The border vidette., 1914-02-07
w. E. Barnes, travelling freight

1 Southern Pacific has been in
 vited to address meeting of
 the Yuma cotton growers. Over
 1900 acres have been pledged 10 | the crop. The question that
 will be discussed at the meeting i Saturday, according to Dr.
 James A. Ketcherside of Yuma, is what kind of cotton shall be planted. A. H Kent is taking the lead in the matter.
 After prospecting for twenty years to discover a gold ledge west of Arlington, Sam Webb was rewarded on the last day of last year by making the Gls- cOvery, and has taken out some very rich ore. The history of the original discovery date back thirty five years when Webb's parents and his grandfather came to the country. They settled first near Arlington and were engaged in the cattle busi- ness. ss.-Gazette.
 After visit to beautiful Ora cle one cannot but wonder why so many of our residents should seek the coast for the summer months. A prettier. a more be- autiful, a more delightful place to spend the heated term could not be found than this same Oracle, in Pinal county, up among the big white and black oak trees that cover the lower hills of the Catalina range of mountains where one may breathe Natures health giving air without the discOmforts of crowded and foggy sea shores.
 Prof. Stanley F. Morse left Friday for a three days trip through the Salt river valley on an inspection tour of the farms. He will visit farms in the fol lowing places: Phoenix, Glen dale, Mesa, Sacaton, and Casa Grande. The object of this trip is to give the farmers advice on various problems that have come up relative to the mana cement of their farm. For some time the people of the Salt River valley have thought it advisable to hire a farm manager for the valley to give professional ad- vice.
 Things are picking up all over the country. Business every where is better than it was a few months ago. Idle men are be- ing put to work, mills that have been idle are going to work, and mills that have been working half time are now working full time The bank clearingS last week in the whole country were five per cent in excess of the men in all parts of the country are predicting that 1914 will be one of the most prosperous in our history. The calamity howl CT will have to take to the woods, his occupation being gone.
 Cooperation of the people of all counties in the state is asked by the residents of Gila and Graham counties in their efforts to assure the early construction by the government of bridges across the Gila and San Carlos rivers on the San Carlos Indian reservation. This appeal for assistance has been made by the two counties most directly affect ed because of mistaken OppOSi- tion to the improvement and the widespread distribution of mis- leading literature regarding it by persons who, through error, have been led to believe that the building of the bridges would be an obstruction to the proposed San Carlos dam project.
 A report was received here this week from Clifton that Flu sebio Arbizo, wanted in Greenlee county for the murder of Officers Alberto Mungia and Jack Camp bell, on Eagle Creek a year ago last September, was arrested in Maria, Texas, after the evacua- tion of Ojinaga by Mercado's federal soldiers. If the report proves to be true the many friends here of the murdered men will be thankful to General Rancho Villa for making possible the apprehension of this much wanted Huerta soldier. ArbizO, after murdering the two officers, fled to Mexico and joined the federal army. He is a sharp shooter and a cOldblOOded mur- derer-