The border vidette., 1911-09-30
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest Cuiled From Our
 Exchanges.

The Black Cattle Company
 sold their complete outfit las
 week to Attorney Frank Cox o1 Phoenix. It was one of the lar
 geSt sales of range stock anC ranches made this season. The
 price will run up close to $40,
 GOO, though no figures were given.
 The first annual Cochise coun
 ty poultry show will be held in
 Bisbee, October ,, 6 and 7. The
 poultry raisers of the county
 will, at this time, organize their County Poultry association. Rib
 bons will be given for first,
 second and third prizes for all
 varieties. Douglas Information al.
 Affairs in railroad circles around Tucson are looking up lately and are progressing better than they have all summer. For short time the railroad was to lay off some of it's trainmen on account of dull traffic condi tions, but this state of affairs is rapidly passing away, and ev- erything points to a good fall and winter.
 The work of making a six mile macadamized scenic roadway from the famous Hopi point to Hermit's Basin, running along the rimof the Grand Canyon, is progressing to a point where now. it's scenic possibilities may better be judged, and it holds forth great promise of still further enhancing the wOnderous views. to be obtained at this world famous chaSm.
 A horse belonging to J. J. Kohlberg, 85 Portland place was electrocuted Friday morning when it stepped upon a disused telephone wire in the rear of MT. Kolberg's residence. Guy Davidson who was driving the horse at the time, escaped with out so much as a shock, but the horse was killed the instant his Shod hOOf came in contact with the wire. Sun.
 One of the largest, if not the largest, mining, if not in the en- tire country, was indicated Tues day by the filing in the office of Charles Arnold, receiver of the Phoenix land office, of an appli cation for patents on 62 claims, copper and gold, in a single group in Yavapai county. The application was made by AttOr- ney J. J. Hawkins, attorney in fact for Arizona and Nevada Copper company. The holdings comprise HOO acres and the fees alone amount to S3, ,53O.- Prescott Journal Miner.
 It is said to be actually settled Refining Co.,, will own the smell ter at Hayden, Arizona, and therefore handle under contract the copper concentrates from the Ray Consolidated works in that 1 field. The transaction involves the taking over and completing after it's own ideas, of the smelt- ing plant that the Ray ConsOli- dated Mines Co.,, has been en- gagged in building until three months ago, when the work was suspended pending negotiations to the end described. The lar geSt patron of the proposed smelter will, of course, be the Ray Consolidated Co.,, but the plant will be a custom smelter. |
 One monster bunch of dates | furnished refreshments for many passengers of train No. 10 all | the way from Yuma to Tucson, and when the train reached the l city this morning, the bunch | still weighed 62 pounds. It l weighed-112 pounds when the | train left Yuma The mammoth | bunch of dates was secured there | by the train crew, and every | passenger who cared for dates | helped himself all the way to | Tucson. With dates selling at 16 cents per pound, it was estimated that the palm at the | Yuma experiment station of the | University of Arizona from which | this bunch came, will yield 1 about S2OO profit this season. -