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The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
EL|G|BLES MUST
REGISTER. JUNE !

June has been set as the date for
the registration of eligibles for military
service. On this date it is absolutely
necessary that all persons who have
passed their twentyfirst birthday and
have not passed their thirty first
birthday, register with the local regis
tration officer. 1t does not matter
whether you are eligible in your mind
or not. Nor does it matter whether
you have dependents relying upon you
for support 1T is your duty to reg
lister. NJ. M. Hickey will have charge
of registration for the town of Ray and
he will have at least four assistants
1t could not be learned who the as
sistants would be but they will be in
evidence on this date of June and
any person who is within the pre-
scribed age limit and does not reg
lister is subject to one years imprison-
ment. If you are within the age limit
and are sick you should notify one of
the county officials. If you are going
to be out of town or are out of town
you should register with the county Of
ficials before that date. There is alb
solutely no excuse that will permit
any one from registering.
Recently the county assessor city
marshals and others have been engaged
in taking census for military service,
but this has absolutely nothing what
ever to do with the registration for
June 5 and any who have that i'm
preston should abandon it at once.
Men in hospitals, or who are going
away before June s. or who for any
other reason will not be able to register
on that day should register with the
county recorder at the county seat at
once Blanks for the registration of
those who are sick can be obtained
from the county recorders office.
Every man between the ages of 21
and, 80. inclusive. must be registered
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

That the article appearing in the Copper Camp last
WEEK. concerning the expenditure of the county road
money met with the approval Of the citizens of the entire
district evidenced by the many expressions of an
proval heard on the streets
The citizens of Ray and Superior have just right
to be indignant this matter for ever there was
of absolute disregard Of the wishes and desires of the
majority OF the taxpayers of the county it this one
Supervisor Schillng, who has worked hard and con
slstenty for his district powerless being the minority
member of the board Just why the other two members
the board should take it upon themselves to spend the
peoples money just where they fancy is hard to under
stand These supervisors elected by the voters of
entire county and when they took the oath Of office
they obligated themselves to their very best udg
met and discretion in the spending of the taxpayers
money In the previous bond issue which voted in
the sum OF S150O0 there perhaps excuse for
their not spending much of this on the roads in and
around Ray and Superior necessary purchase
machinery, TOOLS mules and many other things before
they would be able to do any work at ALL But with the
recent bond issue there is absolutely why
tins particular district or section of the county should
not receive at the very least Is per cent of
in the building and repairing of the roads,
AS this particular section of the county paws more
than eighty cent OF the taxes of the county the citizens
have the right to and do demand that they have fair
run for their money The roads in this section about
the worst in the state of Arizona and doubt if there
any other section in the state where the travel is as
heavy between Ray and Superior and Superior and
Phoenix. 1t asserted and from good AUTHORITY that
Marcopa county would be than glad to cooperate
in the building of good road from Phoenix to the county
line the way to Superior IF they, then will do this
why cannot Pinal county forward and build the
short stretch of road leading from Ray to the Marcopa
county line.
Then there the matter of the road to Florence the
county seat It is necessary for anyone in this section
who has business at the county capital to travel many miles
out of the way to reach their destination Can be that
the merchants of Florence do not want any business from
this section of the county? It would appear from the
action of the two members of the board of supervisors
The time has arrived when this proposition is right
to the ory members of the board and the citizens
of this section looking for favorable action The time
has arrived when this particular section Of the county
will refuse to be passed up the matter Of good roads
Good roads necessary to this section taxes
for the maintenance of the county government and the
greatest percentage of the taxes from this section
only reasonable to suppose that at the very least fifty
per of the funds aside for road work should be
spent where they collected.
Mr.. Supervisors, there is only way out for you
and that is grant the wishes of the citizens of the Ray
Superior district
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
POSTPONED GAME
SET FOR JUNE {

June 5 has been chosen as the date
for the postponed game between the
Mines and Smelter teams. The game
will be played at Hayden and as this
date-has been announced as a National
holiday it is expected there will be a
very large attendance. This is Reg
istration day for those between the
ages Of 21 and 80, inclusive.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
JUDGE BUSY WITH
PEACE DISTURBERS

Judge French had a very busy ses-
sion last Tuesday. Besides the usual
number of vagrancy minor cases on
this day there were six Mexicans
charged with disturbing the peace. It
was stated that they were enjoying an
evening of poker and that the session
lasted until late in the morning The
judge gave them the alternative Of
paying ten dollar fine or spending
ten days in Jail. They all paid their
fines.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
|N|[[ERS v|CTORS IN TEN FRAME
SUGGEST SME[T[R|TES; 7-6

HAYDEN, May 25.-The Millers
again beat the Smelterities Wednesday
afternoon, by a margin of one, the
score being to 6. 1t is generally con-
ceded that if Leverett had had the sup
port that was his due the Millers would
have been defeated. The Shelters
rally in the seventh was most remark
able, and it was hard luck, after tying
the score as dramatically as they did,
to finally lose by one run.
The game started with three runs in
favor of the Mill, worked out as fol-
lows: Stadelli walked Kane singled,
advancing Stadelli. Kane out, McMurdo
to Flick. Mclean singled, sending
Stadelli to third. Mcdonnell up, Mclean
stole second. Mcdonnell singled, scor-
ing Stadelli and Mclean. Burch up,
Mcdonnell stole third. Burch singled
scoring Mcdonnell Westerzell flew to
Butler. Burch and Westerzell out,
Butler to McMurdo.
The third frame likewise saw the
Smelter get two, thusly: Calan struck
out. Leverett singled. Harvey flew to
fence, also scoring Leverett. Flick
singled, likewise buddy. McMurdo
walked, and Gibbs flew to Mcdonnell
for the third down.
The Mill scored in the fourth frame,
when Burch singled to center, Wester-
zell advanced him by bunt, and
Davis sacrifice hit brought him home.
The seventh inning, as usual saw the
fireworks, when the Smelter drew four
runs. Harvey struck out, but Butler
knocked a two bagger. Flick flew to
Guest, but buddy got to first on Davis
tumble, which also sent buddy to third
and Butler scored. McMurdo singled,
and when Gibbs, following, knocked
one over the fence, he and buddy also
crossed the plate. Killilay singled and
stole while Callan was up, but the in
ming closed with the latter out, Davis
to Mcdonnell.
This tied the score, and when the
eighth and ninth innings closed with
out an additional run on either side.
excitement ran high. The latter part
of the eighth saw Brandt replaced by
johnson, while Slagle replaced Leverett
IN the last part of the tenth.
The tenth inning saw the game de-
cided, when Mclean, reaching second on
Flick's tumble, was advanced by Nc
Donnell, and scored by Westerzelps
single.
Burch certainly played in hard luck
in this game, for it seemed that every
foul tip went hot off the bat right for
his person. He was hit so often that
it looked as though fate had particular
spite at him on this occasion. He
stuck it out, however though limping
noticeably toward the end of the game.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
INSPIRATION NEARS
THE 10000 MARK

MIAMI, Ariz., May 25.-With the
present rate of production being
steadily maintained at over $4,000 tons
per day, it is predicted that the In
spiration Consolidated will reach the
10000 ton mark. In this connection it
is announced that a nine-foot Marcy
ball mill will be installed shortly and
tested. The present standard crushing
unit is mill feet in diameter.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
STANDING OF CLUBS
IN TRI-coPPER LEAGUE

1t is said that in addition to cannon
ball wounds, he also got spiked by Nc
Murdo
McMurdo himself had an argument
with the Umps, as a result of which
Mac got sent to cool his heels on the
bench. The argument was over the
substitution of Galena for Kane by the
Millers in the seventh, McMurdo's con-
tention being that such substitution
in the case of base runner was not
proper without the opposing teams
consent
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
MINERAL CREEK
BRIDGE FINISHED

The long awaited wagon bridge
across Mineral creek was completed
this week which adds greatly to the
camp. With the use of the bridge it
will be possible to at all times cross
to the opposite side of the creek re-
gardless of weather conditions. 1t is
of great advantage to the residents of
Boyd heights, those having business at
stages between Ray and Superior.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
SUPPOSED SPY Arrested last
WEEK HAD PLANS OF RAY CON,
HAYDENCONCENTRAT PLANT

Whether the man apprehended last
week at the plant of the Ray Con. at
Hayden was a spy in the employ of
some belligerent country or a fanatic
has not been determined. That every
indication points to the fact that he
is a spy there is no doubt. When taken
into custody it was found that he pos
sessed pencil sketch of the entire
works at Hayden. The man gave the
name of Frasier. which is supposed to
be an alias. and he was engaged in
inciting foreign employees of the COM
pany.
Frasier was turned over to the
United States Attorneys office at
Phoenix, but we were unable to learn
what disposition has been made of him.
The discovery of the mans operations
resulted in an increased force of
guards being placed at the plants of
the company both at Hayden and at
Ray. and while the management does
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
NOT TO BE DRAFTED
ALIENS. MEXICANS

PHOENIX, May 25.-Aliens, Mex
leans, will be required to register If
they are between the ages pre-
scribed, but will not be subject to
draft, according to Adjutant General
Harris. "Aliens will have to reg
ister," said Col. Harris today when
the fact that some alarm was being
expressed by the Mexieans was
called to his attention, "but they are
in the exempted list, and will not be
drafted for service"
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

for military service by 9 p. m. June S,
whether he is exempt or not No mat
ter if man is totally disabled, he must
register. The government will make
the exemptions. The penalty is not
just fine, but Imprisonment There
is no fine about it, you either register
or go to Jail.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

jury for controlling onion supply.
Hearing of railroads petitions for Is
per cent increase opens at Wash
ington.
British mission leaves for Canada.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

Totals ............38 II 26 19
Substituted for Kane in the 7th.
tReplaced Brandt in latter part of
the 8th.
tReplaced McMurdo in the 7th
sSlagle batted for Leverett in 10th.
So0ro h,ni
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

Two base hits Davis, Mclean.
Three base hit-Callan. Home runs
Butler Gibbs. First base on balls
Off Brandt, A; off Leverett, 1. Struck
out-By Brandt, s; by Johnson, g. by
Leverett, a. Double plays-Butler to
McMurdo Wild throw-Callan. First
base on errors-3 Hit by pitcher
Johnson. Time of game hrs s5 minis.
Umpire-Anderson
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

not wish to inconvenience the citizens
of the camp here or at Hayden, they
urge that for the time being strangers
or others who are not employees of the
company refrain from visiting the
plants unless they have business to
attend to. The guards are authorized
to stop anyone entering the property
of the company and to ascertain what
business visitors have there. 1t will
not only be a great help to the COM
pany but will prevent possible disaster
if the citizens cooperate with the
company and comply with their wishes.
In various parts of the state, and
especially in the industrial centers,
there have been incidents of this kind
occur and it is the intention of the Ray
Con. Company to keep a strict sur
veilance over their property and if
possible prevent Industrial unrest
among the employees resulting from the
actions of alien enemies or their agents.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26
We PAY THE TAXES.
WHO GETS THE
ROADS?

MR. SUPERVISORS, TILE CITIZENS OF THE RAY
AND SUPERIOR DISTRICT DEMAND THAT A
FAIR PROPORTION OF THE ROAD BOND
MONEY BE EXPENDED WHERE THE TAXES
ARE COLLECTED
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-26

SUMMARY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

again as it passes through the many processes which turn it into steel rails, machine guns, armor plate, and the fine, tough material used in the planes which carry our airmen through the clouds at speed which may exceed two miles per minute.
 Indeed, everything connected with the steel for the war is based upon scien- tific investigation and cost efficiency methods. The use of machinery to take the place of human muscle was never carried nearer perfection. The ore fleet does its work better and more cheaply nan any other line of vessels now oper- ating. It transports more freight and at a lower cost. Think of taking ton of iron g miles on the energy of one pound of coal, of carrying a ton of freight a mile on one-half ounce, or as little as you could pick up with your thumb and one finger That is what the Great Lakes steamers are doing. Until the war began they were carrying wheat 1000 miles for less than cents a bushel. and iron ore almost as far for 50 cents ton. The rates are now trebled, but they are still low.
 The handling of the ore at the ports from where it goes to the steel plants as an example of efficiency is even more wonderful than the loading at the mines The first ore that came down the lakes, now more than two genera tions ago, was unloaded by wheel barrows pushed by men, and each bar row took about lsOo pounds at time The ore that has come down the lakes this year would fill more than 1000, ,000, ,000 wheelbarrow, and all the men of our country could not have handled the traf- fc that way. The unloading of today is done by electricity. Man presses a button and giants in iron and steel au- tomatically unload the steamers and transfer their contents to the cars, or to the mighty concrete bins from which other machinery carries them into the furnaces of the steel plant. By such means a vessel of 12,000 tons can be un- loaded within three hours. It's cargo is large enough to fill four or five miles
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of 50-ton cars and within four hours after coming to anchor such a. train can be on it's way to the steel plant.
 These ore-unloading machines are among the wonders of the world. l have seen them working at the ports of Lake Erie and at the great steel plants near Chicago. Each unloader is mass of structural steel, which rises upon the docks to the height cf five-story house. It reaches out over the steamer and from it extends down long arm made of network of steel. four or more feet in diameter, with a mighty hand at the bottom which will grasp in it's list at one time as much iron ore as 30 horses could haul on a wagon. The great arm shoves this mighty hand down into the hold and picks up 15 tons of ore. It moves around through the hold, scrapes the ore together, and, raising it. drops it right into the cars in which it goes to the furnaces. The hand works on the principle of the clamshell dredge. It is, in fact, a mighty grab packet, which, with it's jaws open, drops down and takes in the ore. The operator stands inside the arm just above the hand and by touching the levers makes the steel hand do what he wills. am told the ma chinery works accurately that the man could crack the shell of an egg with this hand without spilling the yolk. doubt this. I had no egg with me and could not make the test I only know that the mighty hand does the work and that it takes 15 tons of ore out of the hold of the vessel and drops it into the cars within two minutes by the second hand of my watch. The machines move so fast and so efficiently that. they can take the ore out at cost of something like cents a ton, although it is said the charge to the steel company is about 16 cents a ton. They tell me the in- ventor gets one-fourth of a cent ton royalty. This seems small, but when one remembers that the ore brought down the lakes last year was more than 65,000,- 900 tons he can see that the incentien is a good mine to it's owner.
 The unloading is so fast at times that there are not cars enough to carry the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

ore away. The surplus has to be thrown, out on the docks. As I am writ ing these notes there are from 5oOO0 to 7S,Oo0 tons lying in heaps beyond the ore trains. There is enough ore in those piles to make 25000 tons of steel. Today it looks just like the dirt you blow up in your fields. It is powdered and there is no piece of 1t that would not pass through six-inch ring. As LOOK 1 can see the statue inside the block of marble, as the old sculptor or Greece is said to have done. In that mass I can see thousands of steel rails over which will be carried our fottt supplies on their way to our allies in Europe. I can see shrapnel which will be sprayed over the Germans as they hide in their trenches. I can see air plane engines which will scout for our soldiers, and perhaps drop bombs upon the enemy. I can see the mighty tanks which will roll over the Huns, and even the submarines, which will soon be fighting submarine fleets on the other side of the ocean. The story of that pile or ore is the story of the modern steel industry, an industry which has to do with almost every act of peace or war in some way or other.
 It was at Conneaut, O., where watched these Hulett unloaders at work, that I saw another example of the efficiency of handling freight upon the Great Lakes. A huge steamer was loading coal for Duluth. The steel cars, which had come direct from the mines. were showed up an inclined track by an iron hand moved by electricity. They were then lifted to the height of five story .house and dumped into a funnel, which carried the coal into the hold. Each car. with it's load of coal, was so heavy that 1t would take 100 horses to haul 1t upon country road, but these machines picked it up as though 1t were a box of dominoes and turned it into the wide hopper, from which 1t rolled down through steel pipe about twice as large around as a flour barred l stood on the deck and watched the mighty river of coal pouring into the hold. It was a Niagara of black dia-
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monds, and I was reminded of the coal- ing of ships I have seen in other parts of the world. My mind went to Singa- pore, where Chinese coolies carry bags and baskets of coal on their backs un planked roadways, which are built from the docks to the steamers, and to Na- sasski, Japan, where hundreds of the half-nude Japanese girls, sprinkled with coal dust, load the ships in baskets of q half bushel each. l could see them passing the baskets from one to an other up the ladders and emptying them spoonful by spoonful, as it were, into the hold of the ship. The work they did in hours is here done in seconds, and that at the exertion of no more human muscle than that Of pressing a lever or pushing a button.
 Here at Duluth I have watched them unloading the coal thus taken on at the ports on Lake Erie. Some of the orc vessels bring back a cargo of coal and Qne, the Col. James M. SHhoorL maker, has brought 14,470 tons in one trip. The coal is carried about as far as from New York to Chicago and the freight rate is less than 50 cents ton. Not long ago it was only Su cents a ton. Then the war demands raised it to 42 cents. I do not Enow what it is now. But think of carrying a ton of coal distance of 900 miles for 42 cents. At Washington I pay 25 cents a ton for having my coal taken distance of 100 feet from the street into my cellar, and that is merely for the unloading.
 Here the unloading is done by gi- gantic machines, made altogether of iron and steel. The machines are con- nected with travelling bridges, which run across the coal docks for a length of soc feet or more. Connected with them are enormous buckets of steel made in the shape of a clam shell. They are not un- like those of the Hulett unloaders. except that their jaws are wider and their cubic contents much greater They are oper- ated in about the same way. The jaws go down into the hold and swallow 12
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tons of coal at bite. They bring it up with them and travel over the bridges and spit it out upon the piles as the op- orator directs. All this is done with less effort on the part of the man than that exerted by you when you put shovelful of coal into your furnace before going to bed A cargo of 10,00J tons of coal has been unloaded in this way within r hours.
 The coal docks of Duluth cover acres, and the piles of coal upon them each contains thousands of tons The port takes over 12O00,00O tons of coal every year, and sometimes the docks are so full that the steamers are delayed for lack of space in which to unload. The coal is both anthracite and bituminous. It supplies the iron mines, and it is shipped from here over the rairoads to all parts of the great northwest. The amount taken up the lakes often exceeds 25,000,000 or 30,000,GG0 tons year, the greater part of which comes to the ports of Lake Superior.
 Duluth is the chief port on the fake.
 It is the heard of lake navigation ana the industrial center of this mining re- zion. It is rapidly growing and it prom ises to steadily increase in the future. One of the possible sources of growth is in the transfer of certain kinds of steel making from the lower ports to this point, and especially so far as the de- mands of the northwest are concerned. As 1t is now the steel used here is made a thousand miles away from the mines and the market. The furnaces are nearer the coal regions, and the iron is taken to the coal. They are now experimenting in bringing the coal to the ore, and the United States Steel corporation has built a great plant within few miles of Du- -luth, where the ore can be taken down almost by gravity and where the coal can be brought in ships up the lakes This plant is that. of the Minnesota Steel company situated on the St. Louis river, which has two miles of water front, where the steamers can land. The cor poration owns 1900 acres, and upon this it has constructed blast furnaces open hearth furnaces and many by-product
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
British Airmen Down Five Enemy Machines
 Thursday, Says Report

London. November 17.-An official com munication issued by the war office last night dealing with aerial operations says:
 During the early part of Thursday a heavy ground mist considerably ham, pered aerial observation. Later in the day the mist partly cleared and consider able activity ensued in the air. Many targets were successfully engaged by our artillery with the aid of aerial observa- tion and a number of reconnaissances carried out by our airplanes.
 On the battle front our low flying machines engaged several ground tar gets with machine gun fire. Hostile air planes dropped few bombs on our side of the line.
 Tn air fighting five hostile airplanes were downed and one was driven down out of control. Another German machine was shot down by our anti-aircraft guns Four of our machines failed to return"