Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock exchanges. Alaska Juneau (the big Treadwell Mine), Dome Mines (of which Broker Jules Semon Bache is president), Mclntyre-Porcupine, Homestake, Tech-Hughes, are all selling near or above their 1930 highs. Another evidence of the fever is seen wherever there is a chance of gold being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement last week on the report that the so-called "Lost Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley...
...organization of Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. (1901) was Gordon R. Campbell who became secretary of the company, was made president in 1921. Under his management the company has gone its way quietly. Yet last week war clouds hung over Calumet. When shareholders gather by proxy in Warren, Ariz, on April 20, they will cast ballots on what amounts to a vote of confidence in the management. Should his proxies be outnumbered, President Campbell has made it clear that he will resign...
George Arliss and wife, en route to further cinemacting in Hollywood, were two of 300 tourists marooned in Wellton, Ariz, (no population, mostly Mormon), when bursting dikes let a giant wall of water sweep a 250-yard-wide path through the town. One woman was drowned, 4,000 ft. of Southern Pacific rail torn away...
...dromedaries had been landed alive in Texas at a cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary...
...Revolutions of 1848," Professor Ariz, Harvard...