The border vidette., 1910-03-12

Yequi river and Sierra Madre country in Sonora. The took sufficient equip ment to remain away at least a ear.
 The famous King of Arizona, one of the g eatest gold producers of the ter ritory for the past 13 years, was closed down last week on account of the ex- cessive cost of operation during the past few years It is believed that it will be opened again with modern ized plant and electric instead of steam powsr.
 The van guard of progress and the last work of industrial enterprise-the taxicab-has reached Phoenix As far as known it is the first taxicab in the the territory of Arizona. It reached Phoenix Saturday morning. nsigned to the Pratt Gilbert company. who in turn consigned it to N. J. Walker, proprietor of the Club stables.-R Re- publican.
 Testing his new placer mining ma chine, Worth Ry bon extracted gold worth $l 10 from forty two pounds of sand and clay from the placer prop critics recently located by Ed. Shumste and Herman Voge in the Qnartzite district of Yuma county, proving be- yond doubt that the mines are very rich and that the new machine will prove A success Courier.
 Officers of Oochise county are mak ing determined effort to put stop to the wholesale stealing of cattle and horses that has been going on for many months in the Sulphur Springs valley. Already there are eli ht parties in cus- tody awaiting the action of the grand jury on charges of grand larceny for alleged cattle stealing, and evidence is being collected in a number of other cases.
 The beginning of active work at the M aid of Sunshine mIne, will give to Oourtland 5 working shafts again. and the ore bodies that were in sight one year back are as yet practically un- touched, as it has been but little more than three weeks since work was be- gun taking out the ore at the Mary while at the Germania the shipments of the ore that was in the mine one year back was begun since the last issue of this paper Saturday, the 26 - Arizonan.
 Messrs. Brown, Perham and Oarmi natti struck ore. Tuesday. in the tun- nel they are running on their newly discovered gold property. that "pans" heavy. coarse gold in surprising quan- tity. The gold seems to be heavily alloyed with silver. The claim is sit uated only about four miles east of Florence on the desert, and if it should prove to be as large a property as it now appears to be Florence will be come great gold producing camp Arizona Blade.
 The Old Dominion smelter output for the month of February was about 1000, ,OO0 pounds of copper, which is slightly less than that for the pre- ceeding months. This was the pro- duct from a daily production of about 675 tons of ore, smelted by two fur n4ces. Only a small portion of custom ore is b-ing included in the smelter shipments. The mine is being devel- oped at most of the levels below the forth, but principally at those below the tenth. At the sixteenth, sulphide ore forms a part of the daily smelter supply, but ths fourteenth and if teenth levels furnish the bulk of the ore shipments. The pumps are raising about 3;OO0,O00 gallons of water daily from the various levels of the mines. Silver Belt.
 Reli able information from the Great Republic mine is that body of sul- phide ore of good copper and gold values has been exposed in the cross cut from the 300 foot station of the main shaft. The ore as far as exposed shows an average of thickness of twen- ty feet. The management has discon. tinued work in the crosscut and re- sumed sinking the shaft, which will be pushed to the I5O foot level before any