The border vidette., 1913-10-25
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

company's plant is now a con- pleted- project, October, 1913, finds mines, mill, transportation and all accessory departments operating like clock work to full capacity.
 An editor who started about twenty years ago with only o3 cents is now worth S1OO, GOO. His accumulation of wealth is owing to his frpgality, good habits, strict attention to buSi ness and the fact that an uncle died and left him S99, ,999. Edit or and Publisher.
 The Mountain States Tele phone company has arranged to bulletin all along the route of the Fl aso-PhOeniX race the position of the various cars at the checking stations. The place of the cars will be recorded at Deming, Lordsburg, Douglas, Bisbee, Tucson, Florence and Phoenix by the official checkers of the race or an official of the company and relayed on to the other points along the line.
 The new state law provides that the taxes back for the past five years be brought up to date and put into one book, thus do- ing away with the many and various old books that the asses sors have been heretofore both cred with. The law also pro- videS that the assessors in each county shall not earlier than 60 days and not latter than six months after the first of any year enter suit for the recovery of all back taxes.
 Having closed a contract for the delivery of 6O,OOO barrels of cement between October 20 and %, l.. c. Morton, Arizona agent for the, Southwestern Portland Cement company of Fl lPaso, has returned from a trip to Prescott. The cement was or dered by Nancy Bros, who have a contract for the construction ! of the dam of the Arizona Land & Irrigation company, a few miles north of Prescott, at the junction of Willow and Granite creeks. , September was a record month for the local land office in the number of instruments acted | upon by the register and re ceiver In addition to a number of rejections, the following were examined and approved and en- | tries made: Final desert proofs, four; final homesteads, seventy three: mineral entries, four; state selections, one; original | homestead applications, 125, town lot sale. one; original de- sert land entries, forty-seven; mineral applications, SiX.-Ga- zette.
 If the government will con sent. we understand that a big irrig ation project. with Bill Will Hams Fork for it's base, will be put through within the next year. The Bill Williams Fork drains a great area and by the conservation of its waters many thousands of acres of land that will be capable of growing any thing produced in a Semitropical country, will be brought under cultivation. The soils are rich in natural phosphates and only need the water to make them productive. It is to be hoped that this great project will be put through.
 Actual work on the construc- tion of the state highway was commenced yesterday by Engi- neer J. c. Ryan, when he took out number of the convictS to pick loose stones from the road. This was done in order to have the road in as good shape as
 possible for the coming Ell Paso-
 Phoenix auto race. The work
 of digging up the old road and
 grading will not be commenced
 until some time after the race.
 After this work is started the
 road will be closed to tra fife dur
 ing certain portions of each day.
 As soon as this work is started
 another lot of convictS will be
 brought here from Florence tC
 help with the work. In all they
 expect to use about 100, as this
 number can be handled with nc
 more guards than a less mum
 ber. The estimated cost of main
 tenance per man is about S1. |; !