The border vidette., 1909-08-28

The Globe Silver Belt saye: A sale
 entire property of the Warrior Copper
 company has been made to the firm of
 Hovland & Smith, the purchase price
 being about S1. .25O, ,OOO, in payments distributed over period of three years
 Most of this amount IS to be paid in bonds convertible at par into stock of the new company which is to be or | ganized, the capital of which will be $2 5OO.OOO.
 O B Amsden, general manager of the Gold Bug mines. is in Kingman, He reports that the main shaft of the Gold Bug is now down about 435 feet The shaft is not in the vein, but crosscut will be made to it at depth of 500 feet The shaft is being carried down perpendicularly, while the vein runs little from the perpendicular, necessitating the crosscut. At the 400 in the cutting the station the ore body was cut and good ore is found through the mass.
 Florence was visited by 9 inch rainfall Sunday afternoon and evening. There was but little wind, thunder and lightning with the storm. It was just an old fashioned s'sod soaker" minus the usual electrical display and hair raising wind. It damaged dirt roofs to some extent and carried away the banks of the canal in many places, the latter being the result of the absence of necessary spill ways along the canal banks, a matter that will be taken care of in the plans for the new canal
 The Southern Pacific has unloaded at Maricopa station a 375 ,OOO crude oil storage tank This tank will be immediately erected at that station to store oil for the purpose ot serving engines on both the main line and the Maricopa and Phoenix branch line and also for oiling the road bed of the main line from Mericopa west and the branch line to Phoenix. The oil from this storage tank will also be used in oiIing the new road bed from Mericopa to Florence and from here on to San Carlos. Florence Blade.
 4 new Huntington fve-foot mill and machinery is being hauled to the camp of the Sunnyside Mining com pany, iD the Hassayampa district, to be erected at once Grading for the site of the plant is almost finished and force is on the ground ready to in stall the machinery as fast as deliver ed. The work is being done under the direction of the contracting firm of Elliott .& Drescher of this city. As soon as the plant is ready for opera ton the work of adding another unit to it will be commenced.-Pr Courier.
 A San Francisco dispatch says Pat rick Mullin, an Arizona Mining man, claims he was robbed of S65U Saturday night by two women acquaintances who went riding with him in an auto mobile. Mullin's description of the women were rather vague, although he insists they were "beauts." He was treating them with the usual fine Arizona liberality when the ungrate full "beauts" 'touched" him for a beautiful roll of greenbacks which he had carefully pinned in his coat. Mir. Mullins only consolation is that he carried another and larger 'rolI" in his sock.
 The famous Tom Reed mine still remains famous, the ore body in winze from the 25O level being seven feet wide and giving average value of $2O0 | gold to the ton in the mill. The com l pany has been sinking a nam working shaft. which recently reached depth | of 400 feet. Owing to the lack of power a drift was driven off at the $50 | to cut the vein. When the casting was broken. one day last week, flow | of water was encountered that was l approximated at 10000 gallons per day. This flow was too great to | handle and work had to be discon-- I..oo ;o