The border vidette., 1913-09-27
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
Exchanges.

new smelter of the Arizona Cop
per company at Clifton. At
| least six months must pass be-
fore the smelter can be used.
In the meantime the old plant is
again in operation.
The Tucson Citizen is now ad-
vOcating the commission form of
government for the city of Tue
son. This form of city govern
ment is meeting with consider
able favor in various parts of
the country, and under proper
ordinances with capable men to
put them in force, the commits
sion plant is ideal.
No printed copies of the sta
tutes of Arizona as revised by
the legislature at the two spe-
cial sessions last spring will be
available till the first of the
year. 1t was hoped that the
two volumes would be out by
| October /, but the contract is
such a large one that upexpect-
cd delays have been encounter
ed 1t will amount to about
S25, eco.
For the first time in the his
tory Of Tucson negro pupils will
have their own school and their
own teacher when the city
schools open next Monday. The
new school for negroes will be
located at Sixth street and Sixth
avenue, and will have for a
teacher Professor Cicero Sim
mons of Phoenix, who arrived
in Tucson recently to take up
his duties.
John Pierce, owner of one of
the largest orchards in the Hua
chuca mountains, is in Bisbee
arranging with the merchants
for the sale of his apple crop.
Mr.. Pierce states that he has
the finest crop Of apples this
year that he has ever raised,
and he expects to market over
20 eco of early apples and over
5CO,CCO pounds of the later
varieties. The Huachuca noun
tains are considered an unusual
ly good apple country, but it has
only been the last few years
that any quantity of this fruit
has been produced.
Approximately $4,000. or 35
per cent of the governments re-
ceipts last year from grazing
fees on the national forests of
Montana, goes into the state for
schools and roads, according to
an announcement by the q. s.
forest service. Returns to the
government from grazing re-
sources in the state during the
year total about $84 GOO Of which
the counties in which the forests
are situated get about $29, 600
This is in addition to receipts Oh
SIT, 600 from other forest re
, sources, returning into the state
| a total of $50, 600.
Lead is one of the Oldest me
tails known. The Egyptians used
it in glazinc pottery and in max
ing ornaments. The Chinese
! are supposed to have used leac
as early as 1000 B. c., although
they made as little practical use
of it as they did of their numer
Gus other discoveries. The
Greeks and Romans mined leac
along the shores of the Mediter
ranean at an early date. The
mines of Laurium, Greece, are
\ presumed to have been worked
before the Trojan wars, and i
is well known that they were
worked extensively in the fiftf
and sixth centuries.
Oscar K. Coll, former news
paper man of Tombstone, bu
: now located at Douglas, has re
ceived notification that he ha
been granted a patent upon
. railroad tie, to be known as tn
Coll rapid construction tie. Th
tie is steel cast crown affair
which can either be fitted owe
the ordinary wooden railroa
tie or filed with concrete, tn
latter being preferable. The tt
} is fitted with fianges on top, th
rail being slipped through thes
and doing away with spikes
The rails are to be fastened tt
gether as at present, with ifs
plates. Mr.. Coll claims that hi
invention will prevent ia
spreading, that it can be put
place twice as rapidly as tn
} wooden ones, and is practical