The border vidette., 1916-01-22
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIled From Our
 Exchanges.

| The Pure MIX CluO or w drren and Bisbee are after the milk dealers in an effort to secure better milk for the babies for the coming season.
 Over in Yuma the other day a couple were married and un- married in just one week. The man in the case supposed that a former wife was dead, and after marriage the second time dis covered that wife number one was still alive.
 Ore running $12,OOO to the ton has been struck in a twelve inch vein of crystal quartz in the Strahan property three miles be- low Camp Verde. The vein, which ran twelve inches at the surface, peacocked at the water level, when it turned into 42 per cent copper Sun.
 Over S3, 3,OOO was received by the state during the month of December in the shape of fees for the incorporation of invest ment companies, over sixty of W hich were granted permits to do business in Arizona during the month. Receipts for the year 1915 amounted to S56, 949. 40. The board of supervisors of Pima county has accepted the proposition of the RosecranS | Engineering company of Chicago to do the engineering work and supervise the construction of | highways under the $500, ,OOO bond issue. The company will be paid fee of per cent for the work.
 Friends of George A. Olney, former chairman of the demo cratic state central committee and a recognized leader of the conservative wing of the party, say that he has decided to enter the race for the nomination-for governor. Mir. Olney formerly lived in Graham county but now resides in Phoenix.
 Sheepmen in Yavapai county are having a hard time of it try ing to get their focks into the lower attitudes and out of the heavy snows. A big flock of | Campbell's sheep was caught in two feet of snow north of Pres colt, and it is thought many will perish before they reach open ground.-Mohave Miner.
 A report just issued by Tom Shaughnessy, secretary of the state fair commission, shows that the disbursements of the commits sion for all purposes in 1915 were $7O, ,556. In 1914 the com mission disbursed $93, ,793 and left a deficit of $25, ,OOO, $5, 1000 of which had been brought over from the previous year. This deficit has been reduced to $25OO aud will be wiped out in few weeks.
 Insurance companies paid S57,- 789.22 into the insurance depart | ment of the corporation commits sion during 1915. The expenses were S4,749.97, leaving a net profit of $53, ,O48. .25. Superin- | tendent c. c. Thompson reports | that twenty eight life insurance l companies, seventy 1.-two fire in Surance companies and twenty six accident insurance companies are licensed to do business in | Arizona.
 Patents to 181, ,764 acres of land in various parts of the state have been received at the Ari- zona land office from Washing ton. This is land on which Ma vajo and Moqui base scrip has been filed. The patents are is- sued to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e Railroad company, or iginal holder of the scrip. The railroad company is now to deed the land to agents who sold the scrip and they, in turn, will deed it to the scrip purchasers.
 The Old Silver King, which a few years back was one of the biggest silver producers in the west, is again coming into the limelight and soon will be the scene of unusual activity. Dur ing the latter part of December the owners of Claim No. 74 and 74 Extension to the Silver King gave a bonded lease on these | twO claims for the Sum of $40 GOO