The Benson signal., 1918-06-29
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS


Operations are now under way at
the Gold King at Prescott.
A woman was arrested at Bisbee for
passing worthless checks.
Maricopa was visited by what is es-
timated as a $4,000 fire.
At Oatman, the Record lode has in
stalled new compressor.
Five men were slightly injured by
premature blast in the Miami Copper
Company mine.
A fine body of lead ore has been
found in the shafts of the Twins
mines at Cerbat.
The Gold Ore mine at Oatman is
taking out 70 tons daily from three
different slopes.
The Silver Bell Consolidated at
Prescott will soon ship ore which Is
high grade silver-lead.
The production of copper in the two
Douglas smelters during May amount
ed to 24,170,O00 pounds.
Five new army nurses arrived at
the army base hospital at Camp Jones
from Fort Sam Houston.
H. c. "Curley" Duvall, Ajo garage
proprietor, was shot and dangerously
wounded by Ollie Heaton.
Oil is coming from the United Chino
well at Jerome in quarts. The COM
pany will sell no more stock.
Last months production in Arizona
copper was over 76,000,000 pounds,
which is the highest in history.
A sample of new copper ore carry
ing molybdenum has been shipped into
Kingman from the New York noun
tains.
The Fourth of July will be celebrat-
ed at Stafford in conformity with the
fense.
Ray Hercules will begin producing
soon on a large scale as the mill To-
Gated at Ray Junction is now being
finished.
John Hughes, former shift boss
at the Gear shaft of the Copper Queen
Company at Bisbee, was arrested on
charge of adultery.
At Copperville, Mohave county, the
fifty-ton milling plant of the Leviathan
mine is to be electrified. At present
Oil is being used for power.
H. J. Ramer, one of the wealthiest
and most widely known cattlemen in
the state, died at Dry Lake, near Hol'
brook, presumably of heart disease.
Wines are to be sunk at suitable
points in each ore body of the Tom
Reed in order to determine the depth
of the new ore bodies recently discov.
cred at Oatman.
An unexpected deposit of chalco.
pyrite, bornite and pyrite has been
found in prosecuting west for sump
from the 10O-foot station in the Gads.
den shaft at Jerome.
Incomplete reports of the registra-
ton held in Arizona June Of all
young men who became 21 years of
age since June 8, 1917, show that 1923
were placed On the rolls.
Eight per cent copper ore and also
ore containing forty ounces of silver
per ton is being taken from the Blue
Monster group on Cherry creek, near
Prescott. The main shaft Is down 100
feet.
Machinery for the new 100-ton mill
to be erected at the Worlds Fair mine
in Santa Cruz county Is practically all
on the ground and the new mill will
be pushed to completion within sixty
days.
Among bills which will be initiated
for a vote at the election this fall none
is attracting more interest than the
proposed amendment to the constitu.
tion for the purpose of redistricting
legislative representation.
Quiet, but impressive, we're the fu.
neral services at Arlington National
cemetery for Colonel Alexander o.
Brodie, former governor of Arizona
territory, who died at his home, Had
dOn1lelQ, New Jersey.
The tungsten property near Fort
Huachuca, formerly operated under
bond and lease from Albert Steinfeld
by o. T. Smith, has been taken over
by A. J. Clark, l.. E. Porter and G. D.
Kislingbury of Los Angeles, who plan
the erection of a 150-ton concentrator
on the property.
The Legislature sent to Governor
Hunt the State Council of Defense bill
as agreed to by the conferees, the
House having accepted the Senate
amendments. BY it's provisions the
council will consist of fourteen mem
bers and the governor, the fourteen
members to be appointed by the gov
ernor with the approval of the super
visors, making the appointments one
from each county.
A warrant for $4,000, drawn on the
state treasury, has been mailed by the