The border vidette., 1908-01-25

SIS, Nogales, Arizona.
 Walter Strickland, manager of tht
 Alamos Copper Company, is here from
 the company's mines in the Alamo!
 district. Sonora, having came up or
 company business MT. StrickIan
 reports development work on his com-
 pany's property progressing nicely, good shipping ore being the order oi
 the day. Samples of hIgh- grade ore taken from a recent new strike can be seen at TIE VIDETTE office.
 Last Monday Mr. F. E Reed, audi tor of the Sonora Copper Company, accompanied by his little son. came up and the small boy left for their home at Kansas City. Mr. Reed. who visit ed his company's property while in Sonora, expressed himself as highly pleased with the splendid progress be- ing made by Manager Conard. So- nora Copper stock is now selling for S6 co.
 MT. and Mrs. James Gordon, who ] for many years have resided in Quay mas where MT. Gordon was in the employ of the Sonora railway as train dispatcher, passed through Nogales last Thursday on their way to Cali fornia points on combined business and pleasure trip. Several years ago Mir. and Mrs Gordon resided in No gales. They have a wide circle of friends all of whom will join us in wishing them success wherever they go.
 w. A. Merralls. of the Merralls Mill Company of Denver and San Fran cisco. who has been visiting No gales the guest of Harry Karnes, the mining engineer. left yesterday morn- ing for San Francisco. Mir. Merralls is one of the best known, most success full mining engineers in the United States; his stamp mill is considered by many, the best on the market today We are informed that 1t is intention of Mir. Karnes and associates to install the Merralls mills at La Meiia.
 Thursday morning R. R. Coleman, president of the Zambona Develop ment Company left for Los Angeles. hls home. He is a capable successful business man-of wide experience; he has personally inspected the property owned by his company and is fully convinced that it is worth millions; certainly no better man could have been selected, at this time. to fill the re- sponsible position of president of the great Zambona, and we wish him heaped up measures of success.
 Last Monday at Ma agdalena, Sonora, there was a meeting of the stockhold- CTS of the Columbia Consolidated Min ing company and the following gen. tlemen, were reelected officers for the ensuing year: President. E. w. Kel- sey, of Anna Arbor, Michigan; Vice President and General Manager. L. M. Raines, of Nogales, Arizona; Treas urer, Colonel Kosterlitzky, of Mazda lena, Sonora; Secretary, J. A. Con zalez, of Magdalena, Sonora; Comisa- rio, E. D. Miller, of Nogales, Arizona.
 Mir. Adolfo Ybarra, attorney for the O. R. Y. & P. R. R. arrived from Guaymas last evening. Mir. Ybarra came at the solicitation of Mir. Howell Jordan, right of way agent. to institute condemnation proceedings against various property owners in the com munity of Santa Cruz, with whom he had found it impossible to treat on reasonable terms. We believe that MT. Jordan would meet any owner at least half way and it is to be regretted that he has met with any opposition to an enterprise which means so much to this community and to the state of Sonora.
 An idea of the immense amount of business transacted by the Southern Pacific railway at this polnt-on the American side of the line alone-can be had by the statement that during the month of December 1907, last, S3O.OOO more business was transacted than during the month of December 1906, at cost of $S % less than the year before. During the month of Dece ember, just past, 1,34O carloads of local freight have been received here as against 7S3 during the month of December 1906. We would suggest that the company present Agent Grace $8 co, thus making accounts even.
 Major James A. Cooper, vice-presi- dent of the Rich6eld Copper Com pany, returned Monday evening from a business visit to the company's prop erty down in the Ures district, So- nora, where John Glasson, a crack a. Jack mine manager of many years practical experience, is in charge of the work of developing the property Tuesday morning Major Cooper and a friend from the east who is financially interested in the Richfeld Copper Company, continued north on their