The border vidette., 1912-06-29
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of interest Cuiled From Our
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 the contract for the laying of an eight and one half inch pipe line from Garden Canyon to Fort Huachuaca, distance of 8 miles.
 Just what treatment shall be applied to the zinc, silver and lead ores of the Powmott mine in Gro Blanco district. is the question now up to Wm. McDer- mott and l.. w. Powell. for solu- tiOn. Col. Powell is now on the coast seeking information which may lead him to this result.
 A brakeman on the train run ing between Phoenix and Mesa. owns three claims of 16O acres each on the Verde. They are scanned with great lodges of gypsum, which occures in a sandstone formation. Practically all the gypsum is of high qual- ity and would make excellent plaster.
 Between 40 and 90 families have left Tucson within the last month for the cool heights of the Catalinas, according to H. King, of HayhurSt and King. The season at Oracle has begun and 20 families are there enjoy ing the cool breezes that sweep down from the majestic peaks of the Catalina range.
 Plans will be made immediate ly for the rebuilding of the business district of Ray which was destroyed by fire Sunday night and the big mining camp will be larger and more subs tantiaIthen ever, in the opinion of c. NJ. Scott, superintendent Arizona Eastern lines.
 That eastern investors have taken an option on the Agua Coliente ranch 16 miles from Tucson, near the east end of the Catalina range with intention of building up,a big winter resort, is a report received in Tucson. The ranch comprises about POO acres much of which is in culti vatiOn and has two hot springs.
 It is stated that the Austerlitz mine, in the Gro Rlanco district, is rapidly making a fortune for it's owners. The latest develop ment in connection with this propertyS which is being oper- ated by Woodwork and Lane, is said to have been the dis covery of new lode of gold ore running S2O to the ton. It is said to be practically inexhaus- table.
 Not withstanding the failure of the legislature to pass bill providing the state pay for the National Guards men taking part in the encampment this summer, the encampment will be held, if plans now being made by the various companies of the regiment naterialize. The in tentiOn now is to hold the en- campment at Fort Huachuca early in August.
 J. l.. Lee, prominent business man and rancher of Yuma, will leave this week for trip around the world. He will go from Yu- ma to Los Angeles, where he will take passage for Nome, Alaska. From there he will go to Honolulo. His next stop will be Nagasaki, Japan. He will visit the Philippine Islands and make a slow tour from there through all points of interest in Egypt and the Holy Land return ing home by Berlin, Paris and London. He expects to be gone six months or more.
 A couple of travelling men from the north. late arrivals in town, said that they had heard that Gus Heyman had just died at the Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles. His friends were great ly alarmed for it was known that MT. Heyman had been ill for 8 long time having been Saized Se- veral weeks ago at Ell Paso. Ed Doyle, on hearing the report of Mir. Heyman's death, telegraph ed to the Hollenbeck and receiv- ed a reply from manager John $. Mitchell, who said that Mir. Heyman was the Hvest corpse in Los Angeles. He was not only not dead but his health was