The border vidette., 1913-03-22
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culed From Our
 Exchanges.

retary to EnreQue of Chihuahua
 has been appointed Mexican con
 sul at CaleXicO, taking the place
 of Angel Aguilar, transferred
 to Nogales. Asceves arrived 1T
 Tucson Sunday with Alejandrc
 D. AinSlie, the new consul al Tucson.
 Charles Ellsworth, one of the
 best known freighters in the l vicinity of Prescott, met with
 horrible death at Dewey Mon
 day night, when he was burned
 to death in the building he was
 occupying while en route from
 Flagstaff to the Southern part
 of the state. It is thought that he lighted a candle and went
 to sleep without extinguishing
 it, the flame igniting with papers
 and other inflammable objects
 on the table. It is not known
 that he was survived by any l relatives.
 | The announcement published
 in the Arizona Record several l days ago, taken from an east
 ern paper. that James $. Doug las would succeed Dr. l.. D. Ricketts as general manager of the Cananea Consolidated Cop
 per company, was not exactly correct. Dr. Ricketts will not sever his connection with the company He has been elected it's president and Mr. Douglas has been chosen vice president and general manager of the Greene c anan e company PrOspectOr.
 An Fong, the beautiful Chinese slave girls who was the cause of tong war in New York City
 in which three men were killed, passed through Benson Thurs day for San Francisco where she will be deported She was in party of D other Chinese under the charge of Inspector Miller of the New York office. Ah FOng occupied a section in standard Pullman. She was bedecked with expensive jewel ry. She is reputed to have be come rich during her stay in this country from the presents heaped upon her. An Fong is Is years old. d.-Prospector
 The twenty head of fine cattle found dead near the tracks of the $. F. & P. F. railway in the Jerome Junction section recent ly are said to have been killed under rather unusual circum- stances during the heavy snow storms of about two weeks by | a freight train. While the storm | was at it's height the animals 1 are believed to have wandered | into d deep cut to seek shelter | from the blizzard raging and | the train drawn by two engines | ploughed into them. The en gineer was unable to see the | cattle and their destruction fol lowed. They were owned by 1 rangemen in that section.
 Bisbee mines have had lead silver values quite aside from their copper ore bodies for many years, although silver has been a not unimpOrtant byprOduct l of the copper ores. in company with the gold side values play ing an important part in paying the costs of copper production. The Copper Queen mines many l years ago determined the pres ence of large lead-silver ore bodies in various portions of the properties, mainly along the north side and in close prOx imity to the Higgins line. EX plOitatiOn of these ore bodies has never been carried to full Tenth they having in fact been but little explored for the reason that the company has given it's large efforts to copper min ing, being well satisfied to leave the lead silver ore resources stand as the very valuable asset they represent Very likely the decline in silver, coupled with the fact that the company did not need the additional production, had much to do with the busi- ness decision to let these metal values stand until silver should again rise in price. The last several years the market silver has, with few exceptions in 1 slight breaks, added steadily to the value of these untouched