The Benson signal., 1916-08-05

shacks.
A soldier was overcome by the heat
at Douglas.
Cheaper power for the Oatman dis
trict is promised.
The contract for the new keystone
mill at Chloride has been let.
A number of parties have been con-
victed of "bootlegging" at Tucson.
The Santa Fe railway is oiling it's
right of way through Mohave county.
The exhibits at the Yuma county
fair will be taken to the state fair
at Phoenix.
1t is reported that Mrs. Chas. Bell
of Douglas was bound and robbed Of
$50 by an unknown man.
The Tom Reed Gold Mines Com
pany hereafter will supply water to
its former patrons III Oatman.
An order prohibiting swearing on
the street of Ray has been issued by
Justice of the Peace E. w. French.
Ore, panning free gold, has been
struck at the bottom of the shaft of
the Oatman Combination Mining
Company.
John C. Taylor of Douglas was
electrocuted when he came in con-
tact with a live wire that had been
blown down during a storm.
The tunnel of the Metallic Acct
dent at Chloride is in a distance of
$50 feet. Over forty feet of good ore
has been cut in development.
Surface work on the Dundee-Ari-
zona property at Jerome has been
completed and the entire force of
men is now employed in actual min
ing.
The Goldroad mine and mill at Oat.
man are shut down, the Snowfall Min.
ers' Union, No. 124, having called a
strike there. From 70 to US men are
affected
Fired upon by skulker in a patch
of underbrush south of Winkelman.
Deputy Sheriff Hamilton shot and
wounded an unknown man who made
his escape.
Max Findley was killed and Lyle
Cooke was badly injured at the
Thumb Butte property at Union Pass
by the explosion of charge of dyna
mite that had hung fire. -
Inhabitants of Pine celebrated Pho
neers' Day, commemorating the set
tlement of the Utah valley by the
Mormons. Races, roping, frontier and
cowboy sports were features.
Violation of the eight-hour law is
the charge that has been placed
against the names of two of the prom
inent mine operators of the Oatman
district and two contractors.
Luther Yeager, age %, was instant
ly killed at Miami by being caught
between the locomotive of an under
ground railway, and bulkhead at the
entrance of shaft in the Inspiration
mine.
The Leopard Spot shaft at Oatman
is having what may prove to be an
exceptional run of luck. 1t dropped
onto stringer, at first barely an inch
wide, which panned gold at the rate
of SIS to $100 ton.
The Dixie national forest in Mohave
county is practically wiped out by an
executive order, received at the Unit,
ed States land office. opening twen-
ty-two townships of reserved land to
entry and settlement.
One days building permits at Tue
son totaled $10,595.
At the George Washington at Min
eral Park a new hoist and compressor
will be. installed at once. On this
property there are two tunnels driven
on the vein The upper, or No. /,
$50 feet long, has opened up the vein
to depth of 260 feet, and several
carloads of good ore have been
shipped.
The Lady Ann group at Chloride,
which is supposed to cover an extern
sion of the George Washington main
ledge and which is also owned by the
Moyle brothers, is being developed
by a tunnel, now in 80 feet. The
workings now show % per cent cop
per ore, similar to that shipped from
the Washington.
The New Jersey brigade camp at
Douglas is a mass of wreckage, the
result of a hurricane which tore
through the company streets, ripping
tents from their moorings, lifting
frame hospital and company buildings
bodily and throwing them across the
state highway into the big bitches be-
tween the camp and the railroad
tracks.
Two more Western celebrations, be-
side Frontier Days, will be given in
Arizona this year. The first, a cow
boy reunion, will be present at Camp
Verde, Sept. 4, 5, and :, 6, in connec
tion with a big Labor Day picnic.
Another will be held at the state fair
at Phoenix Nov 13 to 1S