Pumping Plant Installed On Rollins Homestead
A 1500 gallons per minute pumping plant is now on Wm Rollins homestead seven miles north of town on the San Pedro river. Ed Hanes of Benson Water Company installed it after two to three weeks on the job. The system uses a seven inch centrifugal pump and a 32 horsepower Fairbanks Morse engine, drawing river water up thirty five feet to irrigate about sixty acres this year with plans to expand to six hundred acres using reservoirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Rollins
San Pedro
Ed Hanes
Benson Water Company Service
Fairbanks Morse
Rollins
Grain sacks rags bones rubber and tires wanted
Gem Second Hand Store advertises for used materials including grain sacks rags bones rubber and automobile tires. Public notice seeks donations or purchases from local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gem
Presbyterial Held a Two Days Meeting
The Southern Arizona Presby terial Society held its fourth annual convention in Benton over Wednesday and Thursday. Fourteen delegates and visitors praised the hosting church. sessions featured talks by Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Ellinwood, Miss Blackford, and Mrs. Graham. Officers for the next year elected include President Mrs. Fraser and Honorary President Mrs. Durley. A buffet luncheon followed the final session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Arizona Presbyterial Society
Benton
S. F. Fraser
Douglas
Byron Moffitt
Bowie
Penson
E. HB. Ellinwood
Bisbee
H. G Brown
Benson
Benson Methodist Church
M L. Girton
Tucson
Mrs. Girton
Miss Parker
W. C. Brewer
Bridge
Abbott
Webb
Durley
Fraser
Corey
Frank Jolliffe
Brewer
Ada Etz
Denton C. Crews Delivers Parosophy Lecture at K of P Hall
A small Denton audience braved bad weather to hear Denton C. Crews in a Lyceum Curse style lecture on Parosophy Facts and Fun. He echoed Rev. Sam Jones with wit and plain sense, keeping listeners engaged with a strong voice and easy delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton C. Crews
K of P. Hall
Lyceum
Sam Jones
Georgia
Mr. Crow
Woods sells Benson dairy to Draper
Mr. G. C. Woods disposes of his Benson dairy business to Mr. F. W. Draper who comes from Sulphur Springs Valley. Draper acquires the old smelter residence as the business location in the northeast, while Woods retains his home price and plans a short layoff before remaining a Benson resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Woods
F. W. Draper
Benson
Sulphur Springs
Woods
Citizen plans statewide push to boost circulation
Maurice N. Tucker, circulation manager of the Tucson Citizen, visits town to promote a campaign to increase circulation. He says the management intends to invade new fields and seize business regardless of cost, aiming to expand the paper into a statewide publication. He also praises Benson district prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice N. Tucker
The
Tucson Citizen
Citizen
Tucker
Maanagement
Benson
Notable tungsten and copper finds on Arizona frontier mines
Tribolet McNaught Harman and Fitzgerald shipped about a thousand pounds of tungsten ore at 65 percent purity to Philadelphia. Two Peaks mine near Huachuca Siding shows promise with a 4500-foot tunnel planned to expose a large sulphide copper formation. At Mascot mine new drifts at 150 and 200 feet levels report ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribolet, McNaught, Harman and Fitzgerald
Dragoons
Benson
Philadelphia
Nettec
Two Peaks
Huachuca Siding
Mascot
For Sale Cheap Irrigation Pumping Plant
One second hand irrigation pumping plant for sale capable of irrigating forty acres. Apply to Benson Water Company's pumping plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sal
Benson Water Company
Organization for Cleaning Up Needed
A town meeting notice urges property owners to share pro rata in street cleaning and garbage removal costs. The Signal calls for an old Board of Trade gathering at Benson Lumber and Commercial Company on Tuesday evening March 28 at 7 30 to discuss sanitation funding and methods. Also listed is a sale of three ten month Poland China sows from Bohemia Ranch near Mescal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Benson Lumbery and Commercial Company
Poland
John Pydtlik
Bohemia Ranch
Mescal
St David Social Life Noted by Special Correspondent
Special correspondent reports Al Atkins from Mesa visiting St David along with Floyd Christianson who sprained an ankle in a wagon fall. Byron Merrill from Fairbank visited, Nettie Midler learns chauffeuring with Willie Curtis assisting. California mission Elders Egebert and Hegard visit. Relief Society dinner aids ditch workers, about 135 seated. Jodie Curtis Charley McRae and families motor to the Gila for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Christianson
Byron Merrill
Fairbank
Nettie Midler
Willie Curtis
Egebert and
Hegard
California
Relief Society
Ditch
Jodie Curtis
Charley McRae
The
Gila
Road boosters visit Tombstone from Benson
Among Tombstone visitors today from Benson were C. FE Goetz a well known merchant of that place and Powell Cosby the gentlemen having come upon road matters Benson has the biggest aggregation of road boosters in the county and Messrs Goetz and Cosby are numbered among them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone
Benson
C. FE
Goetz
Powell Cosby
Cosby
Tombstone Prospector
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Benson Coal & Ice Company
Benson High School
C. W. Frost
Myrtle Snyder
Robertson
Frost
McKowen
Smith
Snyder
Clark
Trejo
Robinson
Moss
Treu
Gillett
Wilson
Etz
Will and
Nye
Martinez
Mendivil
Scott
Sipe
Phoenix
State Corporation Commission
C. F. Moss
H. W. Etz
C. K. Goetz
W. J. Bennett
J. A. Gumm
J. N. Morrison
Maier
General Merchandise
Elco) & CO
Arizona
D. Martinez
S. B. Moss
Beneon
Twin Peaks
St. David
al Atkins
Mesa
H.w.etz & GO
Bank OF Benson
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