The border vidette., 1913-06-07

SucceSSul mine owner of the PatagOniaS, is a business visitor
 in the city, a guest at the Mont
 ezuma hotel. Besides owning
 other meritoriOus mining prop
 erty in Santa Cruz county, Mir. | Cunningham is interested in the
 Irish Corner, where Pete Me i Intyre and John RrickWOOd, Jr.
 of Nogales nave good claims.
 j. Wells Smith, the Los An i geles mining man, who is one of i the stockholders in the Havale-
 na Mining Company, being asso- ciatcd with James A. Murray, the Butte. Montana millionaire, was an arrival at the MOntezUma
 Tuesday from the coast. He
 went out to the Havalena We'd nesdaY to visit several days with Mine Superintendent Jack Campbell.
 Dr. J. C. Underwood, manager
 of q splendid producing mine
 out in the Santa Cruz district,
 a short distance from the Mo- gales Cananea railway, was in the city couple of days this week purchasing mine and camp supplies. Three carloads of ore shipped recently from Parades station, brought the bacon home, according to Dr.. Underwood, who by the way, is mining
 man Of many years experience both in the United States and
 Mexico. His friends will be
 pleased to learn that he has secured a mine that pays from
 the grass roots.
 President Bishop of the Man
 haitian Development Company, owners of Del Pillar mines, for
 merly owned by Mr. E. R. Ar mold, eY-mayor of Cananea, from whom MT. Bishop is said to have
 purchased the property, was @
 business visitor in the city sev- eral days, transacting business. The gentleman's company also has bond on big group of copper claims situated near Mo- gales owned by George D. Gross of this city, on. which some de-
 velopment work was recently done by Mr. Gross. The Pillar mines are valuable and have paid good from the grass roots Ore is now being shipped by the new owners to Cananea.
 Passengers arriving from the south bring little information re- garding conditions south of Her mOSillO. The state authorities as well as the federals refuse to talk of present or future plans, and H. J. Temple, general sup erin tedent of the Southern Pa cific, with headquarters at Elm palme, has the lid on tight. As the song goes, You may look, and you may listen; but mum's the word" in Sonora. State troops are said to have retreated to Moreno, a short distance north of Ortiz, to which place water trains run every day or so from HermosillO. The exact position of the federals under General Ojedo, is not known here, bat are supposed to be close to Obregon's outposts.
 News from Washington, that an adverse decision had been ienQSGed dSdI1SU DIle SeUUlSTS on the Baca Float, in Santa Cruz county, was a great disappoint- ment to several hundred hard working citizens, many of whom have lived on the Baca Float a quarter of a century, believing they had a perfect right there. However, the fight is not lost yet, as the Baca Float claimants will have to lock legal horns with our Uncle Sam, before the settlers are ordered to move" The sO-called Float is one the best sections of Santa Cruz county. When title to the valu- able land is finally settled, it will be source of great revenue to the county. So long as the title to the property is in doubt, no taxes are paid. Here's hop ing for an early settlement-in favor of the settlers.
 This week Ed. Lanier, who for seven years has owned and managed The Palace saloon in this city, sold the busi- ness to Joe Deputy, and will in future engage in other lines of business. Ed. Lanier besides being a successful business man, is thoroughly honest and white through and through. He has | host of friends in this section