The border vidette., 1914-12-26
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.


 against all cattle impOrtatiOnS from any source outside the state.
 One hundred. thousand brook trout have been introduced into the streams around Silver City, New Mexico.
 The Arizona quarantine has been further extended until ship ments of cattle are prohibited from all state except California.
 Number of the Therefore bulls which were on exhibition at the State Fair were bought by Santa Cruz County -stockmen, who formed a pool for the purpose.
 The Phoenix Board of Trade is at the present time dickering with a number of big league ball teams, including the B uffalo Federals, to do their spring training in the capital city. The chances of landing an organiza tion from the east are very fay orable.
 During November this county was visited by MT. George Bar ney for the purpose'of purchas ing horses intended for use in the European war. Several stockmen who are long on bronchos accordingly rounded up quite number, and they were, at last accounts awaiting 1 delivery. Prescott Courier. Selecting Tucson as a neutral Shr7lf1 of prnSooft and J. Kennedy of Wilcox have agreed to settle a dispute as to which owns the fastest race horse, the race to be run in the old pueblo on January third. the race will be for three eighths of mile. Each participant has agreed to post $2, 500 to go as side bet. Mrs. Frank Davis and Mrs. Arthur Slaughter of Clifton have undertaken the work of as sisting in feeding and clothing the poor families in the big Greenlee county mining town and have published cards in the papers asking for donations of food and clothing. There is said to be much suffering among Mexican families in the mining town. .....,:. .- ..- -~. ...
 E. B: Perrin, owner of the large track,o of land known as the. Baca grant in Yavapi coun-, ty,. is arranging for fencing that property, which embraces 100, Oo0 acres, As the, grant is twelve. miles square, it will. re- quire forty eight miles of fence. The property has been leased to the Hope Sheep company for several years, but it is the in tention of the owner to stock it with cattle as soon as the fenc ing can be completed.
 Arizona burros by the thous ands are to be shipped from Phoenix to Europe for war pur- poses. w. c. Beckmao of Thompson valley which is in the northern part of the state, is in Prescott closing a big deal for shipping burros and horses to Phoenix that are to go to the European war. The buyer. of the stock is making Phoenix his headquarters and is reported to have gathered in the state at large, several thousand head.
 This seasons total shipment of oranges from the valley will amount. to :, about tWentyfiv cars, about half of which went over the Santa Fe and the other half over the Southern Pacific. The. biggest part of the ship ping season is over. The Ariz- ona Orange association has practically. closed it's shipping season, while Lewis Diller and S. $. Scull will; continue to ship late varieties probably until as late as February. Phoenix Ga zette. ....- -... ...o Fred Bennett, James Mars, and Grant Warner, three of Tombstone's crack nimrOds, re turned last evening from the lHuachuca mountains where they have been for the past two weeks in quest of deer. They tssucceeded in killing two of the l (fieet- footed animals after endur ling the .hardships of long noun ataip tramps, and to furnish &prOOf to their doubtful friends, 4 5sttey Drought in the heads of lone eight-point buck and OnesiX