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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
11
A July 1 in effect order removes registrants from deferred status for ball players golfers clerks bartenders and others. They must seek useful employment under the new rule and meet the draft service requirements as specified.
The piece catalogs various worker groups such as idlers gamblers bucket shop employees race track attendants clairvoyants professional golfers baseball players elevator operators club and hotel doormen waiters ushers attendants in sports domestic service clerks and actors as specially exempt individuals under wartime regulations.
General Crowder expands the selective service to require every draft age man to work or fight after July 1. Idlers gamblers bar tenders and many service workers face boards for reassignment or induction. The policy aims to stop idle conduct by enforcing useful employment across occupations including hospitality, retail, and amusements.
The piece argues that any painter or embroiderer finds initial rough sketches and sloppy work distressing. It stresses that work must be treated as a dignified and honorable endeavor to be genuinely pleasurable and finished with care.
For every ton of hay in the field, 500 tons of water have been used to bring it to maturity.
The fragment lists eighteen or more simple bodies entering human constitution, including hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, phosphorus, arsenic, silicon, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, aluminum, boron and vanadium.
Stones along the Mason and Dixon line display the Penn and Baltimore family coats of arms marking historic boundary lore.
Late market quotations list light and heavy lambs with price ranges for woole d and clipped wool. Ewes show prices for wooled and clipped states. minor typographical errors noted in the clipping column.
The notice shows eggs auction pricing with No. 1 net and No. 2 net grades and a case count of 24 eggs per case. Prices range from 8.25 to 8.50, with miscellaneous case details and commission notes.
New York quotes show Lead at 7.00 to 7.25 dollars per unit and Copper at 23.12 dollars with silver content at 99 percent. St Louis lists Spelter at 7.20 dollars, London reports Bar silver at 48 percent per ounce, while Boulder cites tungsten concentrates at 60 percent and prices for crude ores and related grades.
Prices listed for Texas Fine, Fine months, and Territory grades show scoured basis values from $1.50 to $1.75 per unit. Pulled and AA to A classes display ranges around $1.60 to $1.80, with specific figures for different classifications in the Boston market.
Chicago live stock quotations list hogs at bulk 17.35 to 17.75, light 17.35 to 17.80, mixed 17.05 to 17.80, heavy 16.35 to 17.60, pigs 14.75 to 17. Cattle native steers 10.20 to 17.50, stockers and feeders 9.25 to 13.25, cows and heifers 7.25 to 14.75, calves 8.00 to 14.50, sheep 7.65 to 14.75, lambs 13.25 to 16.00.
New York cotton futures quoted middling prices for several months with May at 23.35, July 23.47, October 22.88, December 22.77, and January 22.63, while the current middling price stands at 26.45.
Chicago market report shows corn No 2 yellow at 1.76 and yellow 1.50 1.70, No 4 Yellow. oats No 3 white 74 1 75 percent, standard 76 1 77, barley 1.30 1.51. timothy 5.60 8.00. clover 18.00 28.00. lard 24.50 24.55. ribs 21.80 22.42.
Grain in Minneapolis Minnesota lists No 3 yellow corn at 1.50 to 1.60 with odds and ends in oats No 3 white at 0.72 to 0.73 flax at 3.90 to 3.92 rye at 2.00 to 2.02 barley at 1.15 to 1.43 bran at 28.25 to 43.26.
Lead quoted at 7.00 to 7.25 dollars per unit, copper at 23.12 percent, bar silver at 99.9 cents. London price for bar silver listed at 487d per ounce. St Louis reports spelter at 7.20, crude ores at 60 percent to 22.00 and 25 percent to 12.00.
About 60 men work at the Jerome Verde property while a Bowie basin test well encounters asphaltum and oil. A molybdenum find lies thirty feet down in a mine thirty miles from Jerome. Patagonia reports the World’s Fair eight-claim group sold to an Eastern company. Calumet and Hecla Mining Co reports April output of 11,734,820 pounds of copper including subsidiaries.
Colorado mining districts report strong May activity with Cripple Creek shipping forty one ore cars in two weeks and April production exceeding one million dollars. The Index Mine in Goldhill resumes producing while Golden Cycle plans an electric plant near Pike View. Ohio property near Breckenridge yields high grade silver ore and Ten Mile district eyes three million dollars in molybdenite output for 1918, including over three hundred thousand in April.
Anaconda Copper will suspend operations at the High Ore mine for three months to concrete the shaft to 3,400 feet at an estimated cost of 75,000 dollars. No major production impact expected as workers will shift to other mines. High Ore produced about 1,950 tons daily. May output projected at 28,000,000 pounds of copper, 900,000 ounces of silver and 5,000,000 pounds of zinc, with total ore tonnage including North Butte at 17,809 daily.
F W Moffett sells the Snake and Opportunity claim at Hillsboro to Eastern capitalists. Las Animas Peak Gold Mines installs a Witte hoist in Sierra county. Major Llewellyn and partners work Percha Creek placer grounds near Hillsboro. Melrose Oil Company readies for active field work. Lake Valley mines employ fifty men shipping high grade manganese. Mogollon Company drives larger ore output. shaft reaches 900 feet, cost 55000 dollars. Monthly shipments reach four to five thousand tons plus bullion.
Wyoming report notes Florence Petroleum Company’s Castle Creek well making rapid progress. Glenrock in the Big Muddy field shows busy development, while word from Laramie says in the Rock Creek field the Ohio well struck Muddy sand with abundant oil, leaving drillers unsure how to handle the flow.
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