The Arizona Copper Camp, 1915-08-20

FLORENCE, ARIZ., Aug. 20. - Pinal county's tax rate has been fixed by the board of supervisors at $.74722 on each SIOO worth of property, the total valuation being $25,230,532.99. The state rate is 54 cents, so each taxpayer in the country will pay a combined rate of not less than $1.28722. Following are the items going to make up the county levy: Interest on funded debt..... .$0.0255 Interest on sinking fund 0432 County school fund 32788 County general road fund 16 County generaj fund 13869 Total $.69527 County road bond interest 0298 County road bond sinking fund .02215 Grand total county levy $0.74722 In explanation of these items, it should be stated, that the county sinking fund levy amounting to $0.0432 covers a sinking fund to take care of territorial bonds, which were issued in the past cost of erection of the court house and other permanent improvements within the county. Last year no levy was made to cover this sinking fund, but this year the tax commission ordered that it be made and it has been necessary to double the levy so that a sinking fund will be provided for two years. The board of supervisors should be congratulated to the fullest extent by all taxpayers for having conducted the affairs of the county in such an economical manner, and there hav having - ing having been no increase in the expenses of running any of the departments over the previous year. In this period of "Everybody Get Busy and Spend the County's Money," this is most creditable. county levy has been occasioned by the tremendous increase in the cost of operating our schools. Something like $85,000 will be spent this year in the education of our children. We have always been grateful for educa education - tion education but we do not know that every dollar which has been spent in the past for educational purposes has pur purchased - chased purchased a hundred cents worth of edu education. - cation. education. The great trouble with our school laws lies in the fact that there is no central authority covering the purchase of school supplies. Each little school district has its own board of trustees who are very jealous of their power and unfortunately those having this disposition are usually less experienced in the purchase of mater material - ial material and have been easily overcome by the clever drummers and salesmen of the scßfcol supply houses. What this county needs is, a busi business - ness business administration in the purchasing of its school supplies. Then and not until then, will we receive our hun hundred-cents-on-the-dollar - dred-cents-on-the-dollar hundred-cents-on-the-dollar paid for edu educational - cational educational purposes. While there is no definite law creating a centralized purchasing power, those boards of trustees who are broad gauged should realize' * that they can combine with other boards of trustees and conduct their purchases through the school superintendent's office and then they will not only be able to show a bet better - ter better per capita cost for educational purposes, but SAVE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES AND THE OTHER TAXPAYERS. In order to give an idea of the cost of schools, in addition to the county general fund, it is interesting to note that FLORENCE, District No. 1, is being assessed 43.77 cents per SIOO valuation. The Union high school at Florence will cost the tax taxpayers - payers taxpayers of that district 38.06 cents per SIOO valuation. The taxpayers of Florence must pay a county levy of $1.56, to which must be added 54 cents as the state levy. With an estimated levy of 80 cents in the town of Florence, each TAXPAYER WILL HAVE TO PAY $2.90 to cover his state, county and city taxes. This may all be very well for those who have small personal

two sacks scoring ''Denutggio and Gay. Mahoney walked and then Pendleton sent a hot one to short-' for a safety scoring Ramage. Brom Bromley - ley Bromley then went out, retiring the side with three tallies to the good. In this same inning the Mill boys got busy and managed to tie the score of their adversaries. Galena was first up and walked. Wilde flew to center for a two-bagger, scoring Ga Galena - lena Galena ftom first. Daddy hit safe to short and Wilde crossed the plate. Powell flew out to center but Zam Zamlcch - lcch Zamlcch grounded safe to left advancing Daddy from first to third. Cox then flew out to Hester and Duddy scored on the throw-in. This play was the signal for a general wrangle in which the Ray boys claimed that Duddy should have been out for his failure to start from third after the ball had reached Hester's hands. Naturally the umpire stood by his decision which so angered Bromley, tossing for the Miners, that he gave McGilvray a vigorous shove from the rear. Mac did not seem to approve of this conduct and gently placed Mr. Bromley on the bench for the rest of the engagement, Glavenich succeeding him on the mound. Van was next at bat and went cut retir retiring - ing retiring the side with the score tied. The next excitement came in the third when the Mighty Ramage swatted the sphere all the way over centerfield fence onto the roof of one of the cottages on the hill and leisurely took four sacks. There fol followed - lowed followed some fast work on both sides and plenty of goose-eggs for all un until - til until Mahoney came up in the sixth with two down and slammed the ball against centerfield fence for three. Pendleton followed with a two-sacker to left scoring Mahoney. Glavenich fanned. In this same frame Wa Wachob - chob Wachob sent a hot grounder to left for to scoring Cox, who had hit safe to short a few minutes earlier. In the seventh, Scanlon walked, advanced to third on Hester's sacrifice and scored when Demaggio hit to left for two. In the eighth, chances looked pret pretty - ty pretty good for the Mill boys to tie the score again, when with but one out, Van hit safe to center and Wachob followed with a two-bagger to the same locality. Gibson then came up as a pinch hitter batting for Dent and at the same time, Driscoll re replaced - placed replaced Glavenich on the mound for (he miners. All our fandom held its breath as our favorite pinch-hitter took his position by the piate but HE FANNED and great was the wail that rent the air. Galena then walked filling, the bases and there was still hope but Wilde went out on a fly to third with nothing accompished. Toner pitched for the locals in the ninth but there were no develop developments - ments developments on either side and the contest closed six to four in favor of the Mines. The score is as follows: Mill. AB. R. H. PO.A.E. Galena, 2b 3 1 0 3 2 I Wilde, ss 4 11 3 3 1 Duddy, 3b, 5 11 l 2 0 Powell, If 5 0 11 0 O' Zamloch, rs 4 0 2 0 0 0 Cox, cf 4 11 1 0 0 Van, lb 4 0 17 1 0 Wachob, c 4 0 3 10 3 0 Dent, p 1 0 0 11 0 Total 35 4 10 27 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

League Standing Won. Lost. Pet. Ray Mines 8 3 .727 Hayden Mill 5 6 .455 Hayden Smelter 3 7 .SOO HAYDEN, ARIZ., Aug. 15. - The Mill and Smelter teams crossed bats on the local diamond today in what was not the best exhibition we have seen of late, but there was the cus customary - tomary customary ninth inning excitement when it looked as if the Smelterites would make a garrison finish and turn de defeat - feat defeat into victory. However, such was not to be and when the third Smelter slugger went down in the ninth the score stood five to four in the Mill's favor. In the Mill's half of the first frame Wilde hit safe and was followed by Duddy who had like success, ad advancing - vancing advancing Wilde to third. Powell re received - ceived received a free pass filling the bases, and Zamloch sent a long fly to center for a safety, scoring Wilde and Duddy. Bauer grounded out to third and Zabloch was tagged out off second, retiring the side. After this first inning Stevens, tossing for the Smelterites, settled down to busi business - ness business and kept the hits well scat scattered. - tered. scattered. There were goose-eggs for all until loose work work by the Smelter team in the fourth netted two more for the Mill. In this inning Zamloch was first up and - went to first on being hit by a pitched ball, and a moment later stole second. Bauer followed with a grounder to second and as the ball was played to third to catch Zamloch it went through Lorenson, permitting Zamloch to score. Later Bauer came home on a grounder from to'-shortr JTtVC-if - followed some fast wofk on both sides with blanks for both until the seventh when Tom Pierce, at the Smelter team, pulled the sensa sensation - tion sensation of the day by flying over left field fence for a homer with Carnes on, making the first tally for the ore puddlers. In the eighth Toner was tapped a little more freely than usual, resulting in another score for the Smelter when Whalen went out on a long fly to left and Stadelll scored from third on the throw-in. In the same inning a little loose work of the Smelter boys presenting two passed balls, permitted Powell to reach home. The Smelter boys were first up in the ninth and after Carnes had gone out Pierce made a beautiful hit right for two sacks. Lorenson fanned. A1 Miller came up hitting for Duncan and sent a grounder between first and second which was fielded by Van. Toner had stepped to cover first, but Van threw' wild allowing Pierce to score and Miller to reach second. This was all, however, as Ramey, the next pinch hitter batting for Stevens, fanned beautifully and the fun was over.

M ines. AB. R. H. PO.A.E. Scanloa,_3h^r: J XL - 2 3 JtL Hester, 2b 4 0 1 5 5 1 Demaggio, rs 4 1 2 3 0 0 Clay, cf 4 1 0 2 0 0 Ramage, lb 3 2 1 11 0 0 Arbogast, c 4 0 2 2 0 0 Mahoney, If 3 11 1 0 0 Pendleton, ss 4 0 11 3 0 Bromley, p l 0 0 0 0 0 Glavenich, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 Driscoll, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 34 6 8 27 11 1 in place of Dent in Bth. Toner pitched ninth inning. Bromley pitcher 2-3 inning. Glavenich pitched 6 2-3 innings. Driscoll pitched 1 2-3 innings. Score by innings: Hayden Mill 300 001 000 - 4 Ray Mines 301 001 100 - 6 Two base hits - Wilde, Wachob 2, Pendleton, Demaggio, Hester. Thgre base hit - Mahoney. Home run - Ramage. Sacrifice hits - Zamloch, Cox, Hester. Stolen bases - Zamloch, Demaggio 2, Gay, Double play - Pendleton to Hester to Ramage. Base on ball - Off Dent 4, off Brom Bromley - ley Bromley 1, off Glavenich 3, off Driscoll 1. Struck out - By Dent 9, by Glavenich 1, by Driscoll l. Wild pitch - Glavenich. Umpire - McGilvray. Time of game - l hr. 50 min. Attendance - 3oo. TWO MILLION POUNDS COPPER IN TEN DAYS JEROME, ARIZ., Aug. 24. - 1 n a run of 10 days duration the new smelter of the United Verde Copper com company, - pany, company, at Clarkdale, produced 2,000,000 pounds of bullion. It was not work working - ing working to its full capacity at that. All parts of the smelter have now been tested, however, and production will soon be up to the limit. A full carload of ore is now being shipped each day from the United Verde Extension mine to the Douglas smelter of the Copper Queen com company. - pany. company. This rate of production is to be continued indefinitely. Much of the ore now handled runs as high as 50 per cent in copper content. All of it comes from the 1200-foot level. Nothing has been done toward ex extracting - tracting extracting the rich ore recently opened on the 1400-foot level. o- aged pioneer found DEAD IN HIS BED Frank Marlon, an old pioneer of this district, was found dead in his bed Thursday morning. He retired Wed Wednesday - nesday Wednesday night, apparently in his usual health, and died of heart failure in the course of the night. He was about sis years old and was employed by the Ray Consolidated. So far as is known here, he had no relatives.

Features of the game were a star catch by Powell when he gathered in McMurdo's long fly to left in the fourth, Pierce's heavy hitting and three fast doubles by the Smelter Smelterites. - ites. Smelterites. Score: Hayden Smelter. AB. R. H. PO.A.E. Stadelli, If 4 11 0 0 0 Garrity, ss 4 0 1 4 3 0 Whaling, rs 3 0 0 11 0 McMurdo, lb 3 0 0 8 1 0 Carnes, 2b T.. 4 1 2 4 4 0 Pierce, cf 3 2 2 1 0 0 Lorenson, 3b 4 0 11 0 1 Duncan, c 4 0 1 5 11 Stevens, p 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total 35 4 9 24 10 2 AB. R. H. PO.A.E. Galena, 2b 4 0 0 4 3 0 Wilde, ss 4 11 1 2 0 Duddy, 3b 4 1 2 0 3 0 Powell, if 2 1 0 2 0 0 Zamloch, rs 3 1 2 3 0 0 Bauer, cf 3 1 0 1 0 0 Van, lb 1 0 0 7 2 1 Wachob, c 3 0 0 8 1 0 Toner, p 2 0 11 1 0 Total 26 5 6 27 12 1 for Duncan in 9th. for Stevens in 9th. Score by innings: Hayden Smelter 000 000 211 - 4 Hayden Mill 200200 01* - 5 Summary. Two base hits - Pierce. Home runs - Pierce. Sacrifice hits Wachob, Toner, Whalen, Pierce. Double pliys- - McMurdo to Garrick, Whalen to Duncan, Garrity to Carnes to McMurdo. Stolen bases - Zamloch, Bauer. Bases on balls - Off Toner 1, off Stevens 4. 1 Struck out - By Toner 7, by Ste Ste-1 - -1 Ste-1 i vens 3. 1 j Passed balls - Duncan 2. 1 Hit by pitcher - Poweil and Zam Zamloch - loch Zamloch by Stevens. Time of game - l hr. 30 min. 1 Umpire - McGilvray. 1 Attendance - 450. ' ANOTHER GAME ' HAYDEN, ARIZ,, Aug. 18. - It was ! beastly unsatisfactory - that score of ' six to four in favor of the Mines - i at least as far as local fans were concerned, but there was plenty of 'pep" and a good supply of * excitement was on tap throughout. 1 The 'visitors were first at bat and l after Scanlon had fanned and Hes Hes. - . Hes. ter ha«l gone out on a fly to left, Demaggle came up and flew to left 1 for a safe one and soon after, with i characteristic robbery, stole second. 3 Gay received a free pass and a mo mot - t mot men! later participated in a double steal, taking second when Demaggio advanced to third. Ramage also 3 walked and with the bags full Ar Arbogast - bogast Arbogast sent a long fly to center for

MAYER PLANT 10 HAVE Ag ELECIRIC EQUIPMENT PRESCOTT, ARIZ., Aug. 20. - Ow 20. - Owing - ing 20. - Owing to a change in plans, the Mayer plan of the Gray Eagle Reduction company will not be in operation Sep September - tember September 1. The plant is complete ex except - cept except for the electrical apparatus. It has been planned to secure electricity from the Arizona Power company, which has a transmission line a few miles north of Mayer, but the Gray people decided to erect a gen generating - erating generating plant of their own right at the mill. The dredging equipment of the Creek Placer company has proven en entirely - tirely entirely inadequate to handle the for-" mation and operations have been, temporarily suspended. Boulders in the gravel of Lynx creek caused the trouble. In spite of them, however, several gratifying cleanups were made. The company will either import a heavier dredger from Montana or have an entirely new machine built in Kansas City. Fifty tons of ore are being freight freighted - ed freighted each day from the Commercial mine, in Copper basin, and shipped from Skull Valley station to Douglas. The mine, however, is producing at a rate far greater than this. Re Recent - cent Recent developments have disclosed ore enough to continue shipping on the 50-ton a day basis for at least a year. - J o Lily Milk at McKee's 90c dozen. All you want. . o KINDLING WOOD 1 want kindling wood call up j No. 91. Wood delivered at $3.00 per loatf:* j

holdings within the district, but to those who have to carry the burden, it is certainly a most serious thing. Such things prevent men of means from entering the community, for they realize that it is foolish to in invest - vest invest money where taxes are going to be a serious menace. This will be a good time to call upon our good friends who stated, when the high school election was being agitated, that it would only cost the taxpayers 5 cents on the SIOO, but they have carried their point and we now have to pay 38 cents. District No. 4 has a school levy of 7.56 cents. District nA 6 has a school levy of 8.4 cents. District No. 20 has a school levy of 1.764 cents. District No. 15 has a school levy of 5.88 cents. HOPI SNAKE DANCE GETS USUAL SIGHTSEERS FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ., Aug. 20. - Over 200 eastern tourists are now gathered at Flagstaff, ready to leave for the Hopi Indian reservation to see the annual snake dance of that tribe. Several distinguished persons are among the number, among them be being - ing being James Swinnerton, the artist. In addition to the easterners, many Ari Arizonans - zonans Arizonans will see the dance, which is scheduled to be held this year on August 25. o We are here to stay. Oiofc is king.

feet and open levels every 100 feet from which development, shipments of ore will be made regularly. Every indication leads to the belief that a large body of disseminated pri primary - mary primary ore will be encountered on this property. The company will place a small block of stock on the market imme immediately - diately immediately In order to begin active development after which ore shipments will more than pay development. The personnel of the board of di directors - rectors directors is as follows: J. C. Devine, C. M. Kinsey, J. M. Meattie, C. H. Studley, Jr., E. M. Blake, J. H. Rob Robinson, - inson, Robinson, J. C. Adams. J. C. Devine is president of the new company; C. M. Kimsey is vice-presi vice-president - dent vice-president and J. M. Beattie secretary-treas secretary-treasurer. - urer. secretary-treasurer. The other directors are C. H. Studley, Jr., E. M. Blake, J. H. Rob* inson and J. C. Adams.