The border vidette., 1912-01-27

LOT. UllS l)otSU COul)lc O1 IIlOIlUilS: this week closed deal will Bar nett Brothers of the Arizona Ranch, for 1000 heads of steers, and a bunch of cows, to be ship ped to the United States early in way. The Barnett cattle are among the best in northern So- nora. The price paid was not learned.
 The Sonora News Company will shortly establish branch in the city of Topic, Mexico. city, manager of the local branch and the branch stores in Sonora and Sinaloa, recently visited Topic for the purpose of getting acquainted with condi- tions'there. He expressed himself as greatly pleased with the city, the people and the climate, which is second to none in Mex ico.
 Colonel George Beebee, of Ell gin, after spending several days here on business, has gone east. Colonel Beebee is a sure enough LULU DOOIdC1, O1O lo lIolN great success locating settlers on government lands in the FL
 gin country. THE BORDER VI | DETTE has great confidence in the l future of that section of Santa Cruz county and is pleased to observe the splendid work being | done by Colonel Beebee, in in ducing good American citizens to locate there.
 Tuesday night the Common
 Council of >Nogales awarded the contract for installing the city
 water plant. Karns Brothers 1 of this city were the successful
 bidders, their bid being $50, 400, U. S. Cy. Yesterday the con
 tract was signed and the work
 of installing the big plant will
 at once begin, to the delight of everybody in Nogales- With
 the. installation of the water
 plant and the erection of the mammoth International Indus trial Exposition buildings, there'll
 be something going in the city 1 in the very near future.
 Manager Lee Reagan of the
 Yaqui River Consolidated Gold 6 Copper Company, is back from
 the mines in Sonora, a short
 distance from Imuris, station on the Sonora railway. He re-
 ports everything at the mines in
 splendid conditions under the personal direction of Superin tendent Joe Miller, one of the
 best practical men in the coun-
 try A first class wagon road is being built, at a nominal cost, and the work of installing the
 machinery, now at the station,
 will be pushed as rapidly as pos 1 sible, as soon at it can be hauled
 to the mine over the new road. l "Uncle Tom" Willis of Uncle
 Toms Paradise this county, is
 the original land booster of
 Santa Cruz county. Tom was the
 first to advertise the Elgin and
 Camille sections to the world
 and to him in large measure credit is due for the rush ot settlers to that section. It is
 said that up to date between eighty and ninety families have taken up homesteads out Elgir way, and each day more are arriving. Uncle Tom" has one of the best farms in the country
 He is thirtythree degree boost CT and deserves praise for splen- 5 did results already accomplish ed. Thursday night Uncle Ton l addressed the Nogales Boosters Club.
 tsRed Bill" Martin, of Salinas owner of one of the finest looking gold mines in Mexico is again having trouble with tht
 powers that be on the interna
 tional line, and Bill is beginning r to wonder whether after all tht l possession of bonanza gold ore l is worth while. The propert. owned by William is situated il l the Pinto mountains, fiftee1 5 miles from the railroad. Bill sen his mosos out with mules tC bring in samples to show mum f Der of would be- purchaser of th' : property. While Bill swears th'
 boys did not bring the whole , mine in, he has to admit the! crowded the limit a trife, anC , caused the officials here to doub the wisdom of allowing so m!ucl : precious metal to leave th'