The Benson signal., 1918-05-04
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

More than $1,000 motor vehicle H.
censes have been issued.
G. S. VanWagenen, an old-time resi-
dent of Globe, died in Los Angeles.
Kingman citizens are making an eff
fort to secure recuperation hospital.
Three new strikes of rich copper ore
have been made in the Tucson district.
Three men dug their way out of the
new city Jail of Douglas and made
their escape.
Arizona will produce Egyptian cot
ton on much larger acreage this year
than ever before.
At Salome prospecting on the Cath
crime mine is reported to have brought
to light great ore body.
At depth of approximately 800 feet
the well of the United Chino Company
is in red oil-bearing shale.
The Schuylkill Company, of King
man, is planning the erection Of a big
mill at the Tennessee mine.
At Kingman two baseball teams,
composed of bloomer girls, crossed
bats for the benefit of the Red Cross.
The refined copper output of the In
spiration Consolidated Copper Co., at
Miami in 1917 was 80,566,982 pounds.
Three distinct strikes of rich cop
per ore were reported in the Twin
Buttes, San Xavier and Mineral Hill
district.
Oatman and Thatcher reported the
first day of the Liberty Loan drive
that they had oversubscribed their al
lotments.
At Wickenburg Adam Marsh has re-
Gently optioned his molybdenum mines
at the head of Copper canon to Louis
F. Schultze.
The call for the special session of
the Legislature to consider war meas
ures to meet May Fl was given out by
Governor Hunt.
The Inspiration Copper Company,
operating in the Globe-Miami district,
subscribed one million dollars to the
uAIU A4UcIIy 1Odu.
r. T. Smith and Francis Edwin
Cotton, of Phoenix, were reported on
board the naval collier Cyclops, over
due since March 13.
Fifty-five men have been selected
by the draft board at Tombstone to 60
to Camp Mcdowell, California, be-
tween May 10 and 15.
An effort is being made to increase
the acreage planted during the pres
ent season of the castor bean, in the
neighborhood of Yuma
That four national speakers will ad-
dress a statewide war conference at
Phoenix on May II, was announced by
the State Council of Defense.
Roy Pope, of Miami, was shot and
seriously wounded by Charles Hill, at
the latter's residence in Miami when
Pope was found in Hills home.
At Skull Valley the New United
Verde Copper Co., or what was better
known as the old Logan properties has
inaugurated extensive development
work.
The United Verde Copper Company
paid dividend of $3.50 a share. On
March 27 this company paid 81
share, following similar payment in
the middle Of February.
San Jacinto Day, celebrated in Doug
las, was we'll attended occasion, both
by native Texans, residents of Cochise
county, and by office seekers from ev-
cry part of the state.
Seventy Indians employed on the
road being constructed by the Gibson
Consolidated Copper Company near
Miami, have shown their patriotism by
each of them purchasing a $50 Liber-
Iy Bond.
The Mammoth Development Com
pany is said to be employing 100 men
at it's mine and reduction plants.
G. O. Ellis, of Douglas, at Little
Rock, Ark, was chosen vice president
of the Bankhead Highway Association,
with two directors named from Ari-
L
of Phoenix.
Comm endation Of high order was
given California, New Mexico, Colora-
do and Arizona troops stationed at
Camp Kearny for their work in con-
nection with field maneuvers by Major
General Frederick s. Strong, COM
manding the Fortieth division.
The Superior Court of Maricopa
county mulcted several Phoenix drug
gists in the sum of $3.50 and a sus-
pended sentence On conviction of hav-
ing disposed of Jamaica ginger and
other drugs having alcohol in them.
The clerks were fined $25 each.
The three-cent fare case has been
definitely postponed and will not be
set for hearing until after the war is
ended, according to a stipulation en-
tered into by the Southern Pacific and