The border vidette., 1915-08-28

 steaders have filed on land in years.
 A sheep dog was sold by a Bisbee man recently. for S1OO. The dog was cross between @ Siberian wolf hound and Shep- herd dog.
 Twenty-seven building per mits. totalipg investment of about S15O,OOO were issued in Miami the first twelve days of the pre- sent month.
 When Arizona counties get through voting bonds for good l roads, the state will be in posi- tion to have the finest roads in | the southwest.
 Four hundred head of horses and mules to be used by Con- tractor Maxey in constructing She Gila Bend Ajo railroad, are | being brought in Yuma county.
 We are pleased to see the large attendance of the Northern Nor nal school it's fall opening. | Arizona is proud of her splendid l Normal c hools. - Dunbar's Weekly.
 The Tempe Normal school is not surpassed in educational | qualities by any educational in stitution in the southwest, and Professor Mathews ranks with the leading educators of the na tion.
 All the sheep and a portion of l the cattle in New Mexico are to be dipped beginning September 1st, according to a recent ruling of the Live Stock Sanitary Board and the U. s. Bureau of Animal Industry.
 A shipment of $500 gallons of prairie dogs was received here the first of the week. It is said | that one gallon of the gas has the power to do away with 15O dogs. Snowflake Herald.
 The corn crop in the -Tonto Basin is said to be unusually good this year. The few hogs that are permitted to graze on the Forest Reserve are getting fat, and the Indians are laying in big supply for winter.
 The little milling plant for the tungsten mines, twelve miles east of Yucca, is to soon be in commission, so we are informed. The mines show good bodies of milling ore and with the proper plant in operation the mines should soon be sending out large tonnage of that metal.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad Go. at present has force of men working on it's line about mile below Fairbank repairing the bridge which was washed the later part of December. The $. P. has been running over the B. P. 6 S. w. tracks from Fair bank to Benson, pending re- pairs to their line.
 Mohave county recently voted for the construction of the north ern highway through the county. The vote on the proposition stood four to one in it's favor. This makes a total of $2OO, ,OOO which that, the smallest county in the state, has voted for good roads. -Bisbeee Review.
 That Tucson is even better and more beautiful than the de- scriptions of it which have been circulated through the east, is the verdict of H. B. Erickson, advertising manager of the pub licity department of the Rock Island railway system, who was in the city Thursday gathering material for the fall publicity pamphlet of the railroad. Post.
 John P. Comay motored over to Mesa, Tuesday and returned with a check for S78, ,485.OO, the amount of money due the Union High School District from the sale of the high school bonds to the Mesa City Bank. Although the bonds are for $75. 1000, they brought a premium of 12, 535 and the accrued interest from the time of the sale to the date ot delivery of the bonds amounted to S95O, making a total of SIS, 485.OO These bonds are now in the local bank and are available for immediate uSe.-Blade.