The border vidette., 1904-02-20
ARIZONA NEWS.
Items of Interest Sr0m ali Over the
Territory.


Territory
| The Paratfine Oil we'll, at Hack berry
wash, has now reached Il depth of ,475
feet and the last hund red feet is In
| alternating Layers of limestone and
shale. The old ind ications contin ue
! to improve and the driller is confid en- t
that he will soon strike a strong body
| of oil Florence Blade.
| A j. Doran left for the northern
part of the territory in the interest of
| the worlds fair. to visit the the Pet
| rified Forest and secure for exhibition
some of the Petrtfied trees. with pet
| rified birds, perched on their petrItied
branches. The birds. when heard, are
sing ing petriied songs. to the amuse-
ment Of this wonderful petrired forest.
AN opera house, to coast about 820.-
00O will soon be built in Douglas.
Already half of that amount has been
su described. The promoters of the
| scheme are S. F. Mcguire, G. A. Over
G Mcdonald, j. S. Douglas. V. R.
Stiles and others. The closing of
Library hall for show purposes makes
an opera house of some kind necessity
Machinery to cost 1925, 600. gold,
has been ordered from the Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, for the Greene
Consolidated Gold Placer Mining Com
Santo Domingo and San Miguel riv-
ers, in the eastern part OF the Magd ale
ma district. AS soon as completed -
W hich will be very shOrtly-the ma
chinery will be shipped and installed
and put actively to work. The prop
erty of the company includes both the
Santo Domingo and La Busca placer
rields. and is very rich in gold -Oasis.
The Arizona, New Mexico 4 Colo
RADIO Railroad, which is supposed to be
headed for Benson, has a corps of en-
gineers in the field Surveying toward
counties of Cochise ana Graham, in
this Territory; the counties of Grant,
Socorro, Valencia, Bernalillo. San Juan
and Rio Alba, in New Mexico, and the
counties of Conejos and La Plata. in
the State of Colorado. total distance
of $50 miles. Durango, Col, wall be
the terminus at the other end and
Benson will be the Cochise county
terminal. The capital stock of the
com pany is s5. 900, 600, fully subscribed.
-Prospector.
Freight teams loaded with an H.
600 pound pump for the Superior mine
passed through here this week. The
company also has on the way one of
the largest air compressors ever
brought into the Territory. 1t will
probably rench CASA grande next
week. There are about 80 men at
work on the mine now and as soon as
the new compressor is ready for opera
ton this force will be doubled The
company, under the sound advice of
General Manager Sieboth. will pursue
the wise policy of thoroughly opening
their mines before installing reduction
machinery Florence Blade.
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non, n. Y, and Mr.. Steirrie and bis
nephew, MIR. Carl Steinle of Fremont,
Ohio. arrived from the east last week
They passed several days in Chloride
and at the Great West camp. They
enjoyed our climate, 6nding it very
pleasant after the severe cold weather
of the east. where the Thermometers
have been hanging from 20 to AZ de
grees below zero. The gentlemen made
flying visit to Southern California,
intending to return to Chloride this
week. MIR. Tilden is a nephew of the
late Samuel j. Tilden, who was for
merly the governor of the state OF
New York.-The Arizona Arrow.
DR.. +. C. Doliey, of Casa Grande,
was here this week, invesri eating the
water situation. DIR. DolIey has large
and well improved ranches in the
vicinity of Casa Grande upon which
he has been fattening cattle for the
California markets, therefore he has
more than II passing interest in the
water problem. The thing to do at
present, on the water subject. it seems
to us, Is to get the Florence canal and
reservoir cleaned out to their original
capacity. With this done. and
sheet pile dam put ia at the head of
the canal there is no question that
we would have water enough to cult
vate fifteen Or twenty thousand acres
of land in this valley. - Florence
Blade