The border vidette., 1914-05-16
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

l Miami Copper company eStab-
 lished new low cost of pro-
 duction in March, when it laid it's copper down in the New York market at an average of
 sc cents pound. This is a
 decrease of 2 cents pound from
 the 1913 average cost of 1O.6
 cents.
 Under the recent opinion given 1 by Attorney General Bullard,
 declaring the legal right of
 boards of supervisors to grant
 contracts for road work, the su-
 pervisors let the contract to | Bane & Tarrant for the paving
 of the road from Bisbee to War
 ren at $1 .95 per yard. Review. Many deaths among the In | dians of the Colorado River re-
 servation have been reported
 the last 10 days. Some assert
 the death rate for the past week
 or more has averaged one each day. If the government does
 not soon get busy and provide proper sanitary homes for the
 local Indians they will soon be-
 come extinct. according to the death rate of the past few months Parker Post.
 Since the 24th of April over 10, ,OOO head of cattle have been shipped out of Sonora through the port of Nogales, mostly to points in California. Lately the Alamo Cattle company sold POO Mexican cows to Charles Goedka
 of Kansas City for $40 per head f. O. b.. Nogales, Arizona. A large number of the cattle are in good order and are shipped through in cars It is expected that more than the above num-
 Der will be shipped out within the next week.
 Two hundred and seventy men distributed in 10 camps, are rushing El Campo Real, which is-the Befdefiand route from Santa Fe to Ell Paso, to com
 pletion, this means that the road from Raton to Ell Paso will
 be completed and in good con dition for the exposition year, the 10 camps are at WatrouS, near Las Vegas, Glorieta, near Albuquerque, Isleta, Socerro,
 San Marcial, Nogal and Se1don, of the above force 15O men are paid labor, the rest being con- victs. ts.-Prospector.
 Percy V. Coldwell, superin- tendent of the Pioneers Home. has brought a second suit against the Journal Miner Pub fishing Company. In the first suit he asked for $2O.OOO dam ages. Being non-suited in this case, he instituted the second suit and asks for $3O,OOO dam ages, alleging that he has re- ceived additional damages through the publication of what was alleged to be an account of the investigation proceedings held recently before J. c. Gala han, member of the Board of Control. Prescott Courier.
 On Monday of this week the management of the Florence Hotel passed out of the hands of l.. K. Drais and to those of R. B. George, who has purchas- ed the furniture and taken a lease on the hotel property for term of years. MT. George is a well-known hotel man, who until quite recently was in the hotel business in Phoenix, and | it is predicted that he will put the Florence Hotel in the front | ranks of hostelries along the | Borderland route, a place where | the traveller will be glad to stop | for a good meal and a nights | 
 The Globe district is in the l midst of the cattle shipping sea- son and many prominent ranch CTS and cattlemen are in the | city attending to preliminaries to shipping. Wednesday John Griffin loaded 800 head out of Cutter, the consignment going to Pueblo, Colo, to the Harley and Talbot company and the Pueblo Live Stock Commission John McCarty repre- sented the Colorado company. One of the largest shipments re- ported in this district was made from Radium Wednesday, 12OO head being sent by Armer Bro fhorS of T,iUin0St0o K IT Coon