The border vidette., 1908-09-19
WHITESiDE HAS FINE TRIP.
Visits Many Points of Interest and is
 Royalty Treated.


 Bo. J. Whiteslde returned home on Monday evening last after mak panied by Harry N. Beard who represents the Occidental Life In surance Company and the South western Underwriters Company of New Mexico and Arizona.
 It was an all round pleasure trip for me, said MT. Whiteside, and I say that I found the county in a most fourishing and prosperous condition. The cattle are all fat, the farmers are happy and the miners are all busy on their pros pect and assessment work and 1909 promises to be hummer for Santa Cruz County.
 At all points we were delightful 1y entertained by the good people at their homes, and l want to say that the hospitality of the farmers and miners in this county goes at least 3, or 5.
 Our thanks are due to the Har risons, Turner's, Phelps. Powers, Ashburn, and Harter families and Rollin R. Richardson, for the many courtesles that they extended to us, and in fact every one that we met extended to us the good glad right hand.
 We spent one Sunday at the San Rafael ranch with Mir. and Mrs Turner and it was a very interest ing day. Tom had many of the cattle and horses rounded up for inspection and doctoring. His llt tie children ride and handle the beautiful Shetland ponies just like old cowpunchers, the white faced Herefords were grazing in the fields and it all presented busy scene of the cattlemans life.
 On the ranch are two large wind- mills, one was running rapidly and the other was still. I asked Tom why he did not run them both and he told me that he did not have wind enough.
 Frank Moson was over there a short time ago with a friend and Moson suggested to him that he. have his picture taken on Shet- land pony. They have one beau tiful pony that the boys have taught to buck. Frank had him saddled up and led out to soft place in the corral. Frank had the Camera ready. but the pony bucked his friend off so quickly that Frank failed to snap 1t.
 Jim Harrison's little boy and little Mexican boy were riding on a burro and they lassoed coyote. The boys tried hard to bring it in to the ranch but the rope broke and the Coyote got away.
 Somewhere on the trip I heard that two prominent farmers from Calabasas in returning from No gales not long ago, got into a friendly race. One had double team the other a single horse. The latter got a little behind and reach ing over the dashboard to push the horse along, he received kick in the chest that stopped the race.
 Matters in the Salero country are looking up and the miners are all hard at work. At the Salero Mines Companys works, under the man. agement of Mr. E. Balcom, they are preparing to sink the main shaft 460 feet deeper. For this work MT. Balcom has imported force of skilled miners and ma chanics from Colorado and he now has about thirty people on the pay roll. He has erected an elegant bunk house and built a new kitchen and dining room. While there l met Jim Foley, Ed Mainline and Bill Dumont.
 Superintendent Cox of the Ari- zona- Pittsburg is certainly rushing things. He constructed a mile and half road up the mountain side in ,19 days at a cost of $14OOOO. | Has moved to the mIne a heavy steam boiler and expects to get l steam up and begin developing in a very short time.
 Clark, Petersen and Mcdonald l are pushing things on their prop critics and 1 learned that they were | all getting good ore.
 Frank Reichert of the Alto has