The Benson signal., 1919-03-01
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

A county road crew is to be kept
between. Clarkdale, Cottonwood and
Verde
Legislation aimed at the white slave
traffic within the state of Arizona was
approved by the lower House of the
Legislature recently.
The Mexican government has can
celled the requirement that Americans
wait twenty days for passports, ac-
cording to reports from Nogales.
A recommendation to Congress that
all aliens who failed to register for
the draft, or who left the country
temporarily to avoid registering, be
Immediately deported, was adopted in
the lower House of the Legislature at
Phoenix.
All mines and smelters of the Verde
district are closed down for period
OF at least three months, probably
longer. There are four thousand idle
mine and smelter workers in the dis
trict. The number of people directly
affected is not less than $4,000.
New Cornelias' Oil flotation test
should be in operation in about ninety
days, according to present calcula-
tiOns. The foundations are all prac-
ticaHy completed, and the machinery
is in place. The plant will have a
maximum capacity of 600 tons day.
Four new arrests were made at Je-
rome by Department of Justice agents,
but no disorders were reported as a
result of the order of the United
Verde and United Verde Extension
Copper Companies closing down for a
period of from three to eight months.
Nearly half million acres of land
in Arizona for returned army and navy
men and others who are looking for
we'll irrigated firSt-class farms, is the
keynote of an immense co-ordinated
project which is being worked out un-
der the direction of Andrew Kimball,
Arizona representative of the Agricul-
tural Department of the Federal Rail-
road Administration.
The Arizona Cattle Growers Asso-
citation closed it's twelfth annual ses-
sion after passing resolutions con-
demning what it termed the tendency
of the food supply of the nation to
drift into the shands of a few men,"
criticizing government administration
of railroads and pressing for early
federal control Of the unappropriated
public domain. Tucson was chosen
as the next meeting place, and Charles
7. Mullen of Skull Valley, AriZ., was
reelected president.
The wrecking of scores of plants of
the. Congress Consolidated Mining
Company, aggregating. thousands of
tons of metallic goods, is progressing
rapidly and the buying firm of Los
Angeles will tear up later the railroad
track over three miles long into Con-
greSs Junction. The two locomotives
also are to go into the heap and when
the dismantling ends the once famed
gold camp that produced about $14,-
100000 will present a scene as if swept
by a cyclone and he of fond memory
only.
The first action against hundreds
of members of the I. w. W., who are
said by police officials to be making
for Phoenix to hold an Arizona con-
vention of the organization, was taken
when Phoenix police officers arrested
two alleged I. w. w. leaders who
were addressing a meeting in East
Lake park. Within the ewo days, Of
ficerS say, upwards of9350 members
of the I. w. w. have arrived in Phoe-
nix from Jerome where the mines al
ready have been closed down, and
from BiSbee Globe and Miami. Off
cials estimate the present I. w. w.
strength in Phoenix and the Salt riv-
er. valley at 1000.
Ten-round boxing bouts in Arizona,
the contestants wearing eight-ounce
gloves, is the aim Of bill sponsored
by request Of Representative Jennings
In the lower House Of the Legislature.
This piece Of proposed legislation
would have physician pass on the
physical fitness of every boxer taking
part in bout, would place a ban on
ticket scalping and would class those
implicated in "fake" bouts as guilty
Of q misdemeanOr.
Arizona is preparing to license her
airplanes along with it's automobiles,
trucks and motorcycles, according to a
bin introduced in the Senate by Sen
p ator Young. The present law on mo-
tor taxes is repealed. For airplanes
the tax would be $3.50 for each hun
dred dollars in value with deprecia-
ton allowed for the first year at 20
per cent, the same for the second
year, 10 per cent for the third, fourth
and fifth years. but providing that the
tax should not fall below $12. A tax
IS added of 15 cents per horsepower.
Automobiles and trucks of more than
1000 pounds capacity would be taxed