The border vidette., 1912-06-01
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Cu:ied From Cut
 Exchanges.

pure 1000 Ia pOfa tory Ol Ul19 SUaue shall be located at Tucson and S3, GOO has been appropriated for it.
 The celebration of the comple- tiOn of the Yuma syphon will be postponed until fall, as the com mittee appointed on the matter report that ninety per cent of the business men of that place are in favor of delaying it until the middle of November.
 Efforts are to be made at the next session of congress by the Indian department to secure an appropriation for sanitary dwel- lingS and hospital for the In dians of the Colorado Indian reserva tiOn, according to recent dispatches receives by Superin- tendent o. l.. Babcock Parker Post
 The office of the United States Surveyor General is not to be moved from Phoenix. Governor Hunt has notified General F. $. Ingalls, that he may remain in his present quarters at the Ca pitOl from the time the govern ment's lease expires, on June 1st, till the federal building is completed. ed.-Democrat.
 Intending to resume his mining operations in this locality. J. N. Curtis, former owner of the Sitruc mine and other properties has returned from California where he has lived the the past. two years, and has opened an office in Tucson. He will be associated with Albert Steinfield mining properties.
 That the Copper industry of the, west is progressing most favOrably< is demonstrated by what has happened in Ray of late Since the first of April, over 20O Americans have been added to the payroll of the Con Solidated, many of these men are mechanics who have been put to work on the mill which the com pany wishes to rush to comple- ton.
 As d result of cattle delivered to Omaha buyers in Tucson last Saturday, $50. eco of middle west ern money found it's way into circulation in Tucson Monday. The contract for the sale of the cattle made by Bernabe Robles. representing d number of local cattlemen as we'll as himself. The money was paidOver Mon day and distributed among the selling cattlemen. - Citizen.
 Viviano Villa lost his right thumb in a peculiar manner. He was trying to rope a running calf, threw his riata and missed. He kept after the calf and was gathering in his riata when the loop caught around a stump and at the same time the riata took a hitch around Villas right thumb. Before he could stop his horse the liata had become tight andcut the thumb off Florence Tribune.
 Work has commenced on a three ton ice plant, electric light plant and waterswOrkS at Casa Grande. The citizens of that SeCUIOIl . able effort to build up prosper ous community and the develop ment of their great natural re sources will insure success in that direction. There is room in Pinal county for many pop ulous and prosperous com munities, both in her agricultural and her mineral belts and the sooner these communities are esta blished the sooner will Pinal become the great commercial and industrial center Nature design ed her to be.-Blade.
 ''The finest station building and grounds in Arizona will be those of the Fl PaSO and South ern when our work is finished," said Walter Douglas of the Phelps-Dodge company, who arrived here from Santa Barbara for a brief visit of inspection. Officials of the Railway Holding company have taken up with Mr. Douglas a plan to transform the large excavations made by the construction forces in the Santa Cruz valley into great flower gardens like the famous Italian sunllen gardens. Dr. Douglas gave his endorsement to the idea