The border vidette., 1908-06-20
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items Ot Interest CuIIed From Our tx-
 changes.

For the month of May the sum total
 of fees received for filing articles of
 incorporation by the territorial au-
 ditor was s, ,sS3 60. This is not SO
 much as a year ago. but it is better
 than it has been in recent months, showing 8 return of normal conditions
 It is about $fOO more than was re- | celved the month before.
 E. B. Perrin owner of the 3abaco-
 mari land grant that lies partly in this county and partly in Santa Cruz ! county, was visitor here today, be- tween trains on his way to California.
 He is preparing to take steps to re- move settlers on the grant and a long legal battle ia ahead for the settlers do Prospector.
 While grading the site for their new shelter at the mining camp of the
 Mansfield Copper Oo., about 70 miles south west of Benson, the company was surprised by uncovering the apex of blind ledge of ore within 100 feet of one of their large operating shafts. i Most of the shelter machinery is now on the ground and being installed. The remainder has been shipped from the Denver foundry. They expect to
 be turing out copper matte in a few i weeks--Benson Press.
 Conclusive evidence that the Peck
 mine in the Bradshaw mountains, the richness of which startled the civilized
 world after it's discovery in the early 7O's is not entirely worked out, IS seen in a shipment of four tons of ore,
 which arrived at the, Prescott Sam bling Works yesterday, mined from the old workings, abandoned many years ago as entirely worked out. The ore, with over 1000 ounces in silver to the ton, was discovered few weeks ago by a miner in the employ of the Great Peck Mining Company. al Miner.
 The old members of the Wallapai tribe have gone to the mountains, where preparation is being made for a blg rain dance to propitiate the wrath of the God of Rain. It is the belief of the Indians that whenever there is long drought the Rain God has become displeased with the chil- dren of the desert and withholds from them the life giving rains that bring forth fruits and grasses, and that famine will come to the tribes. There fore, every effort is made to reinstste themselves in the good graces of the God.-Mohave County Miner.
 The 32O-acre homestead blll has been defeated. The principal argu- ments advanced against the bill were based upon the supposition that some of our cattlemen and not legitimate homesteaders would benefit by it's pro, visions; out this hypothesis was vigor- ously com mbatted. The teehnlcality in the bill which made members sus- picious was the absence of any pro- vision for residence on the land, as had originally been intended, and this omission set up such @ suspicion that the whole thing was thrown out, after ! the bill had passed both bodies and gone to conference.-Range News.
 The official date of the advent of permanent prosperity Tn this valley, is June l3, 1908, at 2.35 o'clock on a 5listering hot afternoon, when Gov ernor J. H. Kibbey pulled a lever that raised the gates in the new con- crete head of the Arizona canal, which head is part of the northside diver sion wor ks of tho Granite Reef dam, built by the United States reclamation service as a construction auxiliary to the Roosevelt storage dam. the over shadowing feature of the Salt river valley irrigation project. That is a long sentence and within its meaning is the frame work of the history of ! civilization Tn the Salt river valley | from its settlement forty years ago to the present time. It makes the strug- gle of a generation of brave people ! against sometimes almost hopeless [ fate, to final victory over what at