The border vidette., 1914-03-07
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

By fall the Smithville EX
 tension Canal will have beer
 completed and 52OO acres o1
 land in the Gila valley will be
 reclaimed and increased in value
 by over half a million dollars
 The land is between Fort
 Thomas and Matthewsville.
 Douglas has followed the eX-
 ample of Phoenix and has held
 an 'everybody go to church
 Sunday, with conspicuous sue
 cess. There is no Sunday clos
 ing law for saloons in the smelter
 city, as there is in Phoenix, but every saloon and pool hall in the
 town closed during the clay to assist the church movement.
 The Mesa Egyptian Cotton Exchange has an order from Manchester, England, for fifty bales of long staple cotton. Mesa has sold this seasons crop and will have to turn the order over to some of the other eH- changes of the valley who have stock enough on hand to supply the order. Phoenix Republican.
 The sloughs at the intersec- tion of the Salt and Gila rivers i will be planted with wild rice, celery and other plants on which migratory birds will feed and will afford them shelter in the nestling season, according to the decision reached Thursday by State Game Warden Frank w Rogers and Indian Agent Frank A. Thackery. Tucson Citizen.
 Another gusher for the San Simon valley. The latest. and one of the very best artesian wells in the valley now goes to Chas. w. Grant, a former re- sident of Kelley, N. M, who has made this his home for about two years, with his family. There is a flow of over POO gallons per minute at depth of about 585 feet. It is a , inch hole.-The Artesian.
 The newly appointed com missioner of immigration of Santa Cruz county is planning a mine bureau similar to the one that has been formed by the Prescott Chamber of commerce. He has called upon all mine and claim owners to file statements of the character of the properties they hold, character of ore, for nation and the amount of work of all kinds done on such claims.
 Notifica ton to the various rail roads of the state that they must appear and show reason why they should not carry passen- gers in the state of Arizona at the rate of three cents for each mile travelled, was sent out by the state corporation com mission. The hearing will be had on April 1st and all roads in the state are called upon to appear on that date.-Repub- Hcan.
 When the municipal judge of Douglas dropped hint that l two women he had just sentenc- ed to 100 days in jail on vagrancy charges, might have their sent ences suspended if they would | leave town at once, the hint was | eagerly taken and the prisoners | agreed to leave without delay. | The arrests resulted from the efforts of the police to keep vice | to the restricted district.
 Three hundred Mexican re- sidents of Tucson met recently for the purpose of observing the first anniversary of the death of President MaderO and Vice President Suarez. The eulogy of Madero was delivered by E. V. Anaya, agent in Tucson for the Sonora ConstitutionaliSt It seems that the Mexican residents of Tucson, or rather a majority of them are of the Carranza re- volution.
 A Cananea dispatch says: The Sonora government has ruled that the export duty on ores must be paid in gold. This may mean the shutting down of the Cananea Consolidated and the throwing out of employ ment of 1 ,OOO men. Dr. l.. D. has declared that ne cannot see how the company can operate under this condition, since it is obliged to