The border vidette., 1908-04-11
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our Ex.
 changes.


 he will be a candidate for delegate on i the rep publican ticket if O'Neil secures
 the democratic nomination. Murphy
 claims that he would have a walk away.
 Henry Davis, the condemned Ari-
 zona negro at Globe. upon learning that the supreme court did not grant
 pew trial in his case attempted
 suicide by hanging in his cell. He
 was unconscious when cut down but
 soon revived.
 The national forest reserve head
 quarters at Benson has been notified
 that 2OOO yellow pine trees are to be
 shipped to that point for planting
 They will arrive during the early part
 of this month and will be taken to the
 Santa Rita Reserve by Supervisor
 Selkirk.
 r Arrangements are being made by
 the members of the Phoenix lodge of Odd Fellows to entertain the dele
 gates who will be in the Capitol City
 from April 2Oth to the 18th to attend
 the annual session of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd r Fellows of Arizona and New Mexico At each of the s. P. offices in Ben son, connected with through freight,
 this week, there is evidence of increase in business. Large quantities of hay,
 barley and other grain are moving
 south into Mexico over the s. P. branch to Nogales. The increased l movement of coke and coal over the sa me line which was mentioned in the
 Benson Press last week still continues. The Benson Press.
 Every body Tn this valley who has 0 ranch knows that he has the rest of the world beaten, but J ohm Mcdonald
 who lives seven miles northeast ot Phoenix under the Arizona canal. feels that he has a little percentage, over almost everybody in this valley. He says he had no frost at all at his place anu had green tomato vines all winter that were never nipped. He also had morning glories and sun flowers blooming most of the winter ]! and yesterday brought fine supflower blossom to the board of trade.-Phoe- Rix Republican.
 While half acre in tomtoes on the Arizona experimental farm netted $371 in 1906, the same acreage pre- duced only $l26. 93 net, exclusive of labor this year, as the plants were at tackled three times by different species of destructive worms in 1907. Sweet potatoes did better, forty nine one of an acre sold for S154.- 99, net profit of S144 II. During the growing season little labor is re- quired with this crop. The crops re- quired eight days of team work and fifty five days of work by man. The White Vineless gave the largest yield. The experimental farm figures that on 473 acres the net cash returns, not deducting labor, were $500 l7 for 1906. while in 1907, the returns from 46 acres were %I, 125.96.
 After many years of litigation the Supreme court of the United States has decided that an unpatepted min ing claim is subject to taxation for county and state purposes. The case just decided went up from Leadville, Colorado, where an attempt was made to set aside 0 tax title to mining claim known as the Comstock. The claim proved to be valuable after a tax deed had been given to the pur- chaser at the sale, and deed having been obtained from the old owners by a party that saw millions in it, a suit to set aside the title under the tax deed was at once brought In it's way up to the last tribunal honors were about even, one court deciding for plaintiff and another court for defend ant. This decision has considerable to mine owners in this ter ritory, as it places all mining claias on an equal footing in the matter of taxation, whether patented or unpat- ented. County Miner.