The border vidette., 1909-05-15

visitor in the city Wednesday, being
 chaperoned around by Manager Kel-
 sey of the International Drug Store.
 Joe says he always had a great fond
 ness for monkeys, big or little, and
 when he returns to Los Angeles he IS
 going to organize company for the
 purpose of raising money with which
 to purchase Don Franklin's highly
 educated trick monkeys MT. Wilson
 believes his fortune is made if he can
 give his first monkey show in Los An
 geles during the Elks convention next
 July.
 MT. Fred Afford. the assayer and
 mining engineer, who for the past year
 has been at the great Cieneguita Cop
 per mines in Sonora, of winch George
 Beebee is president and general mana
 ger, is home to enjoy a we'll earned va- cation with his family. On account
 of shortage of water, work has been
 suspended at the copper camp, for the
 present. A railroad is being built to
 the mines, which are said to be among
 the biggest and best in Mexico. Dur
 ing the recent hard times, when most
 big companies curtailed expenses and
 many closed do VII, the Oieneguita com- pany continued. operations without a
 break. MT. Afford speaks well of the property and the management.
 Wednesday evening Manager l.. M. Raines of the Columbia Consolidated Mining Company. accompanied by the company's consulting engineer, Ber- nard Granville, of New York, and MT. Azel Ford, a wealthy Washin gton. D. O. lumber dealer, returned from an ex- tended trip over the timber lands in Sonora owned by the Columbia com- pany. Thursday morning Messrs. Ford and Granville left for the east, the former first .fgoing to Houston. Texas, to visit an old friend and busi- ness associate, the latter going via San Francisco. It is said the big company will shortly resume mining operations in the Pinto mountains, Sonora. The mines and mill have been idle for a couple of years.
 Megsrs R O. Wren and W. B Law son, two gentlemen from Deming, New Mexico, have been in the city several days for the purpose of arranging for B cow-b boy tournament to be given on the Fourth of July, on the.Sonora side of the international line, where they havH already secured suitable park around which they will build a high fence. The gentlemen sly they will give $11O0. gold in prizes for steer- tying. and a purse of $2OO for bronco busting. They will ask the citizens of Nogales and the railroad company to- % operate with them to the end that arge crowds of excursionists may be induced to come here on the glorious Fourth. from all points in Arizona and Sonora. A number of expert ropers and bronco busters from New Mexico will take part in the different contests.
 Last Saturday four carloads of new mining machinery for the Zlmbona mines at Minas Nuevas. Sonora, pass ed south, where all arrangements for ts installation have been completed 1nder the personal direction of Man ager Yaeger and Consulting Engineer Clarke. The management of the Zam- oona Development Company expects ,o have the big new cyanide plant and other needed machinery installed and n operation within the next six months. Richard Coleman, the rail- -oad contractor, is president of the company. in which many local people are interested, financially. It is ex- oected that soon after the new plant is in operation, stockholders will com mence to receive dividends. The Zam- bona mines are said to be worth many times the capitalization of the com- pany-S7OO.OOO.
 Lucky" Mark Lulley, of the Wan iering Jew mine, returned Wednesday night from a ten days visit at Pata- gonia and vicinity. where he was the guest of Colonel R. R. Richardson,