The Winslow mail., 1923-12-07
BRIEF
ARIZONA
ITEMS

added to the smelter at Clarksdale
There will be no shutdown, says
James S. Douglas president of the
United Verde Extension Mining Com
| pany.
A 25-ton stamp mill will soon be
placed W the mining property embrace
ing the Gloryana and Victory claims
located on the Black Canyon highway
four miles south Of Bumblebee.
Under the auspices of the American
Automobile Association auto races
will be run at Douglas, Feb. % and
%, 1924, as the main event of the
celebration of George Washington's
| birthday.
The annual meeting of the Arizona
| Cattle Growers Association will be
held at Douglas, January 20 and 80,
according to the announcement made
| by H. NJ. Rice, secretary of the or
ganization.
The bulk of the range cattle of the
state that are ready for market have
| been sold although the movement has
not been completed, according to H.
| M. Rice, secretary of the Arizona Cat
tie Growers Association.
Wayne Hubbs, state treasurer, has
received a check for $19,392.SS from
| the Pacific Fruit Express Company IN
| San Francisco in payment of the pri
vate car tax of that company in Ari
zona for the year 1923.
More than 1000 gallons of liquor
valued, according to the bootlegger's
| present retail prices, at more than
| $4,000 were poured into the Salt
River at Phoenix by federal prohibi
| ton agents last week.
Announcement has been made by
| the Phoenix office of the forest ser
vice that telephone line will be built
| from Globe to Salt river, which will
connect the ranger stations of the
| Tonic forest direct with Phoenix.
California has declined to participate
in a tri-state conference of represen-
| tatives from Arizona, Nevada and Cal
ifornia, which was proposed by Gov
| ernor Hunt of Arizona, as a measure
| ''to remove some of the obstacles
| which have prevented ratification of
the Colorado river compact by Ari-
| zona"
Immediate doubling of the force of
! miners employed at the property Of
| the Wenden Copper Mining Company
at Wenden in order to accelerate the
work in the drift on the 200 foot level
has been announced by the manage
ment. The drift which some weeks
ago encountered a vein of bonanza
copper ore, is being pushed in the di-
rectiOn of the Ndiorite dyke which cuts
across the property for over a mile.
The total bonded Indebtedness in
| the state of Arizona including state,
| county, special district, city and town
| bonds, has increased $614,S72.90 dur
| ing the year ending June 30, 1923, de-
cording to a statement issued by the
state tax commission. The report,
which was compiled by NJ. S. Stanley,
| accountant for the tax commission,
shows that the total bonded indebted
ness in the state outstanding on June
| 80. 1923, was $43, ,376, ,6S3.53.
Total direct purchases of Arizona
products by the PheIps-Dodge corpo-
ration DUNG the first nine months of
| this year have exceeded $524,000, ac-
| cOrding to a summarized report made
| public by the Arizona industrial con
| gress. Purchases during the past
three months accounted for about
| $175,O 900 of the total. Food products,
| lumber and timber, and powder were
important items. Business placed in
| Arizona by the United Verde Copper
| Company during October exceeded
$63,O00
The bid of the Prescott State Bank
of par, accrued interest and premiums
of S25 for each $1,000 bond, was ac-
| cepted by Wayne Hubbs state treas
urer, for $4,000 worth of Mohave coun-
| ty court house bonds. The eight bonds
were held by Mr.. Hubbs as security for
| state deposits in the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company Of Bisbee, which
was closed several weeks ago.
Unable to rally, due to the loss of
more than gallon of blood, Leon NJ
Ponce, stabbed while attending a
dance, succumbed to the injury. Con
cepcion Bacanegra, charged with
welding the stfletto which severed the
| sub-clavian artery, which resulted in
the death of Ponce, is in the county
Jail at Globe, pending the filing of
charges.
Under an opinion handed down by
| the Supreme Court which holds that
the state cannot reserve mineral
rights in lands sold to itself, the state
land department will be required to
issue new certificates of sale on all
state lands sold since 1918, the wear
in which the state land department
was organized under the state land
code of 1915.