The Benson signal., 1919-06-07
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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Gillespie, an Oklahoma oil millionaire,
who is to put at least $1,OO0,O0O of his
own money into the enterprise,
The management of the Prima Cot
ton Ginning Company has just entered
into a contract with S. B. Shumway for
the erection of several buildings on
the company's property at Gilbert.
There is less unemployment in Ari-
zona than in any state in the Union,
and there is greater demand for
skilled labor than for many months
past, according to reports all over the
state.
The congressional medal of honor,
posthumously awarded to Lieut.. Frank
Luke, Jr., of Phoenix, AriZ., famous
ace and balloon destroyer, has been
awarded to his father, Frank Luke,
Sr., in Phoenix.
Arizona troops of the 340th and
341st field artillery and 314th ammuni-
ton, sanitary, ordnance and repair
trains, Eighty-ninth division, were en-
tertained in New York by the Rocky
Mountain Club with Gov Thomas E.
Campbell of Arizona present to well
come the 600 men in the name of their
home state.
The total value of the crops of 1918
in Arizona was $42,267,O 900, as COM
pared with $5,496,872 in 1909. The
State Board of Equalization fixed the
value of land and improvements in
Guiding live stock for 1918, at $11O,-
seq, 1851. This was an increase of
S46,881, ,11397 over the assessed valua-
ton of 1914.
The April records for copper sales
in Arizona were far from encouraging.
1t is estimated that the total sales in
the first three weeks of April were
under 100000 pounds, and the result
Of the April sales did not reach much
over 25,OOO,OO0 pounds, or about one
third of the 75,O0O,O0O pounds sold dur.
ing the month of March.
Barring unforeseen difficulties, two
construction projects of vital import
ance to residents of the Jerome dis
trict will commence within the ensu-
ing two weeks. One will be the erec-
ton of bridge across the Verde river
at Cottonwood, and the other the To-
cation of a road crew to commence
building the Jerome-Prescott highway.
Confessing that his infatuation for
a woman had prompted his bomb plot,
Arthur B. Clay was arrested at PhOe-
nix by Sheriff'S deputies after he had
planted a bomb containing nineteen
sticks of dynamite and twenty-five dy-
Mantle caps on the grounds of the
Desert Inn Sanitarium with which he
intended to blow up himself and his
sweetheart.
Privates eagle and Keyes of the,
Twenty-fifth United States infantry,
both colOred are dead as the result
of pistol duel at Nogales. The men
shot each other to death in the quar-
terS of Lieutenant Geronimo of the
Twenty-fifth regiment, eagle being the
officers striker. They were alone in
the quarters when the duel occurred,
and what caused the affray is not
known.
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of Arizona has entered an order COM
manding the carriers to refund to the
United Verde Extension Company
OverchargeS aggregating more than
100000 on ore shipments made by the
company to the smelters at Douglas
and elsewhere about the state The
order requires that the railroads make
the refund within thirty days. The
defendant companies are the Santa Fe
the Southern Pacific, the Arizona
Eastern and the Ell Paso & South
western.
The body of Mrs w. B. Terry, So
| wife of a Salt River valley rancher
| drowned in the Arizona canal near
Granite Reef, when the automobile in
| which she was riding with three 9th
ers ran over the canal embankment
was recovered only after a long search
terminating with the draining of the
canal. When the automobile plunged
over the bank all escaped except Mrs
Terry, who is, believed to have been
drawn down by the current
The April record of 10000 cubic
yards for the removal of Sacramento
hill at Bisbee exceeds all previous
marks. Up to date approximately
100000 cubic yards have been re-
moved, or about 40 per cent of. the
total amount to be moved before suf-
ficient ore will be uncovered to main
tain steady supply of ore for the
new nilf The work of taking down
| Sacramento hill is one of the largest
mining projects of the state; every
| day eighty train loads of dirt and
rock are hauled away to get rid of the
waste which covers this ore body. 1t
is a task which involves millions of
dollars, and is only possible by large
operations.
The $4,OOOOOO bond issue for a sys-
tenn of highways for Maricopa county,
which was overwhelmingly endorsed at
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