The border vidette., 1916-03-25


 shaft is being sunk on the Scha
 af claims and the ore will gt
 eight per cent easy, it is said
 The Josie, at Patagonia, is tur n
 ing out good ore for shipmen
 to Douglas, it is said. Bunk
 houses are springing up like mushrooms in the country tc the southwest of Tucson
 The, supreme court of the Dis trict of Columbia handed down it's decision in the case of the government of the United States against Ralph H. Cameron, which was appealed from de- cision in the interior department. The department held that the land office had exclusive juris- | dictiOn to try and determine the character of the land claimed as l mining ground. Mohave Miner.
 In the naturaliza tion exami- nation Monday, at Tombstone, a class of forty three out of fifty five applicants for citizenship were examined. Of this number forty passed. There was one man
 
 examined. Examiner Frederick Jones, who has charge of the southern California district, con- ducted the examinations on be- half of the government:-Do Doug las Dispatch.
 Four burro trains arrived in Globe during she week with as- beStoS from the mine of the Ari- zona Association on Ash Creek. about 10 tons of asbestos per month, most of which goes to Philadelphia. The quality of the asbestos from the mine of the Arizona Asbestos Associa- ton and on other properties in that section of Gila county, is superior to the Canadian product. Globe. Record -.
 Southern Apache county farm CTS have forwarded a petition to Washington asking government aid in eXterminating prairie dogs in this district. Resolution ad- opted by the Apache couty stock raiserS' association have also been forwarded to Washington in the hope that some govern ment relief may be obtained. Meanwhile farmers in the vicin- ity of Edgar are preparing for an active campaign against the pests. Johns Observer. =. As the result of a collision in which a racing car, which he was driving crashed into an other automobile, James Saw telle, son of Federal Judge Will liam Sawtelle of Tucson, is crit, ically injured, and Miss Mary 1 Tolman, student at the Uni 1 versity of California, is confined | to a hospital, according to re- ports received here yesterday. Mir. Sawtelle, who is attending Sanford university, was driving withM Miss Holman on the Lincoln, near Palo Alto, when the accident occurred at a sharp turn in the road.-Tucson Citi- zen.
 If is reported that the Magma | mine at Superior on the 120O- foot level is richer in copper, gold and silver than on the levels above, and the vein is sixty feet wide.- In the early stage of de on the 1900 level the vein was thought to have been lost, owing to it's being faulted and the. management was for a time puzzled. But by systematic the vein has been recovered and a wonderful body of high grade ore opened up. The management now confident that the ore goes down, is pre- paring to sink to the 1900 level. Blade Tribune.
 w. B. Barnes, travelling freight and passenger agent of the s. F., who remained at Yuma to. nspect.and expedite the move ment of troops, availed himself of the opportunity to make a canvass of the business interests of the city. MT. Barnes also data concerning the Fort Yuma Indian school, with ! view to giving the same pub Iicity as one of the interesting nstitu tions of the Valley. It is his opinion that the Yuma h. lians, their dress and peculiar customs, constitute one of the attractions of Yuma, giving color to the life of the city, and he