The Benson signal., 1918-12-28
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS

western Newspaper Union News Service.
A cactus fiber plant has been estab-
lished at Kingman.
Phoenix creameries are paying STU
cents pound for butter fat
Shannon Copper reports an output
of 6S4,OO0 pounds in November.
The Old Dominion reports for No
vember an output of 2,101,0 900 pounds
of "copper"
The Phoenix police are conducting
a vigorous campaign for the suppress
sion of vice.
The Miami Copper Company reports
for November an output of 4,382,73G
pounds of copper.
The Arizona State Teachers Asso-
citation meeting will be held in Phoe-
nix Dec. 26 and 81
The proposed interurban line be-
tween Clarksdale and Jerome will
soon be in operation.
Phelps-Dodge Company reports its
November smelter output of copper in
pounds to .be 15,785,001.
Further development of the carbon
ate deposit at the Dundee-Arizona at
Jerome is to be undertaken.
Pima county sold her last issue of
road bonds and soon will be busy on
an extended county highway system.
Consolidated Arizona copper produc-
ton is averaging around 100000
pounds month, or 100000 pounds
per annum.
A reduction plant is being installed
at the famous old Black Silver mine, a
few miles west of Crown King, in the
Bradshaws
Gross returns from the sale of
masks by the Jerome Red Cross dur
ing the influenza epidemic were in ex-
cess of $1,72545.
November sales of War Savings
stamps at the United Verde mine to-
tailed $4,972.97, as against $5,426.24 for
the month previous.
A large surplus of labor in the min
ing and smelling centers is likely be-
fore long to replace the shortage of
the last three years.
e. N. Mccormick, a Southern Pa
cific pumpman at Bowie, was scalded
by steam and died at Dragon while
being taken to Tucson.
A Bay City, Mich, syndicate has
practically concluded a deal to take
over the Martin Simms group of cop
per claims, east of Mayer.
Eighty Bob White quail, imported
by State Game Warden G. M. Willard
from Nebraska, were liberated ON six
Verde valley and Oak creek ranches.
A slight decrease from the figures
of October production is shown by the
November report of the Consolidated
Arizona Smelling Company of Hum
boldt.
The McCracken Silver-Lead Com
pany, has just received check for
$2,36816 for a forty-ton carload of ore
from the company's mine south, OF
Kingman.
Max Quintanilla was reported miss
ing in action" Nov. 9, two days before
the armistice was signed, according to
a telegram received from the War De
partment by his wife at Jerome.
From abroad has come word that
many Of the Arizona men were in the
last of the fighting, but that the Ari
IONA National Guard regiment, the
158th, did not get an opportunity tC
go into action as an organization.
The quarantine which had been in
effect at Douglas for several weeks
| following a second violent outbreak Of
influenza, attended by many deaths
was lifted, but everyone appearing or
| the streets and particularly in the bus
| mess district, was ordered to wear ar
influenza mask
H. B. Sparks, switchman for the
Ell Paso & Southwestern railroad, was
| instantly killed in the yards at Doug
las when he fell off a refrigerator Cal
| and was run over.
The first shipment of ore from the
Shea Copper Company's property, {
| little less than thirteen tons, ran 9.5(
per cent copper, 1874 ounces silver
and .26 ounce gold to the ton. The
high silica content makes the dunn
ideal concentrating ore and concen
traitor is the end toward which thu
Shea company is now working.
The names of the following Arizon:
men are contained in the casualty list
Died of wounds, Farmer Harrington
Miami. Killed in action, Odus e. Nc
Fadden, Mesa. Died of accident
Guadalupe Flores, Tucson. Wounded
severely, Oral T. Henderson, Cotton
wood land Allen A. Berquist, Miami
Wounded, degree undetermined, Mil
ton E. Ollerton, Temple; G.. V. Cruth
ers, Tucson. Died of disease, Charles
A. Fisher, Grand Canyon; Augustil
Urea, Clifton. Missing in action
Joseph Harris, Globe. Slightly wound
ed, Carl E. Schroeder, Stafford anC
Frank G. Telucas, Bisbee.
| Ao%ino np6or ordorc from oov