The border vidette., 1909-12-18
No. 51.


 experimental farm near the proposed townsite of Bard, on the Laguna branch line, and at the upper end of the Yuma Indian reservation. The latest addition to the governments local agri. cultural stations comprises 160 acres, and the land Is being leveled and put In shape for cultivation when water is turned on few months later, at ment farmer, will take up his resi- dence there Sentinel.
 Jesse B. Wright, who fer the past three months, has been doing engi- neering work for the Sant. Cruz Re- servoir Oo., came in from Sasco yes- terday to spend couple of days Mir. miles of irrigating canals and laterals have been run throughout the immense acrea se acquired by the company and many more miles of such canals will be laid before the work is completed Two thousand acres have bfen planted and seeded to wheat and barley and the blowing continues-Tucson Star.
 MT. M. Burns. in the Douglas Dis patch, says that the winds stop hens from aying more than anything else in this climate His outlets were lay ing about four dozen eggs per day up till the little winds came in October, and these blows cut down the average con siderably. The March and April winds. he says. are much worse. He thinks a wind break is an esential for chickens, and he will plant ocatillos for the lower protection and higher shrubberry and trees above. He has increased the average number of eggs per day by feeding jackrabbits.
 Aged and infrm, without means or friends and unable to work. MT. and Mrs. Peter Kelly, who twenty years ago were well known and prosperous in Tombstone, during it's halcyon days. arrived in Phoenix today and received assistance from the board of supervi- sors, where Mrs Kelly, with tears in her. eyes, made a pathetic appeal to Supervisor Orme. Three morths ago Kelly, who is 70 years old, was taken i'll at Goldfeld New, with rheumatism and has since been unable to work. With the few dollars they had saved Mr. and Mrs Kelly bought wagon and team, and have since been on the road. Bisbee being their destination. Democrat.
 Chicago capitalists are figuring on building an electric. freight -and-pas- senger line between here and Casa 1o i1 tion o1 he tervening country and the probability of it's early reclamation by the Slieh- Clark irrigation system. has convinced them such line would pay dividends in the near future. They have, in our judgment, sIzed up the situation correctly and the more they invisti- gate it the more thoroughly will they become con vinced of the wisdom of such an undertaking in advanced of the completion of the San Oarlos reservoir and its distributing system lu this valley so as to avoid competi- ton for franchises and rights s-of-way. Florence Blade.
 Relics of a prehistoric race who in habited the Santa Cruz Valley, it is believed. during the stone age, have come to light through excavation made by workmen while engaged in the construction of the dam for the Santa Cruz river about twenty miles below the Leguirre ranch. From five to seven feet below the surface work, men have p!owed up large quantity of stone implements, including stone axes, utensils of various kinds and vessels whose use now ia unknown. Recently the laborers uncovered sev- eral specimens of the ollas, vessels used to hold water. ThIe, it is said, is g. curious anomaly. as other finds show a much greater age than the Mexican ollas -Prospector.
 The Miami Copper Company is doing it's usual amount of development work underground by means of cross cuts and drifts and in the near future will have two Star churn drills at work at the various intersections of the 200 foot squares into which the surface has already been surveyed. By this method that part of the company's holdings which has not already been explored will be prospected to depth ranging from 300 to 1000 feet below the surface. Although the general plan is to put down the drill holes at the boundairy intersection of each square, it is also likely that different portions of the property will not be prospected in such thorough manner. Az the driilino machines have already