The border vidette., 1907-06-29

Tonight there will be a grand bal
 in armory Hall, given by the Spanish
 American Alliance in honor of the 1 young ladies who assisted them at the
 recent anniversary exercises held ir ! Ramirez Theatre A fine time is as sured everybody.
 Wednesday A. M. Conard, president | and manager of the Sonora Copper Company, was in town from his com
 pany's big property near Llano, bring
 ing with him the news that recently
 water had been struck in shaft No. ?,
 at depth of 195 feet, just five feet
 sooner thanshe expected to strike that
 ever necessary and useful fluid, the
 development of which will mean a
 yearly saving of thousands of dollars
 to the Sonora Copper Company. Be
 sides news of the water Mir. Conar1
 brought up samples of ore containing g
 free gold, which was discoved on his property. Certainly Mir. Conard "do be havin' great luck" He sure deserves it.
 On June 25tn, MT. F. NJ. Gillette, the well known railway conductor who for a number of years made No gales his home when running on the Sonora, was appointed to the respon- slble position of Travelling Conductor on the CanaDea, Yaqui River & Pacific Railway, with jurisdiction over all construction department train crews from Navojoa south, including the Alamos branch and Navojoa yard Frank Gillette is one of the best known passenger conductors in Sono- ra, where he has successfully railroad ed many years. His host of friends in Tucson, here and all along the line of the Southern Pacifi; will be pleased to learn of his we'll earned promotion He is capable and honorable and deserves well at the hands of Dame Fortune. Here's to him.
 Assistant Engineer Reagan of the Cananea, YaquI River E Pacific rail- ways Cananea-Imurisb branch, arrived yesterday morning from Imuris, hay ing come up to the border on com pany business. Nothing certain yet whether the new road from Cananea will come to Nogales, go to Imurfs, or both. It IS now up to the powers that be in the City of Mexico. Un- officially it is said that Nogales is way to the good just now, as it is the choice of the railroad people, but as yet the Mexican government has not given the Ego ahead" sign. When it does dirt will fly and it will then only be matter of a very short time be- fore another railroad will be built into Nogales which will have direct con nection with Cananea and the great country south and east of us. Brothers. let us pray.
 Last week under the caption "New TIE BORDER V1DETTE stated that Mir. Oscar Rountree had accepted the business management of the Washington Trading Company's business in this city and at Patagonia. taking the place of Mir. E. E. Bethell. resigned. Mir. Bethell in forms us we were misinformed as to the statement that he has resigned The gentlemen continues 10 remain with the big company. and in future vii; manage the Patagonia store, in TIE VIDETTE last week, and it Is with genuine pleasure we make tbi- correction. Hope Bethell wlll remain with us always. With BethelI, Nanney and O. Neil in charge of affairs at the big store in Patagonia, the company should soon pay handsome dividends. Mir. Rountree will take care of the Nogales end of things
 Charley Rand, the naming man, who with Messrs Bond and Martin own the Key de Gro mines in the Magdalena district, Sonora, bonded re gently to the Tribune Gold Mining Company, of which Dr. J. l.. Nichol son of this city is agent, returned Tuesday night from a pleasure visit to Colorado Springs, Colorado. and other points north, where he had not been for number or years. Mir. Rand says he witnessed several snow storms while on his trip, and was anxious to return south in order to get thawed out. At Fl Paso the gentleman met his two partners Bond and Martin, who are en route east for the summer They wanted him to accompany them back to Pennsylvania, but Charley passed up the invitation for the reason that he had some unfinished private business here, demanding his i'm mediate attention. After the Fourth of July he will continue on to Mazda lena, Sonora, where he makes his headquarters when in Sonora.
 B. Schwob, proprietor of 'La Fran