The Benson signal., 1918-01-26
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

COlO., miner, died In Oatman.
The Mexican consulate at Clifton
will be reopened Immediately.
The Mesa branch of the Red Cross
Society has a membership of 800.
The meatless day order has been
suspended in Arizona until March 13.
Construction of an addition to the
county Jail at Tucson has been be-
gun
The Red Cloud Consolidated Mines
Company is operating it's new 300-ton
reduction plant.
A road gang is at work between
tombstone and Gleeson removing
rocks from the road.
Records show that in Pima county
during 1917, there were $50 marriage
licenses and II divorces.
A new. administration building for
the Phoenix city schools has been fin
ished, costing $4,000. g..
Some good molybdenum ore is be-
ing brought to Patagonia from Du-
Quesne for shipment.
The United Statesc food administra-
tion is planning a consistent campaign
to increase the use of Irish potatoes.
One hundred thousand dollars has
been pledged of 100000 asked to Sc
cure a $6,000,000 smelter for Tucson.
The city of Globe is now drawing
up plans and considering bids on a
new sewer system for the entire city.
Creameries in the Gila valley in
Graham county are now paying the
farmers 20 cents per gallon for milk.
With the least possible delay, the
highway between Phoenix and Mesa
is to be paved, probably with con-
crete.
The postoffice and store at Klon-
dyke were robbed of merchandise and
stamps valued at several hundred dol
| lars.
| The new barracks of troops E and
F of the Seventeenth cavalry, sta
toned at Miami, are nearing compile
tion.
| Jack McIver, who made fortune in
gold in Mohave county, has opened a
great ledge of so per cent manganese
in Long valley.
By order of the Arizona Corporation
| Commission all auto stages running
between points in the state passed un-
der their control.
! A start has been made on the grad
| ing of the new broad gauge railroad
from the mouth of the Hopewell tun-
mel up to the northern edge of Jerome.
Indian police pursued and captured
William Nelson, accused Of dynamit-
| ing the safe in the office of the Santa
Fe depot at Parker and secured $92.50.
Twenty-Five Arizona people, mostly
from Phoenix, attended the annual
meeting of the American National
Live Stock Association at. Salt Lake.
A sensational suit was filed in Los
Angeles courts by e. M. Williams OF
Clifton, against Margaret Williams,
his wife, demanding custody of their
boy, aged years.
Judge John A. Ellis, for three years
past judge of the Superior Court of
>Mohave county, rendered his resigna-
ton to Governor Hunt, to become ef-
fective On the first of February
Unwatering of the Dem mine to the
1000 level, preparatory to exploration
at that depth, is the most important
| nj oP OTot of
present being carried on at advanced
stage in the Warren district.
About five hundred acres of broom
corn were harvested in Yuma county.
Ajo presented the only large new
copper producer in the state of Ari-
zona last year.. the New Cornelia Cop
per Company in that district making
above 20,OOO,OOO pounds in the six
months of it's operation.
The mine production Of lead in Ari-
zona decreased from 27,062,087 pounds
in 1916 to about 18,000,000 pounds in
1917, but as the price was better the
value was only slightly less than that
of 1916, which was $1,867,2S4.
Six boys and girls have been de-
clared the state champions in the va
rious club contests carried on jointly
by the agricultural extension service
of the University of Arizona and the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
1t is stated that small shippers Of
copper ore are steadily dropping out
of production and shutting down their
| properties in different parts of the
state, because the government fixed
price of 1914 cents per pound does
not afford them opportunity to earn
profit on the rising scale of costs for
all materials they employ.
Capt. George P. Henderson of Tomb
stone has been appointed by Governor