The border vidette., 1909-07-17
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest cuIIed From Our Ex
 changes

By reason of the slump in prices the
 United Verde's net income in 1908
 dropped to S2.349. 63s. as against $3-
 O78. S46 in 1907.
 Plans are being prepaired for new
 mill to be erected at the property Of
 the Vulture Mining Company, near
 Wickenburg.
 Goveronr Sloan and Private Secre- tary Cleveland are busy preparing the annual report of the conditions of the territory, which will be made to the secretary of the interior September 1.
 The will of the late O. NJ Kendrick. who was recently killed by lightning near Tempe. bequeaths all his prop erty, modest fortune. to the use of the Southern General Presby terian assembly.
 District Attorney J. E. O'Oonnor sold four hundred head of cattle this week. to Ohas Stewart, proprietor of the Valley meat market. Mir. Stew art has about 800 acres of good pas ture On his big farm situated six miles
 west of Florence and will fatten the cattle on this pasture - Florence Tri- bune.
 During the month of June the con- tractors working on the great Roos- welt dam laid IA 900 yards of masonry. The water in the reservoir is now 1i0 feet. Work on the dam will shut down on August 1st and will not re- sume operation until October lst'
 Immigration Commissioner Joe Ii Rosenberg has. received the first of his booklets on the mines of Mohave county. The work is we'll done, the letter press being perfect and the illus trations being exceptionally good. The commissioner may we'll be proud of his first effort and the people of the county should obtain a supply and send them broadcast throughout the east and west.-Exchange.
 "Ihe new transcontinental route, which the Southern Pacific will build from San Carlos to Maricopa lacks only 2S miles of construction on the east end that of the big box canyon west of San Oarlos-and from Florence to Mericopa. The entire stretch from San Carlos to Maricopa Junction, with the present main line. will not exceed 85 miles, although. as the bird flies. it is but 70 miles. Florence will be strictly in it under the changed con- ditions." Thus spoke O. D. Reppy, of that town. who explained the sit .uation last Saturday to Al Cohen of the Bisbee Miner and a representative of the Star, pointing out the line on a late map of Arizona.
 MT. Winsor is most widely known in Arizona for his newspaper work. For a number of years he conducted the Yuma Sun, and established the Morning Sun, Yuma's first daily. He was for two years manager of the Tucson Citizen, and for another two years edited the Phoenix Enterprise. A Democrat, he has always adhered to the principles of that party, but has attracted wide attention by his in denouncing abuses and the right. whether he found them in his own party or out | of it. He now avoids the discussion | of politics, and seems to have no thought but for Arizona's history The Border.
 The ground floor of the Joe Hecry building, better known as Eagles hall is being rapidly fitted up for the re- ception of the First National Bank which will move into it's new quarters as soon as the necessary changes are made, the vault completed and the new furniture put in place. A large an6 strong brick vault is being con- structed The handsome new furni- ture is all on hand and the room will be made ready for the bank to move in within the next ten days. The First National bank, when it moves into it's new quarters will have as handsome quarters as any bank in