah Copper Company, which handles
| 10000 tons a day. The Inspiration
lately worked up 16,7OO tons, dry
weight, in twenty-four hours. 1t will
b. enlarged to 10000 tons before the
end of the year.
The First Troop Cavalry, Montana
National Guard, arrived in Douglas
and is encamped with the Second
Montana Infantry near the smelter
In two drifts east and west on the
475-foot level of the Telluride mine
in the Oatman district, a material
that is solid ledge matter and is iden-
tical in every apparent respect to the
United Eastern, Tom Reed and Big
Jim veins, has been opened by three
or four shots. That it will break
into good ore in a few shots there
hardly seems possible doubt.
Right at the door of Kingman is one
of the greatest mining propositions in
the state, controlled by the Arizona.
Butte Mines Company. 1t contem-
plates the piercing of the great Stock
ton Hill network veins This great
tunnel scheme is now under way.
Miners are grading out and opening
the portal preparatory to the installa-
ton of big engine and compressor.
The tunnel is surveyed through the
Prince George vein, one of the larg-
est lodes in the county, having a
width of nearly 100 feet, and in which
great bodies of ore are known to
exist.
A noteworthy feature in connection
with the increasing mining activity in
Ysvapai and adjacent counties is the
number of old-time bonanzas that are
being operated under mineral condi-
tions which indicate they are soon
again to occupy a position in mining
affairs akin to that held by them in
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