The border vidette., 1913-06-07
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
 Exchanges.

important strike ever made in it's history is reported to have been made at the Worlds Fair mine. The strike is said to have been made from the lowest level of the East and West veins. This property is owned by Mr. Frank Powers, who has owned same for the past twenty five years.
 Phoenix has been growing too fast lately for the convenience of the farmers. They are com
 blaming that they have no place to hitch their horses. The hitch ing posts have been removed from various places including the court house and school houses and the farmers claim that they have to walk miles in order to do their shopping.
 Imperial valley has begun the shipment of cantaloupeS to New York and Chicago. The first melon was sent by parcels post. It is estimated that 5O,COO,OOO melons, enough to fill 3, GOO cars, will be raised and shipped this season. Like Yuma, Imperial valley has the earliest melons in the United States, and they bring fancy prices. The Imperial crop will bring g, 335, 300.
 Todd Woodworth, at one time manager of the old Tawa Mining company. operating the Copper Giant and other mines at Browns vile, some years ago, Is now general manager of the new Fortuna company, operating the old Fortuna mine, in Yuma cOUn- ty. which produced millions of dollars in gold in it's day. The mine is badly caved, but it is believed that it will again pro- duce largely.
 What is said to be one of the largest and best marble and onyx quarries in Arizona is be- ing opened up at the foot of Sleeping Beauty mountain, ten miles west of Globe by J. J. McGinnis. The stone is found in 8 variety of colOrs-all colors of the rainbow, as the locator says-and slabs without flaws, two inches to two feet thick and five feet square can be quarrled. Globe Record.
 Wednesday last George B. Ayers, messenger for the Gold Roads Mines company, brought in from that property a bar of bullion that weighed slight be- low S3O.OOO the cleanup of ten days run in the mill. While this is not what the company expect as an average cleanup it is a pretty good sized chunk of the yellow metal. The recent rich strikes along the line of exploit ation is sure to make a larger output of bullion at the mill within a short time.-Miner.
 Claude C. Fuller, brother of Hardy Fuller and well known in San Simon where he was for merly engaged in business, paid his relatives and friends a visit and was pleased to note the many and great impro- vementS since his last visit. He came as far as Steins with J. B. Allen in the latter'S automobile and speaks highly of the Animas valley, in the vicinity Steins, as a jumping proposition. Rev. D. F. Sellards has a pump throwing 400 or 800 gallons per minute, and the lift is only 12 feet Lordsburg is forging ahead rapidly, Claude states. He is engaged in the tailoring and clothes pressing business there and doing well.-The Ar teSian Belt.
 F'reighters are bringing in ore this week from the lease of Hogan & McCutcheon, in the Tyndall district. A shipment of at least one car will be made this week, and if the freighters can get the ore down 70 this station another car or two will probably be sent. as there is enough Of She ore out on the dump. This ore is from the Con necticut mine, and Mir McCut- cheOn was in town a few days ago with some of the incest specimens of chalcopyrite shown in Patagonia for many d day. Whether this shipment will carry the high grade values re gently encountered is not known, but ore from the Connecticut