The border vidette., 1913-06-21


 Consolidated at Ray is in the neighborhood of $6, 100000 per annum, yet this is a fact.
 If ever a town had the base
 ball fever, San Simon is that
 town The small boys, the big boys, and the men,-all are
 practising daily in (and out of) spare time. If the Fourth of
 July doesn't come too soon Bowie is doomed. = -Artesian Belt.
 The state land commission re-
 gently filed on 125.OOO acres. Most of the land lies in Pinal
 county, but some is in Gila. This is the largest single filing
 that the commission has ever
 made The previous record was
 1O3. .OCO acres. The commission
 will file on about 5O,OCO more,
 making 173, ,OOO.
 The Miami Copper company is
 now operating on the former
 generous scale and hoisting 5000
 tons of ore daily. The condition
 of the property is satisfactory,
 work in every department is
 progressing and the mill is mak-
 ing a large saving in the con
 centrates which are being ship
 ped to Cananea.-T Record
 The factory of the Arizona
 Portland Cement company is now turning out 25O barrels of cement each day. It's capacity is 800 barrels, but only one fur mace is running. Thirty men are employed and the force is to
 be increased to 50. This plant is the only cement mill in Ari- zona. Lime for the cement is brought from Winkleman and the clay from some beds four miles west of Phoenix on the Buckeye railroad.
 Congratulations are due to the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, the hustling little city ot Douglas. and the state of Arizona as a whole because of tie bIowing-in of the new Gal umet shelter at Douglas the other day The new Smelter is declared by experts to be one of the largest and finest in the southwest. It is a tribute to the energy and the engineering ab- ility of Capt John c. Greenway, general manager of the Calumet and Arizona.
 The Tidings says that Secre- tary Gray of the Commercial club has finished the work of ascertaining the number of men in and about the Cop per Queen, c 6 A and Shatouck mines of the Warren district. The total number is only few less than 700. These do not include any of the office men. MT. Gray estimated that enough l men are working on leases to bring the total figures for War ren district up to 4,9OO. No wonder that this is a prosperous community.
 From Tucson, Arizona comes 1 the news that a party of New | York newspaper and railroad | men arrived at San Simon on a recent day to establish homes on Arizona farms. No super stition can feaze the Great | Southwest. This party num- bered twenty three and they | filed thirteen claims on the day | of their arrival. The "skidoo" and the "hoodoo" were both | without malign power, and these scribes and traffic men will for ever bless the day they cast | their lot in the Great Southwest | Los Angeles Times.
 During the months of May | and June more cattle sales were l made in Arizona than ;n any period of stockraising. ESti- | mates as high as 15O,OOO are 1 made as the number sold and 1 shipped or to be shipped out, 1 but more conservative amount | will be about 90, ,OCO head Every l cattle man who had few steers l has sold them and the buyers are eager for more. The price | has been the great incentive. When yearling steers bring from | 22 to 32 dollars each it makes 1 our raisers get busy with the | buyers. All over Arizona small | and large sales are being made and shipments are going on from every place that stock can be loaded on the cars. Surely our 1,a n rpS aTp not nuQrStOolxQ6 now