Tombstone epitaph., 1922-04-09
COMMISSION. FINDS
 CONDITIONS SETTER
 ON ,MsPEcTioN TRIP

COMPASSION. FINDS
 CONDITIONS SETTER
 ON iNsPEcrioN TRIP
 PHOENIX. Apr1 7.-The ATiboEa tax commission returned to Phoenix late Wednesday night followh.s a two weeks trip through Coehise. Pima. Santa Cruz. Greenlee and Ora ham counties. where they inspected various properties and checked the work of the county assessors in these counties. The commission also in ,estigated several large prop srtie 3 while on the trip which later wi.l come before them for adjudication of the appraisal value for purposes of assessment.
 Charles R. Howe, chairman of the commission. inspeaking yesterday of the trip, stated they found conditions in the counties visited much i'm proved from what they were a year ago when the commission made the same trip. Most of the mines have opened, he said. or are getting ready to open and the people are more optimistic.
 The largest of the properties in- vestigated by the commission was the new concentrator of the Phelps Dodge company near Bisbee The plant was designed by H. Kenyon Burch. de, signer of most of the similar plants in Arizona. and is the lates, thing in concentrators.
 The commission also visited the plant of the Apache Powder com. pany near Benson. the only plant of 1 it's kind in the state The plant is | finished and the company expects to start work. the commissioners said within a few days The capacity oi the plant when in full operation will be about 2,000. 900 pounds of powder year The plant expects to supply 1 the powder needs of the state. both in bulk product and loaded cartridges of all kinds The plant will be un. der the supervision of Charles Mills general manager. who was formerly connected with the Inspiration Cop per company.
 ] The commission also visited a mum
 Der of mines in the Warren distric in Cochise county. Among the new !, companies who will begin producini
 soon. the commissioners said, wer' the Central Copper company of Do Cabezas aind the Hilltop Metali
 Mines company of Hilltop Most O the mines in this district. the com missioners stated, are now in opera ition at about 60 per cent capacity. ; The mines in Greenlee county, the. said, have not opened. The Phelp
 Dodge company. they said, recentl
 bought out the Arizona Copper com
 pany and has consolidated it witl their holdings in Morenci All ore 0 the district, they said. will be smell , ed at the Clifton smelter and plan have been prepared by the compan [ to enlarge the concentrator at Clifto ] from 4Oo0 to 5000 tons capacity to talk , care of the increased ore caused b , the consolidation. The Arizona Col ! per company vas Scottish corpor; 2 .tion.
 F sCrop conditions in Graham count. B the commissioners stated, are muc
 further advanced than in Maricop
 county, and the grain and alfali
 crops are we'll advanced. Sever; hundred new homes, mostly bung 9 lows and small houses. have bee l, built in Tucson within the past yea r. the commissioners said Most of u [, houses are very neat and greatly il > prove the residential section of Il ,- town.
 .tl Within the next two or three da. f the commission will leave for tl e northern end of the state on . to- y of inspection They will visit Coo t nino. Yavapai, Apache and Maya T. counties on this trip. The tax COT r. mission is composed of Charles n Howe. Frank Luke and E. A. Hughe S SA6le h INNgYg aaeERe