The border vidette., 1907-11-23
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex-
 changes.

I next season. There will be a meeting
 of farmers next week for the organiz-
 ation of a cotton growers association.
 The bale of cotton that took the first
 prize at the great New Orleans cotton
 exposition was raised at Tempe
 Tempe News.
 Fred Brown and John Lewis came
 in yesterday from near Pinetop with
 six deer in their wagon. They were
 three days hunting and claim that if
 the deer had not all been driven out | they would have had better luck. I The writer examined the six dead deer
 and found that threo of them had | been killed by rifle shots and three had been talked to death. .-Winslow Mail. The board of control, in attempting
 to carry out an act of the last legis- | lature and place a headstone to mark | the last resting place of Colonel D. Poston have been unable to locate the grave. An appropriation of $1OO was
 made for the purpose. Colonel Poston
 had charge of Arizona when it was a
 county of New Msxico and Tn the
 early days he was delegate to con-
 gress.
 The late rains have not done the
 ranges rny good, it rots the grass. It
 may be better for next years growth
 to have the ground soaked. however.
 Cattle shipments are slow. Money
 stringency and scarcity of cattle cars
 have kept shipments back. All range
 stock is in good condition and it is be-
 lieved the losses of the coming winter will be down to the minimum.-Miner
 and Stockman.
 J. J. Griffin. an Espee brakeman,
 arrested in Phoenix charged with
 robbing boxcar, has been acquitted
 on the showing that the offense was | not committed in the judicial district in which he was tried. He has been | rearrested in the third district for a | similar offense and his attorney will | jeopardy for the same offense and will ask for dismissal on that ground. Though exact figures are not yet at hand. General Agent Cater of the | Southern Pacific and General Agent I Goldsworthy of the Santa Fe estimate that 5000 people were brought.to
 Phoenix during the past week, riding on excursion tickets. Goldsworthy says abou. 1000 came from the north
 and 5000 from the south. This does not include many who came on regular
 tickets before the fair opened last | Monday. Democrat. A strike of ore is announced in the Upper Pinto Greek section of the | Globe mining district. It-was made | by T. E. Parish. At the 21O foot level of the Independence mine a vein
 rich in copper has been cut. The vein | Is two feet wide and it Is estimated that the ore will run 25 per cent, cop per. carrying gold and silver. The feet. An assay of ore from the 1OO-
 foot level showed S7 gold and silver in
 addition to copper. There are also four feet of over per cent. concen-
 trating ore on the 21O- foot level. Shipping will commence as soon as the
 wagon road is completed.
 The mines of the Sultan Gold Min ing Go. are being worked under lease by O. $. McHenry and A. Hoover,
 the former of Los Angeles, Cal, and
 the latter of Nogales, Arizona. The ore being extracted is for shipment to the Fl Paso shelter. The vein which is being worked is of good grade gold, silver copper and lead ore. The mines are situated in lost Gulch, where
 many thousands of dollars in placer
 gold have been recovered. Many ad- ditional thousands have been realized
 from the ledge which McHenry and
 Hoover are now working. Prospectors are finding some rich gold ore and
 good substantial boom IS expected for
 the sectien.-American Mining Re vIew.