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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1918
Page
14
An American machine gunner Lloyd in D company in France earns redemption after overcoming fear to load a stranded gun and repel a German assault. Wounded fatally while saving his mates, he dies in a cemetery vigil as a lone grave marker stands among shattered crosses.
The diary recalls patrols and night duties behind the lines as Allied forces brace for the Somme offensive. Massive supply streams, artillery trains, and thousands of troops churn forward while German trenches are studied from aerially mapped layouts. A veteran notes map training, trench models, and strict guard zones before the assault.
Isinglass is produced from the sounds of swimming bladders in fish. One ton of hake yields 40 to 50 pounds of sounds which are processed into sheets and ribbons. Isinglass clarifies 200 to 500 gallons of wine per ounce and 100 to 500 barrels of beer per pound. It is used in cementing glass and pottery and in waterproof textiles and adhesives.
The article explains wild tea plants reach ten to twenty feet, while cultivated plants are kept around three feet for easy picking. It notes Japan tea is largely green variety and much black tea is exported from Formosa. Seedbeds are terraces following hill contours as tea fields. Tea-pickers, mainly women, move downward during harvest.
Lead priced at 8.05 dollars per unit and bar silver at 99 percent. Copper quoted at 25.62 dollars. Spelter in St Louis reported between 8.50 and 8.75. Boulder Cole tungsten concentrates sold at 60 percent 20.00 to 22.50 per unit, 25 percent 12.00 to 12.50, 10 percent 9.40 to 12.20.
Phelps Dodge smelters produced 18 733 071 pounds of copper in July while Shattuck and Arizona Copper Co. yielded 672 024 pounds copper along with 12 292 ounces silver and 104 ounces gold. Cresson Consolidated Mining declared a 10 percent dividend payable Sept 10 to holders of record Aug 31. A Cripple Creek ore shipment to Bull Hill and a Deadwood Leasing Co. formation are noted amid ongoing deep development and royalty arrangements.
The treasury fixes silver at 1.01% per fine ounce. Butte and Superior may resume dividends after court injunctions. The Davis Daly Copper Co at 2300 feet reports seven feet ore averaging over 15% copper and ten ounces of silver. At 2500 feet in the same vein the Hesperus shows ten feet ore averaging 6% copper and nine ounces of silver.
The Mogollon Mines Co ships eight bars of bullion. Oaks Co sinks Central shaft on Deep Down mine. Farmington notes oil shows improving at Flora Vista. Cap Rock mountain yields a high grade manganese deposit. Mesa Verde oil well at Aztec stands at about 1100 feet with oil sands and gas suggesting a productive field. Silver Glen No 4 near Magdalena sold by A C Pedersen to F D Romero after gold strikes. A new high grade silver gold copper vein on Socorro's Mogollon Johnson mine, four to five feet wide, extends over sixty feet with No 1 shaft connections under way.
The Casper oil board notes 51 new wells in Wyoming for July, 36 profitable producers. Texas Company resumes work on its Glenrock area oil tank farm after a months long suspension, while oil activity remains high across the Glenrock region.
Lloyd Jackson and Hezekiah Brown quarreled in the South long ago. Lloyd later learned Hez worked on a government building in town. He lured by Ann Crump, Lloyd jumped Hez during a parade, leaving him injured. Lloyd received 60 days in court. Anne faces action if she appears.
Louisia Wood, daughter of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, is a renowned long distance rider who hoped to join her father in France. Born into horsemanship, she learned at Fort Myer and has kept the pace in demanding rides, while her father contemplates potential command of American forces.
A Washington registrant in the draft process misplaced his questionnaire while working on government duties away from the capital. He returned to the local board, where the staff could not locate his form yet still considered him eligible for immediate camp if drafted.
A young sparrow falls in a downtown gutter and is rescued by a kind man. Fed on bread crumbs soaked in milk the bird recovers quickly and bonds strongly, perching on the man’s shoulder and awaiting his return, refusing to leave.
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