The border vidette., 1903-05-16

I
 Stanford, Beatty and Bailey of the
 Arizona Rangers. are now stationed
 near Calabasas. The gentlemen are
 fine lot of fellows and they not only know their duty but how to perform it.
 The members of the Brady Levin Comw1ission company feel certain that
 they did the lions share of the work which resulted in general reduction of fire insurance rates in NOgales. They make business of insurance and they know their business.
 Copper ore from the Proto mine is being hauled to Nogales in wagons
 From here it will be shipped to Fl Paso. The Proto mine adioins the Minnie mine sold three years ago by O. K. Franklin to New York capital ists. The properties are showing up
 fine.
 Thursday morning Colby N. Thomas, manager of the Nogales Copper company accompanied by Mrs. Thomas came up from Cerro Prieto. The gentleman reports everything at the big gold camp running smooth and everybody we'll and happy.
 Wednesday Nogales was visited by Captain James Shirdan and his secretary Ed Miller The gentlemen had just come up from Matape, Sono- ra, where Captain Shirdan has some valuable mining properties, and were on their way east to spend the sum mer. They will return in the fall
 Mir. Thos. -Yerkes, president and pr. J. o. Underwood, general man ager of the Yerkes Mining company, accompanied by the company's book keeper John Faulds, left last night for the Yerkes Camp, where big mill and cyanide plant are now busy put ting the company on Easy Street"
 N. c. Banks, the efficient mining engineer who represents the Vest inghouse interests in Arizona, has after an absence of several months returned to Duquesne. The gentle man has large circle of friends in Nogales all of whom will be glad to learn Of ms return.
 Mr. Will B. Edwards, who for the past year has been interested in Santa Cruz county mines with his friend B. c. Soule, has again returned to Nogales after an absence of month on the coast. Messrs. Ed wards and SouIe are interested in the Huachuca Mining Company recently organized here.
 The Old Boot copper mines in Silver Bell district, 65 miles north of Tucson, have been sold to E E. Gage ct al., comprising the Development Go. of America, for s700,OO0. The same company owns the Congress gold mines and the Tombstone Con. mine at Tombstone, Cochise Mining Scientific Press May lst.
 Ex-United States Ben F. Daniels having had delightful visit at the Grand Canyon with President Roosevelt. Itmust have made Ben's enemies green with envy to see the meeting between him and the president. Just keep your shirt on boys, Daniels is not a dead cock in the pit yet.
 Mark Smith, proprietor of the Cananea Herald, for many years foreman of THE VIDETTE mechani- cal department, was a business visitor in Nogales, Sunday and Tuesday, returning to the big cop per camp Wednesday. Mark has the world by the tail and a down hill pull. We are glad to see our boys prosper.
 Tuesday Judge Eb. Williams, the silver tongued orator of Southern Arizona and one of the most de lightful after-dinner speakers in Arizona, left for Yuma to attend 1 the annual meeting of the Grand | Lodge of the Knights of of Pythias. The judge is prominent member of the Nogales lodge which he will | at the grand lodge.
 Lyman Hall is back from Her mosillo, where he had been on legal l business. Lyman is interested Tn the defense of Walter J. N. Me Curdy, now confined in the Her jail on a charge of forging the name of his old friend w. P. Harlow. It is said that it is only a matter of short time when Walter will again have his liberty as well as money to burn.
 c. w. French, the mining man, who was interested in the sale of Cerro Prieto mines to the Nogales Copper company left Tuesday for Los Angeles on private business.