The Benson signal., 1918-07-06
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Plans have been started for cot.
ton gin at Chandler.
Good ore is showing in the Little
Grant mine at Cuprite.
Output of Miami Copper Co. for
May was 100000 pounds.
Good showers have materially i'm
proved range conditions.
At Tucson, the Socorro Smelter has
secured ten-acre site.
Bisbee copper producers ask in
crease in price to 80 cents.
The new l. o. o. F. hall at Bisbee is
about ready to be occupied.
Much activity in oil district at Hol-
brook and rigs being installed.
Application filed at Phoenix by tel
ephOne company to change rate.
Old Perseverance mine at Needles
reports strike of Az foot vein.
The Aztec shaft of the Tom Reed
at Oatman has been sunk sixty feet.
Vanadium ore assayed at Kirkland
by experts found to contain uranium.
Arizona's wheat crop may be above
average, as it is in good condition
now.
New Cornelia at Ajo is to start a
test mill for treatment Of sulphide
ores.
Reported offer of $4,000 has been
Tucson.
A $75O,OOO Syndicate has been
formed at San Simon to operate the
Hill Top mine.
The years cantaloupe crop in the
vicinity of Mesa is estimated to be
worth $240,O00.
1t cost Greenlee county $117, 7,228.65
to run the public schools of that coun-
ty during the past year.
Development work is progressing
on the Tom Reed and Bald Eagle min
ing properties at Oatman.
The location of a good showing OF
mica was announced at Tucson by Nj.
e. Huff and Afford RoOs.
Bandits entered the home of Mex
lean woman at Morenci and forced
her to turn over nearly $500.
Conditions in copper industry
throughout state are in better general
condition than since year ago.
Ten days more will probably see
smoke pouring from the stack of the
United Verde Extension smelter at
Jerome.
The Consolidated Arizona will soon
have it's copper output up to 100000
pounds monthly, which doubles its
record of 1917.
Cleaning out of the old drifts in the
Gunsight and Silver Girth claims in
the Mayer district has been started
by the new owners.
The special session of the Third Ar
iona Legislature adjourned, after
completing the program for which it
was called together.
Nonresident and wandering mer
chants doing business in Miami will
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to pay $10O license per quarter
United Verde Extension at Jerome
will shortly develop the. 1900 and 1.vv
foot levels and is expected to open UP
millions of dollars worth of ore.
Increased freight rates ordered by
the government will put their heavi
est burden upon the shipper of Gus
tom ore, who is the small producer.
The valuable assets which Calumet
& Arizona has in the New COrnelia
property is rapidly being demonstrate
ed by the steady increase in the pro
duction of the latter. The production
is not only increasing but the com
pany ranks among the lowest cost
producers
Eighty-seven stray dogs were killed
by the Phoenix police in May.
George O'Neill, formerly deputy
sheriff at Ray, was convicted at Flor
ence of taking money from woman
and given a sentence of from three
to five years.
Petitions are in circulation asking
that a proposed amendment to the
constitution be put on the ballot this
fall, providing for compensation of in
jured workmen.
]. H. Rountree of Douglas received
telegram from Adjutant General
Henry P. Mccain that his son, Joseph
ID. Rountree, had been severely wound
ed in action in France.
Arizona, known to thousands of in
terested persons who have visited it's
vast domain, as the wonder state"
today leads the United States in the
production of the red metal The Of
ficial report shows that Arizona pro-
duced in 1917 719,033,514 pounds of
copper as against 694,847 ,307 for 1916.
The approximate output for the month
of May was 76,711,507 pounds. At the
present time Arizona copper produc-
ton is going on at the rate of $685.
| 100000 pounds a year, or nearly one
half Of the total for 1918.
The special session of the third