The border vidette., 1907-12-28
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest cuIIed From Our Ex-
 changes.


 said that not a mine in the Jerome district had closed on account of the financial furry. Many of the con- cerns have increased their forces late ly, instead of laying off miners, as was reported.
 The beautiful weather we are hav- ing is marvel to the people coming in from the frozen north and east. Year by year the fame of our incom- parable winter climate is spreading and the time will come when this section will be the winter refuge of hundreds of people. Pros pector.
 It is rumored in railroad cir cles that Superintendent w. H. Averill, of the Tucson division, is soon to succeed R. H. Ingram as general superintendent of the Southern district, who is also to Among those mentioned as probable successors to MT. Averill are H. G. Bonorden, trainmaster, and A. F. Bowles. present assistant superinten- dent.
 The original locator of a mining claim who loses it by failure to per form the annual labor can recover nothing from one who re-locates the claim, either for work done or i'm provements made. Even mills and mining machinery on the claim be- come the property of the new owner, as the original locator no longer has any right on the promises and may not enter to remove them.-A merican Mining Review.
 Jack Gibson and Harry Knight. who will have a wild west tournament at East Lake park Tuesday and We'd nesday afternoons, stated this morn ing that they have secured between twenty five and thirty wild broncos to Q be used in the exhibitions of riding, tying and roping. Many of the best cowboys in the valley will be seen at this exhibition, which promises to be the best held in Phoenix in several years.
 A series of signals has been an nounced for use on the Tucson division of the Southern Pacific, when it is necessary for trainmen to double over grades with their loads. When the view is not sufficiently clear and all ways at night, a torpedo is to be placed on the rail four telegraph poles from the hind car of the rear cut. At night when the weather conditions require, a red light is to be affixed to the hind end of the rear cut. where it can be plainly seen from the approaching train.
 There now remain but few days within which to complete annual labor on unpatented mining claims. If the claim owner be actually engaged in the performance of the labor on the last day of the year and continues it without interruption until completed his title will remaih intact. The work, however, must be prosecuted with "due diligence" which in this instance means a shift of work every day until the full hundred. dollars worth has been completed Minnins Review.
 James Gibbons, who has been em- ployed in the Silver Bell district fol some time, arrived here yesterday anc says that most of the mines are run ming full force with few exceptions ir 3 that district. The smelter being bull, at Sasco about eight miles south o Red Rock in Pinal county, is nearing completion and will soon be ready to be blown in. A new concentrating plant is also under way of construc- tion and will be completed in abou ' three months. He thinks the indica- 2 tion are that more men will be em- ploye in that section by the middle O the winter. All the properties arr looking good and he thinks the distric ? will be a rich one before many years ] Phoenix Republican.