The border vidette., 1908-03-28


 mines owned for many years by Ool-
 onei R. R. Richardson, of that place
 The property is said to be one of the
 best in Southern Arizona, and when
 the big mining company gets busy great
 things may be expected as result.
 Thursday morning W. G. Bowman,
 agent at Carbo, Sonora, for the rail-
 road company, went to Tucson to
 testify in the extradition case Manuel
 Ramirez, which came up for hearing
 yesterday. Manuel is brother of O.
 and Eduardo Ramirez, the Mexican
 custom brokers who are charged with
 defrauding the Mexican government
 out of large sum of money by means
 of false bills of lading of wheat ship
 ments. At the time of the alleged
 crime, MT. Bowman was local agent | fer the Southern Pacific
 A. H. Parker, who for some time
 past has been ranching and mining
 near Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico, was here on business the first of the week,
 in connection with the mining pro- perty twenty one miles west of Santa
 Ana owned by the Little Star Mining
 Company, of which he is a heavy
 stockholder. A. H. Cane, of Los
 Angeles, California, IS president of the company, which was recently organiz- ed. Mir. Parker says his ranch is in fine condition, there being an alum dance of water there the year around for all purposes.
 This morning Father 0. A. Miller of Los Angeles, W. E Smith of No
 gales; Frank Stanley, of Denver, Ool- orado, and Grover Sommers and D. Evans. of Martinsferry, Ohio, left for an extended prospecting trip to Sina- loa and other states in Mexico. The party will go to Fuerte, thence into the rich mining districts in search of hidden wealth. They will be absent from the United States about year. during which time they fully expect to discover a rich bonanza. Mir. Smiths | numerous friends here and throu ghout | Santa Cruz county wish him and | his party abundant success on their | prospecting expedition, which will be | under his personal direction.
 Wednesday Nogales was visited by i two of Sonora's most distin guished citizens, Adolph Bley, president and Max Muller, vice president of Banco de Sonora. who the evening before arrived from Hermosillo, on their way to the city of Mexico to attend meeting of the general assembly of the Mexican Bankers Association While in the city the gentlemen were entertained by Mexican Consul M. Mascarenas, who is largely interested of the organizers. and Alberto Mas If hn hror 1o1 l of the mammoth banking institution which now has a capital of S1, 1900, ,oUO. Thursday morning the gentlemen way to Mexico
 F. H. Siabold, the grading contrac- tor, who is associated with O. A. Mo Carty, after ple of days business visit in the city from the front out beyond Santa Cruz. left for camp yesterday. Mir. Siebold besides being a contractor is an experienced assayer, having for a long time worked at the great Quintera and Zambona Eaines near Aiamos. Sonora. The gentleman is a stockholder in the Zambona De- velopment Company, of which many Nogales people are stockholders. He has a thorough kuo wledge of the pro- perty which he does not hesitate to say IS worth many times the capital ization of the Zambona Development Company, which is only S65O,0 900 %. MT. Siebold also verified the report that a very important strike of rich ore had recently been made at the 700 foot level. MT. w. $. Cranz is now at the mines.
 Patr R Sullivan, all round good fellow and special newspaper cores pondent, was in the city yesterday from Patagonia, where he now makes , his headquarters, and where he ex- poets to sojourn this summer. Patt says that next week the "Soncita Club" a new boosters organization will be permanently organized in Pa tagonia, with every prominent citizen of that important, wide awake village enrolled on the mem bership list. From the start the "Club" will have mem mbership of about thirty-tive, which will in very short time be increased to fifty. The object of the. new or ganization will be to advertise the Pa < ta sonia, Santa Rita. and other mining districts near Patagonia, and every citizen in Santa Cruz county should give the Club unstinted moral and , financial support. ,
 Mir. John Gave, manager of the 7 Coast Line Copper Company's Fl Gro mines down in the Ures district, a