The border vidette., 1913-12-27
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

welt highway are being scored by Gila county officials and plans
 were made for the prosecution of all automobiliSts who fail to
 recognize the dangers of the | sharp turns at various points on the road.
 Wells Fargo Express Con- l pany announces that it will car
 ry packages for the relief of
 sufferers in the great floods of
 Southern Texas free of charge.
 All that is necessary is to mark
 the packages plainly addressed
 to any of the Relief Committees
 in the flood stricken district.
 Snow in such quantities as to
 preclude the possibility of setting all the snow scales, was spread
 all over the wooded portion of
 the Roosevelt watershed accord ing to reports of the weather
 bureau and reclamation service
 men who returned from the
 mountains Saturday. - Arizona Rep.
 Suit was filed in the superior court of Pima county by Nephri Bingham against the board of regents of Arizona university for the sum of $833. .45 damages for the loss of four COWS which he alleges died from infection contracted while kept in the corrals of the university dairy farm. Star.
 
 What promises to be the rich est gold strike ever made in the southwest and what will un- dou btedly be the reawakening of Bouse if it pans out, was un- earthed recently when a car load of ore shipped from that point to the Shelby smelters at San Francisco by Pease, Des Paines and Adams, brought the remark able price in returns of $11, 800 in bullion.
 Describing the Official pan souvenir for the Panama-Pa- cific International exposition at San Francisco in 1915, com munication was received by Gov. Hunt from the fair commission. The letter states that the souv- enir will show the seal or the state building of each state and that it will appear on spoons, fobs, and other devices. The matter will be turned over to the Arizona commissioners for the fair in the event that an is made for an Arizona building for the ex- hibition.
 The calf when born has two pair of incisors, the other two pair appear during the first | month. When a calf is eighteen months old, it loses the midle pair of milk incisors, and grows a permanent pair. The next | pair, one on each side, is re- placed at twenty seven months | of age, the third pair at thirty six months, the forth or outside pair, a t forty five i months. The time of appear ance of these incisors varies with in rather narrow limits, so that | we are able to tell the age of young cattle fairly accurately. | The calf also has a tempor- ary set of molars, which are later replaced with permanent | ones, but they are not consider ed in estimating the age of the animal. -Stockman.
 Col. Thos. F. Weedin tells of | Egyptian cotton growing here l in 1882, and says that J. B. Ramey, who will be remembered | by all the old timers, planted a tract fifty feet square in that year on the place owned by Frank l Shields. MT. Weedin saw an ad- vertisement in some magazine | offering seed to those who would | try it out to test local conditions for growing of the long staple Egyptian cotton, and sent for the seed planted by Ramey. MT. Weedin says the cotton did splendidly and carried from 12O | 13O bolls to each stalk. The re- suit of the experiment was trans mitted to Washington, but owing to the lack of transportation facilities the production of cot ton was not taken up. At that {: c., l..