The border vidette., 1912-01-20

him from the publishers this ; week he learned that he is mum
 Der six in the entire United
 States for the capital prize of
 S5OO.OO for selling the greatest
 number of Posts, contest ending April 27th, and number seven in
 the Shetland pony contest end
 ing with the last January issue.
 Everyone knows Stanley. We join all in wishing the bright, manly little chap success.
 Fred Afford, uperintendent for the Sonora Copper Company came up from Cobre Grande, the cOmpany's property near Noria, this morning to consult with President and General Manager A. M. Conard, who left this morning for Kansas City, where the main offices of the company ! are located. The big tramway recently installed connecting the mine with the shelter, according to Supt. Afford, is one of the best in the country. The date of blowing in the shelter, has not been announced.
 w. A. Kelso, of Denver, Colo rado, will take up homestead a short distance from this city, where he says he will plant big apple orchard. The gentleman is confident that the finest apples in the world can be raised here, and proposes to prove it by practical demonstration. We take pleasure in welcoming MT. Kelso to this section and wi sh money and plenty of American pluck. Dollars to doughnuts, he'll win. County Surveyor H. Gordon Glore will survey the new homestead.
 [ A carload of machinery for the Yaquf River Consolidated Gold & Copper Company is in the local yards on the way to the company'S splendid property in Sonora, near ImuriS, where l superintendent Joe Miller has force of men at working on the mine and wagon road over which the machinery will be hauled. A carload of lumber has been ordered and a bunch of fine | American horses and mules will leave for the mines tomorrow in charge of MT. James Reagan. In very short time there will be all sorts of things doing at the company's mines, to the great delight of the stockhold- CTS, a number of whom reside in this city.
 MT. Adolfo Elder, manager of the Nogales, Sonora branch of Banco de Sonora, has resigned Mr. Carlos Rivera, for a long time the efficient, accommodate ing cashier, has been promoted to the management. MT. c. 1 Mignardot, who for some time past has been acting cashier, has also been promoted to the position of cashier. Both gentle men are deservingly popular with patrons of the big banking ins- | titutiOn, one of most substantial in Mexico, and it is with pleasure we announce their well-earned promotion. The friends of MT. | Edler, the retiring manager, will regret to learn that he has been in very poor health for & | long time, and has been compel led to retire from active business life.
 Mir. A. A. Jacob, field man of | the U. $. Geological Survey for Arizona, with headquarters at Mesa, spent Thursday here in consultation with the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade, regarding the installation of a new automatic guage at the guaging station on the Santa Cruz River, near the home of Senator J. A. Harrison. This is the fifth year the station has been maintained under the di- rection of the Board of Trade, and it is hoped that the govern ment with the data already se- cured in the past and the invest igations now being made by MT. Jacob, will be convinced of the feasibility of the project and install dam for the impounding of waters. While here MT. Jacob was shown ever courtesy by President Bristol and Secretary Budge. Yesterday morning the gentleman left for Phoenix.