The Benson signal., 1916-12-09
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Roy Hamblin was killed in the Pay
roll mine at Chloride.
Two Mexican laborers were killed
~ passenger train near Flagstaff.
The Arizona mining exhibit at the
Mining Congress convention made a
big hit
Jitneys will no longer be permitted
to occupy stands on the Main street
in Lowell.
Vice President and Mrs. Thomas R.
Marshall will pass the Christmas holi-
days in Arizona.
Retimbering of the old tunnel on the
property of the Roosevelt Lake Cop
per Company is to begin at once.
The creation of a state fire marshal
office for Arizona is being advocated
by insurance and business men in
Phoenix
License to transact a banking busi-
ness in Arizona has been issued to the
Copper Belt Merchants and Bankers.
q Miami corporation.
Ranchers, dry farmers and hunters
in Cochise county this winter promise
to put in profitable winter in hunt
ing and killing coyotes.
Mortie Graham, proprietor of pool
hall at Globe, was exonerated for the
killing of Felipe Lopez, Mexican who
attempted to hold him up.
Tucson assay offices are flooded
with samples which continue to pour
in from all sections of the state, and
advices from Phoenix and other points
indicate a similar situation through
out the state.
Believing that he has discovered a
large body of brick clay superior to
any found in the southwest, A. w.
Roberts, a Globe contractor, has be-
gun the construction Of brick manu-
featuring plant.
A three and half foot vein running
per cent copper and carrying good
values in silver, has been struck on
the sixty foot leyel of the Flossie Min
ing Company property, northwest Of
the famous Republic mine at John
son.
Jerome Consolidated Copper Com
pany is the name of corporation
formed for the purpose of developing
S. T. Bentley's group of ten claims
near First View, on the U. V. & P.
railroad, two miles northwest of
Jerome.
A winter series of baseball games
has been arranged by new league
composed OF three Mohave county
teams and n team from Needles, CAL
The season opened on Thanksgiving
day with a game between Oatman and
Needles.
The Glory Hole Bonanza comes to
the front again with another new
strike, or rather the discovery of an
other rich ore shoot in the main big
quartz ledge, about 400 feet west from
the present workings above the Glory
Hole pit at Salome.
Mechanician brennan of Amarillo,
Tex, driving with R. B. Armstrong in
100-mile auto race on the state fair
grounds track at Phoenix, was almost
instantly killed when the big racer
plunged through the fence while at
tempting to pass another car at one
end Of the oval. brennan was pinned
beneath the car and terribly mangled.
Armstrong was thrown clear of the
wreckage and escaped with minor in
juries.
The oil lands formerly owned by the
Yavapai Oil Company north of Del
Rio have been relocated and develop
ment work is to be resumed.
Because their demands for sliding
scale of wages based on the price of
copper, the same as paid in Douglas,
were not granted, fOrty-four .electri-
clans employed by the New Cornelia
Copper Company at Ajo walked out.
In addition to the electricians seventy
of the $50 carpenters employed by the
company quit and they were joined
by approximately 500 Mexican miners,
making practically so per cent of the
entire 1850 workmen employed at the
mine out on strike.
John Bowman, homesteader, elves
exactly 100 miles from anywhere" ac-
cording to accurate measurements of
the distances from four important
Arizona cities. Bowman, who recent
ly filed on a homestead near Young,
selected 16O acres of land that lie just
exactly 100 miles from Phoenix, 100
miles from Globe, 100 miles from Flag
staff and 100 miles from Winslow.
The homestead is in the northern part
of Gila county and almost exactly in
the center of the state.
The State Land Commission has
filed four lists of land selections en-
bracing total of 12,720, in the Unit
cd States land office. One Of
them consisting of $500 acres, was for
the benefit of normal schools, one of