The copper era., August 10, 1905, Image 3

About The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911

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Mrs. James Tong' and daughter, who
have been visiting' in the east, arrived
home Sunday last.
Mrs. McGuire, late of Los Angeles,
has accepted a situation in the
ladies department of the A. C store.
A splendid rain fell here Tuesday
night, it being the first rain of the
..season, and was greatly needed.
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Kd. Parsons, conductor on the slag
rain, met with an accident Tuesday
evening which will lay him up for a
few days.
W, Herzberger, of the Shannon of
fi ce force, is now at the hospital.
where he will
three weeks.
probably spend two or
Dr. Burtch, whose family is so
journing in California, gave a pleas
ant party Saturday night to his
neighbors, which was greatly enjoyed
by all present.
The heavy rain Tuesday night
washed out a culvert on the A. & N.
M. R. R. between Clifton and the
Summit, which delayed the passen
ger train Wednesday morning.
B. B. Adams, who came up from
the valley last week, was con
fined to his room several days with
indigestion but has since improved
and is now at Gold
Hill rusticating
and recuperating.
B. B. Adams arrived last .week
from Bisbee and Douglas where he
spent-a few weeks writing life insur
ance. He reports the southern camps
as very lively. He thinks Lowell the
coming town of that section.
The Ladies Aid society of tbe
Baptist church requests the Era to
extend their thanks to the people
of Cliftgn for the liberal patronage
extended them two weeks ago. The
tertainment netted the ladies $85.
Harry F. Murray, formerly con
nected with the Shánnon and New
England companies of this section, is
now at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, where
he is holding a responsible position
with a mining company. Mrs. Mur
ry is now in New York, but will join
her husband this fall.
During a heavy electrical storm at
Douglas, the new Baptist church, re
cently erected at a cost of more
than $8000, was struck by lightning.
Fire immediately attacked the build
ing, and before it could be controll
ed, practically destroyed the struct
ure. Douglas Dispatch.
C.W. Beck recently located a couple
of claims on the heights immediately
east of Clifton, which will be sur
veyed and laid out into town lots.
Clifton is growing so fast that the
town must have room in which to
spread. There is also talk of laying
out a new town about a mile up Chase
creek.
A large number of Chinamen left
Clifton last week to engage in mar
ket gardening near Duncan. China
men as a class are noted farmers and
gardeners and will do well wherever
they can find soil, water and mar
kets. The entire valley around Dun
can should be intensely cultivated,
and even then the markets of Clifton
and Morenci would not be fully sup
plied.
The Massey lot on Copper avenue
was purchased this week by Paul
Becker, who will at once proceed to
erect a handsome brick building
thereon. J. C. Gatti, who owns the
adjoining lot, will also immediately
proceed with the erection of a brick
building, which will materially im
prove the street in that section.
Copper avenue is having quite a
boom this season in the way of new
and substantial buildings.
Ph. Freudenthal, manager of the
Commercial Company at Solomon
ville, spent a couple of days in Clif
ton last week. He is quite enthusi
astic over the prospects of the early
building of the Santa Fe railroad up
the valley for a connection with the
main line at or near Silver City. This,
he thinks, will forever settle the
county qeat and county division ques
tion. However, he says that if it
comes to a question of division, the
people of Solomonville prefer to be
in the east end of the county rather
than in the west end. As Solomon
ville is so near the center no doubt
the line could be run a few miles to
the west of the town and thus secure
that rich section for the eastern
half, or the new county.
New
Smith's.
line Shirts and Shoes at
When you want a pleasant laxative
that is easy to take and certain to
act, use Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver tablets. For sale by all deal
ers in medicine.
J. R. Snyder Shot and Killed by His
Brother-in-Law, George
Thompson.
On Tuesday of last week J. R. Sny
der, a prominent ranchman of the
Blue River country, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, George
Thompson.
On Monday last Deputy Sheriff Toll
Cosper arrived in Clifton with
Thompson, who was anxious for a
preliminary hearing. As there were
no witnesses present at the killing
District attorney McAlister post
poned the hearing until Monday
next, in order to give the territory
time to bring out all the facts in the
case, xnompson's bond tor appear
ance was fixed at $1000, which he was
unable to give, and he will remain
under the care of Deputy Sheriff
Cosper until time set for his trial.
Mr. Cosper states that trouble had
existed between the two men for
some time past over water rights,
which culminated in the shooting
when the two men met on the road
Thursday last. Snyder was armed
with a pistol and a club, both of
which he had in his hands when he
was shot. The pistol was not cocked,
but was fully loaded, and from the
fact that it was in his hand when he
was killed leaves no doubt that he
intended to use it. He was shot in
the forehead, instead of the back of
the head, as had been previously re-
ported. Snyder leaves a wife, who is
a sister to George Thompson, and
seven sons, ranging in age from five
or six to twenty 3-ears of age.
After the trouble Thompson made
no attempt to get out of the country,
but remained at home waiting the
arrival of an officer to take him in
custody. He claims that the act was
done in self-defense. Mr. Cosper
stated that the sentiment of the com
munity generally is with Thompson,
though the entire community where
the two families reside trreatly de
plores the tragedy.
Frank B. Laine left this morning
via Albuquerque for Portland. He
will return via his old home, San
Jose, California, and will be accom
panied home by Mrs. Laine, who is
spending the summer there. .
Col. Epes Randolph, of railroad
fame, is now to the fore with the big
gest gold mine on earth. It is
located in the Alter district, Sonora,
and Irom newspaper accounts its a
hummer. It is claimed that there
is now something like $15,000,000, in
in sight in the property, and that
no doubt at least $100,000,000 will be
taken from the property. A milling
plant will at once be erected.
The Hollenbeck Hotel Los Angeles
has recently entertained persons
from Arizona: Marcus Santin,
Globe; Frank R. Stewart, Prescott;
Mrs. A. E Downs and family, Rev. J.
A. Smith and wife, F. A. Sutter and
wife, Dr. C. L. Craven and wife, E.
A. Tovrea, C. L. Hall, W. A.
Schwartz, Bisbee; B. Goldman, A. A.
Hopkins, Douglas; P. D. Wright,
Mrs. B. L. Holmes, Miss E. Lawrence,
Winslow; J. E. Difton, Jno. A. Black,
Tucson; R. D. Cogin, H. T. Williams,
Kingman; E. A. Spalding, Phoenix.
A slight accident occurred Tues
day on the Coronado railroad which
came near putting Superintendent
-Wagstaff out of commission "for a
few days, at least. Mr. Wagstaff
was walking through the car when
something happened to the engine
and the train came to a sudden stop.
Mr. Wagstaff was pitched through
the window, but came through the
accident with only a bruised hand
and a slight contusion on the fore
head. F. B. Laine was sitting in a
front seat and also received quite a
severe shaking up but was not hurt
in the least.
The Mexican residents of the Clif-ton-Morenci
district are arranging
for a. monster celebration to be held
in ' Clifton September 10, in com
memoration of the independence of
Mexico. It was on September 10,
1810. that Guadaloupe Hidalgo, the
George Washington of Mexico, had
the bells of all the churches ring
out the glad tidings of the inde
pendence of Mexico A meeting
will be held Sunday next when the
various committees will be appointed
and the final arrangements made for
the celebration, which will be the
first celebration of the kind held in
Clifton in three years. It will be a
big success.
E. U. Beauchamp, of the Barrett
Beauchamp company, returned this
week from an extended hunting and
fishing trip in the Mogollón moun
tains. Owing to the fact that two of
Mr. Beauchamp's valuable horses
were stolen, the trip was extended
considerably longer than was the in
tention when the party left Clifton,
but barring this incident the trip
was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Beau
champ sa3-s that the country is in
better shape than it has been in
many years. Fish and game are
plentiful, and there is an abundance
of feed everywhere. Mr. Beauchamp
has always been quite enthusiastic
over the Adams diggings, and spent
some time in searching for them, but
with the usual results. He has no
doubt, that the famed diggings
will soon be found, as Duffey Morrow,
one of the most energetic pros
pectors in the country, is now on a
hot trail, and will be in
soon with oodles of gold. Duffey,
who heretofore has been one of the
doubting Thomases, now has the
story straight, and has a lead pipe
cinch on them. Duffey will no doubt
soon blossom out as the Walter Scott
of the Mogollons, though he is not in
clined toward breaking railroad
records.
You will find a full line of fruits
and vegetables at Smith's.
John Grimes, who has been in
charge of the leaching plant of the
Arizona Copper company since its
erection, has resigned his position
and will probably soon leave for his
former home in California, where his
family are now spending the summer,
uwing to tne rainy season now
on, Colonel Greene's placer
mines in Sonora, over which
there has been such a spirited word
contest going On in the newspapers,
have been closed down for two months
The Colonel says that operations at
the mines will resume as soon as the
rainy season is over.
Col. Ben M. Crawford, manager of
the Crawford Gold Mining company,
informs the Era that work is now
being pushed on three levels of the
mine and that two new winzes are
being sunk. Development work has
also been commenced on the Lefave
property, recently purchased by the
company. Good muling ore is being
developed in all of the workings.
Owing to the fact that the aerial
tramway of the Standard company
had to be overhauled and strength
ened last month, which necessitated
a suspension of ore shipments for ten
days,' the shipments were not up to
the usual record. ' Eight cars of ore
were shipped averaging from 11.66 .to
4D.1.: per cent, copper. It is ex
pected that the property will make a
good showing during the month of
August.
The Era expects to have some news
to present to its readers in regard to
prospective development work in the
Cliftion-Morenci district in a short
time. The district is making a re
markable showing this year, and as
before stated, such an output of cop
per Is bound to attract the attention
of mining men. The district has been
very quiet for the past two years
but it? future is all right.
Ambrose Burke, who is in charge
of development work at Copper Center
mines in the Coronado montains, near
Metcalf, spent Saturday last in
Clifton, and reports the work as pro
gressing most favorably. He states
that the entire tunnel is in good mil
ling ore, also carrying consid
erable glance. He is quite enthu
siastic over the present outlook, and
expects to have a large force of men
at work on the property. He says the
season' for mining in that section has
been ideal, plenty of good water and
cool weather.
Col. W. A. Farrish, one of "the
most noted mining experts of the
United States, arrived in Clifton
Tuesday evening, accompanied by
B. P. Campbell, also a well known
mining man. Mr. Farrish was non
committal as to his business, but
stated that he would spend some
time here, which means that he will
investigate and report upon some
mining property of the district. Mr,
Farrish recently spent considerable
time in Sonora and Chihuahua,
where he reports great activity in
mining. Mr. . i arrian, was always a
friend to the Clifton-Morenci dis
trict, and was the first mining en
gineer of note to fully realize its
wonderful resources. The colonel
has many friends here among the old
timers who always give him a hearty
welcome.
WALKER'S WEEKLY LETTER OF
AUGUST 4TH.
There is danger of a run-a-way
copper market. Lake and elec
trolytic are selling for 151 to 15
cents per pound, and there are more
buyers than sellers. Most producers
have sold their product as far ahead
as October, and are out of the mar
ket except for later dates. There is
a strong demand for spot deliveries,
and it is this that is forcinsr prices
higher. The efforts of the leading
producing and selling interests to
prevent this advance in prices nave
been in vain. They felt that 15 cents
per pound was hiyh enough, and as
consumers seemed well satisfied with
a steady market at that level, it was
thought best to discourage specula
tion and to deliver all their copper as
rapidly as it could be produced and
refined. By this means the market
was held down to 15 cents for several
months, though it was a period of
steadily gaining consumption.
h-xports of copper during July, so
far reported, were 17,-13 long tons.
It is expected that Pacific port ship
ments, when all in, will swell this to
above 18,000 tons. It is understood
that the falling off in July was due to
some arrangement between some -do
mestic producers and foreign con
sumers by which certain shipments
were delayed until this month. The
foreign demand continues very
strong, with the exception that there
nas been a slight temporary letup in
the Chinese buying. Europe is tak
ing a very large amount of our copper.
Inose who can see nothinjsr but
calamity in the business world, and
who pretend to doubt the legitimacy
of the present demand for copper,
will do well to study the instrument
statement for June, put out this week
by the American lelephone com
pany. It gives the net output of
telephones for the month as 68,128,
compared with 39,168 in June of the
previous year, something like a 40
per cent, increase. The total in
crease in the company's outstanding
telephones in the twelve months was
970,031, or nearly 25 per cent. When
it is realized that each of these 9iU,-
631 new instruments installed, as well
as the scores of thousands of others
that were put out by independent
companies, required a circuit of cop
per wire, besides coils, switches,
switchboards, etc., it becomes plain
that the telephone business alone
must consume the product of at least
one very large copper mine, inis
growth "in the use of the telephone
constitutes a reflection of industrial
progress and expansion that cannot
possibly be misleading.
While it is to be hopea tnat mere
will be no stampede, it cannot be de
nied that the price of copper is
likely to be forced up to 16 or 18
cents per pound. If aggressive buy
ing for Chinese account should be re
sumed immediately, the price might
go to 20 cents. As all the copper
that the mines and reduction works
of the world can put out is now com
ing to market, there would be no
supplies of metal to take care of a
further sudden expansion of demand.
Fifty Years
Uade from pure cream of
fartar derived from grapes.
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PURELY PERSONAL
Judge Campbell and L. R. Adams
were down from Metcalf this week.
Lee Maybre, a rider on the Indian
reservation, visited Clifton this
week.
Harry Young arrived in Clifton
this week on a visit to old time
friends.
Andy Findlay returned this week
from a visit to his former home in
Kansas.
Mrs. W. A. Leonard and sons, who
have been at Long Beach, will return
in a few days.
H. Albert returned last week from
Pennsylvania, where he spent several
weeks visiting his former ' home and
friends. . :
M. A. Crawford is now in charge of
ihii A. C. store at Coronado during
the temporary absence of Manager
Randolph.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Morrison left
Sunday last for a tour of Old Mexico,
where they will spend some time
sight-seeing.
John Bingham went to Lordsburg
yesterday to meet his wife, who re
turned from the coast, where she
spent the summer. '
Mrs. C. r . Pascoe and son left this
week for San Jose and San Francisco,
California, where they will spend sev
eral weeks visiting.
Mrs. Harry Westlake and children
are expected to arrive home in a few
'days from Long Beach, where they
have been summering.
R. J. Young was down last week from
his ranch in Bush velley. He re
ports that the season has been re
markably cool in that section. j
George Webster and Joe Dial left j
this week for Long . Beach, where
they will show the natives how to
have a good time. They will be ab-
nt several weeks.
Frank Maxwell, who is in the em
ploy of J. & A. Smith, returned last
week from a visit to his parents at
Tularosa, N. M., where he spent sev
eral weeks very pleasantly.
Mrs. H. G. Schafer, who spent some
eeks in California, returned last
week to Lordsburg, where she will re
main a few days visiting relatives
before coming on to Clifton. H.G.
The Clifton bakery is in receipt of
new delivery wagon which is a
beautj-. The bakery finds it neces
sary to run two wagons in order to
supply its rapidly increasing busi
ness.
George Williams, Jr., and Mr.
Morse left Tuesday last for a trip
through the Sierra Madres of So
nora, on a prospecting and hunting
expedition. They will be absent
some weeks.
Mrs. Barker, of Honalulu, and
daughter, Mrs. Macomber and son of
Densmore. California, arrived last
week on a visit to Jack Holman, who
is a son ,of Mrs. Barker. They will '
remain some time.
George Greene, manager of the .
Metcalf store of the A. C. company, j
left Tuesday morning on a visit to
his former home in Iowa, where he 1
will spend a few weeks visiting. I
L. S. Randolph, manager of the A. j
store at Coronado, passed through
Clifton this week en route to the
coast where he will disport himself
in the salt sea waves. He is out for a j
good time. !
Wm. Inglis arrived this week on a
visit to his brother, i. t. ingas.
Mr. Inglis is recently from South.,
Africa, where he spent several years
in the employ of the British govern-
ment. He may decide to locate in'!
Clifton.
Willie Stevens, a son of Charles E. ;
Stevens, of Metcalf, who has been at-;
tending school at Ada ,0., for the past
two years, arrived home last week.
He Hkes the east well enough, but ;
thinks Arizona is about tne oniy coun
try.
Fresh Saratoga chips at Smith's.
Real Estate and Rentals.
Before leaving for the beach write
Reg. Cooper to secure your cottage. I
IN O I JO I 'H I aCJIUC, ...... j. ...... . .
the Standard
The Summer Widowers.
The Era is informed that the Sum
mer Widowers "took on dreadful" at
their last meeting. They had been
hearing from their wives, who were
unanimous in the opinion that the old
boys were having too much fun. All
members were reminded of their ob
ligation to keep secret at work of the
club, under the awful penalty of the
double Cross of a gin rickey. Ever
man present swore that he had not
"leaked" a word, and yet club secrets
had appeared in the Era. Several
men said they would "stop" the sheet
at once.
The following letter was received
this morning by the editor of the
Era from a summer widow who is
spending the summer at Long Beach:
"Mr. Editor If you have another
'write up' of that old Summer Wid
owers' Club there won't be a Clifton
woman left in California. They are
leaving for home on every train, and
unless that horrid club is broken up
I am sure they will never leave home
again. It just shows that you never
can trust men. They will do the
most aw.ful things when their wives
are away. Do not fail to send me
the Era as I can't afford to miss a
single copy."
George Samuels, the well known
theatrical manager of New York,
has completed a-circuit of towns in
the southwest, with headquarters at
Las Vegas, and will bring' -uiabjg
company of especially engaged play
ers from New York", to present a
series of standard productions.
Elaborate scenery and novel electri
cal devices have been constructed
and for the first time local theatre
goers will have a chance to see a
play mounted with as close attention
to accuracy and detail, as when it
was originally produced. Each set
has been built to conform to the size
of local stages, and everything is
new and complete. The "company
will make the tour every seven
weeks, presenting two plays of wide
ly different characters at each visit,
and taking a complete new scenic
equipment each trip.. Mr. Samuels
believes that the returns will justify
the great expenditure, and that
Southwestern theatre-goers will ap
preciate his efforts to please. The
first productions will be "The De
searted Bride" and "The Man From
Mexico."
During the past week two resi
dences on Hill's ilat have been en
tered late at night by someone who
was no doubt bent on burglary. The
first occurred at the Hill residence
Sunday night while George Trues
dale, who is caring for Mr. Hill dur
ing his illness, was absent to secure a
doctor. The would-be burglar en
tered through the front door and pro
ceeded to the dining room. Mr. Hill
heard him in the rear rooms, and get
ting up out of bed, secured his gun
and then called to know who was
there. The thief immediately ran
through the hall, and by the time Mr.
Hill reached the door he had made
his escape into the street. On Mon
day night a residence on the flat
which is now occupied by two men
who work at night, was entered and
ransacked for valuables. During the
past three weeks a number of burg
laries and attempted burglaries have
occurred here and at Morenci. The
burglar seems to be very bold, and is
also quite successful in his undertak
ings. Boiled Haras at Smiths.
The Manilla hotel dining rooms are
growing in popularity, and the
tables are crowded daily. This is
the best and coolest place in town
for a line substantial meal.
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Shirt Waists from 50c. up to $5.
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