The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1906-11-03

M. Conard. who went to Magdalena
on mining business. Both Messrs.
Purcell and Oonard are very busy
men these days looking after their ex
tensive mining business in Sonora.
Mrs. Conard is a guest at the Monte
yuma hotel, where she and Mr.. @.
have pleasant quarters.
The selection of Hon. Theodor &c eb-
Ter, president. and Patti Hannah, vice
president of the Mark Smith Demo-
cratic Club, was graceful act on the
part of the members of that club. Both
gentlemen are true-blue democrats
who have for many years worked
faithfully for the cause of Democracy.
The selection of Hon. F. j. Duffy as
secretary of the club, also meets the
hearty approval of every true democrat
in Santa Cruz county. The clubs
membership is growing daily.
Tom Bentley, one of the best prac
teal mining men in the state of Son
ora, Mexico, is making Negales his
headquarters for the time being. Mr..
Bentley has big mining deal on the
tapis, which, when closed, will put
him high and dry on Easy Street"
Mrs. Bentley and the children are
here also. For number of years Ton.
Beptly held down responsible posi-
ton with one of the big mining COM
panies at Minas Prietas. For several
years he and his family have resided
at Hermosillo.
The 1904 Great Register of Santa
Cruz county, contained 76S names
this year S92 names appear on the reg
lister. The baby county is growing
slowly bur surely. and two years hence
there will be greater increase than
during any period since Santa Cruz
county was created. We have
only commenced to grow. Keep your
optics on the Patagonia, Santa Rita,
Harshaw, Salero, Washington, Mowry,
Orc Blanco and other mining districts
They are all coming to the front with
great strides and one of these days will
occupy their proper place among the
great producing districts of the nation.
Frank Cox, superintendent of the
great mines at Cerro Prieto, owned by
the Black Mountain Mining Company,
of which Noble @. Banks of this place
is general managers visitor in town
for couple of days. having come up
to ths line city to meet Mrs. Cox on
her return from the east where she
had been spending the summer with
friends and relatives Frank will not
return to camp until after the election
next Tuesday. He reports every thing |
at the big gold camp working in very
manner, the great mine
and mill giving splendid results. regu-
lar shipments of gold bullion being
made.
Mr.. IL. NJ. Raines, general manager |
of the Columbia Consolidated Mining
Company, has returned from the State
of Durango, Mexico, where he had |
been with his family to transact i'm
portant private business connected |
with the sale of mining property sitn-
ated in the Durango mining district,
he and his interesting little fam
lily resided number of years before |
coming to Nogales to make their home.
Mr.. Raines is one of the best and |
most successful mine managers in the |
he has the full confidence of
his company, and if any man can place
the Pinto property on its feet, he will
do so
Mr.. w. b. Washington, gentle
man we'll and pleasantly remembered |
by many Nogales people, has been a
visitor here this week for couple of
days. after an absence of about five |
years, during which time he has been
in Central America in the int rest of |
the Charles Buffers Company, for
which he has worked many years, in
different parts of the world. From
Nogales Mr.. Washington will go to
Copala, near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex
leo, where he will assume charge of an
immense mining proposition owned by
his big company. "Wash." as his
friends call him, is one CT the best |
fellows in the world his friends join
US in wishing him good luck.
Thursday morning Claude NJ A cklen
of Washington, ID. c., president of |
the Buena Fortuna Gold Mining Com
pany, the splendid properties of which
are located in the Pinto mountains, /
Sonora, Mexico, short distance south
of the international line, departed for |
Los Angeles, where he will remain
couple of months before returning here
to attend the annual stockholders |
meeting which will be held in Nogales |
February. next. During MIR. AckIen's
visit in this section, he went to the
company's property in company with !
General Manager Purcell and Mr.. A.