The border vidette., 1913-03-22

Company, accompanied by Bol
 Karns and MT. Frasier, arrived by auto from Tubutama, in the Altar district.
 Dr. l.. D. Ricketts,, Genera. manager of the Greene Cananea ] Consolidated Copper Company, | accompanied by MT. Charley 1 Montague, the Cananea banker,
 after spending a couple of days
 in this vicinity, on Thursday
 departed for Douglas, by auto
 mobile. During their stay in the
 city the gentlemen were guests
 at the Montezuma hotel, where
 they met a number of local min
 ing men. Dr. Ricketts is one
 Americas big mining men.
 President Bracy Curtis of the
 First National Bank of Nogales,
 returned home Thursday from a combined business and pleas
 ure trip to the Pacific coast,
 looking as though the sea breeze
 agreed with him. During his absence the big financial insti-
 tuition was in charge of Cashier Herold and his able assistants,
 Richardson, Marsteller and Ogle. MT. Curtis expressed regret that he was absent from the city during the Battle of Nogales. !"
 Harry Greenwell, the well known mine promoter, of Ohio, has purchased the old Pete Kitchen ranch situated short distance from the city, and Mrs. Greenwell has this week been busy making needed improve ments, preparatory to making that fine old country place her home. The GreenwellS purchaS- ed the place from State Repre- sentative Harry J. Saxon, and it their intention to make it one of the beauty spots of southern Arizona. They have valuable mining interests in Santa Cruz and Pima county.
 Tuesday George D. Gross and Louis Roller, owners of splen did mining property in the Pata- goniae mountains, near the SantO Nino mines owned by the Hava- lena Mining Company, in which Millionaire J. A. Murray of Butte, Montana, is financially interested with J. Wells Smith, were business visitors in the city. The gentlemen recently visited the Havalena Company's property, which under the man. agement of Jack Campbell, is developing into a bonanza. The ore will be shipped to Cananea via Santa Cruz, Sonora, just as soon as necessary arrangements can be made.
 Amos Yaeger, ex-manager of the Zambona Development Com pany, who for some time past has been down at Alamos, near where the property of the com pany is located, came up from the south Wednesday evening. Thursday evening he continued on to California. Yaeger states that the United States cruiser Colorado, at Guaymas, has warn ed the Mexican gun boats not to bomba the city and the town of Empalme, where a large colony of Americans is located. The state troops, said to num- Der several thousands are locat- at Ortiz. On by small garrison at HermOsillo, the rest of them being south and north of there.
 Captain Charley Hardy of Tue son, spent a couple of days here the forepart of the week, trans acting private business. The | captain is an applicant for the U. S. collectorship. Now that | the salary has been raised from S2OOO, to $35OO, the position of | collector of customs appeals strongly to a number of the | 'unterrified. The raise does | not go into effect until July first, | next, before which time we hope to see a Democrat appointed. Those known to be willing to accept the responsible position, are Phil Herold and James A. of Nogales, and Capt. Hardy and Amos O'Keefe of Tucson. The one with the long est pole will knock the persim- non.
 w. B. Pomeroy, manager of he great Nina Mexico, near Sonora, arrived in Mo- gales Tuesday night, having made the trip from Guaymas to IermOSillO by handcar. thence