The border vidette., 1916-08-19
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

every fall just proceeding the Arizona State Fair at Phoenix.
 Frank c. Whisman has been elected president of the North ern Arizona Fair association.
 High grade gold ore assaying over $500 ton has been struck at a depth of thirty feet on the property of the Oatman Empire mine. The company has over 100 tons of good milling ore on the dump, and will at once begin drifting at depth of sixty feet.
 The Arizona Taxpayers Mag azine is authority for the state ment that the total valuations the State of Arizona for the present year is $212, 3O1 .62O. 59. approximately one half of the total value of all property within the state.
 PeltS of two mountain lions, one of which measured nine feet from tip to tip have been brought to Prescott by J. 2. Patterson of L.. D. Thompson valley. Itis estimated that the two lions did hundreds of dollars worth of damage to live stock before they were killed.
 Globe may shortly become the export center of a valuable com modity. An expert is in the city for the purpose of making an analysis on certain guano de- posits within the radius of few miles of the city. The re- suit of his investigations as to quantity and quality will be made known shortly.
 Receipts from National For est for the fiscal year 1916 reached the highwater mark of approx mately $2,82O,OOO, ac- | COT ding to figures just compiled. This is $341 ,OOO above the 1915 total, which in turn exceeded any previous year. Officials say that the gain was due to increaS- ed demand for all classes of forest products.
 Salt river valley farmers south of the river are shouting for re lief from a pest of game and are welcoming sportmen. White wings and Sonora doves are swarming south of Phoenix, while on the farms below Mesa, bordering on the plain, the rab bits, jack and cottontail, are @ serious problem, hopping in to feed on alfalfa and grape vines. To attend the conference of state engineers with the Secre. tary of agriculture relative. to the expenditure of the federal appropriation for highway con struction, State Engineer Lamar | Cobb of Arizona is on his way to Washington. The appropria- tion carried by the Bankhead bill gives Arizona S68, ,OOO fed eral money to extend on high way construction next year. Survey and estimate of the proposed direct route from Pres colt to Jerome has been ordered by the Yavapai county board of supervisors following the filing of petitions by business men and property owners of both cities. The new road, which reduces the distance between Prescott and Jerome to thirty miles, will cost, | it is estimated, about $7OO,OOO. The present route is over sixty five miles.
 A tree six feet through at the stump and containing nine huge saw logs was recently cut on the Coconino National Forest of Ari- zona. according to a report re- ceived from the Forest Super visor at Flagstaff. Five of the logs were decayed, but neverthe- less, the tree contained over 5000 board feet of sound lumber, enough to build a good size house. The age of the giant was 400 years.
 Eighty trainloads of cattle and sheep will be this seasons out put from the Salt River valley ever the Southern Pacific rail road alone. Thirteen trainloads of sheep averaging twenty five cars have been shipped from Phoenix to Kansas City and at | least two more trainloads will be shipped during the season. Six ty four trainloads of beef cattle have been shipped from Phoenix l to Los Angeles.