The Benson signal., 1916-01-01
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Jan. 1012.-Annual Convention Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association at
Prescott.
The Lower Miami Baptist church
has been dedicated.
-Four Bisbee girls faced serious
charges in a masquerade affair.
The "Gila Stampede was held in
Globe during the Christmas holidays.
The Tombstone -Bisbee boulevard is
expected to be completed by Febru-
ary.
Fire at Chandler destroyed ware
house filled with hay, causing loss
of $4,000.
No roads narrower than eighteen
feet arc to be constructed hereafter
by the state of Arizona
Secretary OF State Osborn has is
sued 1915 licenses to 1885 automo-
biles and 772 motorcycles
Forty men are employed in road
building into the tungsten camp
twelve miles east of Yucca.
A price equivalent to $12 ton in
the bale was paid for Chandler hay,
to be ground into alfalfa meal.
Range men are elated over the
early and heavy snowfall which was
general over all sections of Yavapai
county.
Citizens of Clifton to the number
of more than 100 have organized into
what is known as the Clifton Citi-
zens' League.
Plans for a new court house which
will cost approximately $4,000 have
been adopted by the Graham county
Board of Supervisors.
Shipments of zinc ore are now be-
ing made from Stockton Hill, where
| the new zinc company is operating
the Shooting Star and de la Fontaine
mines.
| Relief work on a large scale is be-
| ing carried on in the CliftOn-Morenci
Metcalf district. Supplies were issued
to S,542 people. OF these 900 are
single men.
The jury in the case of the State
vs. Coivin Cox, at Tombstone, after
| being out for over twentyfour hours,
| brought in a verdict finding the de-
fendant not guilty,
w. w. Kermeen, the Cochise coun-
| ty murderer who for year has been
in the Florence penitentiary under
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by a Pinal Superior Court jury.
Ignacio Ruelas, a resident of Tue
son since 1862, died at the age of 1O5
years. Ruelas had eight children,
twenty-four grandchildren and more
than forty great grandchildren. One
of his sons, who survives him, is more
than eighty years old.
Boldly entering a Prescott restau-
rant about midnight fourteen-year-
old schoolgirl succeeded in robbing
the proprietor and his wife, both Of
whom were asleep, and made her es-
cape to the mountains, but was later
| arrested
William C'Tip'') Henderson, one of
the old pioneers of Arizona, and we'll
Stivers, were entombed in a cave-in
at the Gibson mine near Stafford. Hen
derson was killed, but Stivers was
rescued, unhurt
One of the big mining deals of re-
cent date is the purchase by a group
| of Globe and Bisbee men of the Old
Typhoon group formerly owned by
Robert. j. Roe and John Ilson and
Senator Henry Lovin, and situated in
the heart Of Secret Pass in the Oat-
man district.
Philadelphia capitalists have taken
over the Kay copper mines at Mineral
Park in the Oatman district
| DEVELOPMENT of the old Frog
Tanks" project is contemplated by
w. H. Beardsley, of Hamilton, Ohio,
who has just filed an application in
the Phoenix land office for permis-
sion to erect a diversion dam on the
Aqua Fria river, fifty miles north of
| Phoenix
| J. r. Miller was in Kingman from
his camp, twelve miles east of Yuc-
ca, where he and others have been at
work on a new find of tungsten ores.
The big dixie in which the tungsten
is found traverses the country for a
long distance and wherever opened
shows good values in the metal.
The Arizona State Bureau of Mines
says: The best asbestos in the Unit
ed States has been mined at the
Grand canon in Arizona for some con-
siderable time but the recent numer-
Gus discoveries of this metal in the
Globe district have caused consider
able interest. The price of asbestos
is high, running from $40 per ton on
extremely impure material up to $3.50
per ton for the better grades.
That the mohair industry is becom-
ing one of the most important Of
Graham county is shown in the re-
port Of the Graham Angora goat rails