Official Proceedings of Cochise County Board of Equalization
Minutes from the July 1907 regular meeting in Tombstone Arizona show the Board of Equalization switching to a Board of Supervisors after sessions. The record notes multiple adjournments and temporary chairs with members present and absent, and highlights several property tax increases for Carl Behn Crown Hovitz Monk Bros Pruitt Wickersham Joe Lawdon and others. The day includes recesses, sessions, and a disputed motion to reduce non producing mining claims to five dollars per ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone
Ariz
Board of Equalization
GJ McCabe
JJ Bowen
Wm M Riggs
Board of
Carl Behn
Crown & Hovitz
Bisbee
Monk Bros
Bowie
Arizona
Pruitt & Wickersham
Joe Lawdon
Board
Rcoves
Miscellaneous county board actions and bids in 1907
The board moved to reduce non producing mining claims to five dollars per acre and to fifteen dollars per acre for non producing groups. Bowen and McCabe voted aye, Riggs voted bot, motion carried. Adjourned to August third Monday 1907. Bridge bid opened from Wichita Construction Co for 635 dollars with 45 dollar certified check. Cochise Lumber Co bid 170 dollars with 17 dollar check. Some bids rejected and letters sent to Cochise Lumber about Oregon pine price. Interpreters appointed for justices courts. legality inquiry ordered. Adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen
Cabe
McCabe
Riggs Bot
M Riggs
Mule Gulch
Bisbee
Wichite Construction Company
Cochise Lumber Company, Incorporated
Bister
Ateve
Cochite Lumber Company
McCate
An Old Ordinance Make Over Again
Tombstone city council revises the old ordinance and raises monthly licenses for all businesses. Saloon licenses rise to 10 dollars per month, other licenses increased, and mercantile licenses graded by sales. The plan aims to boost revenue by about one hundred dollars monthly amid rising city expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tombstone
Schouse
Sue
Concerl
At the Gate The Tale of Two Souls at Heaven’s Gate
A verse rendition tells of a beggar and a millionaire meeting St Peter at heaven’s gate. The ragged man pleads for mercy while the rich man boasts of luxury. Saint Peter, with a twist, allows the tramp to pass as Satan haunts the wealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven's Gate
St. Peter
Peter Axid
Satan
Will Experiment With Air Ship in Albuquerque
Albuquerque dispatch reports Joseph Blondin of the Area Club of America plans an international long distance balloon record run starting from Albuquerque on October final day of the territorial lair, heading toward El Paso. He cites favorable air currents from the Rocky mountains to the Rio Grande valley and the Gulf of Mexico. Blondin has secured the largest hydrogen gas balloon in the world and the project draws interest from balloonists weather authorities and scientists nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Joseph Blendin
Area Club of America
New Mexico
el Paso
Blondin
Rocky Mountains
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf of Mexico
Expenses of Election Upon Joint Statehood
The territory was asked by the federal government to compile election expense data for the joint statehood vote held about a year ago. Mr. Collioe has gathered figures from nearly all counties, with four still outstanding. Total expenses to date plus the unpaid counties are projected to reach 923,243. An order from the Southwestern trainmaster limits outgoing tonnage to 5,000 tons and 35 cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collioe
Fae
The
Southwestern
Nacozari Rapidly Going to the Front
George H. Chayman, an Arizona mining veteran, reports from Neocomri Sonora, praising Nacozari mining prospects. He notes Phelps Dodge bore 800 feet and found ore bodies extending 500 more feet, with American capital flowing in and many mines opening. He predicts Nacozari will become a leading global mining camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Chayman
Tombatone
Necom Ri
Sonora
Amszeneat
Chapman
Nazozar
Phelps Dodge
Chapin
Nacozari Ia J
George Chapman
Nacozari
Arizona
Southern Pacific Calls for Bids on Canyon Route
Southern Pacific, thirty days past, called for bids to grade the Gila canyon segment from Winkeman to San Carlos. Bids now in. work likely to start within thirty days. Once begun, no stops until the Winkeman to San Carlos railroad is finished, with Florence Bond noting parallel work from Mari copa or Casa Grande to connect the main line to the San Carlos cut-off, aiming for Florence on the transcontinental main line within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pacife Company
Gile
Wink’eman
San Car Tloa
Winkleman
San Carlos
Florence Bindo
Maricopa
Casa Grande
Slight Wreck On E P & S Railroad Near Charleston
A freight train on the E P S line to Charleston had a journal box break on a bar car causing the car to leave the track and derail. The incident blocked the line for over 10 hours though no injuries occurred and the wreck was cleared by 10:30 p.m. Traffic diverted for passengers, mail, and express matter. Engineer Pox halted the train swiftly, averting a worse outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pox
Charleston
Tombstone
Bullet Found After Year In Boy Freudenthal Case
A Solomonville boy named Freudenthal was shot last winter. The bullet, unrecoverable for a year, was found by X ray to have passed through the body and lodged in the opposite arm, where its extraction was quick and the boy is recovering. A Dos Cateras ranchman predicts about four tons of peaches to be harvested this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freudenthal
Solomonville
Dos Cateras
Trains on Schedule as El Paso & Southwestern Tightens Run
El Paso and Southwestern lines pledge on time performance with agents and station men instructed to report delays and omit time wastage. San Marcial sees coal mines sold to Pierpe Dodge & Company sparking development and Guaymas extension plan boosting San Marcial as a rail hub. Mexico marks 10th independence anniversary with a plan to spend $100 million on government building projects across 900 cities starting September 16, 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso & Southwestern
San Marcial
Plerpe-Dodge & Company
Guaymas
Nacora
Mexico
Arizona Miners Union Meets in Globe on Political Action
The Arizona State Union of the Western Federation of Miners met in Globe yesterday and opposed William D. Hewood's $15,000 offer from a theatrical agency for a country tour. A special committee reported on politics and industrial unionism, endorsing cautious political action and expanding education. The committee urged affiliating IWW locals with the Arizona State Union to advance industrial unionism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona State Union of the Western Federation of Miners
Globe
Yeaterday
William D. Hewood
Industrial Workers of the World
Arizona State Union
Teachers Prep For Arizona Teaching Certificates
The report notes that many teachers plan to take September examinations to obtain teaching certificates in Arizona. Examinations occur quarterly in March June September and December under the county superintendent of instruction with papers graded by the territorial board. The board, now including Superintendent Long and Professors W. N. McNeif and J. Lopez, issues certificates after reviewing submitted answers. In Lowell last week a lightning strike during a heavy storm damaged several houses. Mrs. James Chapman narrowly escaped injury when struck near her door, losing shoe and suffering a blistered heel in a miraculous near miss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Jane
County Superintendent of Public Instruction
Territorial Board
Territorial Examining Board
Long
W. N. McNeif
J. Lopez
Lowell
Mra
James Chapman
Upper
Southern Pacific to deploy 6600 new refrigerator cars
The Southern Pacific plans to place in operation 6600 modern refrigerator cars on October 1 to replace Armour cars that have served for ten years. Armour’s fleet will be eliminated and Pacific Fruit Express, a SP subsidiary, will be the sole carrier for citrus. The notice notes rapid fleet modernization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pacific Company
Ihe
Armour
Pacific Fruit Express
Southern Pacific
Monument to late Al Sieter planned at Globe
The legislature granted 100 dollars for a two boulder olive granite monument to Al Sieter the pioneer scout and Indian fighter killed near Roosevelt last winter. One five foot high stone will stand on a base with a polished front and engraved inscription. The telegraphers strike spreads to Arizona with Phoenix and Globe workers quitting overnight. An Omaha exchange notes 36 bars of silver bullion valued at 11000 stolen from American Smelting Co rail cars on the Missouri bank, some recovered, others missing. A man sold eleven bars for 30 cents per pound as lead and a plumber attempted to reuse the bars before dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Sieter
Roosevelt
Globe
Arizona
Phoenix
Aod Glob
Chicago
Omaha
American Smelting Co
Missouri
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cochise County
Board of Supervisors
Tombstone, Ariz
Wm M Kiger
Wai M Riggs
Tombaetone
Rigge
J. M. Macs
Ent
Daniel McFarland
Bal ‘Tance
G. J. McCane
H. E. Beeser
Dogan Et Ux
Tod
van Luven
Douglas
Mre
Adams Papal Improvement Company
Hopkins Douglas
Jobo Reilly
RT Stone
William B Moore
Little Rock
Turquoise
Arturo Soto
L Doss Douglas
Ewell
John W Webber
Kline
Stettler
R. T
Klineet
WB Moore
Tarqueise
John Rock
Hughes Tombstone
Anne McDowell
Jim Harley Douglas
John Schneider
John H Day Douglas
Clinton A Burdick
John Clemben
Calumet
Doug John Maurin
Mary Maurin
WG Medi
Govich Bisbee
Mternational Land and Improvement Company
JL Douglas
M J Cunningham
Corporate Weal
Lorenzo F Flores
Douglas Property
Charles H Odamte
J MacNeil Bistes
Fred Williams
JL Knight Douglas Property
McPherson and Company
King ‘Tombstone Property
Deeds
Alexander Wight
Mamie Wight Douglas
Catherine L Edmundeon
Mn M J
Bryne Bisbee Property
FE Trask
Boquilles
William Herring
James Young
International Land and Improvemnt Company
Dizon
Denon
JE Murray
Louis Henselup
Fairview
John F Pennet
Blanche E Renton
Jaced Pirring
Elisabeth Ann Pirrung Bishew
Ned White
Earth
Pont Man’s Row
the State Union
Hhair
Ayer
Akies
Ayers Ay
Saparilla
Ieee
Tea Oru Reery A Co. Ee
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!