The border vidette., 1911-06-03
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of interest CuIied From Our
 Exchanges.

i Reports from the Phoenix of l fice of the Southern Pacific in.
 dicate that travel to California
 is very heavy, and the trains ore leaving every day with full coaches.
 A party of California farmers who understand irrigation by
 means of pumping plants, have
 taken up 4,OOO acres of land
 situated about six miles south of
 Casa Grande, and arrived there
 this week, with carloads of
 horses, household effects, farm
 ing and pumping machinery and commenced business. They will
 soon make their lands fruitful and build for themselves com forta ble homes.
 The Warrior Development com pany continues it's regular ship ments, averaging for several months past more than one hun dred tons of 91-2 per cent ore daily. The steady shipment of Warrior ore has become prover bial. The regular routine of it's operation has rendered news of it's progress uninteresting It is one of the three present pro ducers of the Miami Cor eastern) side of the Globe mining district. Significant in that it is believ- ed to be an aftermatch of the Prescott incident in which two United States army officers were refused admission to skating rink because of the uniforms which they wore, the order de tailing Captain B. o. c. Ord, U. $. A. retired, as instructor of the Arizona National Guard, has been revoked by action of the war department. The revoca- ton of the detail order was made at the request of Captain Ord. Right of way Agent c. D. Reppy, of the Arizona Eastern, left for Mesa again Monday to obtain the last mile of right-of- way for the spur from Mesa to Chandler. The spur will run due south from Mesa to the Pi- nal county line, west of Sacaton, through the Chandler Ferry Murphy tract, 1S,COO acres of which is now under cultivation, being irrigated mostly by pump. ing plants installed by the gov ernment under the Roosevelt canal system.
 Yesterday the cattlemen of the Blackberry country sent out d trainlOad- of cattle consisting of 14OO head. Today another like shipment is to be made, while on the fourth of June about two train loads are to be sent to market. The entire shipments will cover about 5000 head of cattle and will bring to the cat tie owners S1OO,COO. This is the largest shipment of cattle made from this county in years and is an indication of the growing in dustry in the east end of the county. Kingman Miner.
 Territorial Auditor George Mauk went over the proposed route of the Territorial road be- tween Bisbee and Tombstone. It is said that MT. Mauk was much pleased with the route up Tombstone canyon from Douglas and that he will at least recon mend that the road continue through Bisbee and on to Tomb stone, but at the same time it is understood that MT. Mauk is not impressed with the idea of talk ing the road to either Benson or St. David. Just what will be the final route remains to be seen.
 The territorial fair commission met last Friday and Saturday to organize for the year, and elect officers. Hugh E. Campbell, of Flagstaff, was elected president. w. C. Foster, treasurer to sue ceed Al Moore, Shirley Christy, secretary. E. R. Purdle was elected member of the com mission. It has been arranged to open offices for the commission in the basement of the Phoenix National Bank building, and it is expected that they will be ready for occupancy by June l. Little was done at the last weeks meeting except organize, but important matters relative to the yearly fair will be considered during this week, when the com