The border vidette., 1916-12-23
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
 Exchanges.

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 appointments at Sonoita and
 Patagonia, he sustained injuries
 by runaway which necessitated
 his return home It is reported | that no bones were broken, and
 that the. pastor expects to be out
 again within few days.
 For the purpose of looking I over the new military reServa- ! tion of 500 acres recently elimin- | ated from the Coronado national forest for the University of Ari- I zona, President R. B. von Klein
 Smid of the University, and R. J. Selkirk, assistant forest SUI l pervisor, made a trip to the Catalinas yesterday. The land is located in a canyon about two I miles west of the mouth of Sab ino canyon and contains a spring of never failing water Star.
 You cannot get tfreight unless you help a community to make it," said travelling freight and passenger agentI. T. Sparks, of the Southern Pacific. The Southern Pacific is going to make it. It is the same thing with the passenger traffic. You have got
 to give the people places to go or they do not travel. l am going to paint the right of way green, five miles deep with
 products and fill the coaches
 with tourists looking for it, if it is possible.
 Sinking of shaft on the old O'Fallon silver mine, eleven miles from Kingman, has been begun by A. M. Clapp and asso- ciates, who have taken the prop erty over under lease. Ore re- gently taken from the workings of the old mine ran as high as 36O ounces of silver to a ton. The ore taken from the upper workings in the old days was freighted to the Colorado river and shipped by way of the Gulf of California to the Selby smelt- CT in California.
 Six carloads of contractors machinery including blows, fresnos, scrapers, etc., arrived here early in the week for Shattuck and Nimo, Los Angeles contractors, who are said to have the contract for putting the 1O,- GOO acres south of town into cotton. In addition to these several carloads of mules also came in. Mr. Shattuck stated that about thirty cars of mules and materials would be shipped in. There will be about 600 mules all told.-Chandle Ariz- oman.
 The new bridge over the Gila river at Wilkelman is now open to traffic, having been thrown open early this week. The bridge has been practically con- pleted for a week or two, but owing to the fact that the guard rails had not been finished, but few vehicles were allowed to cross. The bridge was built in the face of all kinds of discourag- ing mishaps. No sooner was work we'll under way the first time, when a flood swept away the piers, and made it necessary to start the work over again. The bridge was built by the Topeka Bridge and Iron com, pany.
 John Wagner and Wm. Leek, who with Wm. Fessler are devel- oping the Southern group near town, had some hard luck last | Saturday when fire destroyed l their camp, together with about | everything in it, which was lo- cated at the side of the tunnel | entrance. But a little thing like | that, however serious and in convenient at the time, will not | discourage them. MT. Fessler, the "bean man" of the trio, keeps patiently at work at his trade as barber, and every time he gets hold of two bits he puts it right back into the ground, trying to develop the mineral resources of this district. MT. Wagner was at one time in the 1 big money'' made from mining, and he says right here in the Patagonia district he intends to make another stake; while Bill" Leek gives it out that the next | time he puts on pot of cabbage !. to cook he intends to stick around | the camp until it is ready to be | served. Patagonian.