The border vidette., 1912-03-16


 i ty eight hour rain storm thai , visited this section the fOrepart of the week Ralph McCorllle the , Gala baSas farmer said: T am ] perfectly satisfied; never saw j anything like this storm since | came to the country. It was simply great and everybody in Iny section of the county is happy as a result.
 Last Thursday near Casal, Si- naloa, Mexico, bandits held up the regular passenger train on the Southern Pacific and after apprOpriating all the booze i and fire arms on the train per mitted it to proceed without harming anyone. The colored porter on the Pullman claims he donated, without protest, twenty one dollars and a pistol.
 Of the 100000 bags of garban- 20 produced on the west coast the past season, the state of Sonora produced probably 175, l eco bags. The weight of the standard bag is 1CO lilO- grams. or 22O pounds. As cars are loaded with from 13O to 400 sacks, this would make last years crop between TOO to 6CO cars. Shipments will begin to move about the middle of May. John E. Mcintyre, the mine manager, accompanied by Mrs. Mcintyre and the children re- turned the forepart of the week from TOnichi, in Sonora, where Mir. Mcintyre is in charge of a big operating mine. After spend ing few days here tranSacting company business Mr. Mcintyre will go back to the mine. Mrs. Mcintyre and the little ones will remain in Nogales where they have a pleasant home.
 Jack DavIs, the mining en- gineer, after spending a week in the city on business connected with the different mining com panies, for which he is consult ing engineer, departed yester day morning for California where he will enjoy a short visit with his wife and daughter. Mir Davis is well and favorab1y known in the state of Sonora where he has been actively en- gagged in mining many years.
 Geo. Gartling, of Los Angeles, California, president of the Float Gold Amalgamating Company, now actively operating near No- gales in Santa Cruz county, ar rived in the city Thursday night and yesterday accompanied Man ager Hartmann out to the pro- perty. Mir. Young, $ stOckhold CT in the-eompany, who resides in Los Angeles, came with Pre- sident. Gartling. The gentlemen expect to remain here indefi- nitely.
 Mir. Moore, owner of mineral lands in the Magdalena district, Sonora, Mexico, has been a busi- ness visitor in the city a couple of days this week from Mazda lena, where he makes his head quarters. Mir. Moore reports; his section of the state quiet and free from Mexican bandits and revolutionists. The gentleman has great faith in the Mazda lena mining district and believes he will yet make a big fortune there.
 Major Charles Hine, vice pre- sident of the Randolph lines, who accompanied President Ran dolph over the Mexican lines this week emphatically denies the reports circulated that a number of Southern Pacific off cials stationed in Mexico, were leaving their posts in that cOun- try. All trains on the Mexican system are moving normally, and all officials from the pre- sident down are attending to their duties as usual.
 The United States government now prohibits the shipment of arms from the United States into any state on the American con tinent where there is disorder. ! The new law is made immediate 1 ly applicable to the Mexican si- | tuation, and will aid in bringing peace to that turbulent country, l sections of which is now over run with bandits. Viola tiOn of | the neutrality laws becomes a and punishable by | a fine of $1O.OOO and imprison ment for two years or both.
 E. B. Holt, manager of the | Arizona Sonora Mines Company, |
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