Arizona state miner., 1925-07-25


nOuncement that the Santa Fe rail
way has started building a store de
partment at San BernardinO. This il
in line with the recent organization
of chain of national banks thruou
the U. S. by United Railway Trainme1
associations. We are returning to thu
methods Of the big mining companie!
and the company stores, where the
employee trades or quits his job.
The Ell Paso and Southwestern has
stores Of it's own all along it's line
The Santa Fe has one of it's stores il
operation at Phoenix, near the rail
road yards. Maybe somebody will
make a holler because the railroads
who carry their own goods, are ruin
dng competition and hogging the game
James Mccarthy, former Arizona
pioneer miner, aged "a years, who
came to Phoenix in 1880 and was
once prominent as a blacksmith and
the founder of Five Points, died in
Los Angeles on the 7th inst He was
the father of Roy Mccarthy of the
Palace Hardware on Adams street.
Interment was in Calvary cemetery
at Los Angeles.
Harry Feimer, pioneer Casa Grande
miner, who was the organizer and
promoter of the Pinal and Greenback
mines south of there, died July 4th.
Pending negotiations, English coal
miners have given notice that present
working agreements depend on the
governments attitude in late union
wage disputes.
Somebody from Prescott has nomi-
mated Tom Campbell to oppose Null
ford Winsor and Gov. Hunt for Con-
gress. Yavapai Ike, when he heard
Of it. said: "Betcher a chaw terbacker
gin kick in the raZmataz, that it
was Bill Stuart and Listerine Dog
singer"
Wilcox is bothered with an influx
of visitors looking up authentic evil
dence of recent piercing of oil struc-
lures at depth of 1850 feet.
Prescott Courier says "the pact has
become a political football, to be
kicked this way and that according
to public opinion, and not one person
out of a hundred who talks so much
about it, knows what it means" Well,
why don't you shut up about it?
The state tax commission set the
rate for taxation of the New Cornelia
mines at $11,000,0OO above that of
last year, which is some boost 1t
will now be the time for this corpor-
alton to make it's holler. The United
Verde Extension has gone into the
courts to restrain the activities of
the state taxing power, and it is prob.
able that some other county will be
cutting into new revenue.
Arizona mining companies are still
showing increases in their use of Ar.
iZona products, according to figures
on their state purchases given the
Arizona Industrial Congress by four
of the mines.
Uncle Sam is so hard up since he
went into prohibition that he is con
templating selling all the working
models in the U. S. patent offices
Twill be like selling the tombstones
over the graves of his martyred and
murdered soldiers.
Uncle Sam culls a revenue of over
half million dollars annually from
fourteen forest reservations of the
Southwest. Remittance of grazing
fees this year will cut this $150,O0O,
but timber sales and raising prices
of lumber may be higher Net graz
ing fees for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1924, amounted to 1924, 900
in Arizona and $138,000 in New Mex
leo as against 100000 in Arizona and
$4,000 in New Mexico for the fiscal
year just closed. Receipts from tim
ber sales, summer home site rentals
and other special uses have remained
practically constant for the past two
years.
Sec. Hoover of the federal power
commission is urging Arizona and
California to iron out their difficulties
over the Colorado river. Had Hoover
shown such a disposition two years
ago, the pact might have been set
tied. HOover's attitude got nearly all
the states to reject his coercion. If
he and Hunt were out of the matter
and kept their hands off, several mil
lions of cash would now be working
in Arizona.
Editor Watson of the Five Points
Star and other Rural Weeklies last
year in his candidacy for State Sena-
tor, advocated a State Power and
Reclamation Commission to confer
with the federal power and similar
commissions of other states interested
in the Colorado Compact. The recent
conferences proposed by California
and Nevada proves his views were
timely.
Prescott hotel directors nave been
hopelessIy hunting q location for a