The Benson signal., 1916-07-08

ers Association at Grand Canyon.
Nov. 1S-1S-AriZona State Fai: at Phoe
nix.
Jake Lewis of Phoenix, was arrested
for menacing his wife with an axe.
Yavapai county roads are reported
equal to the best in Arizona and Cali.
fornia.
The new plant of the Standard Oil
Company at Miami is nearing com
pietion.
VIM. M. Clark, Duncan merchant,
met instant death in an automobile
accident.
The Twenty-second United States
infantry was ordered to leave Douglas
for Bisbe9e.
Work has been started on the con-
struction of the new highway between
Miami and Globe.
The five-room bungalow of J. H. Nc
Knight, three miles north of Douglas,
was destroyed by fire
S. N. Moore, a deputy inspector, was
accidentally shot while rounding up
cattle near Tombstone.
Development work on the Riggs and
Douglas asbestos claims southwest OF
Superior will begin at an early date.
The first of the continued series
OF get-together gatherings of groups
of new members of the Y. NJ G. A.
was inaugurated at Bisbee.
Seven persons were injured, none
fatally, when four cars of Southern
Pacific train No. 1, westbound, jumped
the track near Wellton.
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.
Company G of Tempe, the machine
gun platoon and band of the FIRST
Arizona infantry, were mustered into
the federal service at Douglas, COM
pleting the regiment.
An experimental lookout station has
been established on the summit OF
Humphrey peak, the highest OF the
San Francisco mountains, by the For
est Service at Flagstaff.
l. is announced at Douglas that the
Americans and Mexicans have entered
into a reciprocal arrangement where
by load of provisions will go south
for every load of ore coming north.
Numerous appeals for troops to pro-
tect settlements and ranches along
the Arizona border were received at
Douglas by Gen. T. F. Davis, COM
manding the Arizona military district.
Shipments from the Mormon Girl
mine, twenty-seven miles north Of
Phoenix, have been suspended until
September by reason of the destruc-
ton of the sampling mill at the Hay
den smelter.
A deal is pending on the Rupert,
which if consummated, will result in
bringing to the Patagonia country
more first-class mining men, finan-
cially able to carry on mining devel.
opment on big scale.
Capt. Lewis y Morey of Troop X,
Tenth cavalry, who was killed in the
battle of Carrizal, was we'll known to
| many army officers stationed at Doug
las. He was exceedingly popular both
in military and civil circles.
A wild ride over the mountain from
Oatman in high-powered auto in the
custody of Bill Grizzelle, ranger
deputy sheriff, probably saved the life
| been sent to the Oatman Jail for safe
keeping on charge of despoiling the
| little C-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Mcmahon of Goldroad.
Arrangements are being made for
| pumping the tailings water from the
| precipitating plant at Lowell, back O.
| the Holbrook and Gear shafts, piping
| It down into the mines again and irri-
| eating some of the old wOrked-out
| Slopes.
Suit to obtain possession of all the
| property of the Southern Arizona
Smelling Company, bankrupt, the
principal part of which is the 100000
| smelter at Sasco, now under lease to
the American Smelling and Refining
| Company, was filed in the United
| States District Court at Tucson.
An examination of the quicksilver
| deposits of the Mazatzal Range has
been made by F. l.. Ransome of the
United States Geolog. cal Survey, and
| his report has been published as Bull
.etin C20 F. These quicksilver de-
| posits occur in a strip of country
bout six miles long that extends
lortheastward across the Mazatzal
Range in the vicinity of Pine Butte,
eleven miles south of North Peak.
| All the claims are in the Sunflower
mining district, in which CHINA bar
Vas discovered in October, 1911, by
| 3. H. Bowman of Phoenix while pros
.}ecting for gold
| 1t may be said that because of the
Ultra fashionable location sandwiche1 i
IS it is between the United Verde and