The border vidette., 1914-08-08
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

Another of the big bars oi
 bullion was brought in from GOldrOad this week. We under
 stand that it is the intention of
 the company to remodel the big
 mill so that greater tonnage of
 ore can be handled with a mini
 mum of cOSt.-MOhave County
 Miner.
 Acting Postmaster Anderson
 of Phoenix reports that stamp
 sales for Jnly, 1914, totaled
 $9284. O2 at the Phoenix pOstof-
 flee, as against $7495. .93 during
 the corresponding month last
 year. This represents a gain of
 23 per cent and is an indication
 of the steady.prosperity of the
 city.
 The Phelps Dodge started up the Tranquility mine this morn
 ing with Sam Roberts handling the hoist. This property will be
 pu t in shape for leasOrs. The rail
 road section crew is getting the
 tracks in shape for safe heavy
 hauling. Work on the safety
 vault at the main office is pro. gressing rapidly. Tombstone Prospector.
 Motion pictures of the city of Tucson are now being dis played at various eastern cities by the Tucson Chamber of Com merce and are attracting much favora ble notice and comment. This is one of the clevereSt city advertising campaigns ever un- dertaken by an American com munity and should accomplish much for the Pima metropolis.
 A two story, absolutely fire proof hotel is to be erected in the new town of Chandler in the very near future. The owner has already awarded the con- tract to a Phoenix construction company and ground will be broken at once. This will make the second hotel for Chandler, the San Marcos, opened last year. being one of the finest hotels in the southwest
 Mayor Adams has started out to make BiSbee a clean town and it begins to look as if the mayor would succeed. His latest edict was to the effect that profanity must not be used on the streets of the city. The mayor declared that the use of vulgar and profane language on the streets of Bisbee could be stopped if it were necessary to put twenty special policemen on the job.
 A verdict in favor of James | Hanson for $17,OOO was render ed in the superior court at Phoe- | nix yesterday afternoon, against | the Concrete Construction com pany of Tucson, for damages for personal injuries sustained by Hanson, who was a carpenter upon the Pratt Gilbert building, and who stepped a jack board" and fell through the scaffolding ten feet to the ground, some few months ago.
 A Georgia dry town recently voted in favor of saloons, and here is the reason given for the change of heart by a prominent citizen: If we are going to stand for our women folks wearing shadow skirts and slit skirts and transparent skirts, and our young women learning to dance the boil weevil wiggle, the Texas Tommy. tango, the bunny hug, the bear dance, the half center, the buzzardS flop and the puppy and so on down the line, we might as well have saloons for the men, and the whole push go to hell together"
 A Silver City, N. M., dispatch says: Six sacks of rich gold ore now repose in the vaults of the National Bank as the result of the recent rich strike on the Langston property at PinOs Altos, and the end is not yet. The ore is very rich but how rich no one can guess with any degree of accuracy, One which was carefully weighed and it's specific gravity taken, is estimated to contain S4OO worth of gold, one mining man describing the ore says it is more nearly true to say that the is held in place by gold rather than that the gold ap- DparS in tbo OanOOn An aS