Arizona republican., 1917-09-30
Prisoners On Roads

held, and the lecture hail of the new mining building will be in constant use.
 Prisoners On Roads
 BISBEE, Ariz. Sept. Ex-Governor Gardner of Missouri, corisequent upon
 wide publicity received upon the re-
 cent proposal that all Arizona prison
 CTS be removed from the jails and put
 upon cross state highway improvement
 has written here for further informa-
 tion concerning the plan.
 Governor Gardner states that he has
 decided to put all prisoners in Missouri
 on road work and endorses the Arizona
 idea. He has decided upon improve
 ment of the Old Trails transcontinental
 automobile highway division from Kansas City to St. Louis and until this stretch of road across the state is hard surfaced, all prisoners will be employed upon it. Later the prisoners will be turned upon laterals from the | main highway to the more important centers of population and industry Governor Gardner proposes as an in- centive. to prisoners to@make good on 1 the work that one day will be dropped l from each sentence for every three weeks of work in conformity with camp | rules.
 1 Boards of supervisors and county
 engineers in Arizona are responding
 to newspaper attention which has been | given to the proposal that the prisons | be emptied and the remainder of sent ences be served in placing a highway | across the northern part of the state 1 and another across the southern end 1 in such condition that they can ef- | ficiently handle automobile trucks l with whatever manner of supplies war time emergencies might dictate from state line to state line.
 1 In counties where the experiment of | using prison labor on road work has l been tried without the success that has been attained in Cochise, where it has l been found that all costs attending the | employment failed to bring it up to i the cost of free labor, there is now l being considered the fact that free la Dor is too much needed in the mines
 agricultural sections and lumber dis l tricts to permit of its being made use l of on road work, at least so long as any other labor is available It is also 1 being considered that regardless oi cost in some counties above the cost of free labor, as developed in the past
 any labor gained from prisoners is en- LII cly pIOlll iOT lIe IdN payers, WnC | otherwise get nothing back for the food
 shelter and attendance which they provide prisoners so long as they are | serving jail sentences.
 Mile Wide New an important Shipper That the Mile Wide Copper com pany's property, tributary to Tucson is destined to become one of Arizona $ : principal producing mines within a very short time, Is apparent on the face of conditions as they exist and | the consensus of opinion among min- ', ing men who have investigated this property.
 | Up to the present time the company has their main shaft down 353 feet with drifts and cross cuts at every hundred feet level.
 '; This development work has been most successful and has shown the property to be a real mine that vii rank among the leading producers o the west
 One Of the veins is 22 feet wide and the other 2S feet. showing up in { separate crosscut in q different direc- tion and on a different level, some what lower
 One of the veins also has been en- , countered on the 300 foot level and a: both ore bodies were traced from tn. surface, a tremendous amount of or' has been developed.
 The development work is going ful } speed ahead at the rate of about 50 feet a month. this rate having beeI 7 kept up regularly since March frs of this year.
 ?, Shipments of ore are going ou 3 Iregularly now; Mr Reiniger hay , ing disposed of eight carloads dunn 2 the past ten days. A contract wa f signed with the Sasco Shelter earl P in September to handle their ore am n the first carload left the propert
 on September 10.
 The shipping just now is not a p extensive as 1t will be later. for tn reason that the roads, require re |, pairing and rebuilding before tn e company's trucks can make fast an T regular trips. Twenty men are em ;, ployed at this work and it is mat , ter of a short time only until the :, will be in readiness for any haul . ing the company wishes to do. '. This road work will run int II quite sum of money and will b Il a big boost for all portions of Pim s county. other mining companies an
 ranches in that district. as well q e Tucson. When this work is com
 pleted Mir. Reiniger states that |
 will begin shipping two carloads
 ore daily.
 y MT. Reiniger has just placed a e order with the Schweitzer MachiI It company of Tucson for 60 horse : power Western Hoist which he wi f install at the mine. increasing h f equipment sufficiently to take ol e enough ore to make the shipmen le at least two cars a day. In additic