The border vidette., 1907-08-24
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex-
 changes.

The San Marcial coal mines are re- ported to have been sold to the Phelps Dodge people. and that immediate development work on them Is to begin
 A mining deal involving over $1,- 900, ,OOO is reported from Dos Cabezas All the small holdings of the different companies have been bought up and extensive operations are promised in the near future.
 County Assessor Luke has finished his wortk for the fiscal year and has presented to the board of supervisors ment the total value of property in Maricopa county is $l3. 3.4l4, O72. 40, an increase of nearly $2,O00.000 over last years assessment which was $ll,- 754. SS3.6I
 Wm. Beard, we'll known here and at Globe as a successful mining man, has fallen into the hands of Kansas real estate sharps and got pinched for about SAG. 0CO They sold him a vast acreage of rock land il Missouri which they induced him to buy without in specting it. William had better return to Arizona to invest in land were real estate sharps are not tolerated. | Florence Blade.
 Dr. Ancil Martin of Phoenix, Dr. F. G. Van Stratum of Hurley. Wis, and E. T. Larsen of Ironwood, Mich, the latter being president of the Harqua Hala, spent five days at the mine and witnessed the clean up last Thursday. They were all very much pleased with the result Thirty stamps are now in operation and the remaining ten will be started up in short Wickenburg Miner.
 The Pinto Creek section of the Globe district is coming rapidly to the front. Another eastern company has entered that fourishing section and another big development proposition will be added to those now operating Iu0 Ol OuO lulIO w Dll0 at present there is not 6 producing mine in that district, there are many indications that it will in time prove to be one of the biggest producing copper camps in the coun.ry.-Silver Belt.
 A monument to the late Al Sieber, hn and Indian Hoh who was accidently killed at Roosevelt last winter. is being erected at Globe. The legislature appropriated one hun dred dollars toward the monument which will be of two large boulders of native granite. One of these will serve as base and the other, which will be about five feet high will be erected on it. Only the front of it will be polish ed and suitable inscription engraved upon it.
 Dos Cabezas is to be an important and prosperous mining camp in the near future, if one can judge from the Mascot Copper Go. The com panys plans include tho erection of shelter at Dos Cabezas and the con- struction of a railroad to connect that point with the Southern Pacific at Willcox, a distance of about IA miles. In the meantime options are continually being taken, until the company now has taken over most properties in the district. Extensive mining operations are promised so soon as the necessary arrangements can be made.
 The copper zone along the proposed railway line to close the gap between the P. x E. terminus and Benson, is attracting more attention than ever of late, since the o. & A. has been run ming diamond drills at the Clark and Scanlon property near Mammoth, and since experts have been visiting the Arizona A pache and the Valenzuela. The sale to an English syndicate of B claims in the territory tributary to the proposed railroad from Winkleman to Benson has caused much excitement in that region. J. 5. Bourne, Thos. N. Willis and E. E Putnam of Nam