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I I t 0 4 AN AUTHORITY ON MINES AND MINING. THE BEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN ARIZONA. Skcond Series, Vol. XVIIII, No. 15 NOGALES, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912. Whole No. 1004 '1 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. In lntretlng Collection of Item from th Rural Regions. From the Oro Blanco region there has come a report that Mr. Ellin McDougal has given an op tion to Eastern capital on the Ragnarock group of mines, adjacent to the Austerlitz, and that those holding the option have commenced work. The first payment is to he made at the end of sixty days, and the price stated is $50,000. Mr. H. M. Perry, who was a ioreet guard, stationed on the sum mit of Mount Wrightson (Old Baldy), in the Santa Ilita moun tains, died on Monday of the present week, at a ranch house in the vicinity of the mountain. His remains were taken to Tucson, embalmed and shipped Wednesday to his former home in Morris, New York. Mr. Frank Reichert who has been located some years at the Trenton camp, in the Santa llita mountains, near Alto, has been do ing development on the Michael itski claim in the Josephine cafion, ibout three miles from Trenton. lie has run a tunnel more than 100 feet upon a goodly looking ledge, in ore all the way, and he has two feet of rock which will pay to ship. The ore assays 11 copper and forty to fifty ounces in silver per ton. The Chief group of mines, ad jacent to the World's Fair mine, in the Patagonia mountains, has been taken over by George B. Hosier and associates of Kansas City, Mo., upon a bond and lease, the upset price being stated at $90,(J0O. The property has been owned by E. E. Bethell of Pata gonia, and Bracey Curtis of Noga les, who have made the deal with Mr. Hosier. Under the ownership of the gentlemen named there hub been done considerable work, in cluding a tunnel about one hundred feet under cover, which Mr. Hosier will extend with the expectancy of cutting a rich ledge at the end of 00 feet. "The Goose Girl," Mrs. Lulu Wood. "Vanity Fair," Mrs. Mather. "Pickwick," Miss Arrietta Smith. "Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. J. E. Wise. "Under Two Flags' Miss Mary Sykes. Excuse Me," Miss Margaret Wylie. "Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. Charles L. Fowler. "A Grain of Dust," Mrs. A. L. Gustetter. "Under the Ruse," Mrs. W. H. Enderton. "The Shuttle," Mrs. E. Titcomb. "The Cost," Mrs. I). P. Snelling. "Lavender and Old Lace," Mrs. Harry Hannah. "The Girl in Waiting," Miss Lulu Sykes. "The Crisis," Mrs. V. A. Smelker. "The Woman in White," Mrs. Allen T. Bird. "The Scarlet Letter,'' Mrs. G. F. Powell. "Three Weeks," Miss Josephine Titcomb. "Red Rock," Mr?. Otto II . Herold. "The Shuttle," Mrs. M. Marstel ler. "The Merchant of Venice," Mrs. Con O'Keefe. "The Newcomes," Mrs. E. L. Chalfant. Many of the characterizations were original, interesting and amus ing, and the ladies derived no lit tle amusement in their presenta tion and their determination. NOGALES NOTES. "A Book Day." Wednesday was the regular so cial meeting of the Santa Cruz Ulub Auxiliary, and the entertain ment was named "A Book Day," each lady representing in dress or continue the title of some well known book. All wrote on slips of paper their guesses of the various woks represented and the ladies personating them, the one making le largest number of successful guesses receiving a prize, which was a book. Mrs. Samuel Leeker was the successful lady. Bainty refreshments were served. The hostesses were Mrs, Otto 11. Ceroid, Mrs. S. D. Kama, Mrs. r'y J. Karns, Mrs. Harry Hannah. The books represented and those representing them were as follows: 'The Red Rose," by Mrs. S. D. "Three Weeks," Mrs. Harry J. "The Fruitful Vase'Mrs. Samuel Jektr, Mr. Edward L. Mix, clerk of the superior court, has sued the county for sahry, there being a difference between his claim and what the board of (supervisors seems disposed to allow. Thursday Miss Marie Bonillas of Nogales, Sonora, celebrated her saint's, day and in honor of the auspicious anniversary the young entertained at the Bonillas resid ence a large party of young ladies of both the line cities. At the bull ring in Nogales, Sonora, there was a bull fight last Sunday, and the exhibition is re ported as having been very exciting and interesting to those taken with such performances. Another is an nounced to be pulled off tomorrow. The registration will close short ly until after the primary election, which occurs on the tenth of Sep tember. So if vou desire to vote at the primary consult the regis tration officer. Last week The Oasis presented a list of the author ized registration officers. Thursday morning there was at Nogales, en route to Sonora, Mr. E. F. Harris, of, Tucson, owner of a producing mine at Cerro Colo rado, in the Altar district. There has been published an erroneous report that Mr. Harris has sold his property. It was the Cerro Colo rado mine of Diego Moreno, which is close to the property of Mr. Harris, for which the deal was made. Mention was made correct ly in The OASis,at the time. Doctor ;J. C. Underwood negotiated the i deal. SONORA SIFTINGS. Shaken Out Hr and There In the Great State Across the Line The state congress has postponed for one week the elections called for the last Sunday in August, and instead of that day they will be held on the first Sunday in Sep tember. The rebels operating along the Yaqui river in the vicinity of La Dura and Tonichi are reported to have moved westward toward the Sonora river, with Ures and Her mosillo as objective points, and the federals on the river have been brought by rail from La Dura to Hermosillo, to meet them on the newly chosen ground. The wheat crop, raised without irrigation, this year in the vicinity of Qnerobabi, is reported better than ever before. Some twenty carloads of the grain have been shipped from Querobabi station to the Terrenate mill of Miguel Latz & Brother, at Pearson station. The price quoted there is five and one half pesos for 160 pounds. El Correo de Sonora, a Guaymas daily newspaper, dated the 14th inst., states that there has been discovered at La Colorado a new and rich vein or ledge carrying gold and silver in large quantities. The ledge is stated to be about fifty feet in width, and on Sunday there were about sixty men at work in the ground of the discovery. By competent authority The Oasis is informed that The South ern Pacific of Mexico is arranging to return the Cananea-Nogales train to its former schedule, leav ing Nogales in the morning and re turning at evening, instead of the present arrangement under which the run is reversed, the train leav ing Nogales at noon, and laying over night at the copper cimp. Garbanzo shipments by rail out from Sonora have been larger this year than ever before, being almost double up to this time, with the shipping season having yet some months to run. Since early in June up to Thursday of the present week 555 carloads have crossed the at Nogales, en route to Spain, Porto Rico and Cuba, via New Orleans. Last year, from June to and including December, the ship ments coming this way aggregated but 298 carloads. Occupancy of School Lands. Phoenix Republican. It will take a long time for the people of Arizona to become as familiar with their new state laws as they were with the old territorial forms but they are rapidly adjusting themselves to the new conditions. There is probably more com plexity in respect of land matters anything else. Though it has been printed be fore there are probably many who do not yet understand that school lands not in private ptsses eion under lease at the time of admission cannot now.be leased. The law provides that those who were occupying school lands shall not be disturbed, providing they comply with new regulations, but the situation shall not be further complicated by the leasing of other lands until after another session of the legislature. By that time it is expected the land commission will have gathered sufficient data to formulate and recommend to the legislature a school land policy as to leasing, or selling, or not eelling, and that laws will be enacted ir conformity therewith if the legisla ture approves the plan In the raeantimeany one occupy ing school land may continue to do so on securing a permit from the land commission, which in a sense amounts to a lease, though the commission has nothing to do in fixing the lease rate. On ap plication blanks are furnished the settler in duplicate, which beings filled out, give the reader about all the information hecould desireres pecting the settler and the land he seeks to hold. These are filled out, taken to the county board of super visors which fixes the rental just as it always did, collects it and then sends the money to the land com mission, togethe- with the duplicate information blank. In effect it amounts to a lease and the state instead of the county, gets the money. The land commission re ports that many of these applica tions for permits are being received daily, though there are many more to hear from. It is estimated that' there are about 1500 pieces of school land in the state now held bv settlers. Death of Mr. W.J. Richardson. The Phoenix newspapers of Fri day of last week, received at No gales Saturday, conveyed the intel ligence of the death of Mr. W. J. Richardson, until recently of No gales. who was found dead in his bed in a lodging house in Phoenix, Thursday, having died in the night of Wednesday, from the effects of asthma, from which trouble the deceased had suffered a great deal Deceased had resided in Nogales several years, and was employed at the foundry, having been an iroik founder by trade. Before he came to Nogales he was employed some time in the Hermosillo foundry, and formerly he was in the rail road shops at Punta de Arena, near Guaymas, before they were removed toEmpalme. An effort was made by those who know Mr. Richardson to locate his . home and relatives, . but without! avail. The remains were buried at Phoenix. Superior Court Next Week. Next Monday Judge W. F. Cooper of Pima couniy, will hold court at Nogales, to try a number of cases in which Judge Duffy is disqualified. The injunction case of Frank Powers of the World's Fair mine, against the Arizona Tax Commission, is among the cases set for hearing. In that Mr. Powers has been granted a temporary injunc tion restraining the commission from raising the assessment on pro duct of the mine named, which has been done under the new tax law, Under the territorial law twenty five per cent of the product of mines was assessed; under the state law the entire output is listed.