The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
7estern Newspaper Union News Service.

Nogales will celebrate July 4th.
Tucson letter carriers have sold
about $4,000 worth of Thrift Stamps.
The State Legislature has passed a
bill to pay salaries of members.
New Cornelia Copper Company at
Ajo., produced 3,728,OOO pounds of
copper in April.
Ray Consolidated earned $3.50 a
share in 1917, on production of 49,
$4,000 pounds of copper.
Whiskey is reported so scarce in Je-
rome that the price of common boot
leg has gone up to 81 a pint.
approximately $500 feet of lateral
development has been done on the 600
foot level at Calumet & Jerome.
Frank Cobie, a bootlegger sentenced
to serve years sentence at the Doug
las road camp, made his escape.
The Ray Consolidated Copper Com
pany reports fer the quarter ended
March 81 net profits of s1,025,236.
About $4,000 of machinery has
been purchased and will be installed
in the blackberry mines at Dewey.
At the Copper Age Group, the Ari-
zona Ore Reduction Company of King
man, is employing about fifty men.
The gross value of Mesa's cante-
loupe crop this season is expected to
pass $240,000 from 1000 acres of land.
Arizona has joined the list of west
ern range states in establishing rec
ord price on cattle in sale made at
$16.25.
The first shipment of bullion has
been made from the Gold Ore mine at
Oatman, the result of the first months
run.
Employees of the United Verde mine
at Jerome have bought over $4,000
worth of Thrift Stamps and Baby
bonds.
Willie Kehr, eight-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Kehr, was suffo-
Gated at Jerome when the home
burned.
Arizona Consolidated Smelling Com
pany paid 5 per cent. dividend June
1.-The fourth dividend paid by the
company.
The work on the Black Diamond
shaft at Walker is opening fine ore
body, which is said to be richest at
the lowest level.
At Globe, J. J. Keegan, Democratic
candidate for mayor, defeated Gene
Middleton, Socialist candidate, by
vote of 715 to 359.
The presence of smallpox in two
Mexican homes in the rural district
of Roosevelt, south of Phoenix, has re-
suited in stoppage of traffic.
Forty-five thousand dollars was the
sum received by J. +. Brown, a ranch
er who owned 800 acres Of land about
ten miles east of Casa Grande.
w. R. Ransdell of Tucson reports
big strike in the Narragansett mine,
encountering body of ore that is said
to run from nine to thirty per cent.
The Cochise county road commits.
sioners met in Tombstone and decided
to advertise for the grading of the
highway between Bisbee and Douglas.
Announcement has been made that
the first train from Holbrook on the
Apache railway will arrive at Snow.
flake July "a, which is the date of the
founding of the settlement.
At Jerome, the scene of a deporta-
ton of alleged members of the /. w.
w., citizens ticket hostile to the /.
w. w. and radical sentiment was
elected.
A citizens non-partisan "war till
victory ticket was elected at Bisbee.
Patriotism and opposition to the In
dustrial Workers of the World were
the issues.
The Warren district contributed
over $4,000 to the Red Cross fund.
Nineteen damage suits, asking judg-
ments in the aggregate of $4,000,
were filed in the Superior Court of
Yavapai county against the Hassayam-
pa Alfalfa Farms Company.
The home economics division of the
County Farm Bureau at Phoenix has
completed arrangements for establish
ing community canning and drying
centers throughout Maricopa county.
Development at the Dolphin at Po-
land has been attended by surprise
in mineral determinations, and from
being classed in the gold column it
has now advanced into a silver rating.
An eastern report says that the
long project Of extend
ing the Ri Paso and Southwestern
railroad from Tucson to Mesa and
Clarksdale, bids fair to be carried out
under the auspices of Col. D. G. Jack
ling.
A jury in the Superior Court at
Tombstone brought in a verdict OF
guilty against Mrs. Ernie James of
Bisbee on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon. Mrs. James had been