The Benson signal., 1919-02-15
ARIZONA ITEMS.

annual bonus to l,4OO employees
amounting to $150,00O
Under amendment of Bankhead law
Arizonas portion of money for road
construction would be $S,221, ,62252.
The 2SO-ton oil flotation plant of
| Clara Consolidated Gold and Copper
Company about completed. at Parker.
Mexican government has placed i'm
port duty of 81. 10 per hundred pounds
ON flour and sugar from United
States
Abundant grass and cheap hay
ers. Sheep growers of Arizona will
offer no opposition to increased graz
ing fees
Representative Sealey introduced in
che House bill providing for the
establishment of a state hospital for
miners and making an appropriation
Of $25O,O00 for that purpose.
Rigid investigation OF the actions OF
several Oil companies whose stock has
been sold throughout the state Of Ar
izona was forecast by A. A. Belts,
chairman of the State Corporation
Commission.
Any Vehicle found freighted with
liquor within the boundaries of the
state Of Arizona, would be liable to
confiscation under the terms of bill
re-introduced in the State Senate by
Senator Claridge.
Tuckahoe mine at Chloride Strikes
bonanza ore on $50 foot level. Min
eralized quartz carries values up to
$4,000 a ton. Black tale lies under
this strata sampling 50 ounces silver
and 1896 in gold.
Fire originating in the lamp house
of the Central theater in Lowell, a
suburb of Bisbee, completely de-
Stroyed the wooden theater building
and damaged others in the vicinity to
the extent of $4,000.
The 500 week minimum wage bill
for women was killed in the Arizona
Legislature There were four votes
on the measure, which was known as
House Bill No. 5, and at no time
could it summon more than thirteen
votes in it's favor.
| A monument costing $4,000 will be
| erected to the memory of Lieut.. Frank
Luke, Jr., the Phoenix aviator, who
was killed while flying on the west
ern front, if the resolution introduced
in the Arizona House Of Representa-
tives today is passed.
| Four alleged /. w. w. leaders were
placed under arrest at Globe, and are
being held in the county Jail pending
an investigation by the department OF
justice. A large quantity of propagan-
ola, due books and defense stamps
were confiscated by the officers
In a pistol duel by automobilists
passing each other on the Glendale
Hot Springs highway, Frank Hoctor
| Of Springerville was shot and killed
by a prominent stockman named ].
d. Newman. Newman carried the
dead body in his machine to Glendale.
| Daniel w. Working, formerly OF
Colorado, and for many years con-
nected with the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, has accepted an
appointment as dean of the College of
! Agriculture and director of the eXper-
| iment station of the University of Ar
| iZOna. He expects to assume his new
| duties at Tucson, March 1st.
Gov. Esteban Cantu of Lower Cali
fOrnia issued statement to 1.-The peo-
pie and government of the United
States" against continuation of the
move to annex Lower California to
the United States and referring to it
as "a conspiracy framed by some citi-
zens of the United States to assail the
integrity and freedom of a friendly ma
ton"
| John Christy, lessee Of the famous
LazinSky group Of mines, located be-
tween Clifton and Metcalf, has re-
| turned from a three weeks trip to
New York City. While in the east
Mr.. Christy made arrangements for
the construction of a 250-ton mill on
the Lazinsky group, foundation for
which will be laid in the next few
weeks.
The Tungsten Reed Mining Com
pany of Bisbee, owning a group of
| claims in the Huachuca mountains:
sixteen miles south of Hereford, which,
is the nearest rail point, now is en-
| yaged in installing a mill for concen'
tratiOn of the ore bodies opened UP.
The Colorado, one Of the five riv.
ers claSsed as the most important
within the United States, has been al
most wholly appropriated for agricul-
tural uses There are weeks in the
early summer when flood of water
thirty feet deep rushes past Yuma Oh
it's way to the Gulf of California but
there are other times in the early
spring when the river bed is dry where
| the river steamers once piled.
The convention called by the Ari-
| zona Good Roads Association at
Phoenix, passed what was termed by
delegates the keystone resolution OF