The border vidette., 1917-09-29

for building a big dam for one of the mining companies over at Gro Blanco, this week took sev- eral automobile loads of work men out to his camp, where he is employing forty men on the dam which is being pushed to completion as fast as possible.
 Henry Levin and Charley Hol- Ter, the we'll known customs house brokers, this week opened large convenient offices in the United States Custom Building owned by the Southern Pacific. Messrs. Holler & Levin enjoy the fullest confidence of the GUS toms officials and the public in general. They have for many years engaged in the customs and brokerage business and have an international reputation for fair dealing.
 Thursday afternoon, under the personal supervision of Superior Judge w. A. O'Connor and Sheriff Earhart, $1O, ,OOO worth of boot leg liquor, confiscated by Santa Cruz county officers, was destroyed at the court house. Deputy Sheriffs Arthur Page and John Bowman assisted while Colonel Allen T. Bird and Jus tice of the Peace Wilkey. were on hand to keep an eye on the boys while they executed the Courts orders.
 Manager Day of the Duquesne Mining & Reduction Company's great properties in the Wash ington Duquesne district, was a visitor at the county seat on Thursday, on company business. Daily shipments of ore are be- ing made to the Douglas shelter via. the Nogales- -Cananea branch of the Southern Pacific of Mex ico. The Mexican government receives twenty five cents per ton for permitting the shipment of the ore through Sonora.
 Amos J. Yaeger, the mining man, after visit in Los Ange- les with his family, passed south the forepart of the week, on his way to the Alamos district, where he and his associates are interested in great silver prop erty situated at Minas Nuevas. For number of years Mir. Yaeger was manager of the mines which produced millions in sil. yer. With the white metal at better than dollar an ounce, the Zambona should pay big money.
 Al Peck, superintendent of our streets, is a happy man. The ,forepart of the week he re- ceived a telegram from his only son Arthur, who accompanied the second increment of drafted soldiers of the National Army to Fort Riley, Kansas. Arthur said he and the rest of the boys from Santa Cruz county at Camp Funston, were well and liked the game. Arthur had been as- signed to Battery "A" of the 34Oth Field Artillery. He hopes to be in France before the flow CTS bloom again.
 The Citizens Committee of Noga1es, of which Bracey Curtis is chairman, is making arrange ments to give the boys of she the third increment to the Na+ tional Army, leaving here next Wednesday for Fort Riley, la grand farewell reception. On Tuesday night there will be a reception and dance at the Santa Cruz Club. On Wednesday after noon before the brave boys board their special Pullman car, there will be a great patriotic parade of citizens, school children and military. Every body is expect ed to assist in making the affair 8 big success.
 The forepart of the week I'm migration Officer Knudsen re- turned from southern California where he accompanied a special train load of Mexican laborers, taken from Sonora to the beet fields near Salinas. Many of the men were accompanied by their families. It is estimated that nearly two thousand Mex jeans have been sent to the Salt River valley and to California during the past three months. Wednesday night a special car rying between three and four hundred left for the Imperial Valley. The train was in charge (