The border vidette., 1912-09-28
NEWS FROM PATAGONIA.
esting Items Picked up by Our
 Correspondent.

of the Copper Queen mining | company arrived here on We'd 1 nesday. His visit at this time | will be in the interest of the | company.
 A. P. MacCallum, an ex- perienced mining engineer, has located here with an office at the Commercial hotel. He is sur veyor and will make reports and maps of mining properties.
 Father Duval of Nogales, has been here for the past four days and held regular service in the Catholic church. Services have been well attended and he will visit here regularly in the future.
 Clyde McPherson and Peter Bergier have been here this week circulating petitions to for the parole and pardon of F. Kellogg. Every one they asked signed the petition.
 Dr. A. w. Hardtmayer of Kan sas City, a surgeon of the United States army, has been visiting Patagonia for the past week. The Doctor is interested in some valuable mines near here and is preparing to work them.
 The option held by B. E. Bethell on the claims in the PatagoniaS, owned by Frank Cox and John Hurst, is about to be taken up. Parties who will purchase the property are due here and it is said that the deal will be prompt ly closed.
 Tom Turner, ex-sheriff of this county, spent Monday and Tues day here arrangeing a cattle deal. He bought up all the steers he could find and they will be shipped from Huachuca Siding on October 25th. H. l.. Johnson of Wilcox is the buyer.
 Judge M. Marsteller came up on Thursday, and accompanied by E. E. Bethe1l went out to see the mining property that he owns not far from the Worlds $ Fair group. The claims are in the big mineral belt of the Pa tagonia Range and will shortly be producers.
 E. E. Bethell, of the Wash ington Trading company, made a deal this week with Anton Proto for the Eureka and Athens mines that lay in close proximity to the Four Metals group in the Patagonia mining district. The consideration could not be learn ed, but it will be at least in five figures.
 S. P. Boucher, principal own CT of the Three l.. group of here to the Mowry returned from visit to Nogales on Thursday and went back to the mines. They are showing well, really better than he expected, and the deal for them will soon be closed.
 E. H. Evans who left on Mon day last for visit to California, said just before taking the train, When 1 get to California I will marshall up the Bull Moose forces, and before I come back to Arizona. I will bring a Moosette with me-" We will have the rice and old shoes ready when he gets here.
 Mayor William Powers went out Thursday to spend couple of days with his friends Hogan and McCutcheon who are work ing a mine in Josephine canyon They drove to the home of Josiah Bond at the Alto and then had to pack over the trial to the mine. The boys are said to have one of the best claims in Jose phine canyon.
 On Tuesday there arrived here a party of mining engineers and surveyors. They loaded up a four horse team with tripods, tent poles, trunks, provisions and other neccessaries of camp life and went out on the road to HarShaw. Later it was learned that they represented the Cop per Queen mining company and were going to the Worlds Fair