Arizona state miner., 1919-09-12
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. 3 to 8. 1919.

of Nogales, Ariz
The Swansea Mines Company, for
merly called the Clara Consolidate,
twenty-five miles north of Bouse, on
the ''cut-off," are reported to be work
ing thirtytwo men and planning to put
on hundred more.
W. H Skinner, president of the Po-
cahontas Mining Company at Mayer,
Ariz., states that the installing imme-
diately of a 1OO-ton milling plant of
the ball type had been decided upon.
| It will be equipped with the Callow
system of flotation and Whitley tables
for concentration.
The stockade with it's enclosed
houses will be finished and ready for
occupancy not later than Sept. Is. On
that date or possibly few days ear
lier, approximately 100 convicts will
be taken to Superior to start actual
construction work on the state high
way through Apache canon.
The reclamation service is to go
ahead Immediately with the sale and
| improvement of the Yuma project, ac-
| cording to an announcement made at
Phoenix by State Senator Mulford
| Winsor of Yuma, who has recently re-
| turned from a six weeks stay in
| Washington in the interest of this pro-
| ject.
In addition to the large number of
cattle which have been recovered with
| changed brands during the last two
weeks near Magdalena, N. NJ, several
more have been discovered in the past
few days and those who are best in
formed think that an organized gang
have been working in that vicinity for
| long time.
The town of East Vaughn, on the
| Santa Fe system, and the town of
| Vaughn, n NJ, on the ~El Paso &
Southwestern system, have merged
| their two school districts and consoli-
| dated their separate schools. j. Fl.
Wagner, state superintendent of pub
| lie instruction, was present at the
meeting which perfected plans for the
merger
Sims, secretary of state, show total
| of 25,S9S automobiles licensed in Ari-
zOna. Gila county ranks fourth. The
| total by counties follows: Apache,
1913; Cochise, 3,O27; Coconino, 532;
ella, 2,256; Graham, 71S; Greenlee,
| 575; Maricopa 1896; Mohave, 623;
| Navajo, SO; Pima, 2,318; Pinal, S75
Santa Cruz 701; Yavapai, 1856; Yu-
ma, 1898.
Eluterio Rodriguez, Jr., 5-year-old
| son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. Rodriguez, was
| instantly killed near Las Vegas, n NJ,
when he was kicked in the head by
| horse. The yOungster and his two sis
ters had been sent to drive a stray
horse from the corn field and he evil
| IDENTIFY approached too close to the ami
mails heels as one of his hOofs struck
the boy just behind the right ear, kill
| ing him instantly.
The crosscut of the vein 400 feet west
of the shaft on the $50 level of the
Twins mine of the Daisell Mining Com
pany, near Kingman, Ariz., has dis
closed thirteen feet of high grade mill
ore. The company proposes raising
from this level to connect with the 90
foot shaft and this shaft will be tim
bered up and carried down on the ore
to a depth of several hundred feet be-
low the present level.
A strike of silver-lead-g gold ore, pro-
nounced by old timers "the richest
strike in the history of the district"
has been made by Purdy Wilcox and
| Goodwin, operating the Paloma King
located few miles from Wickenburg
Pinos Altos, N. M, which a genera
tion ago was one Of the largest placer
mining camps in the Southwest, is
coming back as mining camp. Two
firms are now doing placer mining at
the head of Bear creek and doing it on
much larger scale than it was ever
done before.
County Agent Powers, who has been
working on the county fair movement
for the past few weeks, has succeeded
in getting nearly all the citizens inter
ested in the movement and has ap-
pointed a committee to make the pre-
liminary arrangements. The commit
tee will visit all the agencies in Lin
coin county and will report at an early
date just what may be expected in the
way of exhibits. It is expected that
the fair will be held in the month of
| October after all the crops are in and
the farmers have a chance to make
careful selections from the seasons
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