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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
3
Order takes registrants out of deferred class and requires ball players golfers clerks bartenders and others to find useful employment. The policy targets occupations and aims to reduce idle status for the draft era.
A catalog of job categories including idlers gamblers bucket shop workers race track attendants clairvoyants professional golfers baseball players elevator operators club doormen hotel waiters theater ushers attendants domestic staff clerks and actors with a note on special exemptions.
General Crowder unveils a work or fight amendment to the selective service act. It orders men of draft age to seek useful employment or join the army, with local boards empowered to reclassify and press for immediate military service if idleness or ineffectiveness persists.
A reflection on the value of diligent effort across trades. The text argues that a painter’s rough sketch and an embroiderer’s trial run reveal the principle that true work becomes satisfying only when treated as a dignified, honorable pursuit from start to finish.
A farmer notes the resource ratio in hay production with each ton of hay requiring 500 tons of water to mature. The remark highlights the water intensity of the crop and prompts questions about sustainability and irrigation practices.
The passage states that man is built from eighteen or more simple bodies including hydrogen oxygen nitrogen carbon sulfur fluorine chlorine bromine iodine phosphorus arsenic silicon sodium calcium magnesium iron and manganese aluminum boron and vanadium.
Stones along the Mason and Dixon line bear the Penn and Baltimore family coats of arms in a historic display.
Late market quotes show light wool lambs at 18.50 to 19.00, heavy wool lambs at 18.00 to 18.50, clipped lambs at 14.50 to 15.50, ewes woolled 15.25 to 15.75, and clipped ewes around 10? to 12? with limited clarity. Prices indicate current ranges for sale among buyers and sellers.
The fragment shows graded eggs No. 1 and No. 2 with net prices around 8.25 to 8.50 per dozen or case, including miscellaneous case counts and commission details. It reads like a market listing from a wholesale notes page.
The listing shows metal prices in New York, St. Louis, London and Boulder. Lead at 7.00 to 7.25, Copper 23.12 percent, Bar Silver 99.9 percent in New York. Spelter 7.20 in St. Louis. London bar silver 48.0 percent per ounce. Boulder offers tungsten concentrates 60 percent at 20.00 to 22.50 per unit, crude ores 60 percent 22.00 to 25.00, 25 per ree 12.00 to 12.50, and 10 percent 9.40.
Boston wool markets report scoured basis prices across grades from Texas Fine to Fine Clothing and Territory staples. Tenor notes pullings with ranges from $1.50 to $1.80 per unit, including combing and clothing varieties, reflecting mixed demand in early trading.
Chicago live stock quotations show hogs at widely quoted ranges with light and heavy categories, cattle prices for native steers stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves, and sheep and lambs values across a broad spectrum. The data reflect bid and ask spread in the Chicago market for hogs cattle and sheep segments.
New York cotton futures quote middling at 26.45 with May 23.35 July 23.47 October 22.88 December 22.77 and January 22.63 as listed.
Chicago market note lists corn and oats prices with No 2 yellow at 1 76 and ae yellow at 1 50 to 1 70, No 4 Yellow, oats No 3 white 74 1 75 percent, standard 76 1 77 cents, barley 1 30 to 1 51, timothy 5 60 to 8 00, clover 18 00 to 28 00, lard 24 50 to 24 55, ribs 21 80 to 22 42.
Minneapolis grain prices list No 3 yellow corn at 1.50 to 1.60 per bushel Oats No 3 white 72 to 73 cents Flax 3.90 to 3.92 Rye 2.00 to 2.02 Barley 1.15 to 1.43 Bran 28.25 to 43.26 per hundredweight
Lead quoted at 7.00 to 7.25 dollars per unit, copper at 23.12 percent, and bar silver at 99.0 cents. London quicksilver shows 487d per ounce. St. Louis ore values list spelter at 7.20 dollars, crude ores at 60 percent 22.00 to 25.00, 25 percent 12.00 to 12.50, and 10 percent 9.40 to 12.20.
About 60 men work at the Jerome Verde property while a test well at Bowie basin is full of asphaltum and oil. A small molybdenum discovery lies thirty feet down in a mine thirty miles from Jerome. Patagonia reports the World's Fair group of eight claims sold to an Eastern company. Calumet and Hecla Mining Company reports April output, including its subsidiaries, of 11,734,820 pounds of copper.
Colorado mines report a robust May start with 41 ore cars shipped. The Cripple Creek district surpasses the April dollar milestone, while the Index Gold Mining Company resumes productive shipping. New plans include an electric plant near Pike View and continued high grade ore from the old Ohio property near Breckenridge. Ten Mile district in Summit county pushes molybdenite production, with April yields over $300,000 and a potential $3,000,000 for 1918.
Anaconda's High Ore mine will suspend operations for three months to concrete the shaft to the full depth of 3,400 feet at an estimated cost of 75,000 dollars. The shutdown should not hamper overall output as workers will be reassigned to other mines, with High Ore producing about 1,950 tons daily. May projections include 28,000,000 pounds copper, 900,000 ounces silver and 5,000,000 pounds zinc. total ore tonnage, including North Butte, runs 17,809 daily.
F W Moffett sells the Snake and Opportunity group at Hillsboro to Eastern capitalists. Las Animas Peak Gold Mines installs a new Witte hoist in Sierra county. Major Llewellyn and associates work on Percha Creek placer grounds below Hillsboro. Melrose Oil Company finalizing operations. Lake Valley mines employ fifty men shipping high grade manganese. Mogollon Company drives new shaft 900 feet deep at cost 55000 with four to five thousand tons shipped monthly plus bullion bars.
Florence Petroleum Company reports rapid progress on its Castle Creek well. In Glenrock's Big Muddy field heavy development continues as crews push ahead. Word from Laramie says the Ohio well in Rock Creek reached Muddy sand and struck oil in large quantities.
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