The Benson signal., 1918-06-01
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

A canning club may be organized at
Mesa.
At Prescott strike of molybdenite
was reported on the Contention.
Flagstaff is to be the summer capi-
tai Of the Arizona Food Administra-
ton.
The Chino Valley and the Home Oil
companies at Jerome are spudding in
wells.
Reports from the Ray Hercules
state that the final touches are being
put on the mill.
Cochise countys honor roll of 181
men left Flagstaff on the 25th for a
mobilization camp.
1t Is stated that by June 10, over 2O,-
600 cattle will be shipped to market
from the Gila valley.
About twelve men are being en-
ployed at the San Xavier Extension
company near Tucson.
At Bisbee the work Of getting down
to the 1,600 level at the Dem Arizona
is progressing rapidly.
The Arizona Mossback mine at
Snowflake is reported to be installing
$4,000 worth of machinery.
At Jerome three headings are being
run on the 900-foot and two on the 500
foot level of the Pittsburg-Jerome.
WI n,
nix were raided by U. S. marshal,
who seized quantity of literature.
The Calumet & Arizona's band flag
at Bisbee boasts twenty stars for
members who have Joined the colors.
N. G. Booth of Santa Rita, N. M,
was in Tucson seeking leasers or oper
ators for his Silver King mine group.
Last month the Tom Reed mill at
Oatman put through it's plant more
than 5000 tons of ore from the Aztec
property.
The operating conditions in the cop
per industry throughout Arizona are
in better general form than since a
year ago.
The Cochise County Food Conserva-
ton Dealers Association agreed to dis
continue the sale of new potatoes un-
til June 4.
The new mill of the Ray Hercules
Copper Company at Globe has a rated
capacity of between 1000 and 1900
tons per day.
A bill creating the office of dairy
commissioner and for the protection
of the dairy industry was introduced
in the Senate.
The output Of the Miami Copper
Company for last month exceeded s.
100000 pounds for the first time since
June 1 of last year.
w. w. Terry, night watchman at
Avondale cotton camp, shot and al
most instantly killed Joe Lindell,
blacksmith of the camp
Humboldt reports that the Consoli-
dated Arizona Smelling Company's to-
tai production of metal for last year
was 19,751,S ,S42 pounds Of copper.
George Hughes, one of the original
locators of claims in the Big Bug dis
trict of Yavapai county, is dead. He
died at mining camp near Wicken-
burg.
That Yavapai county is both patri-
otic and prosperous is indisputably evi
denced by the fact that it more than
doubled it's quota to the Third Liberty
Loan.
A resolution introduced in the
House by Mrs. Pauline O'Neill Of Mar
iposa, and unanimously adopted, put
the House on record against the I. w.
W., and called upon all state officials
to join in ridding the state of the I.
w. w.
1t is reported that H. c. Wilmot of
New York has an option to purchase
the old Tip Top mine at Prescott.
G. Louise Boehringer of Yuma has
been appointed by Timothy A. Rior-
dan, federal food administrator for Ari-
zona, as state leader of college women.
At Chloride the Copper Age mine
has 250,O00 tons of ore blocked out
which is claimed to average better
than $25 per ton with 230 samples.
Official regulations governing the
registration June 5 of all young men
who have reached the age of 21 years
since June 5, 1917, have been received
at draft headquarters in Phoenix.
A beginning was made of the legis.
lation recommended in the governors
call for an extraordinary session when
bill was introduced extending the
franchise to citizens of Arizona serv-
ing in the military forces outside the
state; two measures, one in each
house, for the protection of the legal
rights of Arizona soldiers and declar-
ing a moratorium for them. There
were also three resolutions, one in the
House and two in the Senate, for the
ratification of the national prohibition