The border vidette., 1908-02-08

W eunesuay DlSCrlcC Attorney V
 Connor and Attorney F. J. Duff,
 visited Washington on legal business.
 The board of supervisors met las
 Monday ard besides regular routin
 business, awarded contracts for county
 supplies for the year commencing
 February 1st, 1908 Mrs B. B. Bar
 ringer was given the contract for feed
 ing prisoners. Dr. Kingsley will care
 for the ingident sick; II. H. McNei
 Company will furnish blank books
 etc, and TIE BORDER VIDETTE will
 again do the county printing and pub | fishing. There being no bid for bury
 ing the indigent dead. no contract was
 let All members of the board and Clerk Herold were present.
 Colonel George W. Grove, who for many years has operated mining prop critics in Santa Cruz county and So- nora, was a guest at the Montezuma hotel a couple of days this week, hav- ing come down from Tucson Wednes- day night. Colonel Grove has for some time past been very much under the weather at Tucson, but it is with genuine pleasure we announce that he is rapidly improving and will soon be his genia; self again. Colonel Grove and M. P. Wright are interested in copper holdings in the Cananea minin 2 district said to possess great merit, and giving promise of king them both rich.
 Yesterday Manager l.. M. Raines of the Columbia Consolidated Mining Company, accompanied by Mrs Raines and their little son Hampton, left for Washington, D O., where Manager Raines goes to attend the annual meeting of his company's stockholders. expecting to be atsent from Nogales a couple of weeks. His company owns large valuable mineral, lumber and grazing lands in Arizona and the state of Sonora, and it is hoped at the com ing meeting arrangements will be made to work the mining property and do something with the company's other assets, which can be done if Manager Raines is given funds.
 From the Sonora Copper Company's mines near Noria, Sonora, comes news of wonderful strike of high-grad black and red oxide ore similar to that encountered in the great Copete mine @S of the ore has been uncovered and the work of mining it for shipment to the Fl Paso shelter Is now being pushed with vigor. The new discovery in with other large bodies of good ore encountered and blocked out under Manager Conard's direction. places Sonora Copper in the producing class, and if all signs do not fail, second Cananea will be opened up near Noria, only about three miles from the Sonora railroad. The recent shipment made by Mir. Conard to the Fl Paso smelter gave splendid, most gratifying returns.
 A number of new residences are on the tapis for Nogales this spring. We hope for the good of the town those here will have no cause to change their plans. Nogales with her ideal year round climate, surrounding country and progressive citizenship. is the best little town on the international border; we hope to live to see her a second Fl Paso, Texas, and trust home builders will receive every inducement to erect handsome residences here, which owing to the fact that fine building stone can be had at our very door, as we'll as other building material. should be done by local contractors and labor, as cheap, If not cheaper than else where. By all means let us pull to- gether and help build up NogaIes as she deserves to be built. Encourage nome builders; patronIze home con tractors and builders.