The border vidette., 1913-04-19
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

ExChangeS.
 After being corraled and fec
 for the past month, the eighty
 five head of elk brought to Ari
 zona from Wyoming and un
 loaded at Winslow in February
 were turned loose on Chevalor
 creek last Friday, to roam al
 will and subsist on the oper
 range, says the Journal Miner Lieutenant R. D. LaGarde
 Tenth U. s. Infantry, has been ! ordered to make an immediate | inspection of the National Guard of Arizona. He is making the
 inspection of the various com
 panies at Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe,
 Snowflake, Flagstaff, Prescott,
 Douglas, Tucson and Morenci.
 Petitions asking that an anti capital punishment bill be sub
 mitted to the people at the gen eral election of November, 1914,
 have been received at the office of the secretary of state from Prescott. Tucson, Jerome, Will Jiams, Florence, Phoenix and Scottsdale. The total number of signatures is 22S.
 Surveyors sent out by the board of army engineers to in vestigate the San Carlos dam site on the Gila river with a view to determine it's feasibility for the erection of dam report that in no instance have they had to go down through the sand more than 29 feet to en- counter bedrock. Silver Belt.
 In the song contest at Tucson, the first night of the University week program. Miss lone Green leaf of Yuma was awarded first place and Miss Nellie Teasdale of Phoenix second place. In the oratorical contest, Roy Richards of Tempe high school won first honors with Jackson of Mesa high school second. d.-Prospector
 Among the foreign visitors to the Knight Templar conclave in Denver next August will be a number of prominent and wealthy Chinese Masons from Phoenix: These men will be the official representatives of the oriental lodges and will attend in all their embroidered robes of silk. The men are of the new Chinese regime, having besn educated in English or Amer ican schools and have taken a strong hand in the formation of the new Chinese republic.
 For thirteen years H. H. Bow man and James Murphy, two of Arizona's pioneer prospectors, camped right on the edge of the worlds greatest deposit of cinnabar, or quicksilver ore, without suspecting that it was there. This deposit lies in the Mazatzal mountains, 80 miles northeast of Phoenix. That it is the largest deposit in the world there is little reason to doubt, since Colonel Fred Bow Ter, a mining engineer of many years experience in various made a recent eXmin- ation.-ProSpector.
 Cattle are going to be cattle in price for quite awhile because they are not in the country and there is bound to be a big de- mand for them. County after county in the old range districts have hardly any cattle at all. There are thousands of tons of hay in stacks all over the coun- try with nothing left to eat it and much of this hay will have to go over another year. An effort will be made to increase the herds as rapidly as possible for prices are fair and the range is good and it will be only a few years until there will be plenty of cattle in the country again. There is an awakening demand for good sized cattle ranches so that the beef business will soon come back into it's own be- fore many ears.-The Progress