The border vidette., 1909-10-09
No. 39.

Gro wn Point district, will, in the next few months, be among the large gold producers of the county, is the opinion of Major Forest Mckinley. president and general manager of the Ventuar Company.
 Final payment of S8, 900 on the purchase price of the Storm Cloud group of mines in the Hassayampa district was made yesterday to Fred w. Williams by H J. Beemer, mak- ing the total amount paid for the prop erty $56,0o0. The property was taken over under bond by H. J. Bee mer, October 25. 1909 The title to the group now rests in the H, J Bee- mer Company Prescott Courier.
 A remarkable sight has been com mon in various alfalfa fields of the val. ley, for ten days past. A large flock of chicken hawks. perhaps 5000 to 5000 of the birds, visit the fields generally ject of their visit seems hard to deter mine but they are seemingly after go- phers. A field covered by them looks not unlike n farm yard with chickens. Silver Belt.
 w. A. Peterson, government far mer, returned Saturday from trip to CAlexico, Imperial and other towns of that great valley to the west of us Mir. Paterson states that the picking of Egyptian cotton at the old experi- ment station in the Yuma valley is yield surpasses the expectations of the growers, both in quality and quantity. The picking will not be finished be- fore the middle of December-Yuma Seminal.
 Mrs. w. H. Pierce. wife of the cus- todian of the cliff dwellings. on Tues day treated a number of her Flagstaff lady friends to turkey dinner at the cliff dwellings,. The wild turkey which was served for dinner was killed by Mrs. Pierce her self. and this gave the
 
 table was spread under the tall pines with large American flag waving above it. The day will be most pleas antly remembered by all of those who were fortunate enough to be present. -Republioan.
 Mrs. Barbara Winkelman was here aI0 AL Consolidated Copper Go, though F. A. Chamberlin, of the Gila Valley Realty company, for her ranch situated a short distance vest of Wink elman. The purchase price was 5000 or 800 per acre. The company expects to store tailines on this land, from the concentrator and slag from their smell ter. This certainly is a high priced dumping ground but the owners re- fused to take less and the company needed the room.
 The Courtland Arizonian has pub lished petition from Wilcox asking that the Board of Supervisors Icon sider the matter of esta blIsbiug a branch of the Territorial Highway con- meeting Cocbise county with the main east and west line of the Territory Highway; starting from San Carlos. thence to Stanley, Aravaipa, Klon- dyke Eureka springs, Bonita. Rockers ranch, Wilcox, Dos Oabezas, Pearce, Courtand, Gleeson, Bisbee and to Douglas
 The Calume5 & Arizona Mining Company's Copper Greek property (generally spoken of as the Mammoth property, although not at Mammoth) has developed what may make one of. the richest mines of the territory At the Prince shaft no work IS now being done, but it was sunk over 400 feet. and that an enormous ore body must have been encountered is shown by the fact that on the dump is over twenty five thousand tons of ore said to assay better than an average of per cent, and showing some excellent values in the sulphide ores. From the 400- foot level the company did @ great deal of explanatory work with dia-