Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-18
County Briefs

The demand for repairing the Tomb stcne-DragOon road is growing and be- fore long the supervisors must take this road into consideration, since 1t is going to be of greater importance than heretofore. It is an absolute necessity to the north end of the county.
 w. T. Boyd late of Douglas has purchased the inteeTst of Mrs. Bessie Flach at Tombstone. and will put in an electric plant to take care of the large business the drug store handles. Mir Boyd being from Douglas. il would appear that he has not much faith in the county seat removal deal Douglas is now trying to put over.
 The tungsten property near Ramsey canyon in the Huachuca's, formerly op- erated under bond and lease from Al bert Steinfeld by O. T. Smith, has been taken over by A. J. Clark, L. P. Por- ter and G. F. Kislingbury of Los An eeles, who plan the erection of a 150- ton concentratOr on the property. Clark. Porter and Kislingbury are op- eraEng in Indio county California, and Kislingbury will be the manager of the new operation. The new Own- CTS first purchased the bond and lease from Smith and then concluded the purchase with Steinfield. giving them full title to the property.
 It is reported that Douglas is lav- ing considerable trouble in getting up the county seat removal petition. lt is said that the valley people are not signing this time like they did be-ore and when the statement was given out by tn government reserve bank oil cials that the government considered II German propaganda for communities to want to vote bonds for anything that was not a necessity, the lood people of Cochise county took heed and refused to sign the petition. The government may not consider the re- mOval of the county seat of CochlSe county to Douglas a war necessity and will not approve bonds for such procedure.
 Five new army nurses arrived at tllt dIAllE Uainf Ubni iNAAtlA dh N.ttAAtF " Saturday morning from Fort Sam Houston. They are Ruth Bennett Nancy Virginia Bolo. Sophie R. Heath, Genevieve StrattOn and Margaret Helen Spies. This brings the total number of nurses al the hospital mp to forty-three. Pending the compile ton of additional quarters For the nurses. many have been living m tents. The hospital is more crowded than it has ever been before. This Is due to the fact that so many recEults are coming in, and they have a habit of catching measles. humps and every thing else they were lucky enough 10 escape in childhood as soon as tneS are exposed to it in a camp.
 Tentative steps toward the develop ment of the oil prospects at Bowie was indicated during the week by the incorporation of the Bowie Oil X Re fning company with a capitalization of one million shares at a par value of one dollar each. The company Is backed by locations on several thOus- and acres of land. The incorporators ate W. J. COburn, A. A. Worsley' c. c. l King and J. H. JacQue The officers l elected are William J. Colburn, presi- . dent: A. A. Worsley, vice president; l. C. C. King. secretary; J. H. Jacque,' treasurer. MT Jacque is editor and of the Bowie Enterprise. He has located most of the claims for re company Mir. Colburn is an old resident of Tucson Mir King was at ,ne time MissisSippis cotton ccmmis- ,ioner to the Paris exposition. He