The Benson signal., 1916-03-11


has been organized at Casa Grande.
The Maricopa Woman's Club is one
of the active organizations of the
state.
: Frank Smithline was killed by
train in the railroad yards at
Phoenix.
A State Board of Trade was organ
lied at Tucson, with a slogan "For
All Arizona"
A rush of miners to the tungsten
camp on Yule Creek, near Prescott,
Is reported.
A force of eighty convicts is to be
put to work shortly on the state road
west of Arlington. :
1t is believed that wood alcohol
caused the death of Allison Bird, 46,
colored, at Douglas.
Tucson has named delegates to at
tend the Elk's convention and reunion
at Bisbee, April 6-S.
Approximately 10000 acres of the
Salt River Valley will be planted III
long staple Egyptian cotton.
The first carload of olives to be
shipped from the Salt River Valley
left Phoenix for Kansas City.
The ore body of the United Eastern
mine at Oatman measures 80 feet, be-
tween walls on the new G65-foot level.
The corner stone Of the new Meth
odist church building at ,Winslow has
been laid. with appropriate ceremon-
les.
That an irrigation company is a
Public Service Corporation has been
decided by the Corporation Commis-
sion.
A resume of the mining situation in
Tombstone and other districts in Co
chise county shows activity never be.
fore witnessed.
Arizona Progressives will hold
convention in Phoenix to select dele
gates to the national convention at
Chicago next June.
A rich zinc strike was recently
made at the Zinc King mine at Bull
lard's Peak, 10 miles from Redrock,
by George w. Spencer.
Records made public by the Live
Stock Sanitary Board show that
nearly half a million cattle were
landed in Arizona last year.
Steps taken by the State Land De-
partment assure that the land hold
ings of the University of Arizona are
to be increased by S,S69S6 acres.
Employees of the copper companies
receiving the highest wages ever
paid labor in the mines of Arizona.
Suffering excruciating pains from
a bite believed to be that of Gila
monster, J. T. Finn, miner OF Sa-
lone, is in Phoenix for medical care.
Laboring Under great mental ex-
through the head and fell dead at
the door of his wife's room in King
man.
The Winkelman-Ch Christmas section
of the new system of Gila county
highways will be the first road con
structed under the $350,000 bond
issue.
The Copper Queen and the Stod-
dard Mining Companies are arranging
to erect a flotation mill of $50 tons
capacity, according to Prescott re-
ports
The Old Dominion smelter at
Globe has been turning out copper at
the rate of about forty tons per day.
The Corporation Commission is
sued permits for sale of stock to the
Tom Reed, Jr., Gold Mining Company,
the Tango Gold Mining Company ana
the United Oatman Gold Mines Com
pany, all Of Oatman.
State Game Warden G. NJ. Willard
has been requested by Senator Mark
Smith to recommend a suitable site
! for the government fish hatchery that
it is proposed to establish in Arizona,
at an approximate cost of $4,000
Sidney Henry Green, who operated
TT Phoenix under the name of SID
Henry, and recently plead guilty to
fraudulent real estate transactions,
has been sentenced to serve from
two to five years in the state prison
at Florence.
Application for an injunction to re-
strain the Arizona Eastern and South
ern Pacific Companies from refusing
to comply with an order of the cor
poration commission has been filed
in the Superior Court Of Maricopa
county by Attorney General Wiley
Jones.
The Esperanza Exploration Com
pany is financing it's mining property
and will soon be at work on a big
scale. 1t is the owner of the Eper-
ANA, close to the Lazy Boy, cOnsid-
cred one of the big things Of the camp
of Oatman, and will soon have the