The border vidette., 1910-04-23


 through trains from Phoenix to Los Angeles, by the Parker cut off on the Arizona ,e California line. This will be the first effort to put Phoenix on a main line and the event should be stamped by the rousing approval of the citizens of this city and county.
 Arizona has the biggest dividend paying mines in the world, the hand somest and best women, the most intelligent citizenship. the most pro- ductive farming lands, the largest and most successful water storage dam, the best educational institutions, the smallest percentage of illiteracy. the richest mines. and better than all, above all combined it contains a loyal, law abiding. God loving population that stands for right and justice. This is a small picture of the territory that is asking ongress for permission to elect it's own officers and govern themselves Arizona Democrat.
 In gathering up the facts about conditions of live stock in southern Arizona we are pleased to say that there has been some very exaggerated reports published regarding losses. Talking with MT. w. Fiege of Drsgoon he states that in his travels over a large portion of the range of southern Arizona he has found cattle in fair condition, in fact better than he ex pected under the circumstances, that he is shipping several carloads and from his observation and what he has gathered from other cattlemen he says the newspapers have been unjust to the industry in publishing such mis- leading reports Stockman.
 Since gold was discovered in the Cherry Greek district early in the 70's, the future of that section of northern Arizona has never looked brighter. Deep mining is the watchword of the large operating concerns and the de- velopments of the last few months ustify the expenditure necessary to open the veins which are in most cases proving richer with every foot of depth. On nearly all of the prop erties which have been idle since the the period of depression in 1907, work has been resumed, the operating con- panies being financed for greater de- velopment than ever before. The of rich ore bodies in some of the properties is proving an in centive to others to open their holdings to greater depth Mining RevIew.
 The development work on the Super. for x Globe Copper Oompany's group of sixteen claims located five miles northeast of Globe is being confined to the drifts being driven east and west from the north crosscut on the 65O- foot level The drifeing is being con- tinued along fault of mineralized material and for distance of 300 feet the vein has proven to have an average width of about ten feet. The mineralized ground is between diabase walls and will be further explored by the drifts with a view to developing copper values. The wall rock, so far as explored, is solid diabase to the face of the north crosscut over 100 feet from the interestion of the fault. Crosscutting was discontinued last week to enable the management to has ten the work in the drifts. Silver Belt
 Confident that another United Verde mine will be developed in the United Verde extension Mining Com pany's ground at Jerome, John Gain, superintendent of the company, re- turned to the mine this morning after Sunday visit here with his family J. J. Fisher, consulting engineer of the company, who has been in charge of operations during tue absence of Superintendent Gain, telephoned the latter last night that the entire face ot the west drift from the crosscut co tbe 500 foot level IS now in ore and that no waste Is being taken from that part of the mine. Samples of ore uncover ed Saturday, wbich has been pro