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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
12
The Benson Signal, a weekly newspaper in Benson Arizona, details its editor C L Rucker and its second class matter entry date May 12 1906. It lists a subscription rate of two dollars per year.
The whisky boom in the state from California is exhausting barrel stock as later shipments arrive in tin containers to beat the looming time limit. Mining and Engineering World notes progress in mining occurs in low grade copper, lead and zinc mines where economies matter and best practice thrives.
Hunt files a court petition in Maricopa County contesting the official tally which showed Campbell ahead by thirty votes. The suit alleges illegal votes were cast and counted for Campbell in every precinct, while votes for Hunt were cast and not counted in every precinct across the state. Campbell tallied 27 976 votes to Hunt 27 946.
Road experts advise bonds for highway work should not exceed 30 years and prefer earlier retirement to avoid tax hikes. A pamphlet by the University of Arizona Bureau of Mines, Mining of Useful Minerals in Arizona, offers practical mineral data for prospectors and miners and doubles as a reference handbook. Copies are available from Director Chas. F. Willis, Tucson.
Washington reports a national push to revise postal rates with a zone system for second class mail and aim for a one cent local letter postage. House Postal Committee Chairman Moon signals priority for the next session and promises action in the public interest.
District Forester Redington reports a wireless message sent yesterday from Baseline Ranger Station to Clifton forty miles away. Forest Ranger Warner and Ray Potter installed a system costing 75 dollars, cheaper than a wired line. Demonstrates wireless telephony as a future forest communication method.
Dr. E B Downer wrote The High Way of Death about his Red Cross service in Belgrade during sieges. He visited Benson this summer before returning to Europe. The article notes 240 deaths among 300 physicians and surgeons to typhus and related causes. In Buena near Ft Hua chuca, Downer’s group is celebrated. Congress opened with focus on the high cost of living, proposing eleven bills to curb food prices, restrict shipments to Europe, and adjust parcel post and cold storage rules.
A dated satirical guide mocks mining stock practices. It jokes that stock should be bought in darkness from strangers and paid in bead money. It suggests various odd uses for certificates, notes ink health concerns, and praises blank sterilized paper.
The Santa Fe Guidebook notes Melchior Diaz and Hernando de Alarcon reached the river in 1540. Diaz named it Rio del Tizon for firebrands carried by natives. The guide mentions the river’s name confusion with Colorado and details winter use of firebrands. Also a classified: Wanted coy ote pelts head and all. Will pay $1.00 each at the Signal office.
The text describes southwest fauna like rats lizards horned toad sidewinder and Gila monster and mentions desert tortoise and chuckwalla. It covers Aborigines in Arizona with ruins and Spanish exploration, Marcos de Niza and Coronado, and notes Arizona’s current population about 42,000. Also an ad offers 160 acres near Pomeren e Benson with a school bus route from Dragoon.
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