The border vidette., 1911-04-01
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CpIled From Our
 Exchanges.

people are well pleased with the appropriation of S9O,OQO for a
 bridge across the Colorado river, mence on it early this spring. The bridge will be 625 feet long and 60 feet above high water IT. marlz.-Coconino Sun.
 A new federal telegraph line will soon be strung between Can anea and NogaleS and Cananea and NacO. The wire and other equipment was distributed along the railroad between the differ ent towns during the past week. This will give the government two wires between these towns instead of one as at present. The Sonora News.
 At the recent meeting of the Cieneguita Mining Company at HermOSillO the affairs of the com pany which have been somewhat in tanele have been straight ened that active work will be commenced as soon as possible under the managent of John B. Parish, who succeeds Frank Beebee as manager. The prop erty of the company is in the Yaqui valley.
 The Reclamation expect to have between 500 and 600 men and 1CO animals at work on the Arizona dike above the Gila River by the end of this week. There is now more than 25O Indians working there now and nearly that many white men who will accompany the terms. There is now a greater force at work on the project than any previous time.-Yuma Sun.
 As a result of the recent meet ings of the Santa Cruz and Ril- ito valley farmers for the pur- pose of arriving at some satiS- factory method of marketing their produce in Tucson, the farmers have decided to make contracts with the grocerS in advance of each harvest season, so that each party to the con tract may agree on approximate ly the amount of such produce to be furnished and the price at which it is to be purchased.
 At Douglas Janitor Cook of the high school, is engaged in paying by installments fine of $50 imposed by the justice court on conviction of a charge of as sault and battery preferred by Principal Crowell of the high school. Cook, it is claimed, re primanded the principal for not keeping off the grass at the school, and incidentally turned the hose on him. A photogra- pher, named Hansen, who was with the pricipal also received a thorough soaking.
 The revised grazing regula- tiOnS, governing the use of the national forest ranges have been approved by the secretary of agriculture. They provide for the recognition of the permanent national advisory board repre- Senting the sheep and cattle in terests which will meet annually with the secretary of agriculture concerning grazing matters. They tabliSh a rule in the forests where the quality of the range advantages for raising cattle and sheep are equal. The year long rate for sheep after the season of 1911 will be thirty per cent of the year long rate for cattle.
 Everything in and about the Miami Copper company'S mine and mill at Globe, has been ready for operation since March II, when the ore bins were filled, the machinery of the cOncen- trator in motion, and every in teger of the plant complete with one exception. The S-inch casing used temporarily to carry water from the pumping plant at Burch to the cOncentratOr, two miles distant, was found inadequate to the strain. How ever. considerable water is being supplied and the plant is really in operation, some ore being handled, the first on the 18th instant. When the temporary casing shall have been replaced by the 14-inch pipe all of the units now erected gradually will be placed in operation, although until the arrival of the larger pipe only one unit will be ope