The border vidette., 1904-03-05
ARIZONA NEWS.
Items of Interest from all Over the
Territory.


copa county brought out a fairly
ticket appeared in the field. The vot-
ing was all one way, the entire mem
bership of the party voting in favor OF
an instructed delegation to Tucson and
Chicago. ~ Arizona Gazette
G. q. Werner shipped carload of
bat guano from the Florence station to
Los Angeles this week, over the Php-
nix and Eastern This is the first
carload of freight sent out over the
new road from this point. Mr. Wer-
ner has several more carloads about
ready for shipmert.-Blade.
A report comes from Cherry creek
that very rich and large strike of
ore has been made in the old BIB
mine, now being worked by the Pfau
Gold Mining company. The strike is
more than 800 feet, which would in
cate that the ores in the Cherry Creek
district so dewn.-Jerom. Mining
News.
The county contracts for .he year
1904 were let by the Board of Super
visors Tuesday. The successful bidders
were as follows: County hospital, DIR.
Geo. NJ. Brockway; feeding county
prisoners, L. X. Drais; burying the
pauper dead, James 1harpe; blank
books, etc, H. ii. Mcneil; county
printing, Thos. F. Weedin. The bids
for the construction of the Mammoth
Jail we're rejected and the clerk in
structed to readvertise for proposals to
build said jail.--Blade.
Suit has been brought hy William
P. L.venture against the Southern
Pacific Railway Company for $4,000
for injuries received at Yuma while in
the employ of the company as Il switch
man. The plaintiff alleges that on the
25th of last December, while coupling
"a coal car onto a switch engine in u
chute. he was caught betw cen the run
ing board of the engine and some
timbers of the chute and was badly
mashed and bruised, sustaining there
by perma nent injuries.-Ex.
The rext mounted drill for End.
Cavalry will occur March 20. Ad-
iutant General Leavell has announced
his intention to be present and parti-
cipate in the work on that date, a
fact that the members of the troop
look forward to with much pleasure
and anticipation of happy results in
the matter of future consideration of
the body at headquarters. None can
see and mix up with the folks of the
troop without getting a strong hunch
toward admiration of the boys that
make it up. The cream affords moth
ing better Morenci Standard.
The Molder coal strike, reported ex-
clusively in the Standard AMI Conso-
lidated Printing Co. papers last week.
has developed four feet of coal in one
tive-foot shaft, two Ole foot layers,
and several small seams IN q three
foot out at the discovery point. The
area of the coal discovery is probably
five miles square. 1t lies in a big basin,
dipping straight into the ella valley.
The drill alone will tell the true value
of this great project, it differing in
that respect from no other mining
proposition, but the indications are
certainly highly encouraging. Stan
dard
Allen r English has just returned
from the property of the Pittsburg and
Sonora Gold Mining company at Plea
cho, Sonora. He is just as enthusias-
tic as even and says the property is
improving in appearance as es ch days
development work is done. While
there he started work on the two big
shafts to he sunk on the ledge, which
are some four hundred feet apart and
which will be connected at the three
hundred feet stations, and at which
points the big ledge will also be cross
cut. The new strike recently made in
an open cut shows breast of ore
twenty feet wide, assaying one hundred
dollars in gold.-Douglas- as-American.
Concessions in the form of outright
gifts of mineral land are no longer
made in Mexico. The concessions
still heard of as being hawked around
foreign countries should be carefully
Practically all the old con-
cessions to mining properties are now
invalid. An English company,
couple of years or so ago, was victim
lied by some such concession. Mineral
land Is now only conceded by the
familiar forms of announcement or
location. Special concessions are how
ever, still granted to railroad builders
or the establishers of new enterprises,
or in fact any one who assists the
country at large, by developing irs
recources These privileges usually
take the form of remission of taxa fion