The Benson signal., 1916-07-01

erS Association at Grand Canyon.
Nov. 13-18-Arizona State Fair at Phoe
nix.
The cooks, walters and mattresses
of Chloride have formed local
union.
Donations of tobacco and luxuries
are being made to the National Guard
of Arizona.
The rapid growth Of Chloride is
daily adding to the trials and labors
Of the local postoffice.
The Temperance Federation of Ari-
zona has drafted an amendment to
"cure" the defects of the dry law.
]. ]. Zahry, a merchant of Miami,
was dangerously and possibly fatally
hurt when his car capsized between
Miami and Globe.
Charles Effinger, said to be a resi-
dent of Phoenix, was fatally injured
while riding under Santa Fe train at
Barnwell, near Yuma.
For $50O,000 Tom Pollock and Colin
Campbell of Flagstaff, have pur-
chased the sheep and cattle interests
OF J. H. Fuller of Winslow.
Arrangements have been completed
for the meeting in Arizona from the
18th to the 25th of September of the
American Institute OF Mining Engi-
neers.
About four miles north of the town
of Oatman a tOwnsite has been select
ed that is to be known as North
Oatman. The camp is reached by the
main wagon road from Kingman and
from Oatman.
Investors and prospectors are pour
ing into the Hercuvar and HarQua
Hala mountains, adjacent to Salome
and Wenden. The boom which this
fairly under way.
The most important ore body yet
tapped in the Pioneer mine was de-
veloped on the 4OO-foot level, almost
500 feet south of the temporary work
ing shaft. The average value of the
new find is $14 ton.
Fire originating from an electric
motor destroyed the sampling mill,
ore bins and a portion of the aerial
tramway of the Consolidated Arizona
Smelling Company at Tombstone.
The loss is approximately $4,000.
Miners at the Gilt Edge mine near
Kingman, have announced their will
ingness to take stock of the company
at the market price in lieu OF pay.
lieve the Gid Edge is sure to make q
mine.
The case of the United States VS..
Mrs. Nellie Wiseman, who is charged
with conspiracy to bring a girl to ths
United States for immoral purposes,
came to a sudden and abrupt stop in
Tucson when the defendant tainted in
court
Four Mexicans were killed and
three wounded when Nina RiOjO, a
small village near Baviacora, on the
Sonora river, was captured by band
of Yauui Indians under command of
the Mexican renegade, Huero, accord
ing to Americans arriving at Doug
las.
Two foreigners, one an American,
were killed in fight between three
refugees attempting TO reach the
United States border and thirteen
Mexican soldiers at Cienega Fria,
eight miles east of Arizpe, Sonora,
according to an official telegram re-
ceived at Aqua Prieta by General
Gales from the presidente municipal
at Arizpe.
Buckeye is to have a new depot
building in place of the one recently
burned.
Resumption of operations at the Po-
cahontas Copper Queen Mining Com
pany near Mayer, has been decided
on by officers of the company, and an
extensive development program adopt
ed. Shipment of ore will be made to
the mill of the Gray Eagle Reduction
Company less than three miles from
the Pocahontas holdings.
The Nuevo Mundo Mining Company
has recently been organized to oper-
ate in the Ellsworth mining district
near Wenden, in the Harqua Halas
mountains. The company's property
consists of twelve claims, each claim
showing up mineralized zones which
run from 20 to 80 per cent copper,
$4,000 in gold and $3.50 in silver.
Jim Parks, an old prospector, was
killed and Norton Hand, an American
mining man, was taken into custody
and was in danger of being executed
by the Mexican authorities, as the re-
suit of a fight with number of Mexi-
cans, twelve miles west of Cumpas,
according to information brought to
Douglas by American refugees from
Nacozari.
One of the biggest ranch deals
closed in southern Arizona was con-
summated at Tucson when Ben Nc