The border vidette., 1903-12-12
LOCAL NEWS
Items of Interest Picked Up About
 the Line City.

Monday evening G. w. Garrison
 and wife of Oklahoma City arrived in
 the city and registered at the Brick
 wood.
 Auditor Hannon of the Hays Con
 solidat-d Mining. Milling & Lumber Company was visitor III Nogales
 Tuesday of this week from Camp Hays in the Pinto mountains, having come
 up to the line city on business for his company. He returned south the same evening.
 Manager Ferd VanMourick of the Sonora News Company is now selling tickets for handsome silver punch bowie and a fine large phonogra ph, which are on exhibition in the front of his popular store. Ferd sure is hustler, and he Is coning money for his company.
 Monday Mir. w. T. Payne. travelling representative of the Chamberlain
 Medicine Company of Des Moines, Iowa, was guest at the Montezuma and pleasant caller at this office While here the gentleman did u splen- did business for his house and as a re- suit he left town thinking Nosales one of the best on the map.
 Theodore Gebler .t Son, the pioneer hardware dealers, have secured the fine large store room, which for long time has been occupied by .Sturmers' Moss Rose restaurant. The Pioneer Hardware House will at an early date put in new fixtures and stock the room with a line of new and up-to-date goods.
 The Many friends of Mrs Fred Sterling, formerly resident of Nogales, but now living at Los Angeles, Cali fornia, will regret to learn of her illness, and hope for her speedy recovery. Mir. Sterling, who had been visiting here on business, has returned to Los An geles, having been summoned home by a telegram annoucins his wife's illness.
 Monday morning Jack Kearney came up from Magdaiena. having busi ness here of mining nature. Jack Is interested in a number of good min ing properties situated in Sonora which 1t is said he is about to turn for hand some figure. The gentleman has been operating in the Magdalena district for many years, with the town of Mazda lena as his headquarters, and his friends here and in Sonora would like to see him makea fortune.
 R. Zellner, .Jr., the Los Angeles piano man, has returned from busI- ness trip to Hermosillo and Guaymas, at which places he succeeded in selling six high grade instruments which will be shipped south next month. The Zellner Piano Company has the piano business in Sonora pretty we'll corrall- ed are is doing a splendid business, thanks to the quality oi the instru- 1 nents and the personal popularity of | Mir. Zellner, who is member of the | firm he represents
 Vicent w. Clark, who with Ben. | F. Daniels invented the "Prospectors' Smelter," which is attracting consider able attention among mining men, and i of which considerable mention was in TIE VIDETrE two weeks ago, has returned from his goat ranch, and will now devote his time to his smelters, q number of which will be erected at different mining properties in Santa Cruz county, one at the Huntin gton group owned by Mr. Daniels, and another at the Wandering Jew mine owned by Mark Lulley.
 Frahk N. COX, general Superlnten- dent of the big Cerro Prieto gold mines owned by the Nogales Copper Com pany, was business visitor in the city Monday and Tuesday of this week, for his company. For many years Mir. Cox was general manager of the Pro- mont erio mines when they were the property of Mir. l.. Ephraim of this city. He IS one of the most successful mine superintendents in the country, and is filling the responsible position with the Nosaies Copper Company with credit to himself and his company. The gentleman reports operations at Cerro Prieto running in a most splendid and satisfactory manner, the big stamp mill being kept busy night and day pounding out the yellow metal. As development work pro gresses this great property for which the Nogales Copper Company, through General Manager Colby N. Thomas. only paid S60O,O0 immense bodies O.; good grade ores are encount- cred which far exceed the fondest hopes of the most enthusiastic member of the company. The Cerro Prieto mines have already been the means of pla cling number of Nogales people on 'tEasy Street, and it is safe to say that all those fortunate enough to be in the Nogales Copper Com