The border vidette., 1909-06-12
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of interest CuiIed From Our Ex
 changes

A. R. Oster. former superinten dent
 of the Sonora division of the South ern Pacific lines, has been sent tc l Pearce, where he viii nave charge ot ce
 the Arizona & Colorado.
 The holster for the Carter Mining
 company was received in Kingman
 yesterday and is loaded ready to send , on to the mines. Grading for the
 holster is under way at the mine and
 within few days it will be ready to
 place the big machiEe. This plant is equipped with three drill compressor and all necessary equipment for the
 machines -Kingman Miner:
 Opperations at the Ray Consolidated (Arizona1 are still largely confined to testing and proving up by churn drill ing. The engineers figure that it has 25.0OO.OOO tons of ore demonstrated, which will average between ? and 2 per cent copper. The company wIli begin the construction ot a concentra- tor some time this year which will have an ipitial daily capacity of at least 5000 tons, and probably of 5000 tons.
 Some fine specimens of ore from the Silver King mine are now on exhibition In window of the Valley Realty Com pany There are two large chunks of it running thousands of ounces in silver to the ton. and one piece shows the wire silver sticking out of it. The ore also runs heavy in copper. The owners believe the Silver King will yet be shown to be bigger mine than it ever was believed to be before Phoenix Republican.
 Mesa has ordered the Hirayama Royal Japanese day fire works, in ad- dition to a magnificent night display, and as the trains begin unloading pas sengers on the morning of the 4th of July the fire works will begin The air will be full of strange animals, | is stated that this will be the first time that these fireworks will be shown in the southwest, and will be an attrac- tive feature of Mesa's Fourth of July celebration.
 San Pedro valley farmers. and others of the southwest will be espe cialIy benefited by the increase of duty on potatoes to 45 cents per bushel by the Senate, instead of 25 cents per bushel in the bill which passed the House. It is time that higher rate of duty should be put on farm products before the lands of Si- naloa are settled, where men work for 38 cents Mexican money per day digging ditches and other heavy labor. -BensoE Press.
 The assessment of 50 cents a share recently levIed by the directors of Hel- vetia. will give the company $95. 900 cash for additional working capital. With the showing that Helvetia has developed in it's Copper World and Leader properties, the company is in a very comfortable position. The next | will be in the construc- tion and equipment of railroad from the mines to a junction with the Southern Pracific road, a distance of less than twenty miles.
 w. H. Barrett, the land colonist who has been locating families in the Sulphur Spring valley for six months past, arrived in Florence Friday and 9ft last Saturday for Casa Grande He is looking for large tracts of gov land that can be reclaimed through the agency of pumping plants. He came from Mammoth down to Florence. He obtained options on and adjacent to the unc:ion of the Aravaipa and the San Pedro rivers, Mammoth and Dudleyville, md will probably locate a colony here. He also obtained options on and along the San Pedro and expects o do business there. He says there re thousands of we'll to do farmers in he states who desire to locate on lands n the valleys of Ariz7na. They are ', fred of the severe winter weather of