The Arizona copper camp., 1919-07-19
APPROVE CONTRACTS
SAN CARLOS LANDS

tracts for the land under the projected
San Carlos diversion dam had been
approved by the secretary of the in
terror and that he had sent represen-
tative to Arizona for the purpose uf
having them signed was the news
received yesterday by Judge Otis f.
Baughn.
The fact that the hundreds of ranch.
ers under the project had at last come
to an agreement as to the methodsof
distributing the water was mace
known to the interior department last
April, following ten days conference
held in Los Angeles. n
Prior to that time a tentative
agreement had been drawn up and
circulated among the ranchers at
Casa Grande and Florence. Following
the tentative agreement it was only a
matter of time to formulate the per-
manent contracts and forward them
to Washington. AS soon as the ranch
ers sign the contracts it is thought
plans will be made for the work
necessary
Under the proposed diversion dam
the white settlers are to have 27,0O0
acres for cultivation and the Indians
$4,000 acres The building of the di-
version dam is separate project
from that of the San Carlos reservoir.
commercial development in the four
miles radius, Desdemona is without a
parallel in the world.
A stream of dollars is literally flow
ing into the pockets of thousands Of
persons. More than three hundred
oil derricks, costing $4,000 each, have
been erected or are in the process of
erection within the radius. Boilers.
tools and other accessories cost an
additional $4,000, and the minimum
cost of completed we'll is estimated
at $4,000.
That considerable part of the $10,-
100000 is flowing into the pockets~Of
oil field workers is indicated by the
fact that contractors actually go on
the street at Desdemona and canvass
the crowds of strangers for rig build
ers, drillers and other oil field help.
An ex-soldier opened an employ
ment bureau and advertised that he
would place men in touch with good
jobs for small fees. The proprietor
of the bureau arranged a modest scale
OF fees, ranging from $3.50 for seven
dollar-a-day jobs to five dollars a day
for rig builders and driller jobs. He
anticipated rush on opening day, but
instead of jobless men, he was con-
fronted with contractors and other
would-be employers. When the day
closed he had ten rig building jobs
listed, but no rig building seeking the
work, although each rig building job
would have netted the rig builder $40
a day. One garage man had places
for two mechanics and offered to pay
each mechanic $50 week
A half dozen restaurant proprietnrs
notified the employment bureau man
they would pay any kind of waiter
$40 week and would pay professional
walters $50 week, and dishwashers
from $22 to $50 week.
The number of jobs so greatly out !
numbered the applicants for employ (
ment that the employment bureau
man seriously contemplated reversing
his schedule of fees and charging EN-
ployers fee for help supplied, in [
stead of charging oil field workers for
jobs secured.
Foremost of the Arizona companies
in the Desdemona field is the Brown
Comanche Oil company, an Arizona
corporation, the officers of which are
all Arizona men of prominence, large.
ly of Phoenix and Bisbee. The CON-
pany has two valuable tracts in this
field. Included among the officers
and directorate of the company are
the following Arizona men: Charles H.
Dunlap Phoenix; P. A. Tharaldson,
Phoenix; w. R. Wayland, Phoenix; l..
A. Brown. BiSbee. and w. G.. Hubbard. y