The border vidette., 1914-06-13
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

cover over 2,OOO acres. Con-
 tracts for large shipments to
 important eastern cities have
 already been made.
 Borings for oil are being car
 ried on in several parts of the
 State. The Tonto Basin is now
 being explored, with many in
 dicatiOnS of success. The dis
 covery of oil in quantity will be of very great benefit to all parts of Arizona.
 With the announcement that he proposed to break up the habit of. ''pistol- toting," Magi- strating Mcbride yesterday af
 ternoon sentenced Ramon Leon to pay a fine of $50 or to serve the city for sixty days on the rock pile for for carrying con- cealed weapons Ga zette.
 Five thousand carnation plants are being set out by the Tucson Seed company on their new grounds west of the city in Menlo Park. Recently the com l pany set out 10000 rose bushes 1 which will not be availble for several years: Next they will set out a large number of | fgladiolas.
 | Plans for the Annul Midsum- mer Fair to be held in Phoenix lin July are we'll under way. Exhibits from all parts of Mari copa County will be on display and complete for prizes, which will total about $1 ,OOO, including many medals and cups. The carload shipments of products from the Salt River Valley in 1913 reached over S,S17. The Agua Caliente ranch, if teen miles from Tucson, has been purchased by pr. Martial Damaurette, world famous specialist on tuberculosis, for the purpose of erecting two sanitariumS on it. pr. Dam ourette has travelled to all parts of the world in search of a clim- ate that will be beneficial to tubercular patients, and states that of Tucson is ideal.
 The steel and material for the new cells to be installed in the county jail in Tombstone arrived | yesterday and are today being unloaded in the jail yard. Clerk 1 KargeS of the board of super viSorS states that work will be begun in several days, awaiting the arrival of the superintendent of construction. All felony prisoners now lodged in the county jail here are to be moved to Tucson for safekeeping. The University of Arizona Re gents will call for bids on the new agricultural building. This | contract will aggregate in the neighborhood of S15O,OOO and will be one of the largest build building and the lighting and heating apparatus will be let in separate contracts. The bids will be opened and the contracts let on June -25th when the re- gents will meet for this purpose.
 After suffering for more than week, Mrc- Refugio Luna de Camacho. wife of Salvador Camacho, formerly the prefect of | Hermosillo, died Wednesday af- | ternoon from the effect of seri- ous burns received last week when her hair caught fire after she had been bathing it in alcohol. She was 29 years of age and is survived by her husband and two children, a boy of and a girl of 3.-Tucson Post.
 At a regular monthly meeting of the city dads" at the City Hall last Monday, MT. Wm Cava- naugh was appointed council man of the fourth ward, vice Lee O. Woolery resigned, MT. Woolery having moved his re sidence out of the fourth ward and into the third. MT. Wool cry leaves the office with an ex- cellent record, having served as city clerk during his adminis- tration. MT. Cavanaugh has served several terms on the council before, and will make d good city officer, he having also served as clerk during his form CT administration. - Tom bStOne PrOSpectOr.