The border vidette., 1911-04-22
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

A rCmOr mas been current Tn Phoenix several days that the Fl PaSo and Southwestern officials have fixed upon S1CO,CCO as the bonus they will ask that city to raise before they guarantee to extend their system to that point. They required Tucson to raise S73, eco for terminals.
 While in Flagstaff on Friday of last week, Marshal c. $. Pat terson was advised that the Me Million house in that town had been burglarized. Two diamond earrings, a stick pin made from a S2.5O gold piece, a valise full of clothing and a pocket book containing a small sum of money were the articles stolen-Wil- Hams News.
 NIessrs. J. W. Barnett and Geo. Smith have ordered a new self binder to cut their crops and also to do custom work. There will be double the amount of grain to cut in the valley this year that there was last year, owing to the acreage under the Farmers ditch. MT. Smith went to Phoenix Tuesday and selected the machine. It is a siXfoOt Mccormick of the latest pattern. Arizona Blade.
 It goes without saying that Col. H. l.. Pickett, having been first to demand that the selection of the candidates for United States senator should be by vote of the people, will be the first to submit his claims for consideration We imagine that Col. Pickett will make cam paign that will jar many of the peaks to be found in our rock ribbed mountains. We advise other senatorial aSpirants to keep their eyes on Col. Pickett. Douglas International.
 r A recent test of the capacity of the Miami mill was Surprising in it's results, in that it showed that 733 tons had been run through the unit used for the purpose, and demonstrated that each unit of the mill will be able to handle 7CO tons daily or twice the amount originally estimated as the capacity of the mill, or 4,COO tons for the six units. Two cars of concentrates, averaging 50 tons per car, were shipped to the Cananea Smelter April II, and another car of 50 tons was sent out April 12.-Silver Belt.
 To handle the Associated Press and special correspondence at Douglas during the fighting about Agua Prieta, the Western Union has brought to Tucson three extra operators who are divided between the day and night shifts as the need arises. With this force many thousands of words of press matter are being sent through the local telegraph offices every 24 hours. A duplex wire and full equip ment and a number of extla q operators have been sent to Douglas to put the correspond ents' copy on the wires.
 Some months ago mention was made of the application of the Arizona Nevada Copper Co, filed with the surveyor general, for the patenting of group of claims situated in the Eureka mining district in 1avapai county Arizona. There are sixty-twO claims in the group and attention was called to the fact that it was the largest group which a patent had ever been applied for in this territory if not in the entire country. It is now announced by the surveyor general that the survey of the group has been completed and approved.
 Supervisor ". E, Marvin, Max Cuzczka and A.>B. Ming will leave at an early hour this morn ing for the Big Eye mining district. Mir. Marvin and MT Cuzczka will push the develop ment on their new claims on the extension of the Big Eye ledge and will be out in the hills for some time Mir. Ming will take care of the development of the water in the Thumb Butte well from which most of the water in the Big Eye district must come for the next two or three months. There iS plenty of water in the