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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1917
Page
10
Arizona reports list July events in Prescott and Phoenix churches, Tucson women's drive for YWCA funds, widespread measles and pneumonia in Douglas, and strong mining activity in Kingman Jerome Greenlee and Ajo. Governor Campbell okays dynamite case rewards while river irrigation and defense food programs expand. United Verde Verde Extension plan farmland in Verde valley and longshore labor estimates in Salt River valley emerge.
Nine new regiments of army engineers will be sent to France to run railway communications. Each regiment will total 11 000 to 12 000 men, led by regular army engineers with railway officers combining as officers. The move is part of broader allied coordination including ambulance corps expansion and military transport training under French supervision.
New York reports lead at 1 cent higher? 10c. bar silver 74.54c. copper casting at 25.37 dollars per unit. St Louis notes Spelter at 8.78 dollars. Boulder lists tungsten concentrates 60 percent at 17.00 per unit. crude ores 60 percent at 15.00, 25 percent at 9.40, 12.00 at 8.70 and 10 percent at 8.70 per 10.00 per unit.
The notice outlines unit prices for dry hides from Flint including bull and stag at various weights, horsehides, and dry Flint pelts. It lists wool pelts by weight, butcher shearlings, and bucks saddles at fixed rates, with green salted and cured hides priced per pound and references to glue hides and part cured varieties.
Arizona miners push copper and silver output with April copper around 60 million pounds. Jerome district hosts oil findings. Diamond Joe mine in Cedar district reports big ore strike. Abe Lincoln mine in Hassayampa ships copper ore regularly. Patagonia excitement over big Pinal mine strike. White Tail Deer of Copper Queen now a solid mine shipping over fifty tons daily. Cobrita mine in Mineral Valley advances with high grade sulfide ore and strong gold values. Glory Hole at Salome shows a longer vein in ore milling grade. Silver Plume properties prosper. Central Colorado mine near shipping class in Georgetown Clear Creek. Little May silver in Boulder County near Yellow Pine. Boulder Tungsten Production builds refining plant at West Boulder. Cripple Creek district outputs 64 598 tons with $14.55/ton value. March Cripple Creek lessees ship ~2000 tons. Wasatch Mining at Silver Plume employing 100 now, 250 soon. Isabella Mines in Cripple Creek shipped 1272 tons at about $15.85/ton, bullion value $20 139. Pikes Peak Platinum near Manitou shows Rare Metals assays with platinum 11.8 oz/ton iridium 29.8 oz/ton gold .7 oz/ton. platinum five times the value of gold.
In a wartime morale remark Mr Chuggins jokes about fear in combat saying he would be nervous if cannon fire sounded and he imagined a tire bursting with every report of artillery. He reflects on the mental strain in battle.
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as strengthening weak women and curing the sick without alcohol, offered in tablet or liquid form. The source also critiques human nature’s tendency to shift responsibility.
A vintage advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as preventing pneumonia by timely doses. It claims fifty years of use, helps sleep, and easy morning expectoration, sold by druggists in 25 and 75 cent bottles worldwide. The ad closes with a moral quip about a man blind to his own interests.
British and German forces battled for control of Bullecourt today with fighting extending across Roeux Fontaine Reincourt and surrounding areas. Reports say British troops reached northern and western outskirts while Germans retreat to the south with pockets still inside the town. Berlin claims local German successes at Winterburg amid heavy losses north of Lens.
London and New York market quotes show fluctuations in lead copper tin and spelter with spot and futures prices. Boulder Colorado reports tungsten concentrates and crude ore unit prices across 60 percent and lower grade ranges.
An odd clatter of lines promotes cheap smiles for a nickel and cheap laundry care, urging readers to buy Red Cross Bag Blue to keep clothes white. It muses on self restraint as a feat and wonders about people who think they are Woz.
Chicago market quotes list hogs cattle and sheep prices by category with ranges for bulk light mixed heavy pigs native beef stockers and feeders cows heifers calves wethers ewes and lambs. Prices shown include highs and lows across categories.
Chicago market notes show Butter Creamery at 32 88cc with higher firsts at 31 33c or ordinary firsts at 30 31c and cases 30 314%c. Potatoes list Idaho Colorado Oregon Washington 2.65 2.75. Wisconsin Michigan 2.30 2.50. Poultry Fowls 22c.
Kansas City market listings show butter creamery at 41 cents for firsts 39c for seconds 37c for packing 29c Eggs firsts 32c poultry quotes include hens 2014c roosters 116c turkeys 24c Short, fragmented report of commodities and prices from a midwestern market page.
Chicago market rundown lists Wheat at 2.90 to 2.96 for No 3 red and No 2 hard, Corn 1.58 to 1.6014 for No 2 yellow and 1.59% for No 3 yellow, Oats 69 4% to 71c standard, Barley 1.25 to 1.65, Timothy 5.00 to 7.50, Pork 3s, Lard 22.40 to 22.50, Ribs 20.62 to 31.00.
St Louis Missouri honors former Premier Viviani, Marshal Joffre and the French war mission with a city parade after a welcoming ceremony at the Coliseum. The May 7 memorial of the Lusitania sinking is noted by many as the occasion’s somber backdrop.
The Tyrone-El Paso Copper company is incorporated for 1,500,000 with 2,200 paid-in capital, headquarters at Tyrone. It holds 23 claims totaling 400 acres near Oak Grove in the Burro mountains, adjoining Phelps-Dodge. Mining will begin with shaft sinking and drilling, ore already shipped to the Deming Smelter, reopening after seven or eight years.
An early morning scene aboard an Illinois Street railway car ends with the conductor urging passengers forward while a bold speaker from the crowd refuses, noting the door is shut. The brief exchange captures a crowded transit moment near dawn.
The Longear Petroleum unit drills near Newcastle while Midwest plans another well in Buffalo Basin. Producers Oil operates a livery well on Sec 5-33-76 in the Shan non sand, Big Muddy field. Wyoming forecasts oil activity in at least 100 localities this year.
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