The Benson signal., 1918-07-13
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

Chuni drilling is now going ON at
the Little Ajo mine.
High grade ore is being taken from
the Gunsight mine at Ajo.
Many new rigs have started drilling
in the Holbrook oil district.
Good ore is in sight and concen-
traitor is being built at Swansea.
Drilling has been resumed at the
United Chino oil well near Jerome.
Plans have been started at Phoenix
for the state capitol building addition.
A switchback railroad is to be run
to the United Verde mine at Jerome.
Fourth of July celebrations were
held in many cities throughout the
state.
Rich ore has been discovered in the
Nickelite claims in Whipple noun
tains.
Farmers around Bowie have signed
up to raise large acreage of Castor
beans.
The parade of nations was feature
of the Fourth Of July celebration at
Miami.
Mining in the state breaks all rec
ords; output for May 76,711,5O7
pounds.
The May copper output at the Doug
las smelters was over 24,000,00O
pounds.
Belgravia Mill at Ray is ready to
start operations, as the bins are filled
with ore
Black sulphides have been uncov-
cred in the shaft of the Verde Squaw
at Jerome.
Capt. H. C. Wheeler, formerly OF
Bisbee, is reported on his way home
from France.
A piece of hematite encrusted with
pure gold was taken from the Alcyone
mine at Oatman.
Aspostoffice has been established at
MirimOnte, and Rebecca Loftgreen ap-
pointed as postmistress.
The Stafford Association has placed
loans with the farmers of the Gila
valley to the amount of 100000.
While Arizona is the one real cop
per state of the Union every effort is
being made to increase production.
Miss Florence T. Taylor has been
appointed postmistress at McNeal and
Mrs. Mary H. Lusk at Chiricahua.
Sidney D. Kempton was killed in
stantly by an explosion of a gasoline
drum in his assay office at NogaleS
A $4,000 electric light and power
plant will be installed at the boys and
girls industrial school at Fort Grant.
Two dollars is the minimum price
for Arizona-grown wheat, it was an
nounced by State Food Administrator
Riordan.
P. ]. Sullivan, boiler makers help
er at the Clarkdalc smelter, had his
skull fractured while at work jacking
up an ore car
Ng Yee Lun, a Yuma Chinese store
keeper, was murdered, presumably for
the sake of the money in his posses
sion, about $500.
Fourteen companies interested in
the Chino Oil field have formed an or
ganizatiOn at Prescott, known as the
Chamber of Oil and Mines.
The valuation of the twenty-four
telephone and telegraph companies in
Arizona as returned for 1918 by the
state tax commission is $3,112,S9423.
The following postoffices in Cochise
county have been discontinued: San
Bernardino, mail now sent to Doug
las; Overton, mail now sent to FIT.
Huachuca.
The Old Silver King mine in Pinal
county will soon be producing again.
Gold Road mines will soon have it's
big plant in opera zion at Kingman.
Fifty thousand tons of cyanide for
use at the mill has been hauled out
for imme ediate use.
E. K. Gladney, of Wilcox, a long
time resident of Arizona, has been ad-
mitted as a guest at the Pioneers
Home at Prescott. The home now ac-
cOmE1OdateS 1Orty-elght.
Progress in the Magnate property
at Twin Buttes was marked by the
opening up of body of copper aver
aging higher than that which has pre-
viously marked the dissemination of
the property.
Transportation conditions as affect
ing mine supplies have improved and
are enabling a materially easier situ-
alton than was confronted six months
hack. There is yet, however, room
for improvement.
The recent location cf mica de-
posit in Pima county, west of Tucson,
has led to some discussion locally of
mica and mica scEist as possible war
materials of value, outside of the COM
mercial use Of the product.
The unprecedented high price of
manganese has created such an inter
eat in the metal and it's ores and the
supply Of all its substances that the
bulletin issued by the Arizona Bureau