The border vidette., 1905-02-11
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our
 Exchanges.

l Copper Queen reduction plant at Dou
 glas may be gained from the statement that the railroad sidetracks required tc | accommodate it amounts to more than
 twenty miles.
 The Southern Pacific contemplates
 putting on a large number of more oil burning locomotives this spring owin < to the fact that it is difficult to secure
 coal when needed and 1t is also claimed
 that oil is cIeaper.-Star.
 The Arizona office of the immigra- ton service of the government has rs . ceived circular ordering all the of ficers connected with the office to wear
 uniforms during office hours. The uniforms consist of blue pants and coat
 with brass buttons and a blue cap with the arms of the service on the front
 The regular weekly progressive euch re party given by the Santa Rita management took place last Saturday. night. twelve couples engaging in the fascinating diversion. The chief prizes were captured by Mrs. L. E. J. Iaeger and MT. J. A. Gibbons, the Negales mining man, while to Mrs. John Nets and Albert Steinfeld were awarded the booby prizes.-Tucson Citizen
 Ducks are reported more plentiful now than at any other time for two years past Ali the hunters are bring ing in good bags. Mallards. spriss, widgeous, teal, spoonbiIls and occasion ally red heads and canvas back, arc being killed on the river and the irrigated fields, says the Republican Several parties are contemplating trips to the Florence reservoir. From pres ent weather indications ths ducks will remain plentiful until next month.
 H. H. lift, of Solomonviile has in vented an irrigation pump that pro misses to excel anything yet invented in that line, which he has patented. He has model now in his shop. It has from six to ten cylinders. A twelve cylinder pump will throw 1900 galIors per minute with a maximum resistence of 364 pounds in we'll 30 feet deep. It is built for horse power or an engine. Mr. lift has worked on this pump for several years and now has it perfect.-Guardian.
 Major C. 0. Waicutt, constructing quartermaster at Whipple is preparing to let contract for seventeen build dings for the new post of Whipple near Prescott. An appropriation of 1S7 300 is now available for the work It is ex pected the advertising will be held about March l, bids being opened in June. A hospital building is provided for outside the other appropriation by e3O,OOO. The entire expenditures at the fort within the next eighteen months will reach S25O, O,OOO.-Pros- pector.
 In the United States Court on W Wednesday, Feb 1st, the United States Attorney brought suit against twenty six head of cattle, which were seized near the line by Customs In spectors Reddoch and Mcknight, and which the government Is rying to get possession of, alleging that they were brought across the line without entry of the same being made. The majority of them are said to belong to w. s. Sturges and Albert Steinfeld. They were being gathered in by vsaueros, who failed to make entry of them Tucson Post.
 At the Phoenix driving track recent ly, Florence Wilson. the speedy mare owned by w. c. Greene, made a mile in 2:12 1-2 with forty two pound racing wagon MT. Klotzbach, Mir Greene's trainer, drove and the exhi- bition of spee1 displayed by the little mare on the home stretch has never been equalled in Ph9ix, or Tn Arizona. The time for the mile beats the Ariz- ona recorl, made by Cresceus at Tue son, 2:14 I-4. The race was driven unpaced and it Is thought that had