We're betting this company changed it's name later on, but in 1916, the term "swastika" didn't carry the same emotion it does today. The symbol meant good fortune before it was co-opted by the Nazis.
From the Arizona Daily Star, June 10, 1916:
Swastika Copper Co. Sues Whitcomb For $100,000 Plus Interest
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Allege Violation of Agreement Under Which Claims Were to Be Worked
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Mrs. L. H. Whitcomb and Hiram Whitcomb are defendants in a suit filed in the superior court yesterday by the Swastika Copper and Silver Mining company, asking a total award of $100,000.
The basis of the suit is an agreement entered into by the terms of which the defendants were to go upon and do development work on a number of mining claims in the Pima mining district, in this county.
It is alleged that the defendants mined and shipped ore worth $50,000, contrary to the agreement in that "no ore was to be taken out or stoping done on any ore now exposed by workings of the vendor: but in all cases vendor has the right to take out and ship all ores developed by said new workings."
It is also alleged that the defendants failed to do work specified to be done in the agreement. An award to include the value of ore shipped, damages and expenses incurred by reason of the defendants' alleged failure to do work specified to be done, totaling $100,000, with interest at six per cent from April, 1915. is asked.
In that same edition of the Star, a full page was devoted to the ways the telephone can make life easier for Tucsonans.
