The border vidette., 1915-08-21
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

the month of July amounted to $32, ,OOO.
 The Flagstaff Normal School has an enrolment of two hun dred for the summer term.
 The Pima County tax rate is 25 cents over last year, due to loss of revenue from saloons. Nearly 300 tons of copper was used in building ocean to ocean telephone lines and most of it came from Arizona.
 Ranchers of Coconino county have organized a cooperative selling system for potatoes and other farm products.
 The next meeting of the Co., chise County Cattle Growers Association is to be held in Tombstone the last Monday in August.
 Several persons from Phoenix came to Miami recently, and were unable to secure rooms. Miami is evidently having a house famine.
 Bernard Johnson, the Yuma | dlLI odO0 hlHS, lo Jdoo C1ON from Egypt, where he secured thousands of date seedlings, which will be planted in Yuma county.
 Rains have been plentiful and arrived at the right time of year throughout Northern Arizona, and stockmen look for an ex- ceptional year of prosperity in both cattle conditions and prices. l During the months of April and July total of 453 acres of land within the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, were listed with the secretary of the interior, and will shortly be opened to entry under the forest homestead act.
 In 1914 the United States pro- duced 1 PAY tons of asbestos, valued at S16, ,81O, according to the annual report on the pro- duction of asbestos just issued by the United States Geological Survey. Copies of the report tiOn.
 Bright times seem to be coming to good old Tombstone, as we are informed there are on- ly two vacant houses in the town and every carpenter in the place is putting in full time either on new buildings or re- pairing the old ones in order to meet the demand.
 Dave Reid, one of the best known railroad men in the South west. is now general manager O. the Gila Auto Service company, which operates the Red Jitney Cars" throughout the district. he has host of friends in that section who will gladly assist him to secure success.
 State prisoners will soon be at work on the state highway be- tween Bisbee and Tombstone. That is a piece of road that causes good deal of trouble in wet weather. The road over the mountain from Bisbee is a fine piece of road construction and it's completion now to Tomb stone is the proper thing.
 J. I I1OOd, S0CF0GdIy OI O10 Cochise County Cattle Growers Association, reports the range in the Chiricahua mountains in splendid condition, so says the Tucson Citizen. The recent rains have lef5 the ground in splendid shape and the grass is growing fine. Cattlemen are eX- pecting better prices and sales of cows with calf are reported at $71.
 Forty three mines in Mohave county produced ore during the year 1914, as reported by the U. S. Geological Survey. If news paper reported that there were that number of producing mines in the county people residing right in this mineral field would say that it was newspaper story and not to be believed Mohave county is so big and it's area so wonderful that few peo- pie really can grasp it's great possibilities. Mohave county has over 13, ,OOO square miles of ter ritory; it is mountainous, and every range is gridironed with veins of mineral. It's valleys would be among the most fertile in the state was it possible tC 1 1ua Tor onto thorn Minor