The Benson signal., 1916-08-19

Rich ore is again being taken from
the Schenectady mine at Chloride.
The Ray-Hercules Company will
build a 1.OOO-ton mill at Florence.
Aug. % is the last day for filing
nominating petitions for county office.
Copper production for the Douglas
district was about 100000 pounds.
Jose Maria Leon was killed by light
ming while loading wood east of Cedar
Glade.
The Ray and Gila Valley railroad
has cut the fare to three cents per
mile.
The Arizona State Federation of
Labor held an important meeting at
Tucson.
State Superintendent Case has ap-
portioned $33,882.6O among the schools
of the state.
The pumps at the Jerome-Verde
shaft are working for the first time
in several years.
Negotiations for a merger of the
Venture Hill and Verde Apex are in
progress at Jerome.
The production for July at the Old
Dominion smelter at Globe was in ex-
cess of 100000 pounds.
The Arlington Dam, south of Buck
eye, was slightly damaged by the re-
cent rise in the Gila river.
No% Dal1 hn
sonal supervision of President Lester
M. Dull, is working three shifts.
The Ash Peak mine, located about
twelve miles northwest of Duncan is
the scene of considerable activity at
present.
At Oatman the east drift on the
35O-foot level of the Carter is in mill
ing ore that has given assays of from
Sc to $40 ton.
High grade ore has been struck in
the Oatman-Empire shaft, assays 60
ing around $500 a ton. The find was
made at depth of thirty feet.
Arrangements have been perfected
for reopening the old Silver Hill prop
critics, which traverse the ridge i'm
mediately west of Chloride.
At Prescott, Sam A. Parker was
awarded judgment of $2,34O.90 and
costs of suit against the Buckeye Cop
per and Gold Mining Company.
A passenger train running be-
tween the Grand Canon and Williams,
was derailed and ditched, killing the
fireman and injuring the brakeman.
On Sept. Is Robert Talley, under
sentence of death at Florence must
pay supreme penalty for the murder
OF Jesse Danner in Miami in 1913.
A group of claims close to the Iowa,
Arizona-White Chief and Oatman-
Leader has been organized as the
Oatman-Gold Center Mines Company.
Ling Sing, a Chinese laundryman
at Kingman, ended his life by firing
bullet into his throat, the missile
passing out through the back of his
neck.
An election precinct will be estab-
liGhed at Fort Huachuca by Pima
county for the purpose of receiving
votes of members of Company E, ac-
cording to Capt. Robert Soto.
A report from Stockton Hill states
that strike of ore has been made on
the Fraction claim of the Kingman
ZINC Company that gave return of bet
te- than $65 per ton in gold and sill
YER.
Killing a large rattlesnake with a
butcher knife and escaping uninjured
was the experience of little 5-year-old
Gertrude. Morrison, daughter of a
farmer living near Roosevelt.
For the purpose of taking over and
operating the old Gold Basis mine,
OF Groom Creek, five miles south of
Prescott, the Groom Creek Gold Min
ing and Milling Company has been or
ganized.
Two mountain lions in the Thomp-
son Valley country that had been de-
st1oying range cattle for several
weeks, were run down and killed by
i. r. Patterson and L. D. Bennett
CT Prescott. &
Lieut.. James Connell, a battalion
adjutant of the Fourth New Jersey
Infantry, and Lieut. Harry E. Wright
cf Company 1, same regiment, each
had leg broken at Douglas when an
automobile in which they were rid
ing hit a trolley car.
Cantaloupe shipments by the car
load have ceased, but smaller lots by
e2 press will continue for some time.
There being no rain to interfere, this
has been an ideal year and from the
Mesa neighborhood alone 100000
has been paid out for cantaloupes.
About as grewsome sight as
person can stand was the scene in
the east end of the S. P. freight yards
at Yuma, when Jesus Cordova, a sec
ton hand, was completely decapitated
under box car, his head rolling to
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