The border vidette., 1910-03-26
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CulIed From Our Ex-
 changes.

changes.
 The output of the Shannon Copper Go. (Arlzona) for February amounted to .5c6 900 pounds of fine copper. an increase of l2,O0O pounds over Jan uary.
 Ramon Corral. vice. president of Mexico, has been invited and will probably attend the celebration of the opening of the Tucson and West Coast of Mexico railroad May 5.
 The output of the Old Dominion Mining Go. (Arizona) for February amounted to O35. 900 pounds, cop per, a decrease of 99. 900 pounds, com- pared with the corresponding mouth of last year.
 The Calumet It Arizona Mining Go. has declared a quarterly dividend of $l per share. The dividend calls for s2OO 900. making the total payments to stockholders to date $55 50 per share, or 100000.
 After considerable friction between himself and the school board, Profes- sor A. H. Mcclure has resigned his position as superintendent of the Yuma public schools and declines to accept reappointment for next year.
 Mort Wien returned from a trip to the Merrill gold strike north of Oo cnise and about 26 miles east of Ben son, this week. He was down in the forty foot shaft, and stated that every side of the shaft the entire distance from top to bottom was ore from which good return of gold could be banned. Press.
 Ed Williams is at hls wolfram mines, in the Aquarius range, and will soon have shipment of the metal on the way to market. There is a large and gro owing demand for tungsten and the mines of the county should soon be getting the benefit of the nigh prices now obtaining in the market.-King- man Miner.
 On the 10th inst. Minister Liman- tour of Mexico, issued a decree pro viding for the suspension of the duty on corn until September 30. The de cree of October s. 1909, provided for the suspension of the duty until March 3 1 of this year. The scarcity Of do- mestic corn is such that an extension of the time named in the first decree was found to oe necessary.
 Ray Consolidated (Ariz ona) is about to increase it's working force and put the mine in condition to supply ore for it's new concentrator, which is expect ed to go into commission by the end of the year. The concentrator now being built will have a capacity to treat 5000 tons of ore daily, and it is quite possible that it may be enlarged to 10000 tons daily capacity within a year or two.
 As a result of the purchase of the South western Telegraph and Telephone company by the Tri- State Telephone and Telegraph company in Ell Paso on March 10, Tucson is promised long distance connections with the prin cipa cities of New Mexico and Colorado Vice president Philip Hamlin, who i; in Fl Paso has announced there that long distance lines will be built iron Fl Paso to Phoenix. Douglas, Globe BIsbee, and Tucson in Arizona anC later to the Pacific coast.
 It has been decided by the hous commi. tes on post office and post road to include in the appropriation bill u be reported a provision prohibiting tn post office department from furnish. ing stamped envelopes containing tn names and addresses of the bushes houses to which they are supplied These envelopes were especially il favor with banking firms. For number of years various printers unions throughout the country hav baen protesting against the post offio department invasion of the printin , field. Senator Knute Nelson of Min. nesota presented bill in the senat few months ago prohibiting the gov