The border vidette., 1911-05-06
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items Of Interest Cuiied From Our
 Exchanges

Exchanges
 The Benson Press says that on Wednesday last, the Bo- Quillas Land & Cattle company shipped 30 carloads of cattle from that point to the coInpany's s headquarters near Bakersfield. With 130 men on the pay roll, the Vulture mine is again one Of the important gold producing mines of notheru Arizona. The new 20-stamp mill is running day and night crushing 100 tons of ore every ? hours.
 G. N. Pattee, who is getting ready to run a threshing machine, has carefully inves 6igated the crops of the valley and estimates the barley crops will yield a total of 36, ,776 pounds of barley. That should bring some money into the valley.-Florence Blade. Mulford Winsor of Yuma Valley yesterday received from the secretary of the Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Scotland, a pedigree certificate of his recently purchased thor oughbred Ayrshire COW. The animal was born and bred at Kilmarnick, Scotland.
 Neal & Hysham of the Four Bar ranch are shipping train load of cattle from Douglas shipping pens. The cattle ar rived yesterday from the Four Bar range in the Sulphur Spring valley, east of Tombstone. They are going to Morecrot, Wyom- ing, where they will be placed on pasture.
 At Yuma the elevation is from 13O to 150 feet above sea level, the surrounding valley ranging in altitude from 90 to no feet above the level of the sea. The average elevation of the mesa lands is sevensy feet higher than the valley; while the granite hills at the site of the Laguna dam have an altitude of 100 feet.
 Troop B, First Cavalry arrived in Yuma yesterday morning from Nogales and together with Troop 1 which is expected to arrive this morning will guard the border in place of Troop A, which will leave tomorrow for the PreSidie- The officers of Troop B are Captain. F. A. Murphy, First Lieut.. Horace N. Munro and Secord Lieut.. Hugh H. Johnson. Sun.
 The Hartman lines show a remarka ble record for efficiency In the year 1910 they carried 10 per cent of the passenger traffic of the United States and are said to have not had a fatal accident. Hartman was a wonder. He never touched a piece of property that he did not improve it. The Hartman lines carried passengers 49,491, ,OOO miles last year and did not kill a man. A record the world can not beat.
 The shipment over the South eran Pacific from Phoenix to Los Angeles of a trainload of high grade cattle Tuesday, marks a new phase of the development of Phoenix and the Salt River val ley. The cattle came from the Heard Bartlett ranch and number 75O head They average 1O7O pounds each and the price re- received is 5 1-2 cents, making a total of about S4OOO. The cattle occupied 28 steel frame cars and constituted special freight train. n.-Democrat.
 Last Monday night Henry Lovin brought in from Gold Road bar of bullion weighing S17, 500, a mill run of eight days. The smallness of this bar is ac- counted for by the fact that there has been & lack of power at the mill that has reduced the capacity of the plant by at least sixty tons daily. The company has a contract with the power company for something over 7OO horse power, and the addition of several new machines at the mine has taxed this power be- yond limit. The new machines have to be operated, while the mill has been compelled to cut o,,f coroo 0f itS orrSbipO cara