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AN AUTHORITY ON MINES AND MINING. THf BEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN ARIZONA. Second Seriks, Vol. XVI, No. t8 NOGALES, ARIZONA. SATURDAY, MARCH n, 191 1. Whole No 930.' SONORA SIFTINGS Shaken Out Her and There In the ! Great State Just Over ths Line. I From La Dura comes a report that the mines at that place have had to close down on account of lack of men caused by the insurrecto troubles in the vicinity. Mr. John J. Joyce of the Ohio Mining & Exploration Company, tiho had been visiting at Sun Javier since November last, de parted from tliH camp a week or ten days ago to return to his home in Columbus, Ohio. : Thursday word was received at Nogales that the bridges on the railway up the Yaqui river that were destroyed had been replaced (cribbed up) and that a train from Corral to Tonichiand return would run yesterday. ! Last week Mr. Charles H. Buffet, general superintendent for the Manhattan Exploration Company, cn the Yaqui river, was at Altar, closing up his affairs in the Altar district, where he was engaged sev eral yean before going over to the Yaqui in January. I Railroad men at Del Rio, the junction of the Naco and Cananea line from Nogales, report that every riight a band of mounted insurrec ios comes to the river there to water their horses. Whether it is the Same band each night the people at the statipn do not state. I A gentleman who had come up from Minas Prietas Monday morn ing stated that upon Sunday Mr. William Stoerck, a well known miner, came into La Colorada from Mina Mexico, beyond the Yaqui river, and stated that while he was at San Javier, en route, a band of insurrecto8 occupied the town, j At Altar last Sunday there was received a telegram from Phoenix stating that a band of seventy Armed and mounted men, a large part of them Americans, had de parted from that city headed to ward the international line with the avowed purpose of joining in the insurrection now prevailing in Mexico. I At Magdalena, La Moda, the branch of the extensive mercantile house at Nogales of the same name, tinder the management of Mr. S. Levy, has expanded lately its large and extensive stock of dry goods and ladies' dress goods, and is meeting the wants and needs of that extensive surrounding region in a manner that is Very satisfac tory to the general public. Mr. Levy has had long experience in business in Mexico, and under stands thoroughly the public with which he deals. The Sonora News, published at Cananea, announced last week several important changes in the personnel of the local management of the Cananea Copper Company. The corporation has abolished its banking department and is liqui dating the business. Mr. I. Mac manus the cashier (who was lo cated at Nogale3 before going to Cananea nine years ago) will liquidate the business and will go then to the City of Mexico, where he contemplates locating. Mr. John A. Campbell, treasurer of the com pany during ten or eleven years past, has resigned and will go to California, where he has valuable interests which require his own personal attention. Information received from Minas Prietas and La Colorada is to the effect that the military authorities had drafted quite a number of the workmen in the mining camp, and that fearing another draft many men had departed from the camp and gone into hiding, which hail made the force very shortened, and that it was feared that should there be any more desertions the camp would have to shut down work. Mrs. W. H. Jacoby,of LasCruces, New Mexico, and who had been visiting at Hermosillo some six weeks past, the guest of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Louia Hostetter, of the United States consulate, ter minated her visit Sunday evening, and started upon her return home. Her mother accompanied Mrs. Jacoby as far as Tucson. Return ing Mrs. Hostetter stopped at No eales from Monday evening until Tuesday evening and reached her home in the Sonora capital Wed nesday morning. Early this week Mr. J. L. Shep erd came from West Virginia with a party of investors he wa9 taking to Realito to look over the mines there with a view to investment. Some machinery for operation had gone ahead of the party and was at Gnaymas when it arrived there. The railway authorities informed the members that the line up the Yaqui was not open, through the depredations of the insurrectos, and that neither they nor the machinery could be delivered at Realito: so they returned East. From Yuma there comes infor mation that a band of insurreclos numbering about forty, had taken possession of the camp of the grad ing contractors below the line near Algodonee, who are working on the levee in course of construction there, and that they are the first to respond to the call of the dinner bell, when the grading gang are called to their grub. The contract ors are somewhat disgruntled at having to feed a lot of able bodied men who will not work, and have been at Yuma endeavoring to get the United States authorities to arrange with the Mexican author ities to permit a detachment of American soldiers to cross the line to drive away the insurredos and keep them away. Arrival of New Consul. Saturday evening there arrived from Mobile, Alabama, where he has been consul for the United States of Mexico during the past five years, and comes now assigned to the post at Nogales, Arizona, ex changing with Mr. Daniel E. Mon tes, whose departure was noted in The Oasis a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Alfonso L. Jimenez. The first official duty of Mr. Jimenez in his new post was to swear out a warrant for the apprehension of the Oro Blanco imurrectos whose inglorious expedition into the Altar district of Sonora was mentioned in these columns last week and is given farther and fuller description in this issue. CANTA CRUZ COUNTY. A Bunch of Interesting Items From Various Points Throughout. Mrs. James Kane of Patagonia, who has suffered much trouble with her eyes is arranging to go to Los Angeles for treatment by a scientific oculist. Yesterday Miss Beulah Smithson who has taught the school at Mowry all winter, closed the school at that place, and today she will go to Greaterville where the will begin school next Monday. It is reported that the expected visit of Messrs. Rinehart and Beaton, of the Consolidated Mines, Smelter & Transportation Com pany, presages resumption of oper ations at both Alto Camp, in the Santa Ritas, and Mowry, in the Patagonias. The Greenwell-Arizona Mining Company, Mr. II. Gasche, superin tendent, is pushing development upon the Golden Rose, a fine gold bearing property out on the west slope of the Patagonia mountains, about twelve miles northeast from Nogales. A visit is expected next week into Santa Cruz county by Messrs. 0. L. Rhinehart and Georee A. Beaton, president and a director respectively in the Consolidated Mines, Smelter & Transportation Company, owning the Mowry mines in the Patagonia mountains, and the Alto mines in the Santa Ritas, with the telephones lines connect ing the two camps with Patagonia, and the railway survey. Their visit is believed to presage a re sumption of active operation in both camps. A property belonging to Dan, Ed and Jerry Sheehy, which is located on the west slope of the Santa R'ta mountains, about six miles east from Amadoville station, on the line of the Calabasas cut off, upon which the development done dur ing the past six months has made a fine showing, has attracted great attention. At a depth of fifty feet they had four feet of high grade lead silver rock which was widen ing as the shaft descended. This week a shipment of this rich ore was made to the smelter at El Paso. The development has resulted in location of many new claims in the surrounding region. Some sixty or more have been taken up, the locators being P. J. and D. H. Mc Carty and a number of other. but a day or so preceding he dedst all his property to Mrs. Gamerom. Mr. Cameron was born at Dan" ville, Pa., December 10, 1849. ft was the son of Simon Caniereat and Elizabeth Leinbach Cameron cousin of former United States Senator J. D. Cameron of Perv&syf vania. He came to Arizona- in 1882 and was interested in large land and cattle holdings, breeding,', and introducing the first Heseford cattle into Arizona. He was-at oiy& time director and president of the American Hereford Breeders Asso ciation and was a prominent member of the National Live Stock Association. Also he was chair man of the Arizona Cattle Sanitary Commission, which position hs filled a number of years, during which he worked energetically and? earnestly for advancement of fav livestock interest of the territory... Mr. Cameron sold the San Rafael; ranch to Mr. Greene some years ago but has since retained several1 large ranches in Sonora. He baa always taken an interest and be lieved in the future of Tocsorr, to the extent of investing considerable money in real estate, and when he disposed of the San Rafael? ranch he moved his family to 'Foe son, where he built the present family home, Lochaber. lie, is survived hy his wife, Mrs. Cameron, his son, Colin Cameron, and three daughters, Mrs. Walter Wakefierd Mioses Jean and Alice Cameron;, also by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron, and his sister, Miss Min nie Cameron. The obsequies were held in Tuc son Wednesday under the direction of the various .Masonic bodies or which deceased was a member, ii. which order he had attained to tba thirty-third degree. Passing of Colin Cameron. The Tucson papers of Tuesday announced the death of Mr. Colin Cameron as having occurred very suddenly Monday morning at his residence in that city. He was fully dressed and moving about his home when the stroke came re moving him from life almost in stantaneously. His death was a distinct shock to the people of both Pima and Santa Cruz counties, in which he had resided many years. For some time Mr. Cameron's health had been poorly, and re cently h has complained of feel ing worse, but, nevertheless his demise was hardly anticipated. Yet he must have had a premoni tion of his approaching end, for Starting Eucalyptus Forest.. Guadalajara Times. Four hundred acres of fine fars ing land adjacent to the Nationals railway station of Jocot&n, just west of Guadalajua, hav benc bought by Carlos B. and Harry M. Carothers, the real estate men whtt are promoting the sale of the West End addition to town, from Juanv Garcia Sancho. The tract will ba immediately planted with eucalyg tus trees, to be destined for com mercial purposes. Messrs. Carothers have been., carrying on investigations withth- Department of Agriculture at Washington in regard to trie eucalyptus and have found that it is of remarkably quick growth, especially adapted for this climat,') and produces a wood that success fully rivals oak. It has been stated that each eucalyptus, when well rooted, will increase its value at the rate of a dollar per foot per year. The growth of these trees in the new residence additions to Guadalajira and at the headquar ters of the Amparo Mining Com pany during the past two years has been phenomenal. Carothers Brothers will also plant 400 pecan trees of the Texaa soft-shell variety on their hcL. Jalisco pecans have a record even on the Texas market of using: earlier and finer than those of this-, southern American states. 0