The Benson signal., 1916-10-07
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

western newspaper union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Oct. S-6-Meeting New Mexico Bank
ers Association at Grand Canyon.
Oct. 16-1S-Scottish Rite Reunion at
Oct. 19-21-Northern Arizona Fair at
Prescott.
Oct -2s-southern Arizona Fair at
Nov. 1S-1S-Arizona state Fair at Phoe
nix.
Nov. 1S will be automobile day at
the Phoenix Fair.
Plans for Flagstafss new 100000
hotel are being prepared.
At Tombstone, 1900 acres of state
land were sold for approximately $685.
900.
The Twenty-second Infantry has
been moved from Camp Greenaway to
Douglas.
Arizona's State Law and Legislative
Reference Library contains over 1885,
300 volumes.
An interesting feature of the Coun-
ty Fair at Sonoita will be the Better
Babies exhibit.
The Tucson Civic League has been
admitted to the Arizona Federation of
Women's Clubs.
The epidemic of black-leg which
threatened range cattle in Yavapai
county has been wiped out.
The last of the old smelter pipe on
Copper Queen hill at Bisbee has been
Russell T. Johnson, who shot and
killed Eugene Caruthers at Gila Bend,
was released from the Phoenix jail on
10000 bond.
The members of the American Min
ing Institute were royalty entertained
when they visited Bisbee and the
Warren district.
Interested parties have announced
that the Golden State mine, near
Wickenburg, will be in oGtive opera
ton within sixty days.
Mrs. A. J. Dunaway and her two
children, Madeleine and Clark Duna-
way were found in the pond at the
rower station at Burch.
The old Desert Mine, located two
miles north of Vicksburg, has been
taken over by San Francisco parties
after laying idle for years.
Large numbers of Papago and Y@
qui Indians are leaving the Tucson To-
cality for the Salt River Valley, where
they will pick cotton for the season.
Guy E. Pierson and J. G. Dugan Of
cation of number of mining claims
on a new gold strike made by the for
mer.
Plans for the construction of a
large sampling mill and flotation re-
'uction plant for the handling of Gus
tom ores at Wickenburg are well un
der way.
Report from the GolcOnda mine
states that on the tenth level there
has been exposed ore of the largest
bodies of high grade zinc ore ever re
vealed in the state.
Eight thousand bales of hay were
destroyed by fire at the ranch of E.
X. Cumming, about three miles from
Nogales. The hay was valued at SIS,
600, and only partly insured.
The fall reunion of the Arizona Con
sistory No. l., Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, in the
Valley of Tucson, Orient of Arizona
will be held Oct. 16, II and IS.
Guns and knives were used freely
in a duel which ended in Globe after
one Of the participants had been shot
twice and the other had been slashed
with knife. AS a result, Refugio LIE
mos is in the county hospital and Luis
Diaz is in the county Jail.
The seventh great hall OF the South.
west Museum, christened Arizona
hall, which contains exhibits of every
description from the desert state, ha1
teen thrown open to the public at Los
Angeles.
With the metal market in the
healtnlest condition for many months
and the stock market in equally good
shape, mines in Yavapai county are
being developed at a rate that seems
almost impossible.
Possible means of developing the
flotation process to the greater bene-
fit of the country's mining interests,
were taken up in the sessions of the
American Mining Institute of Engin.
eers, meeting at Globe.
Clark and Peterson are reported to
have made a rich strike on the Amer,
ican Boy in the Patagonia district. 1t
is said that the pay vein is from three
to four feet wide and runs high in
silver and copper values.
Egyptian cotton growers in the
Chandler district have been offered 25
cents a pound for long staple cotton
for the next three years by repre-