The Benson signal., 1918-08-31
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

uearly completed.
The labor shortage at Oatman mines
has been greatly relieved.
Jerome Carpenters asked q raise
from $3.50 to 1925 per day.
Large accompaniment shaft at
Gadsden mine is down 1850 feet.
Apiarists are reaping a rich har-
vest in the central part of the state.
Women are demanding a share of
the spoils of office this year in Ari-
zOna.
Twelve tons of peaches have been
shipped from the Arnold ranch north
of Mesa.
A Mexican prisoner at Mesa fired
shot at Constable Pickens and then
escaped.
Fees received in the incorporating
department of the Arizona corporation
commission totaled $10,638.35 for July.
Five of the defendants from the
Verde district were indicted by the
federal grand jury in Session at Pres
colt.
The Hopi Snake dance took place
between Aug. % and q, at Toreva
and Hotevilla i'll the Hopi Indian res
ervation
A shipment of spar is being pre-
pared from deposit on the property
of T. o. Phillips near Goat Camp, ten
miles from Duncan.
Cochise county with assessed valua-
ton Of $169,348, 46617, as equalized by
the State Board of Equalization, leads
the mining counties of the state.
The regular semi-annual meeting of
the Cochise-Graham Cattle Growers
Association will be held in Stafford,
Graham county, Sept. 13 and IA.
At Jerome, the United Verde an
nounced a new bonus system-$100 to
each employe at end of year, and $40
for each additional year up to $24O.
Showers, although local, have been
of sufficient frequency and extent to
benefit the entire range section OF
Arizona and western New Mexico.
The Flux mine has purchased two
miles Of three-inch pipe which, when
installed, will carry water from their
contemplated pumping plant on Son
oita creek to the mine.
Very interesting work is being &C
complished in the Blue Bell and Bing.
hampton mines in the Mayer district
through the use of the diamond drill
in exploration for new bodies of ore.
Lieutenant Jauk Newton of Bisbee
was killed in New York City two
weeks ago when he fell from sixth
story room in hotel to the pavement
below, sustaining injuries from which
he died.
The Consolidated Arizona Smelling
Company has entered the field OF
large producing companies of the
state. The bullion production of the
Humboldt smelter during the month
of July was 100000 pounds of cop
per.
A big appropriation bill of Congress
carries with it an appropriation of ST.
100000 for the remodeling. extension
and improvement of Whipple bar
racks. 1t is probable that old Fort
Whipple will be made a convalescent
amp.
Arizonas state tax rate 5 for the
l91S-19 year will be 80 cents per 500
assessed valuation, the lowest ever
fixed by a state tax commission in the
history of statehood. The new rate
represents reduction of about q per
cent from that of last year, which was
53h cents.
Corporal William Harold Wayne,
who saved the life of cOmrade dur
ing hand grenade practice at Camp
Cody, at Deming, has been recon-
mended to Brig Gen. John A. John
son for special mention in orders by
his commanding officer
Prof. ]. J. Thornber has spent a
large amount of time the past two
years in work on the University plant
collections. AS a result Of this activ-
ity, $4,000 specimens are now being
added to the University herbarium,
which now numbers 10000 specimens.
The dispatches from France indi-
cate the presence OF the 89th division
in one of the American army corps ON
The firing line. One of the units of
this division, the 340th Field artillery,
trained at Camp Funston, is COM
posed largely of Arizona men, the
first to be called in the drafts.
j. II. Lane, we'll known in Bisbee
mining circles, has invented and pat
ented an aerial shell or torpedo which
he thinks will make the German long
range guns seem like toy affairs.
These shells, he says, can be fired at
least 100 miles. A st. Louis firm is
now engaged in making a model.
Considerable activity is manifest in
Mohave county in several well known
mining sections and I; number of old
properties abandoned during the days
% Low, rricoc of ci1voe and lead aro hp-