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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1917
Page
11
Paris report on Dr Louis Borsch at Grand Palais Military Hospital describing eye grafts and eyelid reconstruction. He notes rapid field treatment, pain relief, and successful cornea grafts while soldiers and even German prisoners receive equal care.
Norman Lee writes from the French front describing life in Section Seven. He details gas shell dangers, a war dog named James and an improvised dugout. A cat marked as an official sniffer returns whenever gas is present as the Boche bombardments continue near Soissons.
Mrs. Amelia Brush, seventy, who knitted socks for Civil War soldiers, teaches a Sunday school class at First Methodist church in Canton how to knit socks for the boys going to France.
In Columbus Ohio a carnival worker has set a new target called the Kaiser replacing the baby rack. Vendors advertise three cigars for hitting the Kaiser head with a thrown object at street carnivals and county fairs.
New investigations show women increasingly fill roles once held by men across Japan. Four thousand work for the railway bureau as ticket sellers and cashiers, six thousand in government tobacco factory shops, earning ten to twenty five cents daily. Male clerks are replaced by women earning five to fifteen dollars monthly. Actresses command high wages but high clothing costs limit their overall financial position.
Western Newspaper Union notes spot prices for New York lead at 11 cents a pound and bar silver at 80 cents per ounce. Copper casting at 28.8714, spelter in St Louis at 8.8744, and tungsten concentrates 60 percent at 17.00 per unit. Crude ores 60 percent at 15.00, 25 percent 9.40, 12.00, 10 percent 8.70 per unit.
Reports show a major ore strike at the Weaver mine in the Weaver district and five foot thick ore at the Tel luride mine on the 350 foot level in the Oatman district. Arizona taxpayers face about $100000 weekly losses due to state labor troubles as Copper Basin mine awards a 600 foot contract at Parker. Sinking at the Dorothy May shaft in Jerome proceeds at five feet daily and the Black Giant shaft work in the Salome district continues despite hot weather. A Benson carload of ore ships to Deming smelter from the Ed Cajon mines near Benson. American Metals Producing Company in Black Hawk saves zinc from Gilpin and Clear Creek county ores. May production from Acacia Gold's South Burns mine on Bull Hill totals 250 tons at $26 per ton. In Colorado J W Ady plans men for Lottie mine in Middle Cottonwood district. Eyvind Flood cites near completion of resumption at Excelsior mine Frisco and Arkansas valley oil excitement from a 1700 foot well. American Metals plant at Black Hawk expands custom ore treatment business. State Senator Hetherington notes molybdenite ore in Gunnison county from a twenty foot vein in Gold Brick district. Good Friday mine at Boulder Falls gears up for a large ore block. Tonopah Placers and French Gulch Dredging Company continue placer gold digging, with three of four boats active. Primos Mining Company at Camp Boericke near Empire prepares to resume molybdenum shipments after ceasing last year.
The Big Five Gold Mining and Milling Company and two other firms including Fidelity Copper Company of Silver City and Duncan Mining and Milling Company of Steeple Rock filed incorporation papers with the State Corporation Commission. Toltec Oil Company’s vice president predicts oil finds in Chaves county after a test well reached 3120 feet and proved oil bearing sands. A Farmers' Bulletin section discusses home and commercial drying of fruits and vegetables to conserve food supplies.
No 7 well in Torchlight field was drilled to 600 feet. Buffalo Basin dome well down 2300 feet. The Greybull Refinery addition advances rapidly with three power stills in place and forms for six crude stills. Wyoming crude price up five cents to 1.45 per barrel with Elk Basin and Grass Creek production at that level.
Clean and divide cauliflower into small bunches then blanch six minutes. Dry for two to three hours at 110 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. Cauliflower darkens but regains color during soaking and cooking. Dried cauliflower is good in soups and omelets. Brussels sprouts use the same method with a pinch of soda in blanching water.
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