The Benson signal., 1917-01-13

Tombstone had q coal shortage.
The state Legislature convened on
the Sth.
Arizona banks show large increase
in deposits.
Deputy sheriffs in Ray have orders
to arrest everybody they find carrying
bottle of liquor.
Machinery will be in operation at
the Cobrita mine at Salome by the
middle of the month.
The sale of state lands is attracting
many prospective buyers and land
spectators to Arizona.
1t is estimated that there are from
fifty to sixty thousand head of dairy
stock in the Salt River valley.
For the first time in several years
the Cochise county hospital is filled
with patients and refusing to receive
any others.
The new Arizona game law is much
more restrictive than the old statute
and is designed to restock the hills
as of yore.
For $1,000,000, the Holly Sugar Com
pany has bought the sugar factory Of
the /, Southwestern Sugar and Land
| Company at Glendale.
Churn drills operating on the prop
erty of the Parker syndicate have
struck high grade sulphide copper ore
| at q doDfh 0f 1SO foot
William e. Maroney, county attor-
ney, passed away at his home in King
man, death being due to pneumonia
and pulmonary troubles.
Arizonas Oldest mining location
has been found 1t is in the posses
sion of Postmaster Metcalf of King
man, and is dated May 8, 1868.
The Supreme Court in decision
rules that the operation of the pari-
mutuel betting machine does not con-
stitute an offense under the Arizona
statutes.
Five feet or ore running better than
so per cent lead and zinc has been
struck in the drift of the Arizona
Butte mine in the Cerbat range north
of Kingman
1t is proposed to utilize the great
power afforded by Mooney Falls, of
Cataract creek, for the working Of
nearby mines of the Arizona Lead and
Zinc Company.
Cochise county, and in mineral way
the Warren district, is to a great ex-
| tent Cochise county, contributed up
wards of $65,000,000 in wealth to the
| mineral kingdom in 1916.
J. r. Treat has put force of men
| to work clearing off 400 acres of his
ence, 800 of which will be planted to
| long staple cotton in the spring.
Automobile owners will have to run
on their old number plates for possi-
bly, month of the ney wear, because
of the non-arrival of the new plates,
according to the secretary of state.
All varieties of cotton can be grown
under irrigation in the southern val
| leys of the state, but, on account of
the long season and higher prices the
long staple varieties are at an advan-
tage. e.
In spite of the fact that there
are hundreds of square miles of un-
| developed coal lands in the state of
Arizona, the people in Tombstone,
Douglas and Bisbee suffered for want
of the fuel
| Governor-elect Campbell took the
oath of office on the 30th ult. and
went to the governors office, but
Governor Hunt declined to surrender
the office on the 1st. And it was re-
ported that both had prepared mes
sages to the Legislature.
According to word from betting
commissioner in Phoenix no bets of
any kind will be paid on the Hunt
Campbell race until the question has
been threshed out through the courts
and one or the other is legally de-
clared governor of the state.
That number of big mines will be
| LSNCiOpSu III IAS OupCA lOA-4SdJ SAl AoC-
mas mineral belt, and that this dis
trict, already one of the important
ones. of the state, will become one Of
the greatest in the Southwest is the
conviction of William F. Gordon, min
ing engineer.
The elimination of big series of
holdups, burglaries and highway rob-
berries occurred in Phoenix when Deputy
Sheriff Jim Murphy shot and probably
fatally wounded Pete Salinas at the
corner of Seventh and East Madison
streets. The shooting was preceded
by a spectacular pistol duel between
the officer and Salinas.
Besides voting the regular quarter
ly dividend, payable Feb. 1, the direc-
tors of the United Verde Extension, at
a meeting in New York, appropriated
$2,50O,OOO for the construction of a
smelter on the ranch near Cotton