The border vidette., 1909-12-25


 selection of these men. They should be men with big lot of common sense and very little political ambition. Common sense fellows will write a common sense fundamental law, etc. Williams News
 The Phoenix men who have taken over the John Lucas Pat Boyle gold claims, situated just south of .he Gia river and 12 miles east of Florence, now have a crew of miners doing de- velopment work and are getting satis- factory results. The same is true of the old Gardom claims, situated in the same locality. It would not be at all surprising to see a large and lively gold camp in operation at the Buttes within B year from this date.
 The Arizona Herculas Mining com pany, of Ray, this county. has driven drill holes through blanket of six per cent, copper, ore, 200 feet in thickness and President Manager W. P. Dun ham now wears a smile that makes the Taft perennial look like two-cent grin. The magnitude of this remark able ore- body will be determined by series off drill holes put down 100 feet apart. This is but another evidence that the Ray Kelvin district will lead the world in copper production inside of very few years Florence Blade
 Francisco Marquez, who was COZ demned to bs hanged yesterday Dec. i7, at the territorial penitentiary at Florence get a respite from death at almost the last hour. An appeal from the sentence was filed at Yuma and stay of execution granted pending it's consideration by the Supreme court. Judge Campbell, who sentenced Mar quez. received copy of the appeal and an order was given to Prison Sup erintendent Rynning to stay the execution pending it's consideration by the Supreme court in April-Tomb- stone prospector.
 The Industrial mining company, of which ten stockholders are Benson people, put four men at work last week on their gold, silver and lead property, which is about 150 miles south of Nogales, in Sonora. MT. W. E. Butler. one of the Benson stock holders, who has been watching pro- gress, states that the orosscut tunnel was in 2s8 feet at last report, and expected to reach the ore vein at about 300 feet. The ledge is 12 feet wide on top, with ore vein eight feet wide, which showed values of. $54 in bottom of shaft Is feet deep.
 The many friends of Hoval Smith. chairman of the Repub ublican Territorial Central committee, will be pleased to learn of the success attained by him with his mining properties at Globe. Properties at that place in which he and his partner. Henry B. .Hoveland, have the contr olling interest. are show ing tremendio1s values. In the past
 
 sixty days shares of stock of these ssv eral companies have advanced SIX to ten dollars a share It Is understood from a very close friend of Mir. Smiths that the profits of his partner and him. self in the last sixty days are not less than S1,OOO, Tombstone Pros pector.
 The contract for tracklaying on the Shannon-Arizona railroad for which bids were called up to the first of De- cember, was let to O. J. Kilmer, one of the engineers who. is at present employed on bridge work for the same company. MT. Kilmar is experienced in railroad work and will rush the tracklaying as much as possible. Work will be commenced just as soon as the new locomotives are in running order. The bridge work is advancing rapidly along the line and no delay is anticipated in the laying of steel. The rails, crossties and other material ne- cessary for the construction of rail- road are on hand and no delay is an ticipated unless bad weather prevails.