The border vidette., 1911-08-19
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest Cuied From Our
 Exchanges.

on the morning O1 August Z.D- All books and other supplies are now on hand to transact the ne cesSary business.
 The Gro Blanco Mining com pany has paid l. $. Andrews his second payment on the bond the company recently took, and will in the near future begin eXten- sive development work.
 As far as learned Alr. Orth who owns a forty acre tract in section 34, at Glendale is the champion grower of cantalOupes, having picked two hundred and fifty-five crates per acre in spite of the damage done the crop by heavy rains.
 c. M. Scott superintendent of this division of the Arizona Eastern railway says that con structiOn on the branch line from Mesa to the tOwnsito of Chandler is progressing rapidly and that the first train will run over the completed line by Sept 1.- Wickenburg Miner.
 The Southwestern system is preparing to eXpend S3O7 eco additional on the line from Lewis Springs to Fairbanl1 which is to be relocated and reconstructed for distance of II miles, the grade reduced and an entirely new track with S5 pound steel laid in place of the 60 Opound rails now on that part of the line.
 Benson is rapidly taking on new life and that the town is rapidly filling up with railroad contractors and equipment for starting the work of extending. the Fl Paso & Southwestern from Fairbanks to Tucson. All the Benson hotels arc full and the local merchants are FeapingS a. harvest from the new industry which will keep things going in that vicinity for several months.
 Near Phoenix, says the Sun, Frank Cain was pouring cement out of d sack when a gust of wind blew his face full of the cement. A thimblefull of the cement almost instantly, because of precipitation, set over and upon his right eye, and it was found necessary to remove the eye and the cement at one and the same time.
 The record price for dairy cat tie in Arizona has been broken by C.. H. Autry, a rancher and partner in a dairy business near Tucson, who has just purchased IS head of COWS for S2O1G, mall- ing an average price of S12G per head. The COWS are thorough bred HOldSteinS and were bought in the Salt River valley by MT. Autry at a sale conducted by a valley farmer.
 About 23OO MeXicanS, declared to be the greater part of Madero'S $ soldiery in the late revolution, have been hired by the Southern Pacific and sent through Tucson from Fl PasO since the fall of Juarez, and they are still passing through the city at the rate of from 70 to 12O a day to California. They are secured for the South ern Pacific by the H l. Manning company of labor contractors.
 Conductor Cy Davis, who has the Benson LOrdSburg local run, reports that he saw eight ante lOpe along the track a short dis tancc this side of LOrdSburg Saturday morning last on his way to Benson. MT. Davis says that the antelope paid little at tention to the train, and could have been hit with q rock as the train passed them. We have heard of other instance of ante lope being seen lately. It will be unlawful to kill them until 1915.
 With the Phelps Dodge people forcing their development work on the Apache-Leatherwood mines, and the F'oran group com mencing operations on a large scale, the San Pedro river cOun- try is bound to attract a good deal of attention this fall and winter. Another group of gold and copper claims, known as the Soza Canyon group, the proper ty of the Arizona Grown Mines Co.,, in the immediate neighbor. hood of these two, will also start up, and the Massoletti mines soon to be equipped with a mill will add it's quota to the mining activity of the San Pedro river