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Arizona republican., 1917-05-06

sisting of thirteen claims or approXl- patelV 260 acres. located in the Lone Star mining district of Graham county, eight miles north of s5:.tford on the Arl- ZOna Eastern railroad. was acquired by the Atlas Copper company The miner alized area is an intrusive mass of granite porphyry which can be proper lv classcd aS monEOnite. This intrusion is ihrouch the diorite, or country rock. The present development has proven disseminated copper and the records from the drill holes give a tonnage of 960, COG tons of ore of an average value Of 3.sl per cent copper per ton. In ad- dition to this tonnage of developed mill ing ore. there is very large tonnage of surface ores, consisting of carbonates and oxides. The present development shows 2,500 feet of drilling, main shaft 325 feet deep and aoout 75O feet Of drifting. The mine is well equipped with adequate machinery for develop m nt, consisting of Aoist, compressor, pumps, etc, anu a complete star drilling rig
 Speeding Up Copper Mining. For nun.bef of years past the Atlas Copper compa1y's claims have been pl oductiVe and previous to 1917 there had been shipped or milled from these claims in the neishborhood of S400,000 worth of copper ore. 4 portion of the { ore had been treated by crude concen- tration on the ground. During 1916 shipments of ore were regularly made and returns from nine cars shipped fro nlJune first of that year, gave net shelter returns Of 2.067.46, after rail- load freight ctC.. nad been paid. These cars averaged 45 tons of ore oach with d copper metal content of | F per cWt., while on some ot the care 50 cents for gold and silver was also paid. Most of these shipments consisted of carbon ate ore from the surface The total amount of the net returns for the bal ance Of 1916 were approximate S50,- 900, the shipments being made to the sTaolters- at Douglas and Fl Paso
 At the present time, large force of men are at work continuing the under ground development and further opera tions by churn drilling. Regular ship rlants of two cars week Of the copper ore is now being made, which will he increased to a car daily within Q snort time. II is the intention of the Atlas ! Copper company to construct q con- centrating plant of not less than 300 tons daily capacity the plans now being underway.
 Tine Atlas Copper company is incor- proated under the laws of the state of Arizona, with a capitalization Of ] $l,00o 900; divided into 100000 shares of the par value of SI per share, fully 1 paid and non-assessabel The Arizona officials of the Atlas Copper company | are among the best known business ana mining men in the copper state and while some of the stock is being handled OF the New York curb these men have invested their owii money to-
 wards making the Atlas one Of the bus
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club house of some magnitude.
 The farmers around about Gilbert are of very thrifty class which is shown by the beautiful fields of alfalfa and the various crops they are produc ing there, also the fine herds of cattle which are being pastured and fed by the thousand in this section. l saw some of the finest herds of dairy stock near Hilbert that I ever saw. l also understand from good authority. that Gilbert has shipped more alfalfa hay each of the last three years than any other part of the entire valley, even though there have always been thou sands of cattle, both beef and dairy stock. kept in this part Of the country. The ddlrymen are visited every day by trucks from different creameries and their produce picked up and hauled to the creameries or condensine plant, and the farmers are ,ioW receiving far greater prices for their dairy products as well as of other ia: m products than they have ever been able to liZe be- fore.
 Now referring to a report furnished by the reclamation service in which it is coEservatiVely estimated there are 11@.272 acres of land in the Salt River valley in alfalfa. Conservatively figur- ing that this acreage of alfalfa will yield seven tons per acre throughout the year, it will give the Salt River valley total production of 792 904 tons of alfalfa, and that the price realized for this feed, whether baled ond sold, or whether fed to stock, will be S15 per ton and will give the Salt River valley an income of S11. .S94, ,560 of which Gilbert's proportional part according to acreage will be one-siXth or more, the value of which in round numbers is s2,000, eco. According to this report of the recla : nation service, under the Salt River valley project there is in cotton at pres
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sential, and probably more important than anything else are the nitrates These have not ye, been found ln quantity in this country, and they are an essential component of explosives A hostile fleet cutting off the South American commerce would leave our government in sore straits.
 Where can you help in this campaign for the search Of bismuth arsenic an timony and nitrates? Hundreds ol chemists all over the country are work ing on domestic rocks and minerals for the production of nitrogen compounds. and their discovery or the proper meth cd of attraction of ehese compounds would make immediately available the nitrates that the government desires so much, provided that tney knew where these deposits were.
 Every type of rock and every mineral in this state should be classified as to what it might produce even though there is no metallprgical process at the present time capable of making that reduction. The goyAnment and state bureaus stand ready lcto make all pos sibie Gexterninations for the miners and rrospectors of the state.
 Let your ability ct perform service along mineral. meta;iurSical and min ing lines be known to the United States : Bureau of Mines, the U. S. Geological ! Survey, the State Bureau of Mines ol the mining department of the State Council for Defense, for who can tel when the little that you may know may be essential to the program of the na- i tioral government.
 The San Juan Mine
 Recently, the San Juan Mine. coa-
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producers of Arizona. Following are
 the officers: President. F. ". Craig,
 Phoenix, Arizona: vice. president, John
 Bari3er Phoenix, Arizona: second vice
 president Andrew J. McIIlhnney 34
 Nassau street New York; treasurer. F.
 W. Clayton, Stafford, Arizona; secre-
 tary, T. J. Sparkes, Phoenix, Arizona;
 assistant secretary. Morrison Hanains, 34 Nassau street. New York; dire ctor. Gus H. Hi,schfeid, Hayden, Arizona. The consummaticn o1 the deal for thn taking over of the San Juan mine by the Atlas Copper company is due large ly to the efforts cf Lewis A. Dunham. a well known mining authority and to Tom Sparkes, who has been actively interested in this property for years. Tn commenting upon the Atlas Copper, MT Dunhan4 said: T believe the Atlas opper is the best partialiy developed ,opper mine in Arizona. IT. addition to he tonnage already indicated, the pro3- ects of finding q further considerable [ tonnage of ore of the same average value arc excellent"
 American Institute Of r.inirg Engineers The members Of the institute living the lower Mississippi valley extend earty and cordial invitation to their .ell0T members to meet with them next October, in St. Louis.
 1hcy heli eve that it will he meet ng of singular interest inasmuch as the iis,rici in question can show in active production almost all of the more useful metals and non metals.
 i Perhaps to few know that the south 1 aast Missouri district about so mics south Of St. Louis, and to which q spe- l 1iai tip is plaaned. is ,he largest lead district III the world. IL was that be- tore the European war: and nov that , the production Of lead has greatly de- creased abroad, and has correspond l ingly increased in the United States, , this is one Of she most interesting Of 1 all lead districts.
 ] In 1913 tne production of the world was 1.Z7t00C tons the last world fig ures ohtainable. In that same year the production Of the United States was ! 4I2,ee9 tons, and of the southeastern ! Missouri 133,0 600 tons. Tn 1916 the worlds production having fallen off, the production of the Gnited States "as l over COG eco tons, and that of south eastern Missouri lS4,000 tons (32 per cent)
 ! In view of the great necessity for lead at present. and so far as we can fore
 tel for tiie future, the possibilities not i only in this known district but in con- tiSuUuS areas are Tot only Interesting i put decidedly important.
 ! The ore occurs not in veins. but dis
 senlinated through a great bed of mag i nvsian limestone. more than 400 feet
 thick in places, and when mined only
 carried an average of about5 - cent 1 lead. Ii has taken nearly 4 Senclation i to ,sci feet the concentration plants and
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other parts on account of the superior ity of soil and other advan q .ea |. ,- will be had by the reclamation of he additional lands to the east and south which is now in progress, which prog ress will increase far beyond the eX- pectation of anyone eXceDt orc who has seen and is familia~ with toe growth and development Of some O. 5be more fertile sections of southern Cali fornia
 "On my first visit to Gilbert I be- came interested because of the possi- bilities I saw at this place. On my second visit l studied more closely the conditions there and the opportunities stood out more apparent the more l studied that part of the country. On my third visit I took with me a pho tographer to procure some views oI this section, two cuts of which l have submitted to this paper. While there this time 1 called at the school house and was met very cOurteoUsly by ' of. Fulton, county school superintendent who has lived in Maricopa county for many years. MT Patton explained to me that only five or six years ago peo- pie had gone out in this section to hunt jack rabbits and coyotes, ana o,s4 young man met while in conversation with Mr. Fulton, stated that five years ago this spring he, with a party Of young folks from Mesa had built bon fires out of sage brush on the site where the school house now stands.
 The schoolhOuse is concrete struc- tuTe and as l am tolc, cost the district about $30 900. IL is building that the trustees and the architect who designed it may well be proud of now and for many years to come. MT Fulton stat
 s.l hot Ios in. hn nrt school an enrolment of over 20G pupils in the grammar school grades, that they are employing six teachers, and i that during the coming term thy will , nploy nine. They ;-.'e teaching all of the branches that are taught in the gI 4ded schools of Phoenix, including ! domestic science and manual training I found the domestic science and man. , ual training rooms equipped very well ] indeed. l also understand that the ! school district has been segregated
 from the Mesa high school district and l that they have already purchased five acres adjoining the grammar school grounds on which they will erect q high school building during the sum mer, and will take up the regular high school work in the fall
 ] '"Fhe Arizona 6 Eastern railroad company is erecting a depot at Gilbert and it is near enough to completion to ! say it would be a credit to have one l like it in Phoenix. They are also erect i ing a very tasty bungalow for their operator and agent at this point. There
 is now at Gilbert a postOffice, small store or two and a branch creamery, a ] Christian church, and I understand the
 Methodist people of that community
 are planning the erection of nice
 building in the near future. I also un- derstand there is an organization
 among the women Or this place known
 as the Womans club. They have pur-
 chased property and are planning the
 immediate erection of q building or
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ent 24S13 acres, and that there is on other lands adjoining the project 15,23S acres in cotton, giving a total acreage in cotton of approximately 0000 Now
 estimating th2t the total acreage of
 cotton in the valley will Eield 4 of a
 bale per acre, this valley Nill produce
 30000 bales of cotton With 500 lbs
 per bale We have at total Of l5.000 0G0
 pounds of lint cotton. and figuring this
 at 30 cents per pound we lave a total income for the Salt River valley e
 S7500, COG, saying nothing about the
 seed and the enormous products there
 of and while the acreage of cotton in
 the Gilbert section is smaller in pro-
 portion than in some other sections. we
 can safely figure it will produce one
 tenth of the above estimate or 5000
 bales at value of $750 0O0
 'To pick. this cotton in the entire
 valley il IS estimated on good author
 ity that il wlil require the labor of
 about 1z.0C0 Tcople and in addition to
 the help already available in the val
 ley The wages paid for picking this
 fall will not miss total of $2. .000,0 GOO
 very far Of which amount the pickers
 in the vicinity Of Gilbert will receive
 their propoJ tionai part which will be
 largely expended in that town.
 1 The grain crops in the vicinity of tIllpett may De estimated to he worth 1 $115,000, making a total production of alfalfa, cotton and grain in the .mme- diate vicinity of this young town in the 1 approximate value of $2925,o0 which 1 does not include the revenue produced from the many other products Of this | section. and it does not include returns received from live stock over and above ! the cost of the feed. While these fig ures as before stated. do not cover eV- erythinS, they give some idea of the magnitude Of the production of this particular part of the valley, and some | idea of it's wealth and the amount of support that would be received by good | live business men along the following | lines lil particular: q ban, goOd up- to-dale grocery, dry goods store, 6 | hardware and farm implement house. a | drug store, baker,. q meat market. A | first class ho,el and restaurant Q lum- l her and fuel yard. a garage and ma 1 chine shop, q blacksmith shop and a much needed newspaper. l understand arrangements are already being rIldc | for the erection Of a cotton gin. 4 eontracto ris also needed. who could ! huild both business and residence ! buildings for rent CT for sale on pay ments. The above mentioned lines of l business should and will thrive in this 1 place, and i venture tu say .ilat .,ny i business man who will thoroughly in vesti2ate the Oppoftu:-:.ics and c0nGi- tions at this place will heartily agree ] with me-
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r. c. NeWberry, formerly connected with A. F. Forester & Son of Los An geles and d recent arrival in Fhoenix after studying the conditions of the valley states as follows:
 q have spent several years in the west and have had the opportunity to become very familiar with most of the southwest states <nd particularly southern California. had been through Arizona several times but was never in the Salt River valley until about five weeks ago. And to say the least, was surprised, yes astonished to find that the young state of Arizona con tains the most wonderful and resource ful valley I have ever seen or even dreamed could exist anywhere. One cannot draw a mental picture to equal the pictures he can gather in the Salt River valley, and since coming here I have collected several pictures ranging from the Goodyear plantation at Avon dale to the Goodyear plantation at Chandler, and will say that the general public should feel very grateful to the parties responsible for the Goodyear company locating in this valley y-Thos ". MCDevitt and the manager and d- rectors of the Southwest Cotton com pany, and also to Dr. A. J. Chandler, who has done a wonderful work on the southside and particularly at the town which bears his name>
 But the greatest surprise came to me when l visited Gilbert. It is a fact that there are about 1000 acres of the very finest, cleanest and most fertile land under the Roosevelt project lVir'r directly tributary to this place and that there are still 10000 acres more lym,, east and south which are being re- Tl1 hN+ tain success, and still this country is waiting, and it's people are longing for the development of town built up of such business institutions as will serve the demands of the present population and the rapid increase of populatiC which is certain to come with the establishment of such businesses and more intensive cultivation of the fal m lands surrOundign in the course o1 development of this valley in the pas years 1t seems that there has been lit- tle attention paid to the building of d town at Gilhert which would afford the surrounding country the accommoda tions to which it is entitled. Located as Gilbert is, seven miles southeast Oi Mesa, on the Arizona Eastern railroad which is certain to be the main line railroad running through this valley and with the most fertile land of Ari- zona surrounding this place. I car readily see that the country has de veloped now to the point where ii should support town which will ranf well with Mesa, and with the pOssi- bil'ty of increasing much more rapidly than the towns of the valley have in creased in the past. Owing to the in creased value of crops produced in ths Salt River valley and the increased value of land. farming lands in all part! of the country will be sub divided int, smaller tracts. On studying the area surrounding Gilbert l can see where the population of this section Of tn, country will increase more arpidiy thaI
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Rotterdam Women
Storm Food Barges
Seize Potatoes Intended for
England and Cause Erie
ton with Germany

London. June pa dispatch TO "The
Times" from Amsterdam reports that
women stormed dozen barges in the
inner harbor Of Rotterdam on Saturday
and seized about d ton of potatoes
destined for England. The barges,
which were loaded with 1900 tons OF
potatoes, were then removed TO the
outer harbor, guarded By police.
The riot is mere incident Of fric-
ton which has started, according to
the correspondent, among Holland,
England and Germany.
Germany expected last week a con-
Segment of new potatoes in return for
German exports of coal to Holland.
Before a consignment could be made
1900 tons Of old potatoes had 10 be
shipped to England under contract. The
people of Rotterdam, who are them
selves insufhciently supplied, learning
that these potatoes were awaiting ship
ment, raided the barges.
Meanwhile the Germans are threat
ening to cease coal supplies unless the
potatoes are sent.
The correspondent says that IL the
Dutch yield to German pressure and
send potatoes 20 Germany. they will
break their agreement with England
and endanger their supply Of grain
from America, which might prove as
serious as the loss of German coal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Wants Congress to Send
War Mission Abroad

Washington. June 25.--A Congress
ional Commission 10 visit all the battle
fronts and TO look into conditions in
the Entente countries. was provided
in a resolution introduced in the House
to-day by Representative Charles B.
Smith Of Buffalo. TIE resolution pro-
vides for a committee of fifteen mem
bers OF the House 70 be appointed by
the Speaker, and fifteen Senator'S 10
be appointed By the Vice President.
The Foreign Affairs Committee will
consider the resolution tomorrow
The preamble states that, inasmuch
as the United States IS cooperating
with the Entente powers in this war,
the people OF the United States are en-
titled 20 know what the conditions are,
not only on the battle front. but inside
the countries we are aiding.
II is also pointed out that as the
people of this country arc 10 taxed TO
make loans 10 the Allies, the repre-
sentatives Of those people should dis
cover at first hand how that money
is being spent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Newport Resorts
Closed, Following
DanieIs's Complaint
Naval Sentries and Police
Cooperate in Watching
Prescribed Houses

Newport, June 25.--The lid went on
tight in Newport tonight following
the complaint Of Josephus Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy, that the morals
of the thousands Of young sailors
there were endangered by conditions
in the city. Orders from Mayor Clark
Burdick closed seven alleged illegal
resorts. The places were named in
the Secretary's letter to Governor
Beeckman protesting against conditions
here.
Chief of Police James K. Crowley
gave them orders to close. and closed
they are tonight. Furthermore, out
side each place is sentry from the
Naval Reserve force 20 see that no
navy man enters, vile the police have
been told 10 be on the watch TO see
that the order is not violated and that
nobody takes a chance"
Mayor Burdick said tonight that he
had seen Secretary Daniels's letter for
the first time to-day. and further that
the Secretary had been wrongly in
formed in some respects. The Mayor
maintains that the conditions here have
been nothing but normal.
Governor Beeckman has been in con-
ference with the Newport officials, and
the Mayor has also talked the situation
over with naval authorities. In con-
sequence, Newport is closed town.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
Mrs. Aston Sails
To Aid American
Wounded Abroad

Mrs. Vincent Aston has sailed from
an Atlantic port TO do her bit in allie
WAITING the sufferiags Of the American
wounded officers and men now fighting
on the Western front.
Dressed in simple travelling suit,
with a small dark turban hat. Mrs.
Aston was one Of the last seen on deck
as the vessel slipped her moorings and
headed out to sea.
Before her departure she said that
her reason for going was that she
could be of more service TO American
soldiers in France than in New York.
II hope TO offer my services wherever
they are most needed" she said, "and
may open home for convalescent
American wounded | think | will be
gone about six months"
Mrs. Aston was then asked If she in
tended meeting her husband-who is
serving aboard his yacht, the Mona
abroad She replied that she didn't
know her husbands whereabouts, but
hoped that she might be able to join
him on the other side.
On the same vessel with Mrs. Aston
was Miss Ethel Hartman, second
daughter of the late Z. II. Hartman.
Miss Hartman declined TO tell her
plans, except to say that she hoped 20
engage in some form of relief work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-26
$14,OOO,OOO More Needed
For City's Red Cross Fluid

Such ticket investments proved hignly
popular with thousands Of other per
sons.
Mr.. Prosser received word o. cable
from Paris that an American who had
recently arrived there had agreed 10
provide the American Red Cross in
France with q fine office building on
the Place de la Concorde without eX-
pense for year. The name OF the
donor was not given.
Mr.. Prosser announced that both
Cleveland NJ. Dodge and George +.
Baker had removed the conditions
which they originally attached to their
gifts of $l,000O00 each. i. was also
announced that the Columbia Trust
Company had made a contribution OF
$4,000 some days ago, but had failed
through some inadvertence 20 receive
credit on the list Of large contributors,
though the amount was included IN the
total for the day.
Among the features OF yesterday
campaign was the landing of Miss
Katherine Stinson on Governors Island
at 1915 p. m. in her Red Cross flight
from Buffalo 70 Washington and the
silent and stationary parade Of 1000
women in Red Cross uniforms along
Fifth Avenue. from Twenty-ninth to
Fiftieth Streets. The women stood at
intervals of ten feet. They did not ap-
proach passersby, and although IL was
announced that they were not solicit
ing funds, contributions ranging from
ore TO twenty dollars were forced upon
-hem