The border vidette., 1916-06-03
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
 Exchanges.

The impurities that are most
 incriminated against in tungsten
 ores are tin, antimOny, bisn uth, ,
 copper and Surphur, but forum
 ately Arizona tungsten has been
 comparatively free from these elements.
 Geo. F. Weiland is still get
 ing out Ore and sacking it from
 his property at Jefferson Camp,
 in Harshaw district. He believes
 the smelters will some day again
 be in the the market for the pur-
 chase of ore, and that he will be
 able to dispose of it then. .-Pata
 gonian.
 Petition will soon be in cir culation for the initiation of a law legalizing the reading of the
 Bible, without comment" in
 the public schools of Arizona. It is endorsed by the Arizona Sunday School associa tion, the
 w. c. T. U., and otl-er religious OrginationS.- International.
 The United States Civil Ser vice Com mission announces an open competitive examination on June 2 in all of the principal cities | in the United States. Several vacancies now exist in the U. S. Patent office at Washington, D. c. which will be filled from the eligible register resulting from this examination. The salary is $500 per annum.
 Chloride wishes to be host to Mohave county July f. For that purpose a large sum of money has been subscribed for a three day-July ?, 3 and 4-celebra- tion of diversified character and celebrate detail Nothing will be spared to make the big zinc and silver camp the most sue ceSSful entertainer that eyer en- tered the field in competition for the crown.
 A decision rendered by the su- preme court of the United States with eSpect to exaggeration in advertising, is of very great inn pOrtance to the many new pro- motions of mining investments, says the Arizona State Bureau of Mines. The court held that | eXaggeration of statement was as much misrepresentation in kind if not in degree, as deliber- ate falsehood.
 The only drawback to the un- eXampled prosperity of Arizona | has been removed and the for ward speed of development of | the state during the next few months will be as never before | in it's history, says a report of | the Arizona State Bureau of | Mines. The low price of silver no longer hangs over the market | affOrding an excuse for the delay | in the restoration of the high | state of prosperity.
 Postmaster Charles Metcalfe | has received from the postoffice department at Washington a re- quest for data relative to prices of available sites and other ne i ceSsary information for the guid- ance of the officials of that de- partment in considering the ad- visibility of the erection of a. federal building here for post office and other purposes. There is great need of the erection of such building in Kingman, as not only is the town itself grow ing rapidly but the population of. Mohave county, of which Kingman is the hub and logical supply point, is steadily increas- ing in consequence of the phe nomenal expansion of the min ing industry.-M Miner.
 County Recorder Owen E. Murphy has written to Attorney Wiley B. Jones for an opinion on the non partisan registration question. A number of those who have already registered have written in to have their re- gistra tions changed so as to now insert a party where they re- fused or neglected to name their party affiliations at the time they registered. The general impress sion here is that blanks as they have subscribed and sworn to before a notary public. If the changes were to be allowed there would be opened a chance to de- feat the very purpose Of the new law that requires voter to ex- his o1,tu lif1oo fioro ofl