The border vidette., 1916-04-15
Mining activity in the Johnson

tions point to increasing develop ment. <. Jos. LeDoux, who was
 down Sunday from Dragoon. re-
 ports a great deal of work going on in that section, and an army
 of prospectors, investigators and ore buyers coming and going ually.-BenSon Signal. One of the largest tungsten | properties may be developed l near Globe it is believed, as a
 result of the operations of the Powers Gulch Development com
 pany. B. F. Crawford reported
 last week that another good strike of tungsten ore baS been
 made on the property and that
 now more than half of the group
 of twenty three claims have been proven as bearing tungsten ore.
 | In letter to the editor Judge s. w. White, of Douglas, presi- dent of the Arizona Texas So-
 ciety, in referring to the meeting
 of "Texicans" at McNeal on the 22nd, says: II desire to extend
 to you personally an earnest in
 vitatiOn to be present at the time mentioned, and meet and mingle with a mighty fine bunch of people, most of whom still re- tain the names by which they
 were known back at the old
 home" "-The Benson Signal.
 A rich gold strike is reported to have been made six miles ] north of Price on claim located by Thos. N. English. At depth of three feet a vein nearly three feet wide has been uncovered showing values as high as $1OO to the ton. This claim was 1ocat- ed on April 1st and is named
 the April Fool. A singular CO., incidence on the location of his claim is that the locator was also born on April 1st. If this claim develops < with depth, Price is due to besplaced on the map as gold camp$
 Owing to the dark yolks of local eggs, Wm. Griffiths, who has been at Douglas seeking an outlet for our Then fruit" was obliged to give up the effort be- cause Douglas people rejected the eggs on the ground that the dark yellow gave them the ap- pearance of being old. As a re- suit the matter was taken up with the University of Arizona Extension service, which has de- livered an opinion on the subject and started campaign of educa tion on eggs containing dark yolkS, which are caused by al falfa. A light colored yolk is no different than a dark colored one.-Chandler Arizonan.
 Tombstone, in keeping with all other enterprising towns and cities of the state has a Nation al Rifle Club and it's organization was perfected today, when large number of prominent citi zenS and officials met at the courthouse, talked the matter over, and perfected the organiza- tion. In Cochise county there are no more than four or five clubs, and as soon as the rifles and targets can be procured Tombstone will be among the active list. Competitive shoots are arranged between the various clubs from time to time, and. with 8 number of average good shots in hescity, Tombstone will no doubt make a favorable showing:
 '~ Stockfnen in the vicinity of Fairbank and Hereford are be- ginning to realize that the work of the U. of A. Agricultural Elk tension Service as now carried on, is decidedly practicable. Re gently Prof G. w. Barnes, Live. stock. Specialist of the Agricul- etural Extension Service, held three field meetings with a total attendance of 42 -stockmen, at which he vaccinated 927 head of cattle for blackleg. The Boqui- Has. Land & Catt1e Company have been losing calves rapidly for, some, time and did not know for. sure whether blackleg was causing the damage; in fact, IS head had died in three days. Prof. Barnes was called and not only demonstrated how vaccina- tion for blackleg was done, but as a result the number of deaths has been greatly reduced. Many of the Stockmen present knew little or nothing about blackIeg and the majority of them had no