The Benson signal., 1917-03-03
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Hayden's new Y. M. C. A. building
is nearing completion.
The Baptists in Buckeye are arrang-
ing to build new church.
Prescott citizens want the business
streets paved with cement.
Elk in northern Arizona are report
ed as being a nuisance to farmers.
Development work is to be started
on the Carmelita mines at Salome.
The famous Little Jessie gold mine
near Prescott is to renew operations.
Preparations are being made for
shipping high-grade ore from Greater
vile.
Smallpox has been reported at
Douglas and Benson, and meningitis
in Bisbee.
Two arrests were made at Globe on
warrant alleging irregularities in
the road department.
The House committee of the whole
has reported the general appropriation
bill carrying $6,532,000.
Approximately three hundred mining
properties are at this time being op-
Grated in. Yavapai county.
The Mandan claims at Ajo have
been sold to group Of miners who
will develop them at once.
Material has been taken from Par
ker for camp buildings for the Planet
and Copper Zone mining properties.
The Flagstaff lodge of Elks is ar
ranging to handle the celebration.
again this year on July 3rd and 4th.
1t is reported that good-sized vein
showing excellent values was .uncov'
cred on the Chloride X-Ray property.
Eighty-one applications for stock
homesteads were filed in the United
States land office at Phoenix aggre-
eating 36,152 acres.
At public sale of school lands in
Paradise valley, one section brought
$13,050, and most of the land sold at
from $40 to $50 an acre. T..
Construction of 200 hollow-tile
dwelling houses will be under way on
the hogback, just east of the Jerome
city boundary, within sixty days.
Work on cotton lands near Chan
dler was tied up by a strike---the men
asking an increase from $3.50 to $500
for nine instead Of ten-hour day.
Ralph Nelson, formely official at
the Nogales postoffice, was indicted
by a federal grand jury in Tucson on
charge of embezzlement of United
States funds.
The mysterious disappearance of
Steven Hughes, who has been missing
from his ranch one mile and a half
south of Tempe since last December,
is being Investigated. ~
A bill has been introduced by SEN
ator Winsor to enable the state to
loan money for the Improvement of
land. that is not improved but is val
ued at more than $40 an acre: -.
Practically all the machinery to be
used by the Calumet and Arizona
Company in the development of the
Gadsden group is now on the ground
and is being rapidly installed. $
Twenty per cent copper. ore has
been struck at depth of between
500 and 600 feet on the property of
the Jerome Wenden Copper Company,
south of Wenden in the Harcuvars.
| Mrs. Marsh of Santa Cruz county
has introduced a lengthy bill that
abolishes the State Board of Control
and substitutes a Board of Public
Welfare, constituted of the governor,
the state examiner and third per-
son, who shall not hold any office in
the State and who shall be secretary
and purchasing agent.
The final payment on the Home
stead mine at Walker has been made.
The production of the mine is report
ed satisfactory.
The annual meeting of the Arizona
Masonic grand lodge at Phoenix
0I0CGGU Charles CuICIS WOOll, 1 0mp0,
grand master; Edwin Alvin Hughes,
Tombstone, deputy grand master;
James Henry Barrett, Douglas, grand
senior warden; Henry Gordon Gore,
Nogales, grand junior warden; Rick
ner, Nickels Fredericks, Prescott,
grand treasurer; George James Ros-
kruge, Tucson, grand secretary; Amos
Arthur Belts, Phoenix, grand lecturer.
AS result of the recent decision
of the Supreme Court, which declared
the old county classification law in
valid, bill has been introduced in
the State Senate to divide the state
into five classes, based on valuation
for purposes of taxation. The new
classes will be: First class. Cochise;
second class, .Gila,- Maricopa and
Yavapai; third class, Greenlee, Pima
and Pinal: fourth class, Coconino, Mo-