The border vidette., 1915-02-06
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Called From Our
 Exchanges.

jury tial in the justice court
 Wednesday and was found guilty
 of conducting a gambling house
 was brought before the court
 yesterday morning for sentence.
 He was assessed a fine of $1OC
 or the alternative of serving 1OC
 days in the county jail. Yuma
 Sun.
 Kingman this week has been
 visited with one of the greatest
 storms in years, the fall of rain
 being of the old-fashioned kind
 slow, drizzly, but q great mass
 in the aggregate. On the noun
 tains, to judge from appear
 ances, the snow must have fal-
 len to a depth of at least two feet.
 While doing assessment work
 for Dennis and Hopkins of Fen ner on claims in the Providence mountains, two miners doing the work discovered on the surface near the shaft, ore of great value. It is said that the gold is in abundance in the samples secured and there has as a con- sequence, resulted some excite i ment. Some of the richest gold ore ever found in the state of California was brought out of | the Providence mountains and this find is not surprising Needles Nuggest.
 The Phoenix Gazette seems to 1 have taken a back track on the 1 ;,,I that it so vigorously supported when it was propOsed.-CO 1 nino Sun. The cold facts are u at the Arizona Gazette is run by a bunch of stand Republicans wbo jumped on the Democratic band wagon when they knew that the jumping was good. And, if they get it into their heads that the wagon is having trouble with it's running gear, they will jump off for the same reason. Prescott Courier.
 A shipment of 75O head of cattle from Hereford to Califor- nia will be made today by J. M. Ronstadt The cattle imported from Sonora from the Pesqueira ranch, south of Cananea, and | were brought over the line the | first of the week. From present | indications there will be no l more cattle exported from Son ora on account of the recent or der of Governor Maytorena | that there should be no more | cattle shipped, according to re- ports. It is believed that the order originated from General l Villa and that Maytorena is only | carrying out Villas orders. - Star
 An interesting old book pub lished in 1913 tells of the first | discovery of platinum, a metal | which is now being more and | more used for articles where | sary. It is said to have been | found at Choco and Santa F'e in South America, and was long supposed to exist only there. It | has since been found in Brazil, | in the Ural mountains and in Spain. It was at first used | chiefly in chemical experiment | and research. It has many of | the qualities of gold and silver, such as ductility and malleabil- | ity. It looks most like silver i but has a different sheen, and is | especially good for setting dia- monds or indeed any jewels.
 All agricultural land in the Coronado forest will be classified l and described in report that | will made in the course of a year by Rex King, a valuation expert of the United States for estry department, who is expect | ed to arrive in a short time from Albuquerque. The work that | King will do will be very valu- able and helpful to the local for estry office. Hitherto whenever anyone wanted to make a filing on any agricultural land in the | reserve, it was necessary for the | local officers to make an investi- | gation themselves and report on the suitability of the land for agricultural purposes. This was much trouble and expense. When King finishes his work, all that will be necessary when an application is made for land in the reserve will be to look up Kings report for information of | the land called fOr.-Star.