The border vidette., 1916-10-07
ARIZONA NOTES.
items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

few miles west of Fronteras and about 20 miles south of Douglas, are now the home of several bands of cattle and horse thieves, terming themselves patriots, but affiliated with no Mexican party, according to pewS reaching here. They have been rather active of | late, so much so that Colonel A.
 Fraijo, commanding Agua Prieta,
 has sent out troop patrols to drive them from the mountains.
 Pros pectcr.
 A very promising mining prop erty is that of the Elephant group of six. copper claims with
 mill and shelter sites, located one and one half miles west of Pata gonia, alongside the main
 wagon road. The vein has an easterly- westerly trend, is from p to 60 feet wide of iron oxide liberally impregnated with mal achite assaying as high as per cent copper and S1O in silver. Considerable ore was shipped from this property in 1902 by Wm. Powers and A. Stockton.- PatagOnian.
 Miss M. B. Leverich, one of the most prominent land attor- neys of the southwest, will re- tire from business she has con- ducted for Is years. She was with the Arizona land office in Tucson and followed it to Phoe- nix, wbere she esta biished the firm of M E. Leverich 6 Co.,, which has handled 35O.O 900 acres of scrip. as we'll as hundreds of regular filings. The interest of Miss Leverich in the business she esta bliShed has been taken up by John H. Page, once terri torial secretary of Arizona.
 Arizona's revenue from auto mobile and other motor vehicle licenses for the year 1916 will be approximately S80, ,OO0 according to figures made public at the office of Secretary of State Sid ney P. Osborn. Up to Septem- Der l, the states receipts from the sale of auto licenses, motor cycle license tags, etc, was S69,- ZOO.O OO. UT CuIy GuS ISFSH uO derived from this business was $2889 and for August $23O6. At this rate it is estimated that the total receipts for the year will be near the $8O, ,OOO mark.-Cop- per Camp.
 Dependents of national guards men who are employees of the Nl . M olH ing company will receive finan- cial assistantance from the com pany while away in active ser vice, according to statement issued by General Manager P. P. Beckett. The amount of sup port the company will give will be determined by the number of dependents and the circum stances of each individual case. Employees whether single or married will be given their jobs again upon return from the bor der.-Globe Record.
 Coyotes are becoming so nervy these days they come right into town to visit us. Tuesday night they made their way to the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay, who lives in the south suburbs of Snowflake, and purloined two chickens. The afternoon of the following day Mrs. Lindsay saw two coyotes in the close proxim- ity of her residence. Early in the year several reported losses of young chickens from these animals. The rabbit crop and other varmints coyotes prey up on must be very short this year. Snowflake Herald.
 Carl Smith, one of the pros porous valley ranchmen, has contracted his cotton seed at $26 per ton, and will have about $4 500 worth at this figure. Two years ago. before the gin and oil mill facilities were brought to the very doors of the valley people, cotton seed sold at about $9 per ton. The price of seed to them this year will be the means of greatly enhancing the value of the cotton crop, and means the development of the industry to it's fullest capacity. The crop of cotton in the valley this season proves that there is no better place in the United T. Il ( l.