War news and regional updates from the Douglas International
Restoration of the backyard woodpile is urged as a precaution for a possible coal shortage. Government forest service offers facilities to take timber from national forests for fuel. Red Cross war fund has surpassed 114 million dollars as Liberty Loan exceeds a billion. Mining activity near Benson may mark a turning point with El Cajon mines resuming production. A Blackfoot painter Lone Wolf is praised as a “Redskin Rembrandt” with works inspired by Apache country. New Roosevelt Lodge studies are bought by patron Roland Conklin of New York. El Paso and Southwestern adds ten new engines, capable of pulling trains at forty miles per hour on the Douglas to El Paso run.
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Government
Forest Service
Liberty
Red Cross
el Cajon Miies
Benson
Lone Wolf
New York
Roland Conklin
Roosevelt Lodge
Southern Pacific Company
Arizona
el Paso
Southwestern
Douglas
Golden State Limited
Douglas International
Pardons Board Adopts Parole Notice Rule in Arizona
At a Florence meeting on March 29 the State Board of Pardons and Paroles ordered that parole and pardon applications require service of notice to the County Attorney and written acknowledgment. The rule asks applicants to state offense, sentence details, and terms to guide board recommendations and governor grants. The Tucson Star notes context on ore markets and a new Molybdenum Co. by C. E. Udell.
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State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Florence
Arizona
Wiley E. Jones
American Molybdenum Co
C. E. Udell
New York
Tucson
Tucson Star
More Molybdenum War Cry Drives Arizona Search
The Eastern mining push for molybdenum will intensify next month as local miners report broad searches in Arizona after extensive prior scrapes. The American Molybdenum Contract worth 250000 dollars covers about 125000 pounds of the mineral and influences efforts to secure supply.
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Arizona
Mormon Colonists in Mexico Disarmed in Border Conflict
Fifteen American Mormon colonists near Colonia Morelos on the Bavispe river were disarmed by Mexican officials and residents. Mexican authorities also confiscated several thousand acres of irrigated farms and buildings of absentee members for the public good. No resistance occurred, but dispossession threats could force the settlers to leave Mexico, risking heavy losses on planted crops.
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Batepito
Colonia Morelos
Douglas
Bavispe River
Mexico
Douglas Dispatch
Desirable Farm Lands Listed Near Benson Arizona 1917
The May 1 1917 list itemizes farms around Benson and San Pedro Alley Arizona for sale including No 51 a 31 acre Borderland highway farm with 8 acres alfalfa 600 fruit trees six wells and ditch water price 2300 No 54 a 160 acre dairy suitable farm with four wells and storage near town at 50 an acre No 60 eighty acres near Benson with flowing wells price 2000 No 63 160 acres near Benson artesian belt suitable for cultivation or investment cash preferred No 64 100 acre artesian belt farm near Benson with dry farming yields ideal bargain 25 an acre No 65 40 acre small farm near Land station with two wells price 1300 No 71 640 acres in Sulphur Springs Valley can be bought for 6 an acre No 82 twenty acres near Benson artesian belt suitable for poultry or fruit farm price 500 cash plus other Benson properties listed as well.
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St. David Canal
Benson
Sulphur Springs Valley
Bisbee
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Benson Signal
W. L. Rucker
Monitar
Frank H. Spearman
Henry de Spain
Nan
Ernor
Charleston
San Pedro
San Pedro Valley
San Pedro Alley
the Signal Realty Company
Benson, Arizona
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