The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-07
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The state of Arizona is the owner of
sixty-one automobiles.
Arizona's quota Of unskilled labor
tor war work is 2.64O men.
The annual fair at Light will be held
this year on Oct. II and IL.
The Home Oil Company has re-
sumed drilling in the Chino valley.
High-grade manganese ore has been
discovered on the Cap Rock noun
tains.
Thousands of dollars will be ex-
pended in improving the army camp at
Douglas.
July copper production at Miami
was 4,793,0S2 pounds, against 4,692,534
in June.
There is noticeable activity in min
ing operations in the district tributary
to Pearce.
The board Of supervisors at Prescott
has fixed the county tax rate for the
ensuing fiscal year at 1913 cents per
500.
The pear crop in the Mesila valley
is large and the quality fine, while
cantaloupes are 20 per cent better
than last year.
Bisbee reports that the Higgins
lease is shipping a carload of copper
ore per day, with return of 700 pounds
of copper per ton.
Although handicaps are not lacking,
Arizona mines are maintaining their
vigorous prosecution of metal produc-
ton and development work.
Through the grain corporation the
food administration has established
the price of flour and mill feeds for
every flour mill in Arizona.
A state organization of the Ma
t1onal League to- Enforce Peace will
be formed at Tucson. The first
meeting will be held Sept. 7.
The tax rate for Graham county was
set at $1.13 per 500 valuation. The
state rate is 80 cents, making the to-
tai county and state rate 1882.
A resolution requiring merchants to
display cost and sale price, on all
goods offered for sale to the public has
been adopted by the State Council of
Defense.
Tatum Candy, rancher of Will
COX, was accidentally killed at his
home when the full charge of a shot
gun entered his back at the left side
and caused death instantly.
Cochise county with the highest
assessed valuation in the state Of
Arizona, leads over other counties in
the state with the lowest tax rate in
the history of the county.
Seven Arizona colored men left for
Camp Lewis, Wash, ON the list; 800
draft men left on the 3rd for Camp
Kearny, Cal, and 100 go to Camp
Bowie, Tex, between Sept. 8 and 6.
From information cleaned by the
local authorities from "drunks," the
price of whiskey in Douglas ranges
all the way from Sc to SO pint,
with gloomy prospects of decline.
|. Greene Cananea reports copper out
put in July of 100000 pounds, an in
crease of 100000 pounds over June. In
the first six months of the current
year the company has produced a.
100000 pounds Of copper.
Robert Beasley, aged 13 years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Beasley of up
per Lowell, a suburb of Bisbee, was
electrocuted, his head and neck being
almost incinerated when he came in
contact with high tension power line
carrying $500 volts of electricity to
mining shafts of the Warren district.
The boy is said to have climbed on the
over on which the wire was mounted
Ihile at play.
Two men are dead and two are in a
erious condition as the result of an
accident at the Clarkdale smelter.
Inspiration production in July of g.
100000 pounds of copper was the low
est shown since last March, the first
month that output got back close to
normal since the disastrous strike
which started about year ago among
the mining companies.
Rays report for the second quarter
showed earnings available for divi-
dends of $2,255,217, or more than dou-
BILE those of the previous quarter. BY
reducing the dividend from 81 to So
rate the surplus after dividends
amounted to $1O72,333 as compared
with a deficit of $471,316 in the first
quarter.
Three negro soldiers, named Nc
Huen, Wilson and Hayden, made
their escape from the guard house at
Fort Huachuca and while on the
way to Hereford, were picked up
and given ride by rancher, and
when near Stark hit and stunned
him, and tried to escape in his car,
but were caught and taken back to
| the fort, tried by court martial and
convicted of beating and robbing
Rancher Atwood.
The fall term of the Federal Court