The border vidette., 1916-04-08
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

At the present time there i;
 more ore being produced in Co
 chise county than at any time ir
 it's history, and the mine owners
 are receiving more returns from
 their work than ever before.
 Evidence that Cochise county
 if prosperous, and more transac.
 tions of real estate and mining
 property are taking place than ever before in the history of the county, is taken from the month ly report of County Recorder Owen B. Murphy.
 Over in Yuma the other day. little Timothy Sullivan, aged IS months unScrewed the top of a five gallon can of kerosene, and put his mouth to the opening. The deadly fumes and some of the oil getting into his bronchial tubes quickly killed him-Pres- colt Courier.
 According to the annual report of C.. H. Bolin, state inspector. covering operations to Nov. 30, 1915, and which has just been printed, the number of men kill ed in and about the mines of Arizona fol 1915 was 49, as com pared with 62 in 1914, and 68 the year previous.
 Assistant Attorney General l George H. Harben, has given out an opinion that all mem bers of the United States regular army and civil service employees, l /! Tn dian reservation, are liable for school. road and personal prop erty taxes.-Globe Record.
 "As soon as you graduate, get you a good girl and get married. | You'll have to succeed then," was the advice given the mem- bers of the University Mining Society by Captain J. P. Hodg- son, uperintendent of Mines for the Copper Queen Company at Bisbee, during an informal dis cussion on the subject. How to make good after you graduate.
 The state plison has gone into the hog business. Mir. Sims in forms us that he has purchased a trio of Red Duroc hogs as a nucleus for a start in the hog business. The Red Duroc is very prolific and hardy animal and is said to be we'll adapted to climatic conditions in this part of Arizona as they with stand the heat remarkably we'll Blade.
 The big poles for the copper wire circuit which will put Tombstone in direct communica- tion with Frisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and New York, as well as the rest of the country, will be completed | Monday night, and work on the new city system will be started | as soon as the material arrives, the invoices of which are now in | the hands of Manager Evans ProSpector.
 A great deal, possibly all of the Borderland traffic is now go- ing via Benson and St. David. | The road from the Santa Cata- | lima mountains is badly cut up and in such bad condition that it is almost impossible. The ore | teams operating into Vail have | cut the State Highway so badly | that it is now one long series of ruts and should be fixed at the earliest moment. Tomb stone ProSpector.
 w. G. Pittock, a former Ariz- ona newspaper man, has listed the addresses of 400 former re- SidentS of Arizona now living in | California, giving the former Arizona address of each one. These will mailed to anyone de- string them at the rate of 50 cents per hundred names by ad- dressing MT. Pittock, 915 West | Fourth St., Los Angeles, Cal The list will be corrected quart erly for all patrons, without charge.
 M. H. Murphy and W. E. Dun lap have optioned their Demo crat property to A. c. Lambert | and J. H. Dugan, the considera- tion named being $3O,OOO. The property, which is located in the Wallapai mountains, about 16 miles east of Kingman, has been opened by long tunnel, and shows some nice bodies of gold and silver ore, which can readily