The border vidette., 1916-09-02
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

| fner resort
 Cochise, one of the banner de-
 mOcratic counties of the state,
 comes through with what they
 claim is the lowest tax levy in
 the state of Arizona. County
 tax is placed at 43 and state tax
 at 10 cents on each $1OO valua- | tion.
 Summer rains in Cochise coun-
 ty were late this year. the first ones coming between July 10 and II. As a result, dry farm crops will be late. A large acreage of | beans was put in as late as Aug ust l. Most of the early plant ingS of l3afir and SumacSOrghum are doing very well.
 James A. Taylor, a printer, known to his associates as Chip py," and a paroled prisoner from the Florence penitentiary releas- ed by the parole board, was ar rested and placed in the county jail late last Saturday night on charge of threatening the life of Fred Cutler, foreman of the Citizen. Taylor has been enjoy ing parole from long term sen- tence for murder.
 The old Planet mine on Bill Williams Fork that was in the height of it's prosperity in the early eos, is again shipping ore under lease and bond. The mine has been worked spasmodically for many years, although it has produced rich copper and silver ore. It is hoped that the old property has taken on new lease of life and will again be a factor in the production of the copper ore of the state.
 Blake, Moffitt 6 Towne, -tEe great wholesale paper firm of Los Angeles, will establish a branch office in Phoenix. It will be under the direction of B. A. Doran, who has had charge of company's business in this state. Henceforth Doran'S headquart- CTS will be in Phoenix. Though he will tour the state as former ly, he will always be represent ed at the branch office. Doran is well known in Tucson.
 The old hard luck of repub- lican candidates for governor of Arizona seems to have attached itself to Tom Campbell early in the game. His friends put him on horse and discover that he can't. ride; he almost gets his neck broke. He goes out on the desert, gets caught in a cloud burst, he can't swim and he gets almost drowned. His party puts him up for governor but when the ballots are counted it will be found that he couldn't run; he gets lefG.-Tempe News.
 Sonora, Mexico, the state bordering on Arizona, has settl- ed down to business ducing the past few weeks. The big min ing enterprises at Cananea, El Tigre and Nazari are now going at almost full blast and every where throughout the state comes reports of renewed buSi- ness activity. Sonora has suf- fered much during the five years of strife but it has not been torn with such strife as in the state of Chihuahua. In Sonora the officials are doing we'll by their own people and Americans who are carrying on enterprises there seem to be treated fairly. Messenger.
 An interesting voucher pass ed through the general offices of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company the first of the week; interesting for two reasons, not only by reason of the amount thereof, but more especially for the fact that it was a gift to the state. In amount 1t was S14, 457.CO, and it was sent to the of cials of the University of Ari- zona at Tucson as the proportion of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company's payment for the erec- tion of a building for the College of Mines, a part of the State University. Altogether there was contributed $1OO, ,OOO by the mining companies of the state, those contributed being the Cop per Queen, the Detroit Copper Mining Company, Old Dominion, Inspiration, Calumet & Arizona and the Miami Company.