The border vidette., 1911-06-10
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

That the Southern Pacific
 mechanical department is now
 employing 233 men in Tucson,
 l63 in the shops and seventy is
 the statement in the monthly
 bulletin of the chamber of com
 merce compiled by H. V. Tailor,
 secretary.
 Use of post cards for dunning
 purposes is prohibited by a re
 cent order received at the local
 postof4ice, which declares that
 offensive importunate printed or
 written communications shall
 not be permitted to pass though the mails.
 T he Double Circle Ranch and cattle, known as the Joe Hamp- ton ranch in Northern Greenlee county, has been sold to the Drum Commercial company of Kansas City, the consideration being S33O, eco. The transfer was made last week.
 At Mesa, says the Free Press, a Gila Monster and gopher were matched to fight and rush ed together each sinking it's teeth into the other. Simultane- ously they broke away, the gopher fell back and died in two minutes, evidently from poison.
 The Arizona Blade Tribune states that the farmers of the Casa Grande valley who are cultivating grain are harvesting from 50 to 70 bushels of barley and from 40 to 90 bushels of wheat to the acre this year, these figures being based on already harvested.
 Professor Robert T. Hill, a well known mineralOgist, has that he has discover ed in the mud volcanoes at the mouth of the Colorado indica- tiOns of gigantic Subteranean lake of oil in that vicinity will become one of the . greatest oil sections of the continent.
 On their way to Washington, where they have been summon ed by the department of Indian four fullblOoded Apache Indians from Fort Mcdowell passed through Benson yester- day. The members of the party were Yuma Frank, Tom Serama, George DigginS and Charley Diggins. s.-PreSs.
 Ben Goodrich of Tombstone, one of the pioneer lawyers of Arizona and on of it's best men, arrived in Phoenix yesterday on business before the court. MT. | Goodrich would easily be Ari- zOna's first state governor if he would accept the position, and a better man for the position could | lot be found in Arizona. .-Phoe- lix Democrat.
 There is to be no curtailment l of output at the Old Dominion nine, according to Superinten- lent c. H. DOwell, superinten- lent of the mine. The April production was 2,215, GOO pounds ! ,f copper, a little less than was in the two proceeding | but the production for | May will be larger than for the l ,wo proceeding months.
 A contract for the erection md equipment of the Arizona smelling and Min ng Company's Shelter three niles southwest of Tucson has oeen let to the Colorado Iron Company of Denver for approxi- nately S1OO,OCO, according to ,. c. Thornton of the Mine and Shelter Supply Company of New York and Denver. Citizen.
 The Yuma Valley Produce tore have had on sale for the past two days the first water melons of the season. They are lot very large, but are of the nome grown luscious variety and r Lre good to look at and better to he taste. A small melon has 6 yalue of 75 cents and S1 each md at this price these melons nave been taken as fast as put ,n sale. No better water melons tre grown in the world than the Yuma Valley melons and the O6aI dom an1S f01. fha1n iS. I,a,.1- 1