The border vidette., 1909-07-10
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex-
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 player of Arizona. Wednesday night at the pastime pool room in Phoenix. Graham won the fourth game ot the series he has been playing with Jack Meldrum, the score being 100 to 40 Meldrum was simply not in Graham's class and never had a look in-Demo- crat.
 Only S91 in bounties have been paid out by the board of supervisors this month. as against S263 50 for the same month last year. The fact that bounty on number of animals is prob. ably responsible for the slump As money paid out in this manner is all most dead loss to the county. the saving is a material one Silver Belt.
 A painting of the San XavIer mis- sion done by an old Spanish artist of much reputation. Gregorio OAras, painting that has been handed down from generation to generation, has just come into the possession of Henry | Anays, a citizen of Tucson. The painting is in perfect preservation, and is considered of considerable worth, both because of the artist who painted it and it's wonderful representation of the old mission.
 In the future the forest service will endeaver to obtain complete reports as to the causes of all losses. of live stock upon the national forests. For est rangers and guards in the Santa Rita and Catalina reserve have been instructed to keep a strict account of all live stock found dead in their dIs- tricts. reporting to the forester at the end of each month the number found and listing the causes of each death as far as possible under one of four heads accident, disease. poison, and wild animals.
 Out in the Silver Bell district the Imperial Copper Company, is shipping between 720 and 750 tons of ore to the Southern Arizona Smelling Company at Sasco, daily. The smelting compa- ny will soor commence the erection of two more units or st acks of $50 tons capacity daily, each. It is calculated to have one stack to run on custom ore. The many new developments in the district and surrounding camps warrant the belief that enough ore can be furnished to keep it busy all he,time.-Miner.
 The Helyetia copper property, which is having about sixty tons of ore per day hauled to Vail, and shipped through Benson to the Globe smelter. has. according to the Boston Com mercial, about one million tons of commercial ore, which, with a railroad and smelter, would yield net profit of S5 per ton. "There is every reason to believe" says the Commercial. "that these ore deposi's go to depth. and that millions more tons of good ore exist in the property"
 The Utah San Juan Exploration company, operating placer mines on the San Juan river in northwestern New Mexico. has established an auto mobile line to Gallup 200 miles long. and miners now outfit at that town for the northwe field. It is said be- sides placer gold, oil has been struck in San Juan county near the river and some 20 wells have been sunk, all proving producers. Since the build ing of road from G allup many invest ors are making the trip to the placer field -Raton Reporter.
 Utah has five dividend payers on record for this month. The Utah Cop per heads the list with a quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share, amount ing to $362. 975. the Silver King Coali. tion comss next with quarterly div ieend of 30 cents. or $1S7, 300; Colo rado and Iron Blossom, with monthly distributions of cents, or $SO.OO0 each, and Sioux Consolidated with $54,OO0 This brings the amount de- clared Ly Utah mines this month up to S764. 475. over three quarters of a milIion.--Salt Lake Mining Review.