The border vidette., 1916-07-08
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culied From Our
 Exchanges.

Carpenters in the employ of the Southern Pacific company are this week tearing down the old ore dump in Patagonia, to re- place it with a larger new one. The new dump will be 200 feet long and over twice as wide as the old one. Dennis Gleeson is the carpenter in charge of the crew.
 Liquors for personal use can now be obtained from Fl Paso and Los Angeles by freight, as local tra fife officers of the South ern Pacific announced that they had received instruction that such shipments for points in Arizona would be accepted wherever originating Tucson Star.
 The Cudahy Packing Con- | pany with head quarters at Los | Angeles, proposes to buy S25O, GOO worth of lambs in Flagstaff territory, according to S. Izuel, representative of the company. l Mir. Izuel buys for his company in this territory every year. Lambs are now selling around $6-WilliamS News.
 The Santa Fe Railroad com pany has brought suit in Coco nino county, in an effort to have paid back to them, taxes paid by | that company on unSurveyed | lands held by them in that cOun- ty, setting up the plea that the county has no right to collect taxes on land that can not be completely described.
 Bituminous coal production in | the United States for the first | part of the present year was the greatest ever recorded in any half-year period the geological survey announced tonight. Els inmates by the survey put the lsix months output at 26f, ,O0O, GOO tons, a 35 per cent increase over the first of 1915 and a five per cent increase over the last six months of that year.
 If there is anybody in Oatman, or, Mohave county for that matter, who does not believe that the Big Jim is mine it is that persons own fault. Or if anyone, without other reason than mere opinion or report, thinks the riches of the Big Jim are not as previously represent ed by General Superin tendent A. G. Keating, if likewise is that persons fault. t.-Kingman Miner.
 Because they keep the shrubs and grass eaten off close to the ground, thus making it impos- sible to obtain forage for horses in certain localities, thousands of wild burroS now roaming on the depths of the Grand canyon are to be killed in the near, future, orders for the slaughter of the burros have been issued at Washington, and plans are now being made to have a great burro hunt in the canyon. It is estimated that there are 2O,OOO wild burros in the canyon Times
 Tom Frazier, of Tucson, who has contract from the Needles Smelling & Refining Co, a. subsidiary of the United States Smelling, Refining & Mining Co.,, to sink a shaft on the Maid of Sunshine mine, at Courtland, recently taken under option, has proceeded 70 feet. His contract calls for 12O feet below the 3OO- foot level. Another 3OO- foot shaft on the same property has been unwatered and the company will cross-cut 500 feet to get under old workings where ore was developed.
 Mrs. Josephine A. Saxon this week makes her announcement in the Patagonian for the office of county school superintendent, subject to the action of the De- mocratic voters at the primary. This will be pleasing news to Mrs. SaXon's many friends in this part of the county, who wish her continued in the office which she has so successfully filled. There is possibility that Mrs. Saxon will have no opposition for re election; cer- tainly not from the Democrats, and some Republicans also seem