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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

The School Land Department
has advertised for bids on two
leases of oil land in Pawnee coun-
~, sale OF which will be held on
March Is. The holdings are those
on which leases expire and are
subject TO the preference right.
They are held by the Uncle Sam
Oil Company and the Coronado
OH and Gas Company. The former
is APPRAISED at $llQ07 and other
at Sl56,OSS. Whatever the bids are
the present lcssc will have the pref
crcnce right to take them. Both
are considered valuable ho'dinos
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

z. l.. ROBERTSON

AR. ROBERTSON, of Lawton. Ok
lahoma and Burkbunett. Texas.
~ has about just as many dry holes
70 his credit as any man would wish
Tor. he put down seventeen of them
before getting producer, but since
getting production he has become
Herested in more than fifty produc-
Ie wells, and has one of the best
producing wells in the Burkburnett
District. He also has other interests
IN real estate, cattle and banking.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09
AMERICAN CASUALTIES

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American casualty list as given for
the day includes the following. from
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bart ,'''' w.
Texas
Corp. lanes n. Elliott, Waco .
PWS. William W. Men, Trinity
Henry llthridge Bardford. Alto,
Wounded Severely.
Oklahoma.
Pvt Scaly Nlexander OhmuIgce.
Texas.
Pus. Leonard g. Bowen. Wich-
tia Falls. William 4. UilI Kipncr';
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09
MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES.

Killed in Action.
Texas.
Pvt Ben Rogers Edna.
Wounded Severely, Previously Re
ported Missing.
Texas.
Pvt. George W, Crump, Spur.
In Hospital, Previously Reported
Missing.
Texas.
Sergt. Charles II. Barnes Dallas ;
Pyts. James B. Collins, Coleman.
Returned to United States, Previ-
ously Reported Missing.
Oklahoma.
Pvt. BENJAMIN r. Roberts, Tall
hina.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

We have valuable lease section
1888, Healdton field, Wish to make
contract with responsible party to
drill same for half interest. Holt
Trammell Oil Co., Chickasha, Okla.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09
FREE.

Map of the Burkburnelt, Texas,
oil field. Address c. NJ. Carlisle,
llO2 Herskowitz Bldg, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

Wounded Degree Undetermined
Previously Reported Missing.
Texas.
Pvt. John Prior Holder TimpSon.
Returned to Duty. Previously Re-
ported Missing.
Texas.
Pvts. Doak IL. EcholS, Dallas;
Sam d. Hover Fort Worth; Rob
ert Moore. WaNahachc; Marvin
Mott, Brooklyn.
Erroncously Reported Missing in
Action.
Texas.
Pvt, Jesse K. Harry, Dryden.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

The Hames well OF the Plains
Oil and Gas Company at Ranger
is making 200 barrels per day after
having the bottom cleaned at a
depth OF 1885 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

FRESH BOTTLED MILK AND
WHIPPING CREAM. COLD
STORAGE MARKET. PHONE
50.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

The Harrington well No. of the
Plain, Oil and Gas Company is
drilling at 1910 feet The No. /
Stockton OF the same company is
drilling at $50 feet. Both of the
wells are in the Hogg Creek coun-
try Of Texas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09

Ouo Bradford of the Empire
Pipeline and Petroleum Company
Is in Wichita Falls.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-02-09
ARLDMORlE OIL FIELDS
Bryant Harbert, Phone 538

cooperating with the hotels il
this work.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
PRESCOTT SCHOOL ID BE
 REALIZED :.
(From Thursdays Dailv.


 While it has been definitely de- cided that South Prescott is to have school house. no formal action is to be taken in closing lip any matters in connection herewith until after the return from Texas of M. B. Ha- zeltine, member of the board of school trustees. It is contemplated, however, to nave a bond election at an early date. and it is reported the sum that will be required to erect this structure will be not less than $4OOO0. \
 A census taken of the district to be affected shows approximately 100 pupils who will be diverted from other schools in the city, and the movement is being heartily welcomed by many families in that zone. The improving of the city on the south side and the consequent enhancing of realty values also is welcomed, the new structure to adorn a block on which there is not a building. The spacious site will be- donated by the city under conditions, 1t is reported, that the structure will materially add to beautifying the place and relieve the environment of the isolation now prevailing.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
SNOOZER COPPER AGAIN
 SWINGS INTO ACTION

Resumption of the Snoozer, of the Senator group, owned by the Phelps Dodge corporation, was announced yesterday by 4. B. Peach, who is to assume the superintendency.
 A force Of miners has been placed at work and shipping begins in due time. This movement is important, as it signifies the interest there Is at tached to coppers in this field which closed down earlier in the year, and lin this instance it may mean that the commercial holdings of the above firm in Copper Basin are soon again to begin moving.
 The Snoozer has been a heavy shipper in past year, and from diff ferem leasers thereon good reports were given of its possibilities with additional development. The average copper content was about Is per cent. with which were associated gold values, making as whole de- sirable proposition.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
CLUB SHARES AT A
 PREMIUM SHORTLY
(From Thursdays OailyJ

Memberships in the Hassayampa Country clnb will be at premium within a short length of time. This
 IS not fairy tale but straightfor- ward fact. Interest in getting this club under way so that the golf links, tennis courts and clubhouse may be used as quick as possible con tinues to grow each day. The mem bership in the club is limited to l5O and. already there are over 49 mem berships in the club and the canvass of the situation is not nearly com .peted Each member, with the eX- ception of junior members, must Dc a shareholder in the club. Therefore there is no initiation fee, the share oi stock which entities the. holder there of to membership in the club is $l00 This amount can be paid at once and the stock issued, or 50 per cent can be paid upon application and the balance on or before October l.
 The grounds of the new Country club will be fenced immediately, the contract for this work having been let yesterday. It will be but a mat ter of a few days before the final plans will be completed for the se- lection of the location for the club house, the links and the tennis courts. Those who have not visited the site of the club grounds should do so and ii there is any doubt in their minds as to the desirability of hay ing a membership in such club, they can rest assured that they will be- come enthusiastic boosters for the country club. At meeting of the officers and board of directors of the club held recently the bylaws gov erning the club were carefully con sidered and adopted.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
CALGARY SHOW WANTS
 LOCAL PUNCHERS
(From Thursdays Daily)

Guy Weadlick, manager of the Stampede. which will be held at Cal gary, Alberta, Canada, August 25 to 30, is particularly desirous of having a good representation from Arizona at the contest. Mir. Weadick has been in correspondence with Arena Di- rector Ruffner and he advises Lester that if he will put in an appearance at Calgary he will be traded the visit during the next years Frontier Days. Twenty-Five thousand dollars in cash purses will be offered in the various contests.
 Cheyenne Riser, winner of the worlds championship bareback broncho riding purse at the Prescott Frontier Days. is contemplating making the trip, as are several other of the local contestants, and judging from what Slleeter Bill Robbins mas to say of the Prescott contestants, they will have a good chance in the money Skeeter Bill has played the Stampede many times and he is qual- flied to make the statement that some of the best riding in the entire coun- try, as well as one of the best
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
MANY CREWS ARE
 WORKING ON ROADS (Ernm Thnrsdav's Dailv-l

Road gangs all over Yavapai county are rapidly putting the high ways back in the shape they were in before the series of heavy rains and cloudbursts beginning July 2, ac- reording to an announcement at the office of the board of supervisors yes terday. It will be some little time before the work is completed, as many permanent improvements are being put in, simultaneously with the flood repairs.
 One gang is at work in Blackberry Wash on the Cherry Creek road out of Dewey.
 Another gang is at work fixing the road between Jerome Junction and Ash Fork-a piece of work that is hard because of the poor condition of the soil at various places, and im- portant because this road is one of the chief north and south arteries for the entire state. In fact, there is no other road between south and north on which the casual motorist ever ventures.
 Two gangs are now employed on the road between Prescott and Je- rome Junction; and are at the pFes-
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
AUTO OWNERS TO PAY
 TAX, ELSE NO LICENSE (FrOm Thursday's D1ily.)

Automobile owners ih Arizona will be licensed only after they have squared accounts with their county assessors, according to a new law just going into effect The aim of the statute is to keep tabs on all newly purchased cars, so that the "scatt-gatherer" can get his bit from them.
 Motor car licenses secured from July l to the first of the year will not carry the tax, but will be half yearly licenses, charged for at half the state rate. Then, when January rolls around and the owner has to secure another license, he will have to submit a statement with his ap- plication, to the effect that the car has been assessed by the county off cial, or that the taxes on it have been paid.
 Cars exempt from taxation are those purchased during the season following assessment and tax col lecting, and then they are exempt only until the beginning of the fol lowing taxing period.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

heretofore untenanted lands, together with the increase in population from out of the state, is thought to be in a good measure the responsible agent in this steady yearly increase in land valuation.
 The tax commission has begun hearings for equalization, of assess ments, but formal sittings as a board of equalization begin next Monday and extend to the llth, inclusive. George R. Drysdale. Clifton, general superintendent, appeared for the Ari- zona and New Mexico railroad. Judge Ernest w. Lewis, Phoenix, appeared for the Shannon Copper Co.,, ab- sorbed by the Arizona Copper Co. Chairman Zander stated that the annual tax conference held last week at Grand Canyon was a very satis- factory meeting, tending in every way to be of the greatest benefit to the state in creating among tax off cials an esprit de corps," keeping them upon their toes and assisting tie newly elected assessors and others concerned in the states tax business to get onto the ropes" Fit was decided by the conference that in the matter of the assessment of range cattle that it will be the tu-
 ture policy to secure a check on the
 number of cattle shipped out which bears certain known ratio to the
 number on the range under various
 conditions.
 The new auto assessment law, it
 was found, is working well and will probably be the means of making about $4,OOO,00O worth of perambulat-
 ing property pay that has been es- caping taxation.-Arizona Republi- ran
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
realize what 1t means to you THIS AR|ZONAN IN SIBERIA HAS
 LIVELY TIME
(From Thursday. psAsl

|, From Vladlvostok, Siberia, comes a letter to Harry McComber, writ ten by Ellis Wainwright, a mining and civil engineer formerly located in the Jerome field, ,~who is now sta- tioned near that city in railroad en- gineering, portion~of which is re- produced below.
 Am now with the 14th Engineer battalion in construction, and I tell you it is some job when one takes into consideration bucking up against the primitive methods of the Russian that still are observed as of half a century ago. The material we nave to handle is simply junk and is snaked from old waste dumps that have been accumulating for years. The rails are about 45 pound weight, and the sidetracks as light as 36 pounds. Trains creep along into sta tions like a snail and there is no air brake as yet introduced. The un- loading methods are joke, and when passengers leave the coach they are counted like so many cattle. This is for checking purposes, and if the number tallies with the dispatches sent ahead, it is all right, if not, there is long tie up, and back into the stall go all. The Superintendent, us- ually a military officer, known as the ''iapgier.9 has as much authority as a commanding general in the field Tke so-called rolling stock IS a joke, and I have been on trains of 60 cars with out a seat to be had,by any one. The cinders fly thick and one has to be brushing the sparks from his clothes all the time, as they use only coal and wood for fuel. An oil burning engine is net believed to exist here, and as yet l have not Tn onto a sin gle locomotive engineer who has the slightest conception of what one of this type of an engine looks like.
 As a whole the Russian system Of railroading appeals to me as hercely antediluvian, but it is in harmony just the same with the masses who would fight rather than sidestep from a custom bred into their bones. Ot course the higher-ups know better, but they are helpless to modernize the situation. ...........
 We are assembling about 235 American locomotives, have started an engineering school of instruction,
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
LOCAL MOOSE TO HAVE
 90-DAY CAMPAIGN IEA 1.LAn..sr DnurN

Local Moosedom will have the ser vice of Deputy Supervisor John A. Refs for three months campaign Mir. Reis came from Phoenix yester- day to direct membership work here and in this vicinity.
 Just back from the national con vention at Mooseheart, near Chi cago. Mir. Refs mas conceived a great admiration for the great plant the order has built there to care for and educate for work in the world the sons and daughters of Moose who have passed away. Regarding this enterprise, he has this to say:
 What more sincere purpose in life is there than the conservation oi childhood?
 There is a spark that lies in the bosom of every man and woman in the land, the love of the little chil- dren.
 "Fraternal societies are the evolu- ton of the Bible David and Jonathan story.
 Read the David and Jonathan story ill the fraternal societies of to- day. Up to six years ago, however none went farther than mutual asso- citation nelp to a degree and so called death benefits. Children of our de- ceased brothers were not accounted in the benefits excepting in the way of very crude orphanages that gave temporary shelter to the destitute children of the orders.
 Since 1913 one fraternity under the inspiration of the David and Jon athan story has sustained real home for the destitute children and orphans of its membership.
 "In the month of August, 1913, Thomas K. Marshall, vice-president of the United States, dedicated Mooseheart, s miles west of Chi cago, a home for the children of the Loyal Order of Moose in which every advantage for a vocational training preparation for citizenship
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

and the air-brake is going to be in troduced, together with a general re- habilitating of the entire railroad sys- tenn. We have some job, but I will stick until about the first of the year, when I and others are to go to Ma nila. There is only one reckoning feature to being over here, and that is the pay of Uncle Sam is good and my salary is satisfactory.
 Many of the Russian officers, those Of the rank of colonel and above, speak English, but those of lesser rank use the mother tongue. The educated classes always have the higher rank and as rule the genuine soldier can't get away from the ranks unless he has a college sheepskin. In short, it is a case of the intellectual shepherd driving the big flock before him. The masses seem to like it."
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

lEl Capitan in the Yosemite, three times as high, or Clouds Rest, from whose top you can witness the greatest panorama on earth? It is 10000 feet high and 10000 feet above sea level.
 The lakes of Italy and of Scotland are beautiful, but they are as glass of water TO our own Lake Michigan, and to that galaxy of lakes in our own country. Swiss waterfalls are wonderful. but our falls and cascades make them appear like one wife's de- scription of another's model husband; IA small imitation of the real thing
 The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, "the greatest natural curiosity in the world" is visited by comparatively few. Yet of it Bayard Taylor wrote: He whose expectations are not sat ished by its marvellous avenues, domes and grottoes must be either fool or a demi-god."
 The trees of Europe shrink in age and dimension before the giants of California Through the Wawona, in the Mariposa Grove, you can drive a stage coach, and the Grizzly Giant is 4,6S0 years old Many of these time-defying veterans had their growth, as it were, before the siege of Troy.
 In our national parks are geysers, the like of which exist nowhere else on earth; scenic pictures that artists cannot paint; mountains and rivers and waterfalls so varied that in a weeks time you could see only a part.
 In the midst of a desolate alkali plain there is a formation of rock from the Assures of which emanates melody as though unseen hands were playing an instrument underneath. Here, indeed, silence is more elo- quent than speech.
 If you seek health you have but to travel a day to reach mineral springs unequaled by the hot waters of Carls- bad or the cold waters of Mhrienbad.
 For this is America-a boundless
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06
$6s,OOO COPPER MINING
 DEAL IS CLOSED
(From sa:urday's Daily.l

I Rumors in circulation during the week of an important mining deal having been closed in which the Franco-American Copper company | figured as a principal, are confirmed by official records of the county re- corder in a deed executed yesterday. The above company, for consid- eration of $65,000 in cash, paid to A, w. Nicklin, George B. McGarvey and w. E. Pate, acquire absolute title to a group of nine coppers in Agua Fria district, which is better known as the old Yavapai Metals holdings.
 The purchasing company for some months had been operating under bond and so satisfactory were de- terminations that an outright sale was concluded by which larger sys1 tem of mining might go ahead and with financial resources being avail able for future undertaking on a big permanent scale. While it is said there are some prominent Ari- zona mining operators figuring in this deals the internal affairs of the Franco are believed to be undergoing change in consequence of new capital becoming interested. the names of those figuring the transaction not being given publicity. In this connection it was reported yesterday that Col. Fred Bowler is to retire as president, and he will be succeeded by Attorney E. s. Clark. Col. Bowler steps into the office of vice-p president, and retains the man agement of the property. Senator German of West Virginia has ten dered his resignation as vice-presi- dent, and with former Governor Od- die of Nevada, both remain with the company Ss heavy stockholders.
 Immediate operations on a large scale are now under consideration. and production is to be materially increased and the operating expenses greatly enlarged. Of interest to stockholders it is said the capitali- zation of 5,OOOO0O shares of par value of 10 cents a share is to be reduced to 100000 shares with par value of SO cents a share, which action will not disturb those who have become interested. Also was it stated yesterday that in due time new board of directors would be elected, and other vital matters will be concluded in harmony with the wishes of those who have become principals of the company.
 The holdings of the Franco-Amer- ican during the past six months of activity under a bonding agreement have attained high rating by reason of production and determinations made to a depth of about 300 feet. The property is situated about one and one-half miles north of the Binghamton and Big Bug Go. hold ings.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

ent time putting in culverts of con- crete to replace two rickety wooden bridges near the City Farm. One of these gangs will soon be transfer red to the road between here and Dewey.
 A small gang is now stationed on the Black Canyon road just beyond Mayer. The flat between Mayer and Cordes, softened by the rains, has proven one of the worst handicaps to automobile travel in this section .of the country. Soil is clayey and bottomless. Moreover, traffic during its soft stages nas cut deep ruts, which, drying, makes life miserable for the poor critter who tries to drive a car over them.
 One gang, accompanied by the big road-making truck, has just started surfacing the county road between Jerome and Clarkdale. The United Verde is supplying slag for the sur face coat, and just lately has em- ployed one of its big steam shovels in filling the trucks.
 Another crew in the Verde coun- try is smoothing the road between Cornvlle and Sedonia.
 In the south, the regular crew is working toward Prescott from Wick enburg on another main traffic artery that was badly mishandled by the high water.
 Some of the work has been de- layed, and the delay has peeved citi- zeps and motorists, but it was thought best, to await the end of the ram