The border vidette., 1903-10-10

NIT. Hnll. SnOQgraSS, the well knOWn poet and mill-wright, who for a cou p!e of months past has been down near i Alamos, Sonora, erecting a stamp mil, has returned home, having complet ed his contract. He was accompa nicd by Walter Scoville of Washington Camp. who was also employed by the same compAny. The gentlemen re turned i'll good health, but say they are pleased to get houe Mir. John Maleney, the mill man, whose home is in Nogales, is now in charge of the new mill. He is in good health.
 The forepart of the week Captain Charles Montgomery. the lion killer, who has in the past ten years killed more wild animals for their scalps and the bounty paid by the various boards of supervisors, than any ten men in the territory, was a visitor at the county seat, having business before the honorable board of supervisors of Santa Cruz county, which convened. in regular quarterly session Monday and Tuesday. "MOnty" as his friends are pleased to call him, Is very popular all over Southern Arizona, he having lived here many years.
 George Weiland ca me in from the Huntington group of mines last Tues day, and will in few days go out to the Jefferson mines in the Patagonia mountains to resume work on his cop per properties He has just completed a l5O foot tunnel at the Huntington mine, the property of Ex- United States Marshal Ben. F. Daniels, and says the ex-marshal has given
 
 work on the properties which give pro- mise Of making him rich. The Hunt ington group lie about sixteen miles west of Nosales near the international line.
 Monday evening MT. Pedro Trellas. the we'll known and competent min ing engineer of Magdalena, Sonora, came up from the south and Tuesday morning went out into the country with FL. Kingen, the mining man, to survey some mining properties, for Announcement. Mir. Trellas, who is associated with s. H Pearce, M. E of Magdalena, is rapidly gaining splendid reputation as a mining en- gineer. He and his partner, Mir. Pearce, have thorough knowledge of the Mexican mining laws and have recently unraveled number of very badly tangled propositions. Anyone requiring the services of Messrs. Pearce and Trellas will find them perfectly reliable.
 Hon. Richard Farrell, chairman of the board of supervisors, returned to his Patagonia home last Tuesday, after having attended a meeting of that l. ,,I NIT. Farrell is one of the pioneer miners of the Harshaw district, having resided there when the camp was one of the most important in the territory-when silver was silver He still the owner of q number of very valuable properties which one of these days will give him splendid returns for all of these many years of patient waiting. TIE VIDETTE has a fondness for all the old-timers who helped blaze the trail for us tender feet, and we don't give continental whoop I who knows 1t.
 The Cananea Herald says: Superin- tendent Pete Hook, of the Democrata mines, has been having a very busy time of 1t with water Tn the mines which has materially retarded the work of extensive development. At the 5OO-foot level the water was so strong that is was busy undertaking to conquer 1t. He now has the mast cry, however. and is pushing his de- velopment work successfully. The ! 5OO-foo level has been passed and it is now, perhaps. the deepest mine in the camp and the ore body maintains its splendid previous showing. The report that the three owners of these mines were about to dispose of them is simply one of these foundationless mining camp conards which, like Banquo's ghost, will not down. The Starry Banner.