The Benson signal., 1917-07-14
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Mlaml new CatnOl1C cnurcn mas
been dedicated.
Miners are reported returning to
work at Bisbee.
Tag day gave the Jerome Red Cross
Society $3.50 for U. S. war fund.
Most of disorders in Arizona brought
about by l. w. WIS declares Meyer.
Federal troops arrived in Globe and
assumed control of the strike situa-
tion.
The railroads of Arizona will pay
taxes this year on a valuation of $685.
1888.
The government divided Arizona in
to two districts for the purpose of Sc
lective draft.
Governor Campbell has appointed
Aaron H. Powers of PRESCOTT, state
| bank examiner.
The state school funds this year to-
tails $213.755.50 for the 61,073 school
children, or an average of $3.50 for
each.
The first attempt of the strikers in
Bisbee to organize a sympathetic
strike in the two smelters at Douglas
failed.
The fifteen large producers of cop
per in Arizona contributed upwards
of twenty million dollars to the Lib
erty loan.
Second crop of potatoes that will
keep for winter use will be planted
in Salt River valley about the middle
of August.
More than $4,000 is the annual
income at present of Arizona from
her public lands which are leased to
private parties.
Following the lead of the citizens
of Bisbee, the business men of Doug
las organized the Citizens Protective
League of Douglas.
A strike made on the Arizona Euro
pean group, near the Three R, re-
turned remarkably good assays in
copper, silver and gold.
All records for the issuance of mar
riage licenses in the history of Co
chise county were smashed in June
with total of SO licenses issued.
Spanish and Mexicans at Globe are
wrought UP over the killing of Span
lard foreman by w. w. Clark, a ce-
ment contractor of the Inspiration
mine.
Frank Blancarte slipped and fell
from the 1900 level to the bottom of
the GolcOnda shaft, a distance of 80
feet, at Kingman, and was instantly
killed.
Arizona copper companies appealed
for government aid in Kidding mine
districts in the Southwest of labor
agitators and other enemies conniv-
ing at this country's defeat"
1t was stated at Phoenix on the 9Th
that former Governor G. w. p. Hunt
may 60 to Globe to act as the per-
sonal representative of President Will
son in an effort to settle the strike
situation there and elsewhere through
out Arizona.
Nearly 10000 acres of government
land that was withdrawn from entry
by the reclamation law has been
restored and will be open for home
stead entry August goth, and will be-
come subject to settlement and all
proper forms of entry.
Following the refusal of the three
big copper companies in the Globe
Miami district to accede to their de-
of the Metal Mine Workers Industrial
Union issued an order to the 1000
members Of the organization to quit
work Sunday.
The Arizona State Council of De-
Tense is being financed entirely by
private subscriptions.
Prescott teemed with the spirit of
the West during the four-days' cele.
bration of Frontier Days.
While mining operations in the War
rem and Globe Miami district temper
arily interfered with by the Industrial
Workers of the World who appear to
be attempting to cripple the govern
ment, under the mask of helping Ia
Dor, by trying to tie up all of the
metal producers Of the country, acti-
vities in other parts Of the state are
going ahead as usual.
The Ajo district, already famous
among the copper regions of the world,
is steadily increasing in prominence
as metal producing area that is but
in the first stage of development. A
new chapter was started in the his
tory of copper mining June 18th, when
the first shipment of refined electro
lytic copper was made from the New
Cornelia's big teaching plant to Perth
Amboy, N. ]. The product was 99.9
fine. The shipment consisted of 81, 900
pounds, worth at 25 cents per pound,
$15,250.
"The Industrial Workers of the