The border vidette., 1903-07-25


 friends in Nogales and Wednesday morning left for San Jose, Califor- nia, where they will spend the summer, visiting friends. The young ladies are highly educated in English and possess many ac- complishments. Their American friends both in Sonora and the United States are very numerous.
 John McMahon, one of tine pioneer prospectors of the Patago- mia mountains, has this week been a visitor in Nogales where he is well and favorably known. John says the Patagonia and Santa Rita rangers are the best mineral belts in Arizona. He has stayed with that section many years and not withstanding the facts that several failures have been registered against it, he is confident it will one day be the greatest producer in the country.
 0. Ramirez, through his attorneys, fluffy &, Cooper, last Monday filed a suit in district court against Frank NJ Main, proprietor of the Monte Carlo, for the sum of S9,95O.0O Mexican money, or B ,559 50 gold, the amount claimed to have been. stolen from Ra- mirez by Jesus Mendoza and lost at the Monte Carlo Mir. Main has given bond in the sum of S5,OOO, with Theo Gebler and F. G. Hermosillo as sure ties The case will be tried before Judge Davis at the December term of district court
 Wednesday evening John Hen derson, president and general man. ager of "El Porvenir de Sonora, s. A." and William Inman, master mechanic at the company's "El Gro" mine near Poza, came up to the line cities. Yesterday Presi- mines. He was accompanied by Mrs. Henderson the little children who will spend some time at Camp Henderson where arrangements have been made to make them com fortable. Things at the camp are doing along in fine style, the stamp mill having been repaired and now ! III Op0IdGlOu.
 D. N. Phillips, general manager of the San Richardo mines, situated eighteen miles east of Poza, Sonora, has this week been a business visitor in the line cities. The prop erty is situated near the gold mines owned by "El Porvenir de Sonora" now being worked under the direc- tion of John Henderson, president and general manager. MT. Phillips stopped at Camp Henderson on his way out to Poza and while here stated to a VIDETTE reporter, that the report published in last weeks paper of rich new gold strike, was correct Thursday morning Mir. Phillips departed for the mines greatly pleased with his visit Tn Nogales.
 Monday Nogales was visited by Ben Powell, Henry Pyeatt and T. Freeman, three well-to-do and popular Huachuca mountain ran chers and stockraisers. The gen. tlemen came to the county seat to tell the board of equalization why they should reduce their assess ment. The gentlemen are all good law-abiding citizens of Santa Cruz county. They do not want to avoid paying their just assessment; they only want an equal run for their money and it is safe bet they got it from the honorable board. The gentlemen own valuable ranches in | the Huachuca foothills which they are proud of. The fruit production of their section cannot be beat any place on earth for size and flavor.
 H. NJ. Hubbard, the we'll known prominent New York attorney ar rived in Nogales last Sunday night and is registered at the Montezuma hotel. For a long time Mir. Hub bard has been looking out for the New York interests in the Copete Mining company. The gentleman is considered one of the most sue cessful corporation lawyers in the west. It is said that all the differences between the stockhold- CTS have been satisfactorily settled and that the big copper mines will be worked again in the near future on a larger scale than formerly. TIE VIDETTE hopes the report is true for the resumption of oper- ations ot Copete would give em- ployment to many men and be a great benefit to Nogales, the gate way to sonora.
 Yesterday the BradyLevin Com mission company passed into So-