The border vidette., 1913-12-13
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

made by the state land com
 mission when that body filed on i 30, eco acres of land.
 Thos. N. Wills, chairman of
 the board of supervisors, and
 one of the largest cattle owners in the state, came down from his
 Aravaipa ranch Monday bring
 ing the good news that the
 mountains are covered with
 snow up there and that the pros
 poets of an abundance of feed
 were never better. - Florence
 Blade.
 Enough platinum lies in the depths of the Grand Canyon to supply the world for many years to come, according to k. J. Bon sail, a noted mining engineer of Boston. Mr. Bonsall has just spent three weeks examining Ralph Cameron's platinum hold ings, lying on both sides of the Bright Angel trail a thousand feet below the rim. m.-Ariz. Demo crat.
 The charges of smuggling munitions of war into Mexico against the Phelps Dodge com pany. the Douglas Hardware company, Joe Slater, Isadore Ilitzky, W. E. Schwamm, the Steinfeld company, L. D. Nc Cartney and H. Rivera were dis by United States Judge Sawtelle, following the sustaining of the demurrers in these cases. s.-Tuc- son Citizen.
 Register Weedin of the land office unearthed another old patent this morning. It was is sued for the north half of the southwest quarter of section 2, township , south, range 9 east, to James ~Brash. now resident of Patagonia but formerly of Florence. It was dated Dec. 8, 1882, and is signed by Chester A. Arthur, then president. Brash is still the owner of the land.
 News that the United States will pay for survey of home steads on national forests, filed on under the act of June. II, 1906, was brought to Globe by T. T. Swift, supervisor of the forest service. Homesteaders who took up land under this act expect to have to pay for the surveys themselves, but the last session of congress provided a 1 fund to meet the expense. - Globe Record.
 Young Brothers are just in stalling 15O horse power en- zine at the Mammoth mine at Schultz for the purpose of pump ing the water out of the mines to enable them to continue de- velopment work in this old gold producer. The Young Brothers are keeping @ force of men at work on the Oracle and Nam moth road fixing the bad places that have developed since the recent rains. Tucson Citizen.
 Deputy Sheriff Perry, Wednes- day brought down from Higley, l Andrew Walker, charged with l stealing new rails from the Ari- zOna Eastern and utilizing them | in the construction of ponder | ouS house and barn moving con l trivance. Perry spent the best | part of three days securing the | country near Higley and finally stumbled upon Walker with ''the goods on him." Walker admits taking the rails. He is held at | the county jail pending a hear ing before Justice JohnstOne- Arizona Republican.
 Convinced that an area of for ty acres of irrigated land in the l Salt River project is sufficient to support @ family, the secretary of | the interior a few days ago fixed | at that amount the acres permis- sible to hOmesteaders under this | projec6, transmitted the infor- nation in a letter to President | Orme of the Water Users assO- citation, and the people of the | valley Wednesday became aware l of the most important official de- partment ruling in years. Be- tween 10000 and 3O,OOO acres of land will be affected, and sev- eral thousand hOmeSteaderS or | holders of unpatented proved-up land, will be compelled to rid i