The Benson signal., 1917-05-26
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


June S-9.-Annual meeting Ocean-to-
ocean Highway Association at Globe.
July 4-6-ElkS' Annual State Reunion
at Prescott.
Roosevelt is to have new hotel.
Flagstaff will celebrate July 4th.
Clifton is to have "war" garden.
Yuma will vote on municipal owner
ship soon.
Arizona U. of A. at Tucson is to be
training camp.
Oatman has organized a council for
safety and defense.
A farm loan association has been
organized at Tucson.
A large acreage will be planted to
beans in Cochise county.
Mohave county is to conduct it's
business on a cash basis.
Miamis new Y. nj. c. A. building
has been formally opened.
Arizona will have seventy-four men
ut the Preside at San Francisco.
Little doubt now exists that the
Verde Squaw at Jerome is big mine.
No reason has been found why How
ard Jordan killed himself at Flagstaff.
Over $50 Pima Indian children will
help harvest the bean crop in the
Sacaton district.
A little over a hundred men have
registered in Patagonia on the mill
tary census now being taken.
Martin Mulroe, 80, miner at Bis
bee, was smothered to death by a run
of loose ore in the Shattuck mine.
The Yucca forest between Yucca
and McCracken is just now breaking
down with it's burden of bananas"
Over seventy young men of Phoenix
have signed up, thereby expressing
their willingness to serve the country
as officers.
Guilty" was the plea of Jose Con-
xales, a Mexican youth of Jerome,
who ran away from that place with
Ramona Ortig, 13 years old.
L. Anderson, confessed murderer Of
Stephen Hughes, Tempe rancher, was
sentenced to serve a life term in the
state prison at Florence.
Report comes from Mineral park
that the George Washington mine has
entered one of the best bodies of ore
ever encountered in the mine.
Nogales authorities are searching
for Pancho Islas, young Mexican.
charged with running over and killing
fOur-year-old Georgia Gongales.
c.. E. De Beaulieu, an aged prospec-
tor and veteran of the Civil war, was
found murdered on his ranch near
San Carlos, twenty-five miles from.
Globe.
A record breaking production of 81
006,843 pounds of copper in March by
the Ray Consolidated Copper Com
pany shows new possibilities for earn
ing this year.
The first shipments of concentrates
from the. Stene mill, in the Centennial
Wash section, west of McCracken,
has been made, on big truck hauling
in about six tons of high grade lead
silver product
Well digging has proven more prof
table for Chris Hoffman of the Chic
ride district than mining. While dig
ging a we'll near the old Silver Hill
property he cut into silver vein two
feet thick. The ore is said to show
high values
Crushed almost beyond recognition
beneath $4,000 pounds of rock and
iron, Jose Maria Fernandez of Tucson
met death while working on the AjO
road project when he fell beneath a
loaded auto-trailer used to distribute
rock along the road.
The number from Arizona under the
selective draft will be $4,000 men.
One of the newest corporations in
the Wickenburg camp is the Ameri-
can Molybdenum Company, which
has been organized to operate the
property formerly known as the
Genung Springs Molybdenum mine.
The capitalization is 100000.
The May 1 forecast for wheat in
Arizona is 100000 bushels, compared
with a production last year of 1,16O,-
600. The condition of meadows and
pasture is below the ten-year average,
but spring plowing and planting is
farther advanced than last year.
Plans have been announced for q
novel scheme to aid in harvesting
crops in the Salt River valley with the
aid of boys of the high school. 1t is
proposed to enlist 200 pupils in eight
| companies Each company will have
camp outfit, including kitchen on
wheels, just as the soldiers do. Each
| company, enlisted for ninety days,
will go into camp in some farming
| center from which bands of four or
five boys under squad corporals will
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