The Benson signal., 1919-05-24
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

D o. y.
An appropriate bill for cooperation
with the United States was enacted
carrying an appropriation Of such
sums as are necessary for SOldier-set-
tlement work in Arizona. The Legis-
lature also memorialized Congress in
favor of the plan.
The erection of two bridges at
cost of $4,000 has been added to
the program Of road and bridge de-
velopment for the coming year, as
the result of the contemplated action
of Maricopa and Yuma counties in
making state loans.
The Carter Oil Company well near
Fort Defiance, forty miles from Hol-
brook, is now down 1,15O feet. This
we'll entered the first oil sand at
depth of 800 feet and is now well on
the way to the second sands. The
first sand was oil bearing, but the
flow was cased off,
Two young women who have
branched off from the beaten paths
of investments for women, are Miss
Helen Brown and Miss Elsie Toles of
| Douglas. Recently they purchased
160-acre fruit ranch in the Chiricahua
mountains and as soon as school closes
Miss Brown will go out to take charge.
| The band of outlaws under command
Of Jose Maria Suarez, which terror
lied Cananea, killed five policemen
| nd or To- +
Friday, is reported to be heading east
| ward on a course which would carry
| it to the vicinity of Colonia Moreles,
fifty-six miles southeast of Douglas,
| Arizona.
Three men were killed and num-
| ber wounded in a free-for-all fight that
occurred in the Plaza at Cananea,
Mexico, near Douglas, Arizona, during
the celebration of the Cinco de Mayo.
Beer flowed freely, special dispen-
sation having been granted for the
| celebration and the brew mixed with
mescal, brought sabout disastrous re-
| suits.
It is announced that the Ray Con-
solidated Copper Company's No. 4
main hoist will be in operation early
i'll the month. The hoist, as previous
j ly announced, embOdies the last word
| in up-to-the-minute hoist construction.
1t is equipped with numerous safety
and efficiency devices that have been
approved by the foremOse engineers
in the business.
J. N. Jaggers of Mesa, federal hay
inspector of Maricopa county, has
been arrested, and Alfred J. Peters,
prominent hay dealer of Tempe, is at
liberty on a $4,000 bond, following
| their arrest on a federal warrant
charging conspiracy to defraud the
government out of a large sum of
money by selling an inferior grade of
hay at the price of superior grade.
The Holbrook Oil Company will be
drilling shortly. All it's camp build
ings are completed, the rig is on the
ground as we'll as ample supplies Of
casing and other material. The bore
of the well will be fourteen inches at
the surface. This company has also
completed buildings and derrick for a
second well to be drilled two and one
half miles from HolbrOok on the syn
cline.
The Klatawa Oil Company, COM
posed principally of Flagstaff and
Florida capitalists, is under S. w.
Johnson, a well known mining operat-
or, as general manager. This company
holds a valuable lease comprising y
section of land secured from the new
ly formed Holbrook Midwest Oil Com
pany. Manager Johnson reports that
active development will be under way
within thirty days at their Holbrook
holdings.
Stock statesmen operating in Arizona
hereafter must present prospective
purchasers of stock copy of the State
thorizing the sale of the stock offered.
This was the order issued at the of
flee of t>e commission.
Two companies, the Hopi and the
Adamana are now drilling at Holbrook,
the holdings of the former concern
having been taken over by the Wind
River Oil and GRefining Company,
which has casing, cement and all 9TH
er supplies sufficient to complete the
we'll to a depth of 5000 feet now on
the ground together with a standard
rig completely equipped. Bob Adams.
field man for the company, is in
charge of the operations.
Evidence of wholesale violation Of
the passport regulations, whereby Mex
leans are spirited across the American
border at nominal rate of So each,
has been uncovered in Jerome by Dep
uty United States Marshal Harry
Carlson. The investigations of the of
ficial have lead to obtaining a mass
Of evidence which indicates the opera
tiOn of an organized ring. whose ac-
tivities are centered mainly in the port
of NOgales, on the Mexican side.
Arizona great war veterans are rep