The border vidette., 1903-09-19


public school for the ensuing year,
commencing September Sth, the
names of Miss Edna J. Hallock of
the first intermediate, and Miss
Zanibell Douthitt of the first prim-
airy, were inadvertently omitted.
These two ladies taught here last
year and are very popular with
everybody connected with the
schools.
r. J. Finn, uperintendent of the
San Javier mines seventy-fiye miles
from Minas Prietas, is in the city.
The mines are silver, gold and
copper and are owned by Prietas
boys who have put up smelter
and are getting good returns for
their money. V. P. Maloney, ma
chinist for the Zubiate company
came up to the border with Mr..
Finn. The gentlemen are at the
Montezuma.
ID. J. Duncan of New York, one of
the best known mine managers iii the
country has arrived from the east to
accept the position of assistant general
manager of the Hays Consolidated
Mining, Milling & Lumber Company's
big properties in Sonora, and is now
at Camp Hays He arrived Monday
from the east accompanied by Gen. j.
NJ. Bell, vice-president of the COM
pany, who is also at the mines. Pre-
sident and General Mana; Ter Chas. W.
Hays is in Washington, D. c., where
the main office of his company is
located.
Professor Hendy, the metallurgist
of Jerome, Arizona, who is well known
all over the west as a first class min
ing expert, left this morning for So
nora where he soes to report on min
ing properties for eastern parties.
Professor Hendy was prominently
connected with the great legal fight
with Senator w. A. Clarke and John
Duke for possession of the Equator
copper properties near Jerome, a fight
that lasted more than eleven years.
He is one of the lucky owners of the
Copper Chief mine situated in TIE
Jerome district.
Last Sunday Jack Stein, recently
sentenced to the county Jail for six
months and to pay fine of 1900
| besides on a charge of indecent ex-
posture, made his escape by climb
ing over the Jail yard wall. He is
now in Mexico, where he is liable
to remain Indefinitely, and the
county is short one healthy boarder.
IT'S an i'll wind that does not blow
some one good. Sheriff Turner
was out of town when the escape
was made and Jailer Clarke says
he would rather have lost hand
than Stein. who is now in Hermo-
sillo.
The grand oall given Wednesday
evening in the city hall, Nogales, So
nora, under the auspices of the Junta
Patriotica, in honor of Mexico's indie
pendence, was the most enjoyable
affair of its kind every given in the
line city, and great credit to those
having the affair III hand. The hall
was artistically decorated with the
national colors of Mexico and the
United States and presented most
beautiful and pleasing appearance and
words of commentator and praise can
be heard on all sides. Our neig hbors
certainly have way of treating their
friends to good time.
The building of the wagon road
from Nogales to Orc Blance means
thousands of dollars to Nogales and
Santa Cruz county. Every line of
business here will be benefited and
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Pima county would remain where it
belongs. 1t behoves our people to fall
in line with those who now have the
road building proposition in hand.
Let those who will be most benefited,
pay in proportion to those who are to
be benefited less Now is the time to
put your shoulder to the wheel and
push and push together. In another
column we publish the minutes of the
important meeting held last Monday
evening by our business men.
Six miles from the town of Altar,
Sonora, and thirty miles from Tubu-
tama, where the property of the So
nora Milling IL Mining company are
located, Con O'Keefe has discovered
valuable deposit of copper, silver and
gold ore. There are two groups, the
''Islandeza" containing sixteen and
the "Hope," thIrty-six pertenencias.
The ore is said to De very rich and
Thursday morning box of specimens
weighing 800 pounds, addressed to
Professor w. p. Blake, school of mines.
Tucson, Arizona, which will be sent to
the Worlds Fair at st. Louis. for ex-
hibition left Nogales by Wells Fargo
IL Co. There will be many fine