The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1910-07-09
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest Culled From Our Ex-
changes.

Its 5,OOO ton coDcentrator at Hayde
in operation by the lst day Of next
January. The uhi's placed In opera :
of ore per day.
E j. Hands, who is with the Oniri :
cahua forest telephone gang, was in
town from the summit of the mountain
wednesday. He reports two days of
good, soaking rain there, just as there
was here. Much of the time one day
when it appeared to be raining on the
top of the mountain there was only
a mist, he said Paradise Record
At Amarillo, Texas, where water
is scarce, they raise grapes success
fully, by plo~ing aud scraping out
trenches fully three feet deep. throw
in alternate lay ers of mesquite brush
aud soil, until filled within about six
nches of the surface. In planting, a
small quantity of bone dust is placed
where the roots of each plant will
reach it.
1t is now expected that the new
county hospital and poor farm build
ings, now under construction a short
distsn nee northwest of Douglas, will be
completed and ready for occupancy
not later than August first. The
walls are complete and the roofing
work is finisbed. The plastering and
finishing work is now being pushed
for ward international
The cattle on the sage brush range
surronduing the Halfway house, bet
ween here and CASA Grande, are
standing the drought far better than
those on the grass ranges. There is
now no doubt that the sage brush
ranges are the best cattle ranges
during drought periods if the cattle
men using them give their stock all
the good water they can drink Blade
Charlie Sims and John McLoue him,
of the o vi Head district, were county
seat visitors this week. They return
ed recently from. a bear hunt in the
Rocky Mountains of New Mexico and
brought back with them the pelts of
two fine silver tip bears, which Mr..
Mclaughlin is having tanned and
m ade up into rugs. They also bagged
all the deer they could dispose of and
had a royal good outing Florence
Blade.
The Independent grocery store in
Phoenix was entered by burglar last
week. He was a hungry burglar and
he ate two cans of oysters. two boxes
of crackers, one watermelon and one
cantaloupe. This was washed down
with seven bottles of soda pop, while
for dessert he had one whole Jar of
jelly. He opened another, but by that
time his originally keen edged appe-
tite was blunted and that Jar was not
consumed.
Announcement is made by Attor-
ney E. E. Ellin wood of Bisbee that
John NJ. Ross, now of the la W 6rm
of Norris, Ross dc Smith of Prescott,
Arizona, is to remove to Bisbee. where
beginning August lst, he will be as
sociated with him in the practice of
law under the firm of Ellinwood Il
Ross. The new firm will act as gen.
eral attorneys for the Phelps Dodge
& Go. interests in the territory and
will also engage in general civil prac-
tice.
A. A. Meyers. an engineener sent by
the Dutch government from the Island
of Java to investigate the irrigation
systems of the world. is in Yuma to
visit the great Lagune dasa and inves.
igate irrigation conditions. " bile in
Phoenix he visited the great Roosevelt
dam, which be says: SIS the biggest
thing that have ever seen SO far. 1t
is too big for present conditions in
Java. In the lesser details of irriga-
tion work L think Java is ahead of
the United States, for Java has been
irrigating for fifty years. But in the
magnitude of the enterprises you far
excel u.s."