The Arizona Copper Camp, 1915-10-22

BIG OFFICERS FOR SFAK FAIR MEEI PHOENIX, Arizona, October 22. - Starter O. P. Updegraff of the great races at the Panama Pacific harness meet held this year at San Francisco, has been selected to act in the same capacity in Phoenix this year at the Arizona State Fair. This was decided upon at the recent meet meeting - ing meeting of the commission. The import importance - ance importance of the meet here is such that the commission felt justified in ob obtaining - taining obtaining the services of the most ex expert - pert expert judge possible, and' since Judge Updegraff was at liberty and had signified a wish to come to Phoenix and officiate an invitation was ex extenderd - tenderd extenderd to him, and the conditions being satisfactory, he will act during the week of fast harness events on the wonderful mile track at the Ari Arizona - zona Arizona State Fair grounds. Accompanying Judge Updegraff, will be a judge and starter of almost as much renown as the former meri meritibned - tibned meritibned gentlemen. Magnus Flaws, who is the trotting editor of the Chi Chicago - cago Chicago Inter Ocean, secretary of the Chicago Driving club, as well as sec secretary - retary secretary of the turf journals associa association, - tion, association, will be one of the judges of the harness events and will start the running events. He served as starter at no less than forty series of har harness - ness harness and running races during the present year, and was one of the judges and starters at the Panama Pacific exposition. The choice of the two gentlemen mentioned above for the positions named placed the coming Arizona meet upon a higher level possibly than it has ever before been. The presence in Phoenix for the evehts at the track immediately increases the prestige of the Arizona fair meet. Heretofore the meet has always had a splendid reputation all over the country. Owners of fine animals bring them here to make their best time trials assured of the equity of the treatment they will receive. Now they will be doubly assured. Upde Updegraff - graff Updegraff was the presiding judge here last year.

CLIFION SIIUATION REIAINS^UNCHANGLD CLIFTON, Ariz., Oct. 22. - Pending the adoption at the El Paso confer conference - ence conference of some definite plan of settle settlement - ment settlement of the strike, conditions in the Clifton-Morenci district have re remained - mained remained almost unchanged. The only new development has been disagree disagreement - ment disagreement among the strikers as to the distribution of relief funds, with which they are amply supplied. Fifty union men left here today for the refugee camp at Duncan follow following - ing following a quarrel with Western Federa Federation - tion Federation officials. No word has come from the con conference - ference conference at El Paso, where plarfs for settlement are being discussed be between - tween between the mine managers and the committee of five. o T*ENNIS TOURNAMENT On October 31 there will be an ex excursion - cursion excursion run from Ray to Hayden for the purpose of holding the semi semiannual - annual semiannual tournament to play for the president's cup, offered by Sherwood Aldrich, president of the Ray Con Consolidated - solidated Consolidated Copper company. The tournament is now being Nvorked off for the Cates' cup, offered by Louis Cates, general manager of the Ray Consolidated Copper company. Un Unusual - usual Unusual interest is being manifested by the tennis players this year. The courts at Hayden are in excellent shape and those who love good, clean sport will do well to take advantage of the excursion, as in addition to the tennis matches there will be baseball and other sports. HALLOWE'EN DANCE * On Saturday night, Oct. 30, there will be a dance at the club house in Ray. There will be no dance on the 29th

SiSUMIIC PLAN OF MKJMIIIOt When the Calumet and Arizona took option on the New * Cornelia property at Ajo, a systematic and regular plan of development was car carried - ried carried out to determine its exact value, the exact size of the ore bodies, the exact location, and then, after these matters were determined, the exact process necessary for the. reduction of the ore. .By these methods mining has had much of its element of chance taken away. The New Cor Cornelia - nelia Cornelia Copper company, although it has had no ore removed, knows just how much ore it has, how long its iife will be, how much money must be made to repay the investment and interest in that allotted life. In fact, it is a cut and dried proposition, the only chance being that their ex expensive - pensive expensive development work might not prove up any ore. Seventy acres of land were taken and laid off in regular 2 00-foot squares and 84 diamond drill holes were put down on the corners of these squares. These holes yielded both a core and cuttings, the latter showing the geological and petro petrogiaphical - giaphical petrogiaphical nature of the rock, and the cuttings being assayed for the value. Diamond drill samples were taken every five feet, and altogether 9300 samples were talcen. Besides the drilling of 23,097 feet of diamond drill holes, about 4000 feet of test pit work was done, which also was sam sampled - pled sampled every five feet, making 800 sam samples - ples samples more. The test pits were put down on the same co-ordinate points as the diamond drill holes in order to check the accuracy of the diamond drill samples. Nothing was left to chance, 11,105 samples being taken

IMVESIMLNI PERMITS 10 M|NE_ COMPANIES PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 22. - The cor corporation - poration corporation commission yesterday issued investment company permits to seven companies, a number of them located in the Oatman district. The list of companies granted permission to sell stock since the beginning of the fiscal year July 1 is now close to forty, and applications of new companies axe coming in every day. The companies granted stock sell selling - ing selling permits yesterday are: The Dome Mining company of Oatman; the Ma Mazona - zona Mazona Mining company; the Deposit Mining and Milling company of Needles, Cal.; the Salt Basin Oil company of Globe; Oatman Southern Mining and Milling company of Oat Oatman; - man; Oatman; Irene of Globe, and the Rich Hill Jerome Mines company of Je Jerome - rome Jerome * - : o RAN KIN-WATKINS NUPTIALS The many friends of Thomas J. Rankin, formerly of Ray, will be pleased to learn of his marriage to i Miss Mary Ethel Watkins of Phoe Phoenix - nix Phoenix on Wednesday, October 20, at Phoenix, Ariz. Miss Watkins is an exceptionally talented and refined young lady and is the daughter of Mrs. Carrie S. Watkins and a sister of Mrs. O. L. Hubbard of Ray and Miss Clarabell Watkins of Phoenix. Mr. Rankin formerly lived in Ray, where he was employed as a hoist engineer for the Ray Consolidated Copper company, which position he resigned s o travel. Mr. and M « Rankin both have lots o ffriends in Ray, and the Copper Camp joins with them in wishing the couple much happiness and-" a suc successful - cessful successful voyage over the matriomonial sea. They expect to make their home in APhoenix at 820 North Third street.

SHIE SELECTS LAND FOB MILITARY SCHOOL For the benefit of any future mili military - tary military institutes Arizona may build up, State Land Commissioner W. a. Moeur yesterday filed on 8,274 acres of the public domain. This is part of the state's land selections, that are now being filed frequently at the United States land office. There are two batches in the list, one of 1,893 acres and the other com comprising - prising comprising 6,381 acres. altogether to prove the value of the ore bo#y. In the 70 acres drilled, an ore body covering 61 acres was exposed, an ore body varying from 1500 to 2000 feet long, from 650 to 1500 feet wide and from 120 feet thickness to an unknown depth. Diamond drilling has made possible the exploration of another big copper producer, abso absolutely - lutely absolutely predicting its future, that will give employment to many hundreds of men, and the spending of nearly five million dollars in its further de development, - velopment, development, but it is now merely the development of a sure thing. o ' NEW TEACHER ARRIVES Miss Hawes, from Los Angeles, has been retained by the Ray School Board for the purpose of teaching in the new school for the colored chil children - dren children of Ray. The new building has just been completed. Miss Hawee is a very talented young lady and will be welcomed by the younger set of Ray as one of the social lead leaders - ers leaders for the coming winter. She is making her home at the present time with Mrs* Kingwell and Miss Jessie Kingwell, mother and sister of Mrs. J. T. More.

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was the immediate cause of the cav caving. - ing. caving. Wednesday night, Fleming says, the drill was pulled, and two barrels of oil drawn from the well. The flow at the present time, he claims, is just about that amount a day. Fifty feet lower down, according to the surveys, is the main basin, en enclosed - closed enclosed in the shale peculiar to such deposits, and. once through this shale, the big supply will be met. Fleming is the pioneer oil man of the district. He is president of the Tonto Basin Oil Company, which has promoted most of the drilling work in. the district. But one well has been bored, although the rigs of other con concerns - cerns concerns are on the ground. Fleming has pursued the work in spite of much incredulity on the part of his acquaintances and friends, and at the present time, has sunk some $13,000 of his own money in the well. Interested citizens of Globe will go to the well tomorrow and see for themselves the source of the first oil supply ev'r found in Arizona.

GLOBE, Oct. 21. - Bearing bottled samples of the finest quality para paraphine - phine paraphine base oil. Col. James H. Fleming of Phoenix, pioneer oil seeker of the Tonto basin arrived in Globe today with the news that a well had been brought in on the hillside, opposite the Roosevelt dam. With this news, the colonel also brought word of prospects of developing oil in com commercial - mercial commercial quantities within ten days. After a short visit, he hurried back to the oil field, in order to superin superintend - tend superintend arrangements for increasing the depth of the borings by fifty feet, in order that the main oil basin under underlying - lying underlying the entire Tonto basin may be tapped. Not having expected a gusher. Fleming was not disappointed when the strike proved to be merely a pocket. For several days, the drills had been hampered by the caving of the hole. Soft water, which is en encountered - countered encountered just above all oil deposits,