The border vidette., 1916-03-25
PATAGONIA.
Interesting News Items Clipped From
 the Patagonian.

The mill at the FluX mine is
 not being worked at the present
 time and the ores from this mine
 are being shipped direct to the
 Smelter.
 Jens Peterson was down from
 the Santa RitaS Wednesday to
 make affidavit of assessment
 work done on the New York and
 Empire State mining claims in
 the Tyndall district.
 Fred Barnett, a well known
 Santa Cruz county boy, has dis
 posed of his cattle which he has
 been running with the Marsteller
 brothers on the river and decid-
 ed to locate permanently in El PasO.
 c. B. Sweet of Kansas City,
 Mo-, secretary of the Ruby Cop per company, arrived in Patago- mia this week for an inspection of the property. He is now at the mine, few miles north of Patagonia.
 TLe Washington Trading con- pany is preparing to build storage warehouse on the lots owned by this comp pany between A. $. HenderSon'S store and the Patagonia Smoke House. The warehouse will be 5OX15O.
 MT. Pete Etchells. the hoist engineer, went to Tucson Tues day for a few days visit. While. away he will endeavor to interest some of his mining friends of the Old Pueblo in good prop critics in the Patagonia district.
 Another car of lead silver ore was shipped Wednesday from the Wandering Jew. Word was received in Patagonia that new strike in the lower workings of the. Wandering Jew had ex- posed a quantity of very rich pre-
 The average school attendance during the past month has been 145 pupils, which with only three teachers is about the cap acity of the school. The attend ance in the primary department was v. Miss Jeannett Shaw, who teaches the primary grades, has enough work for two teach CTS.
 The Basin group of claims in Jefferson Camp, in the Harshaw district, is preparing to ship | copper this week. Geo. F. Wei | land, owner of this property, | has become tired of waiting for Eastern parties to go ahead | with the work as promised, and concluded to make the shipment l himself.
 Judge M. Marsteller, was in Patagonia Saturday, coming up for day on business. While l here he went out with Burt Sor- rels to look at some mining prop erty which the latter owns in the Salero country. Not many people know that Mir. Sorrells owns mining property, as he is so strongly identified with the cattle business, but he does, and from all accounts, good mining claims, too.
 The tunnel at the Exposed Reef property, in Alum Gulch, 8 few miles from Patagonia, is in ore clear across the face. This property is owned by Shan non and Down, and is in about 400 feet. The ore was struck about twenty feet back, and con tinued to widen with each sue ceeding shot until now it is said to be about four feet wide, or across the entire face. The find is in the lower tunnel.
 A tractor engine with trailers is being tried out this week by the Duquesne company in haul ing ore from the mine to this station for shipment to the smelt- CT. It is about 20 miles to the mine from Patagonia, and the roads are mountainous and not always in the best of condition. The cost of hauling the ore by freight team is about S5. 25 ton. By means of the tractor it is hop ed to materially reduce the cost.