The Benson signal., 1917-12-29
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Fire destroyed the custom house at
Aqua Prieta.
Prospecting for oil still continues
near Benson.
A Chamber of Commerce has been
organized in Sommerton
Building permits in Douglas for No
vember amounted to $5,940.
The Yuma City Council awarded
paving contracts on four of it's streets.
The Arizona boys at Camp Funston
are well quartered in their new bar
racks
Fifteen fires in Phoenix in the
month of November resulted in to-
tai loss of $1,555.
Nearly 10000 auto licenses have
been issued by Secretary of State Os-
borne, bringing in 100000.
F. M. Hutchins sustained the injury
of broken leg while working on the
oil we'll rig in Lower Gold Gulch near
Bowie
Colonel Fred S. Breen of Flagstaff
has resigned as disbursing officer for
Arizona under the selective draft
service law
A part of the great Pan-American
ostrich farm at Cashion, west of Phoe-
nix, has been purchased by John Scar
buerer of Midland, Tex.
Not one Jeromite was indicted for
gambling by the county grand jury,
which adjourned after being in ses-
sion at Prescott a week
A streak of gouge eighteen inches
wide has been opened in the east drift
on the 7O0-foot level of the Verde
Combination at Jerome
Word comes from Mesa that the
Mormon church has large plans afoot
for the financial betterment of the
Arizona Indians of the faith.
By vote OF SO to %, w. c. Ward
was elected president of the Jerome
Miners Union over, John Rice, at the
annual election of that organization.
The proposition to form town in
corporation at Sommerton, Yuma
county, was abandoned when the ques-
ton of required population was raised.
Three hundred and twenty acres of
Yuma valley farming lands near
SOmerton has been rented for three
years at thirty dollars per acre each
year.
r. II. McCorkle and w. S. Orr of
Tucson were bound over to answer in
the United States District Court on
charge of stealing two barrels of
whisky.
Joe Hooks, formerly stationed in
Douglas with the Seventh cavalry, now
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, writes friends
that he has been promoted to first
sergeant.
Cost of raising Arizona's quota Of
soldiers for the national army until
they were turned over to the railroads
for entrainment was $26,158.04. The
number of men sent was 3,472.
The Old Dominion Company sat
all departments. The smelter pro-
duced approximately 100000 pounds
of copper for the month of November,
which is a little above it's normal pro-
duction
1t is improbable that any Pima
Egyptian cottonseed will be allowed to
leave Salt River valley this season.
Available in the valley will be only
seed enough for the planting of $4,000
acres.
Two-thirds of the stock of eggs in
cold storage in Arizona must be dis
posed of by Jan. /, according to an or
der which has been received by Tim
othy A. Riordan, United States food
administrator for Arizona.
Authorization for $4,000 worth of
improvements in the plant of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, On the northside Of
Tucson has been secured by Roy /.
Burgess, district manager.
Applications for the third officers
training camp to be organized at Fort
Bliss, or Fort Sam Houston, are being
filed now with the military depart
ment of the University of Arizona by
members of the student body.
The Salt River Valley Egyptian
Growers Association, at a meeting
held at Tempe, has changed it's name
to the Arizona Cotton Growers Asso-
citation, subject to ratification by the
various local cotton exchanges.
The Calumet & Arizona Mining
Company made fine showing in the
production of copper at the smelter
in Douglas for the month of Novem-
Der. It exceeds the October product
by $4,000 pounds, the total being g.
O5O,O0O pounds. Besides this produc-
ton of copper the company produced
1,4OO, 900 pounds of sulphuric acid