The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

| Bishop Hunt, "a, died at his home
| in Snowflake. He located there in
1878.
A chapter of the American Red
Cross Society was organized in King
man.
Capt. J. Bernard Nelson of the First
Arizona Infantry, has been named
state health officer.
Twenty-Five recruits from Chloride
left for Naco, where they will join
the First Arizona Infantry.
The Carlisle mine near Duncan has
again been unwatered and the lower
level of the mine is being cleaned
out.
According to unofficial returns, 49,
900 registered in Arizona, while the
estimate for the state" was only 34,-
814.
Phoenix has sent fifty-eight men
to Fort Huachuca to receive training
for the United States army since the
first of May
But for the labor trouble at Jerome,
Arizona's copper output in May would
have exceeded the highest production
of any previous month.
Men employed in the logging camp
at Flagstaff went on strike when their
demands for wage increase of fifty
cents day were refused.
Three hundred Russian colonists
near Glendale, nine miles east Of
Phoenix declined to register on the
ground of religious scruples.
Bisbee and the entire Warden dis
trict turned out en- masse June 5th' to
celebrate one of the greatest days
in the history of the nation.
The Longfellow Extension Copper
Company at Clifton is proceeding
steadily with it's development work
and is meeting with gratifying re-.
suits.
Within the next few days eighty
new laws, placed on the statute books
by the Third State Legislature and ap
proved by Governor Campbell, will
become effective.
1t is illegal to bar brands on cattle
being transferred from one person to
the other. 1t is the law that in sucn
transactions the cattle shall be vented
or counter branded.
What promises to be one of the
most important discoveries ever made
in the Parker district was recently
cfo%o 0f
lie Mack Mining Company.
Kingman and Chloride turned out
in mass to give the twenty home boys
who were leaving for Phoenix and
later are to go to Naco to join the
First Arizona royal send off.
Inspiration Copper Company's sub
scription of $1,0OO,0OO to the Liberty
Loan so far tops the list of mining
company subscriptions from Arizona
These total more than $3.000,000 so
far announced
Plans for new county Jail, to re-
place the insanitary, insecure and
overcrowded prison in the courthouse,
are foreshadowed in a resolution in
troduced before the board, of super
visors at Tucson.
Arizona copper companies have sub
scribed for three million dollars worth
of Liberty Loan bonds.
After five hours deliberation, jury
in the Superior Court at Tucson
brought in a verdict finding William
Wilson, Ajo miner, guilty of man.
slaughter in shooting and killing his
partner, Albert Lee Conley, beside
lonely prospect hole at the Toyo mine
in the hills twenty miles southeast
of Ajo on March 9th.
The largest number of sheep graze0
on any single National Forest is 315,
740, finding pasturage on the Hum
boldt in Nevada, while the largest
number of cattle, 1888 head, is found
on the Tonto in Arizona The value
of the average annual meat product
of these two National Forests is es-
timated at $2,OOO,O00
United Verde Extension Mining
Company, the copper sensation Of
1916, and which produced over 36,000,-
900 pounds of copper in the first II
months of it's active operation will
again establish a new record in 1917.
The output has climbed to approxi'
mately 100000 pounds a month, or
at the rate of 60000,O00 pounds per
annum.
Verdict of guilty was brought in
by a jury in the Federal Court at
Tucson against Barolo Micquerray,
Mariana Jacquez, and Col. Miguel
Santa Cruz, charged with conspiring
to smuggle ammunition across the
border to Villa chieftains in Sonora
in violation of the neutrality act.
Things are humming these days at
the Black Giant camp on the eastern
side of Cunningham Pass in the Har-
cuvar range and the visitor who goes
to the property today would never
identify it with the inaccessible pros
pect of a few weeks ago.