The border vidette., 1911-11-11
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our Exchanges.

| About 325 pictures of For
 Huachuca are to be taken in the
 near future, according to com
 munication received from Lieut.. | w. D. Geary. quartermaster,
 12th cavalry. The pictures are to be taken for war department
 uses. Two or three and possi-
 bly more pictures are to be taken
 of each of the 75 buildings.
 December 6 will be Arizona
 Day" at the United States Land
 and Irrigation Exposition in Chi
 cagO, according to letter re-
 ceived today by the chamber of
 commerce. The latter states
 that Governor Richard E. Sloan
 of Arizona has been invited and the chamber of commerce is asked to send delegates. Special
 exercises in honor of Arizona
 will be held in the, Coliseum on
 Arizona Day"
 The Southern Pacific will build
 on the high line through the
 Gila canyon, and the Casa Gran
 de valley will get the San Carlos
 reservoir. The new $. P. line
 will leave the present Arizona
 Eastern line, at Buttes, abou ut 16 miles east of this place, come on to Florence and thence to a con nection with the present S. P. main line at a point between Casa Grande and Maricopa. This will give the s. P. an air line from Butte to Yuma and save 51 miles on it's through traffic. Florence will be the pas senger division point between El Paso and Yuma and will have 9 division round house and re | pair shop. Florence Blade.
 Engineer l.. B. Hitchcock left to continue the survey of the Territorial highway from Tucson to Florence. The line runs in a; direct course from Tucson to Squaw Tanks on the mesa between the Black and Owl Head mountains and thence % Florence, over the mesa, in straight line. The survey corps first run the loca
 ion survey a given distance, hen go back and set the grade takes so that u e CO Struction rev, under Griffin & Pacheco, he contractors, can keep busy. t will take several weeks to omplete the location survey to { Florence under these conditions, f ut it is expected that the road ( Vill be completed into Florence I y the first of January, if not { Blade. (
 The dream of the pioneer, 7hen he first set foot in the un- kissed Verde Valley; the opes of all the Jeromites ex- ressed in the years past and { l resent, is now about to be real ed, for dirt has begun to fly on V ne construction of the new rail ! pad from Cedar Glade to Jerome. c 1any men and teams are being :: ut on daily, and within a short ' me about two hundred men will F e employed on the construction Il Ork. The Santa F'e bridge rev, stationed at Williams, was q q rdered to Cedar Glade this Il eek to commence work, and u everal camps, with large crews z E men, will be stationed for U' any miles along the route 2 he work will be rushed with 1T 1T l possible speed and the grade l ill be completed with in a year. V Jerome News. Arrivals in Prescott yesterday om Grown King bring the in e of the greatest strike ii ,er made in the Bradshaw 1T Ountains in the Nelson mine, ty hich is under the management a
 Geo. P. Harringt and con G derable excitement was pre- Sl liling, says the Journal Miner. d. n eight foot ore body, sampling u 5 in gold to the ton had been u etermined in the drift running al orth from the bottom of the 18O st ot shaft, which is the deepest pt pint reached. For 75 feet a H ,ntinuous ore body is develop G l, containing a heavy Sulphide w
 iron, and as drifting progress O1 $ the grade of the ore continues m
 improve. As the drift is being al m foot for foOtin depth is being u ached owing to the cantOur of B e mountain and which will not re ,coSSitate sinking the main D