The Benson signal., 1916-04-08

April 12-I5-State Rifle Matches at
| Tucson.
May 6-Republican state Convention at
| Tucson.
| May 15-Dedication Glass, Scottish
Rite Masons, at Tucson.
| Oct. 3-6-Meeting New Mexico Bank
ers' Association at Grand Canyon.
| Nov. 13-1S-AriZona State Fair at Phoe
nix.
May is the date and Tucson the
place for the Republican state con.
vention
A shipment of 4,464,8OO pounds of
copper in forty-six cars left Globe for
Perth Amboy, N. j., metal refineries.
A number of ring-necked pheasants
have been received by State Game
Warden Willard for liberation in
Arizona.
The United States Senate has
passed the bill appropriating $4,000
TOR the establishment of fish hatcn-
cry in Arizona.
Cattlemen in the Wallapai valley
are losing heavily because of great
crevasse which is gradually opening
near Red Lake.
Many visitors from Oatman have
recently obtained from the Wilhelm
property in Secret Pass specimens
showing an abundance OF free gold.
In the Federal Court at Tucson the
attorney general filed disclaimer OF
any intention to prosecute anyone for
importing wine for sacramental pur-
poses.
The second meeting of the so-called
Initiation committee" appointed at
the first meeting of those interested
in the repeal or modification OF the
prohibition law, was held in Phoenix.
Lying. weltering in his life blood on.
the floor next to the bed on which re-
posed the body of his wife, whom he
had murdered, w. j. Hooking, a Cogn-
ish miner was found dead at his home
in Miami.
The Kingman Zinc Mining Company
is sending to the Bartlesville, Okla,
smelter, of the American Metals com
pany a thirty-ton carload shipment
of concentrates, valued at $1,500,
every week.
The Oatman North Star has
equipped it's property with big plant
of machinery and the shaft, which
was put down to the seventy-foot
point by hand, is to be sunk to the
500-foot level.
That smelters in Ell Paso and Doug
las are advising mining companies OF
Arizona to cut down the size and fire.
quency of ore shipments, on account
of a CONGESTION of business, was tho
statement made by Tucson mining
men,
Feelings which might be variously
described as expressing supreme con-
fidence, elation or even mild hysteria
have prevailed in the Warren district
during the past week because of the
exalted position of the market for red
metal.
Instructions to recruit the twelve
national guard companies of Arizona
to war strength were transmitted to
the company commanders by Adju-
tant General Charles w. Harris, who
acted on orders from the War De-
partment.
That the pari mutuel racetrack bet
ting machine is not gambling device
within the meaning of the Arizona
anti-gambling statute, was the opin
ion expressed by Attorney General
Wiley Jones before the Supreme
Court when the case of S. w. Nc
Call came up on appeal from the Su
perior Court of Maricopa county.
Eight men and one woman were
arrested at Globe on charge of sell.
ing liquor.
With the price of tungsten con-
stantly rising on the American mar
ket and every pound of the ore mined
in northern Mexico and Arizona be.
ing strongly competed for by bid
ders, no other material, not even cop
per, is quite as attractive to pros
pectors at the present time.
Elaborate preparations are under
way for the program and entertain
ment features of the Dedication
Class Of the Scottish Rite Masops of
Arizona, which will be held in Tue
son May Is, on the occasion of the
dedication of the Scottish Rite Ca
thedral. 1t is expected that from 400
to 500 prominent Masons from all
parts of the state will be present.
The taxable land values of the state
of Arizona will be increased by more
than a million dollars by patents
which will be taken out in the federal
land department of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway system,
covering lands in this state which
were originally granted by Congress
as subsidy to encourage the build
ing of the transcontinental railway.
The annual report of the Calumet
and Arizona Mining Company, carries
to the holders of it's shares and to
tho DooDln Of tho XNarrnn district con-