The Benson signal., 1919-02-08
ARIZONA ITEMS.

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company will cease operations. Only
curtailment of force is in prospect
at present.
| The Commercial Club of Tucson
recently discussed the advisability
Of sending delegation to Miami
! among other cities Of the state to
promote closer trade relations.
Taking a new lease of life after
protracted spell of inaction due to
war drives, influenza and other
causes, the Flagstaff Board of Trade
plans a short but intensive drive for
members. I
The contract for lighting the town
of Nogales, with electric lights, was
awarded to the Arizona Gas and
Electric Company by the town coun-
Gil, following a lengthy session of
that body.
Showing an increase of receipts
from $13,842.57 in 1913, to $19.-
E032.79 in 1918, during the seven
years Of his occupancy, the final re-
port of Sidney P. Osborn, secretary
VI otdtC, Ado ICCCAIiy UCCA AA0O'
From the United States Forest
| Service at Albuquerque comes the
| statement that there has been a re-
markable increase in range cattle in
New Mexico and Arizona since the
entry of the United States into the
war.
"The aviation Lieutenant O'Neill, :"
reported killed near ChatillonSur-
Seine is believed by r. L. O'Neill Of
| Nogales to have been his son, Lieut..
Ralph O'Neill. Mr.. O'Neill said he
| had received a letter several days
ago from his son, who wrote that he
was stationed near ChatillonSur-
| Seine.
Aerial transportation is to be in
augurated in Phoenix within the
course of the next two months. A
company has been organized for this
purpose, secured the initial machine
and made arrangements to begin op-
GRAFTON within sixty days. The termi-
nal points will be Phoenix and
Globe.
The Silver Belt Consolidated mine,
near Humboldt, Ariz., in a cross-cut
| to the hanging wall at 130 feet from
| the surface, has encountered a foot
| and half of high-grade silver-lead
| ore assaying $162 per ton and a
| four-inch streak of high-grade on
! the foot wall. The vein at this point
| ia fiftean feet wide
The new reduction plant for the
Silver King mine will reach camp
| in about ten days When the new
! plant is installed, Silver King will
have daily milling capacity of
about 100 tons Large bodies of mill
ing ore have been> developed at the
mine, and everything is moving
along satisfactorily.
The Arizona State Corporation
| Commission has annulled the new
rates of the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company,
which were advertised to have been
! put into effect on the 21st of this
month. Order also annuls order of
August last, fixing charges for the
installation of telephone boxes.
The dates set for the annual con-
| vention of the Arizona CattleIGrow-
| ers' Association in Phoenix are Feb
| ruary 11th, 18th and 18th. 1t is ex-
| pected that the convention will be
| by far the largest in attendance in
| the history of the association, and
| members will endeavor to make it
| the most popular and profitable ev-
| er held.
| Mrs. M. P. Lockwood, state leader
of home demonstration agents, who
| has just returned from an impor-
| tant conference of states relations
| workers at Washington d. c., was
much pleased to notice that photo
graphs of the canning and project
work of the home demonstration
agent at Miami occupied promin-
| ent position among the pictures OF
special achievements in the states re-
| lations office. This is matter OF
pride for Arizona, as many states are
unrepresented in this collection.
| Gid Thompson, for many years a
| peace officer in Douglas and in the
Globe Miami district, died in Doug
las as a result of blood poisoning
due to slight scratch on his hand
DR.. Jeremiah Metzger, proprietor
of the Tucson-Arizona Sanitarium.
northeast of Tucson, was made the
! principal beneficiary under the terms
| of the will of Miss Mary Burns, a
former employe and patient of the
sanitarium, which will was probated
in the Superior Court recently. The
residue of the estate, after the pay
ment of legacies, will amount to ap-
proximately 100000, consisting
principally of stocks and bonds.
In the House of Representatives
of the Arizona State Legislature Mrs.
Rosa Mckay, author of the present
minimum wage law for women, has
amended the bill increasing the wage
y INT