The border vidette., 1911-05-20
TERRITORIAL NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our
 Exchanges.

The total ore production of patented mines in Pima county for the year 1910 reached a final
 valuation of S791, ,371, according to statistics filed with County
 Assessor J. w. Began for pur-
 poses of the 1911 assessment I which is now being made.
 The Prescott chamber of con-
 merce is seeking the aid of the | women of the city to help boost. In a speech at the recent dinner
 of that organization the women
 of Prescott were urged to or ganize and help in a systematic boosting campaign which includ- eS home buying.
 Last week six wagon loads of refugees with their household goods camped at Thatcher on their way from Mormon colonies in Mexico to Utah. The Mex ican revolution and unsettled conditions had diSguSted them with colonization schemes and they were off to their old homes.
 Heartbroken because of the
 theft of a large collection of
 cactus canes and other trifieS of
 similar character which he had
 pen-knife in order that he might
 feel that he was not entirely
 dependant upon public charity.
 Montgomery JOice, aged eithty
 years. died yesterday at the county hospital at Tucson.
 Douglas will get one of the
 thirty postal savings banks to
 be established by the postmaster
 general on June l, according to
 adyices received here. Douglas
 was given the bank by reason of the large number of people employed at the smelters there.
 it being the policy of the post office department to place the
 banks at industrial centers. Bisbee Review.
 Thirty miles south of Yucca. on the road to Signal, Harry LeClair, while sinking a we'll, encountered goldon the bed rock, some of the nuggets being as large as wax bean, and much the same shape, says the Needles Eye. In a small space at the bottom of the well he took out about S35. He will drift from the bottom of the well to ascer- tain the extent of the digSings. Prescott Courier.
 Surveys have been completed, the right of way secured, and all preparations made for the construction of the railroad from Mesa to the Chandler ranch. Grading will commence at an early date. The railroad will be built and operated by the Ari- zona Ea stern as q branch of the Phoenix and Eastern division. The Chandler ranch consists of thousands acres of good land, and A. J. Chandler. the owner, broke all valley records for al falfa production two years ago by marketing over five thousand ton. n.-DemOcrat.
 The Old Dominion production for April was only d few thous- and pounds less than for the month, the output being 2,213, GOO pounds. Sup l G. H. Dowell stated | that it would be kept at this rate l the summer, as the 1 company had no intention of l production. It had ! been rumored that the company i would reduce its output because l of the low price of copper, but l the Old Dominion is making money even with copper at less than 12 cents, owing to the new mana agement.-The Daily Globe. l
 Prof. R. H. Forbes, director 1 of the agricultural experiment. i station of the the University of l Arizona. has made report con corning dry farming and irriga- tion during the last year, and of l plans forthe future of the Sulphur Springs valley. He says the work of the last two years has shown that fairly satisfactory crops can be grown by dry farming me thOdS and the same thing is true 1