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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1917
Page
3
The article explains that pectin and acid determine jelly quality from fruits like grape apple crabapple orange kumquat and currant. It covers juice extraction cooking times water ratios alcohol tests for pectin, sugar proportions, and methods to avoid cloudiness crystals and soft set.
Instructions on extracting pectin from apples oranges and mint with steps to make pectin jellys. Includes prep, boiling times, juice pressing, bottling in a water bath, and methods for mint orange strawberry and pineapple pectins with sugar colouring and paraffin sealing.
The Jerome Copper Company has been acquired by General Development Company while three Jerome prospects Verde Verde Combination and Calumet Jerome show potential to become major mines in the coming weeks. The Curry Mining Company enters flotation in Superior district as twenty area properties advance. The Jumbo Silver mine near Globe ships high grade ore to Deming smelter with native silver content and an ore sample running 8,000 ounces per ton.
Article notes two rigs near La Junta and 60 000 acres leased in Pueblo county as part of a statewide push to revive oil interests. Ward district borrows new life for Lulu B mine while Boulder tungsten and Douglas Mountain copper projects expand. USGS reports 1916 Colorado oil output at 197 233 barrels valued at 217 139 dollars, up from 208 475 barrels in 1915 valued at 183 435 dollars.
Montana and Embar Oil fields near Bonanza report drilling around 1800 feet with plans to bring in a well. Soo Oil drills nearby while Anaconda Development prepares to pull its rig and start on its own land opposite Himes after completing Ten Sleep contract. Six wells have already been sunk for Ten Sleep.
Kelly and associates begin placer work on Mineral Creek. The Black Hawk Copper Company of Tularosa has capital of 250000 and is incorporated. The Excelsior at Organ in Dona Ana county is sold to Philadelphia interests. Mesa Verde Oil Company forms to test San Juan Basin prospects. Pecos Copper shipments total 100 tons from Cowles to Glorieta station. Yankee coal mine at Raton resumes activity with fifty miners. Champion Mine at Mogal Yon widens and high grade sulfide ore is mined.
The Hecla Wyoming plans immediate drilling on Section 9 Township 41 Range 81. Producers and Refining aims to build a Wyoming refinery to handle oil output. Attention centers on West Salt Creek field after Boston Wyoming well 285-79 struck oil in shale at 560 feet.
The 1917 Labor Day parade features a towering drum major and a happy crowd as Danny OToole spots his long missing father across the street. Mrs OToole and Danny embrace, revealing years of separation due to illness and memory loss. Danny, now a strong tradesman, anticipates future marches with pride.
Alfred W. Greeley argues poverty is a preventable social disease, not fate, and cites a growing social surplus in the United States. He links wealth, production, and public health to a nationwide campaign for better wages, sanitation, and unemployment prevention to end poverty.
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