The Benson signal., 1916-11-11

The registration at the Tempe Nor
NAL has reached 420
The Black Jack mine at Chloride is
now shipping ore regularly.
Robert Wright Halpin, schoolboy,
was drowned in the river at Tempe.
Two jockeys and two soldiers We're
injured at the Southern Arizona fair at
Tucson.
ALI records in cotton were broken
when Fred c. Weeks of Tucson sold
six bales for $1,000.
Geo. w. Hall, Yavapai county pio-
neer, died at Prescott, after an illness
of only thirty minutes.
The Wilcox new state telephone sys-
tenn has been taken over by the
Mountain States Company.
Plans are under way to redeem TO-,
900 acres of desert land in the Higley
and East Chandler section.
Hunters in various sections CT Ari-
zona have been successful in bagging
wild turkeys and killing deer.
The Maynard mining district in the
Wallapai mountains is coming to the
front rapidly as G copper producer. I
The whole town OF Duncan was
shaken when at large quantity of am
munition and dynamite caps exploded
In Navajo and Apache counties
number of diseased horses are to ba
destroyed to prevent spread of the
malady.
George Sayres of Ajo, a pioneer
mining man, sold the Apex group OF
twelve mining claims situated just
west of Ajo.
Articles of incorpora ton for the
Verde Chief Extension Mining Com
pany were filed with the corporation
commission.
A Mexican by name of Manuel Nu-
neg was taken to the pest house at
Bisbee suffering from an attack OF
typhus fever.
Some of the richest specimens of
ruby silver ore seen in Kingman in
many years were brought in from the
American Flag property.
Francisco Casonora, a Mexican, tried
on a charge of killing Wallapai In
dian, was acquitted by jury in the
Superior Court at Kingman.
Word was received at Jerome that
the Venture Hill people had come into
sulphide ore in their tunnel twenty
J. w. Boyd was seriously injured
when he fell with his aeroplane sixty
feet to the ground at the aviation meet
held at Midland City, near Miami.
The third car of concentrates froIc
the Arizona Butte mill was loaded for
shipment to the smelter. They have a
value of approximately 1925 per ton.
Active work has begun at the old
Cowboy mine, eight miles north of
Christmas on the Christmas-Globe
road, and is to be continued for an in
definite period.
In spite of the fact that the tungsten
market is very low at present, the
owners of tungsten properties should
mot be discouraged, says a report from
the Arizona State Bureau Of Mines.
Death came to Attorney |. d. Sham
hart at Phoenix in the midst of an adj
dress at the city hall plaza on the sub
ject of municipal ownership of which
he had been strong proponent
Inspiration Consolidated Copper de-
clared its usual quarterly dividend OF
s. per share, and Miami Copper has
declared its regular quarterly dividend
OF $3.50 per share, payable Nov. 15.
The Arkansas and Arizona mine has
started development work at Jerome.
The exposure of the main vein OF
the Oatman Crescent is daily expected
by Manager Peirce. The formation
being penetrated by the tunnel is
thought to be the casing Of the vein.
Miss Bessie Crone, matron at the
Copper Queen hospital for the last
four years, was the guest of honor at
q picnic given for her at the ranch
home of Miss Duffy, near Don Luis, by
the nurses OF the. Copper Queen hos
pital, the occasion being the departure
of Miss Crone from Bisbee.
Cotton Of the long staple Egyptian
variety this year yields as high as
bale and half to the acre. One far
mer near Yuma estimates his eighty
acres will reach that average. Salt
River valley has 7,400 acres in cotton
this year and the yield is very salts
factory.
Commercial ore was encountered at
the grass roots when II. V. Smell, gen
eral manager OF the Miami Consoli
dated Mines Company started work
on a double compartment shaft. The
ore has been revealed in commercial
quantities and shipments will begin at
an early date.
The Mexican population of Arizona,
which has been added to at least SO