The border vidette., 1910-12-03
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

Reports are in circulation at Whip
 pie Barracks that during the coming
 year. the construction of additional
 buildings will be authorized by the
 War Department, and that the head
 quarters of the 18th Infantry will be
 established tiere--Oourier.
 Frank Murdock reports having seen
 bunch of mountain sheep the last
 time that he came drought Fish Creek that were close enough to the hotel
 to be counted with the naked eye.
 Mountsin sheep are very rare but have
 been protected by . heavy penalty for nearly six years.-Globs Silver Belt.
 It is reported here that the Needles
 Mining and Smelling company is ne-
 gotiating for one of the largest prop critics in the county and that as sson as examination is made it will be taken over. The company is in shape to handle large tonnage of orc at it's mil. and ismelter and this will have to be met by big output from it's own properties until such time as the other base metal mines are in shipping shape. -Kinqman Miner.
 The Copper Queen company has stopped work ar the Maverick group and abandoned their camp there The cause of the shutdown is not known here. It pobably means the absndon- ment of the option and bond under which the Copper Queen people were prospecting the group. It is said that other parties, sometime since. an nouncsd that they would apply for . similar bond and option on the prop erty in case the Queen compsny should conclude to give up their bond and option.-Florence Blade Tribune.
 Invitations to tho hanging of Rafael Varela and Oesario Sanchez arc out. They will be excacuted at the Terri torisl prison on December 2ud. 1910. They were convicted of ths premedi- tated murder of an aged country man of theirs. residIng near Flagstaff Their victim had been working wi h them on a railroad section and they knew he had been saving his wages from month to month and carried the money on his person. l. wad proven at the trial that they had been deliberately preparing for the murder week before its con- mis.ion,-Florence Blade.
 William Stockton, whose death was reported e few days ago in Mexico, in connection with the revolution, was one of the beat known mining engi- neers in the west, He WAS located in Prescott for over 8 year, representing San Francisco operators and exported several mines in the Brsdshaws, as we'll az the great United Verde mine in the '80s. At the time oi hls mur- der, he was general manager of c large American mining enterprise near Ohivito, in the state of Ohihushua. He was about 60 years old. He leaves a wife and two sons, one of the latter being at his camp at the time he was killed Miner.
 The old Mammoth mill at Gold6eld. Pinal county, was started upon the 10th and on the l6th 8 partial cleanup of the plates was made and the anal gam retorted. The resulting bar of gold was valued ar $l392 This was not bad result for the first six days run of the mill A complete cleanup will be made on the 15th of next month and it is expected that large bar of gold bullion will result from the cleanup. as the mill was jast gotten into good working order st 'he end of the six days run. This mill is now crushing from 20 to 5 tons of ore per day. About 25 men are employed in operating the mill and mining the ore. The property. during it's first period of operation. produced several million dollars worth of gold bullion and there is no reason why it should not dupli- cate this record under Secretary Young's capable management.