The border vidette., 1914-12-12
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

| llIo bOfOorlanu AuGOInODltC
 club of Tucson" was the name
 adopted last night by an enthu
 iaStic crowd of local auto fans
 who attended a meeting at the chamber of commerce for the
 purpose of arranging an auto
 mobile race for New Years day.
 Geo. Clark, who with Messrs
 Peterson and David, is work
 ing the American Boy mine,
 from which good reports are con
 Stantly coming to town of good
 ore being encountered. recently
 shot an eagle in the Santa Ritas
 which measured six feet ten
 inches from the wing tips. tagOnian.
 In Governors Hunts office
 this morning Wiley Jones quail
 fled as attorney general of Ariz-
 ona, succeeding G. P. Ballard,
 resigned, and filed his oath of office and bond this afternoon
 with secretary Of State s. P.
 Osborn He took his oath be- I
 lin of the state supreme court.
 "There will be no change at present in my office force," said Jones.
 F. A. Jones draws the long term on the State Corporation Commission, which is the six year term. A. w. Cole gets the four-year term and w. ?. Geary the two year term. Coles vote was a surprise to the politicians, he being low man in the priin- aries and Geary was practically conceded the four-year term. The official returns gave Jones 29.681 votes, Cole, 28, 339 and Geary 7,6S4. ..
 A Y Smith, manager of the Worlds Fair, was in town Tues day with a party of men from the Commonwealth at Pearce, most of whom were stockholders in the Worlds Fair Develop ment company. They were over in connection with the two dam age suits against the Worlds Fair by men injured in the shaft The two suits were set tied out of court by the com pany paying the sum of 1000. gOnian.
 A couple of cattle men from New Mexico were in the Pata- gonla country this week, look ing for a suitable location to en- gage in the cattle business in Santa Cruz county. They went | out to the place of Geo. w. Pi- per, near town, which suited | them, but owing to inability to | get permission to graze more | cattle upon the forest reserva- tion they did not make a deal | for the place. While here they | also investigated other places, but were unable to become per located. Pa atagonian. |
 The 1914 apple crop of Ariz- ona is estimated at 135, ,OOO bush els, according to a report of the Federal Department of Agricul- ture issued recently. The yield | in 1913 was 100000 bushels and | 100000 bushels in 1912. The | condition of the crop at the pre- sent time is 81 per cent of nor nal, and the average condition during the past ten years period has been 70 per cent of normal. The apple crop of continental United States is estimated at 23O, 24O,G bushels for 1914, while the yield last year was only 45, 100000 bushels. The average price being paid to far mers for apples at the present time is 62 cents per bushel.
 Yuma has had a real good cleaning up as result of the two days set apart as cleanup days-Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. All day yesterday the city wagons were busy as bees hauling off piles of rubbish, tin cans and barrels of paper gathered and put in place by the cleanup squads and the resi- dents of the residential districts. The work has not yet been en- tirely completed. Marshal Levy will have a chain gang of fifteen men at work today cleaning up vacant lots and the city teams will haul off the garbage and refuge. It is proposed to keep the cleanup going until the town is SnOt1oSSIU clean -SnD