The Benson signal., 1918-07-27
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

asked to furnish seventy-four.
Oil was struck in a we'll on a ranch
a short distance from Holbrook.
The Kingman sulphuric acid precip-
itation plant is a success and will be
enlarged.
Government data on Arizona melons
and potatoes shows they are in good
condition
Prison labor of Arizona is to be util-
lied in an effort to overcome the acute
labor shortage.
Manganese ore has been discovered
in high grade quantities in the Comet
mine at Nogales.
Over 400 cars of cantaloupes have al
ready been shipped from the Mesa
valley this season.
A large shipment of tungsten was
made from the Williams Tungsten
mines at Kingman.
The contracts for diamond drilling
on the Calumet & Jerome have been
awarded at Jerome
Work has been started on the Ajo
experimental flotation plant for mill
ing the sulphide ores.
Wiley Bouldin, colored, was jailed
at Douglas on a charge of bootlegging
and his car confiscated.
Arizona produced last year 24,O00
bales of cotton. This years crop will
be close to $4,000 bales
At Kingman the Twin mines has
opened fine body of ore on the 60
foot level about 80 feet in.
The Phoenix Indian school has given
sixty-two of it's finest young men for
service in the American army.
Arizona will furnish $50 of the 46 900
men called for August draft, and they
will be sent to Camp Fremont, Cal
A strike of rich silver ore was made
at the Old Silver King at Superior.
The vein runs from 800 to 1900 ounces
in silver.
The Dragon Mining & Milling Com
pany Of Wickenburg has received a
carload of machinery which will be
erected at once.
Development work has been pushed
in the Queen Creek Copper Company
has been encountered.
The charge of murder against J. T.
Holmes for the killing of VIM. Penn
berton at Kyrene, was dismissed in
Justice Court in Phoenix.
Rich manganese ore has been found
on the Colorado river, near Parker.
One ledge is twelve feet while the 9th
er is about two feet wide.
Authentic advices received at Pres
colt from the Silver King mine show
that the strike made a few days ago
is of sensational order
Well No. of the Arizona Oklahoma
Gas & Oil Company at Jerome started
flowing and appears to be a small
gusher. The well has been capped.
James Lowrey, for three terms sher.
iff of Yavapai county, was killed and
three other men wounded more or less
seriously by man named Bassito at
Verde, below Jerome, in a revolver
duel.
The first native Arizonian to lose his
life in France was an Indian. Matthew
r. Rivers, known at Phoenix as Mat
thew Juan, was killed. He was a ma
tive Pima Indian and enlisted in
Texas.
F. W. Strang of Douglas, connected
with the Quartermaster's corps, re-
ETY. that his two brothers, Carl J. and
Max Strang, were in prison camp in
Tergnier, Germany.
One million bushels of wheat for
Arizona is in prospect, the Bureau of
Crop Estimates states in it's monthly
crop report.
j. J. Ward, who was sent to the peni-
tentiary last year with his son Bufford
for the shooting of Mark Turney in the
rolled and is now raising cotton on a
place near Chandler
The State Tax Commission complet-
ed it's work of assessing the producing
mines of the state and announced a
considerable increase in valuation for
this year over last, the total increase
being more than $9O,OO0,0OO.
Diamond drilling is in progress in a
100-foot drift on the Magma Chief Cop
per Company property at Superior.
Laurel claim, adjoining the Silver
King, is being prospected. The shaft
is going down in a copper ledge.
The body of William Drumm, 33, son
of Peter Drumm, a rancher living three
miles west of Tucson was found dead
by Jesus Bustamente, who lives on the
ranch, after an all-night search, with
his head cut from his body, with a
stroke of a razor. He was insane.
Bisbee has the richest producing
mine within it's corporate limits of any
city or town in Arizona, according to