The border vidette., 1916-05-27

| HdpdSOeS were cldHlOflnS CO JOfn
 the guard, and that he expected
 at least forty men to enlist.
 With those recruits the Indian
 company will have strength of
 approximately 80 which will
 make it the largest and strong
 est of all of the Arizona Nation
 al Guard units.-TucSon Citi-
 zen.
 Those who predicted a greater ! year for the San Diego Exposi
 tion in 1916 than during 1915
 are having their innings. The
 attendance for the first month
 since the formal dedication day,
 March IS, has been more than
 75, ,OOO greater than for the cor
 responding month of 1915. The
 wonderful displays of Canada,
 France, Italy, Germany, Austria
 and other governments particip
 ating at San Francisco have
 added greatly to the 1915 ex- 1 hibitS.
 Extremes in daily temperat-
 ure make travel by motor truck
 over the barren wastes of North
 ern Mexico a hardship to Amer ican drivers engaged in General
 Pershing'S Villa hunt. Follow ing a day of scorching heat will
 come night of chills and frost.
 It is common fol drivers to post pOne advances in the morning until the suns warmth has Smelt- ed the ice in the radiators De-
 spite such handicaps, the manner in which the more than 300 American made motor trucks are
 being managed is a tribute to American ingenuity.
 The dry farmer in semiarid region has certain clearly mark ed and unqueStioned advantages over those who farm either un- der abundance of natural preci- pitation or irrigation. Perhaps the most important advantage which the dry farmer has in our the rainfall farmer further east, and the irrigation farmer in the Same region, is in the smaller investment necessary to provide himself with the land needed for the support of a family. In Ariz- ona he can still acquire these | lands under the homestead law | at a cost per acre relatively low. |
 Folks down at Nogales are all het up" over the coming | city election, which takes place 1 next Monday. Judging from newspaper comments the Line City's election will be hotly | contested affair, and some of the 1 natives of that thriving little burg seem to think it is the greatest event of the season. It is only a preliminary, however. The big show will start short time after the Nogales city cleo tion. Already the politickin- ers' are throwing their heads up into the air like an old war horse who sniffs the scent of afar, in anticipation of the county, state and national elections. On the eve of the approaching campaign one hears the names of nearly every citizen in county mention ed for some office. Most of those mentioned will not run, but from present indications it seems there will be a tolerably fair candidate crop in this county this fall.-Patagonian.
 With 'baby beef" selling in the yards at $9.15 a hundred, the value of high class sires be- comes apparent and the day Of the scrub bull is almost thing of the past. It has got to the point where the cheapest bull is the most expensive in the long run and the time will come when no stockman who is paying any attention to the business will think of paying less than S25O.OO or S5OO.OO for his sires, and even at that price they will pay for themselves in one year. Very soon a two year. old steer will be a curiosity on the range-we shall have nothing but cows, and cows at the present time and in the future are going to be highly respected citizens and will undoubtedly be kept in ser vice until they reach ripe old age and then be pensioned in stead of going to the market as 'cannerS. It is not in the pro- vince of market paper to pro- phesy, but those of our readers who follow the livestock busi-