The Benson signal., 1917-10-13

Fair at Prescott.
Noy; 12-17-Arizona State Fair at
Phoenix.
Tucson is to have public market
Mesa is to have a modern telephone
service.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
are expected at Phoenix soon.
Plans for the addition to the state
capitol have been started.
The State Fair will be bigger and
better this year than ever before.
An underground winery was discov
cred under the house of Mike Lem.
ich, at Clarkdale.
The high price of silver is causing
many old producers in the Prescott
district to be revived.
Arizona is raising $4,000 as it's quo
ia to purchase books and reading mat
ter for the soldiers.
New development work is being
planned for number of properties
in the Oatman district.
w. o. Ruggles of Kingman has been
named deputy grand exalted ruler of
B. P. o. E. for Arizona.
The third Arizona contingent of
drafted men entrained Oct 3rd, for
Camp Funston was composed of 1889
men.
Fire consumed the hoist and com.
presser houses of the Mammoth De-
velopment Company mine at Nam
moth.
Advices from Phoenix state that the
price of wheat in Arizona will be
$2.1O, less the most advantageous
freight rate.
E. B. Bennett, inventor of the bar
side scraper dry gold placer machine,
arrived in Tucson to begin operations
in the Guijas placer field.
Fire totally destroyed 40 bales of
long staple cotton and the warehouse
in which they were stored and threat
ened the cotton gin at Mesa.
The National War Society, COM
ber OF her immediate family in the
war, is to be organized in Arizona.
The heaviest calendar in the history
of the State Supreme Court was
called by Chief Justice Franklin, en-
bracing seventeen criminal and As CIV
il cases.
A remarkable body of high grade
copper ore is being opened into by the
Big Ledge Copper Company at the
Butternut mine two miles northwest
of Mayer.
More than sixteen cases of prison
ers charged with selling liquor to SOL
diers or operating houses of ill fame
near camps were filed in the Federal
Court at Tucson.
George H. Smalley of Tucson, Sec
retary of the Arizona Council of De-
fense, has been appointed executive
secretary to Timothy A. Riordan, food
administrator for the state.
No section of the state is attract
ing more substantial interest from
those looking for silver values at this
time than is the outlying Bradshaw
Mountain mineral area near Wicken-
burg.
Bisbee copper producers have an
nounced that they will pay the 25-cent
metal wage scale to all employees, not
withstanding the fact that producers
will receive but 23h cents in New
York.
Plans for the biggest and best Fair
in Northern Arizona are now under.
way. BY the opening day, Thursday,
Oct. 18th, they will be crystallized in
to the Fifth Annual Northern Arizona
Fair at Prescott.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for Carnegie library at Yuma.
Recognizing the tremendous impor'
tance of making the second Liberty
loan a success, Governor Campbell is
sued a proclamation calling upon all
loyal Arizonans to put their shoulders
to the wheel
Governor T. E. Campbell in let
ter to Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker, recommends the establishment
of a convalescent hospital for wound
ed or invalid soldiers returning from
France at Whipple Barracks, near
Prescott.
That the Mile Wide Copper Com
pany's property, tributary to Tucson,
is destined to become one of Arizona's
principal producing mines within a
very short time, is the consensus OF
opinion among mining men who have
investigated this property.
An appeal from the decision OF
Judge Frank Baxter of the Yuma
county Superior Court, in which
James T. Hodges was given a judg-
ment of $5,24836 for the back salar-
les of eight county employees under
the county classification law, has
been taken by Yuma county to the
Supreme Court.