The border vidette., 1914-09-26
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

That the Copper Queen Smelt
 CT will resume the purchase o1
 custom ore in a few days, was
 the important announcement
 made early last week in Doug
 las by officials of the company
 Many small copper properties
 in the southwest have closed
 owing to the fact that they were
 unable to dispose of their ore,
 and this will mean a general re-
 sumption of operations by small
 producers.
 Tucson will have an eXperi-
 mental ostrich farm. It is to be
 conducted by the university agri-
 cultural experiment. station in
 connection with a poultry farm
 on the east of the campus five
 acres of which was set aside by 1 the board of regents. Poultry
 ranks as the third animal in
 dustry in the state," said 'Direc-
 tor R. H. Forbes, Saturday.
 First comes cattle, then sheep, | then poultry Citizen.
 The ties for the new railroad to | be built from Wilcox to the Nam
 moth mine have arrived and the railroad will be built in about six months, according to F. l.. Sizer, superintendent of the mine, who arrived iii Tucson last evening on a business trip. The new railroad to the mine will be constructed by the com pany itself. The new spur will be great aid in the develop ment of the property.
 A very novel shipment was made Friday, by J. w. Jackson of the Douglas Drug Go. MT. Jackson had purchased and kept alive two gila monsters, seven vinegarones and one live ly tarantula. He shipped these to Ringgold, Texas, having found a purchaser. The reptiles and insects were carefully crated and were sent by express, with the the caution to avoid opening enroute. This will undoubtedly be beobeyed.-Dispatch.
 San Simon, Cochise county, claims to be the banner demo cratic precinct of the state San Simon cast 40 votes at the recent election, and nary one of them was a republican or progressive ballot. There were seven socialist votes and the balance were democratic. Here is one precinct at least in which | the socialists can truthfully | claim to have seven times as many voters as the republicans l and mOOSerS combined.
 The Globe postoffice has just | handled LOGO pounds of flour and 3,COO pounds of barley. | The shipment was consigned to Guy Boardman. Payson mer- chant, and 1t required several | trips of an auto truck to deliver it. The mail carrier made his | new contract with the govern ment for the Payson parcel post business on a pound basis. He gets S2. 50 per hundred pounds for carrying flour and barley While the shipper pays only S1. OS a hundred pounds for the service.
 After several days of un- certainty, it has been learned positively that Mrs. F. w. Munds of Prescott was one of the successful aspirantS for the democratic nomination for state senator from Yavapai county, Morris Goldwater being the other. MT. Goldwater re ceived radically all the votes of the county, but Mrs. Munds' was in doubt until all the returns were in. The final count gave Mrs. Munds a of five votes over her closest opponent, F. A. Reid.
 The Arizona Stockgrowers will hold their annual meeting in Douglas pext January, the exact date not yet having been named. At the same time the COchiSe county stockgrOWers' association will also hold their semi annual meeting which was to have been held in Douglas last month. This will bring together the largest number of StOckmen that has been seen in the state. Be sides the state and county aSSO- citations there will he a larorp rp-