The Benson signal., 1917-03-10
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Ihe cattlemen'S meeting at GLOBE
was largely attended.
Over $1,000 has been raised to
build the New Moose home at Miami.
A bill establishing a training school
for the feeble-minded was passed by
the Senate.
A number of mining deals of more
than ordinary Importance have been
closed at Prescott.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendment to the anti-cigarette bill
and sent it to the governor.
By vote of nearly two to one, the
sewer bonds were carried at the spe-
cial election held at Flagstaff.
Governor Campbell vetoed a Sen
ate bill exempting from taxation the
Lowell observatory at Flagstaff.
The camp of the Venture Hill Com
pany, located about two miles south
Of Jerome, is a scene of much activity.
Arizona's production of copper in
1916 reached 675,OOO,oOO pounds, rep
resenting approximately a value of
$190,OO0,O0O.
The Senate practically agreed upon
compulsory military training in the
normal and high schools. The bill
carries an appropriation of $4,000 an
nually.
More prosecutions for violation of
game laws took place in Arizona last
year than ever before, according to
Mrs. Maybelle Craig, acting game
warden.
A committee of twenty-five Tucson
business men to take charge of ar
rangements for the proposed histori-
cal pageant in that city, has been an
nOunced.
All legislation in the lower House Of
the Legislature was blocked for
time when an effort to revive the gen.
vote of % to II.
Word was received that the three
train robbers, who held up the Golden
State limited at Apache last fall, were
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Federal Court at Tucson.
The Hayden bill to permit mining
on Indian reservations, measure
that will add about 20,000,000 acres
to the mineral lands of Arizona, seems
in fair way to become law.
News of an important strike on the
Andrew Jackson group reached Wick
enburg when news was received that
the miners had cut an eleven-foot vein
of mixed su1phides and carbonates.
The Senate passed the House red
light" abatement bill but later recon
sidered and sent it to the enrolling
and engrossing committee with in
structions to attach a referendum
clause.
The opening up of high grade cop
per ores, generally carrying good
gold values, at so many places in the
Harcuvar range, is attracting more
than local attention and causing the
investment of considerable outside
capital, particularly from the older
copper districts of the state, such as
Globe, Jerome and Bisbee.
In three places in the Patagonia
mountains, on the west slope near
Tres de Mayo, miners have big wul-
fenite showing, and the ores carry
both tungstic acid and gold. 1t is a
six-foot lead opened by tunnel 500
feet long. One shaft is down eighty
feet, and there is in the bottom a
sixty foot drift on sixteen inch ore
streak that assays $40 gold per ton,
with a high percentage in tungstic
acid.
Maria Flores, charged with keeping
q disorderlyg house at Tucson, must
keep on her good behavior for one
year, with the alternative of going to
Jail for ninety days or paying fine
of $100.
When Governor Campbell, who ar
rived in Globe, was informed of the
Associated Press dispatch regarding
the treachery of Germany, he de-
clared that he placed service to his
country ahead of service to his state,
and that he would postpone his guber-
Material duties at Phoenix to organ
ize for Arizona a troop of rough riders
from among the cattlemen in conven-
tion at Globe that would equal, if not
excel, the original Rough Riders.
At the annual dinner and election
of officers of the Arizona Society,
Sons of the American Revolution,
held at Phoenix, Dwight B. Heard,
Phoenix, was elected president; Clay
Leonard, vice president; Lloyd B.
Christy, Flagstaff, treasurer. Dr. Van
Der Veer, Phoenix, secretary; Judge
Parker, Phoenix. registrar; Bishop
J. w. Atwood, Phoenix, historian,
Rev. ]. R. Jenkins, Flagstaff, chap
lain, and DR.. F. E. Shine of Bisbee,
national trustee.
Arizona has a population of PIT ,210
exclusive of Indians, according to the
estimate of the State Tax Commits
cion &C Sot forth in thn third hinnna1