The Benson signal., 1918-08-10
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspaper Union News Service.

An Army Mechanics school has
been started at Tucson.
Contracts have been let for grading
the Douglas -Bisbee road.
At Holbrook, the Apache Oil Com
pany is preparing to drill.
At Ajo, the new flotation plant Of
New Cornelia has been started.
Development work will soon start
on the Jerome-Grande property.
At Prescott, old ore bodies on the
Wildflower have been opened up.
The Florence cotton fields are look
ing fine, and big crops are expected
High grade lead ore has been un-
gonia.
Electrically-lighted street signs have
been barred in Tucson on Monday and
Tuesday nights.
The Gold Roads mine at Oatman
expects to increase It's output of gold
to 100000 monthly
The United Chino Oil & Refining
Company has drilled depth of about
700 feet at Holbrook.
Some rich manganese claims are
reported nineteen miles south of
Globe, on the new Globe-Kelvin road.
Immediate development will begin
on the Nelson at Prescott, which has
been taken over by st. Louis capital
lists.
The first standard drilling rig has
reached the Holbrook field and will
drill the Hopi Oil Company's first
we'll
In the first half ofothe current year
Old Dominion, at Globe, produced 49,
$4,000 pounds, June contributing g.
900 pounds.
Figures of the tax commission in
dicate the total value of Arizona min
eral production subject to taxation to
have been $1S2,S74,517.13.
Manganese production is being
pushed by the Phelps Dodge corpora
tion SO that the supply for the gov
ernment may be increased.
Dean G. M. Butler of the Arizona
College of Mines and Engineering, has
been appointed director of the Ari
zona State Bureau of Mines.
Approximate figures gathered from
the various producers show that the
total output of copper in the state for
June was 74,9S5,025. pounds.
The Flux Mining Company, com.
posed of thirty Bisbee business men,
entered the list of producers when the
new 200-ton mill started up.
Establishing record for the earl
lest bale of cotton to be picked in the
Salt River valley, G. A. Nabors took
load of cotton into Phoenix.
1t is reported that rich ore contain
ing tungsten, molybdenum and gold is
being taken by force of miners on
the Black Bess property at Ajo.
Development work on the Calumet
& Jerome has been cut down, due to
the fact that diamond drilling will
soon begin on the 6OO-foot level
For alleged libelous statements,
Frank J. Vaughn, a Bisbee painter,
was given coat Of paint by the pris-
oners at the state penitentiary.
The Western Copper Company is
being developed at Prescott. This is
a group of fifteen claims and was for
merly known as the Patton group.
Work is being done on the 1,O8O-foot
level at the Verde Combination at
Jerome. Some good copper ore run
ning6 to per cent has been uncov-
cred in drift No. 1.
A number of light cases of chicken
pox have been reported in Wilcox
and the surrounding country
Motions to strike were made in 212
cases in the Superior Court at Tomb
stone The cases were filed for sew
eral Cochise county corporations and
numerous individuals for damages as
a result of the deportations on July
~12, 1917.
Free trips from every county in the
state will be offered by the State Fair
to the champion teams in. both the
girls canning and the boys cowtest-
ing work. At the State Fair these
leans will compete for the state
championship and also for two $50
scholarships offered by the Agricul-
tural Extension Service of the uni
Tersity.
A wage increase of Is cents day,
with material reductions in rentals of
company-owned houses and in light
and water rates, awarded by Hywell
Davies, federal labor mediator, were
accepted at a mass meeting of mine
and smelter workers In the Verde cop
per district, held at Jerome, and a
| threatened strike was averted. The
! original demand of the men was for
a wage increase of $1.10 a day.
There will be about 1000 acres more
oats in Arizona this year than in 1917,
according to figures furnished by l..
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