The border vidette., 1916-12-16
Ia view of the fact that re-

it would appear that the Ariz- ona National Guard should re-
 ceive some atten tion in this
 respect, and several hundred citizens of Graham county have signed petition, asking that
 Stafford Company B, First Ariz- ona Infantry, be relieved from further border duty.
 Announcement was recently
 made by Dr. R. B. von Klein
 Smid, president of the Univer- Sity of Arizona, of new biolo-
 gical station in the Santa Cata-
 lima mountains. This station
 will be about 25 miles from
 Tucson, on a section of land
 which has been leased by the
 university for period of 30 years.i The work will be under
 the dlfection of Dr. J. J. Thorn.
 Der, professor of biology and
 botany.
 Nine lists of land selections were filed in the local land office this morning by the state land commission as follows: For university purposes, 7,5O5. .36 acres; normal schools, 1,964.16 acres; payment of principal and accrued interest on the bonds of Yavapal, Maricopa. Coconino and Pima counties, 8,299. IS acres; Agricultural and mechan- ical colleges, 3, ,36O acres; insane asylum, 3, 546.7 .77 acres. Total 24,- 675. 4 acres.
 The phenomenal price of 528 cents a pound reached by Ariz- ona grown Pima Cotton" and the scarcely less phenomenal average of 45c. brought by the Arizona grown Yuma" variety has brought the cotton growing sections of Southern Arizona to the front as the most remarkable cotton growing district in the world. The absence in Arizona of both the destructive Mexican cotton boil weevil and the still more destructive Egyptian Pink Boil Worm will be as important factors as any in the future of this great industry.
 The ancient town of Tubac, scene of a silver mining boom in the early days of Arizona, may be depopulated as the re- suit of ejectment proceedings filed in the federal court yester day by the heirs to the land comprised in Baca float No. 3, Spanish grant in Santa Cruz county. Some 87 inhabitants of the town and settlers in the vicinity are made defendants by James E. Bouldin and Helen l.. Bouldin of Kansas City, Mo. David Bouldin of Austin Texas, and Weldon M: Bailey of Gains vile, Tev., the heirs.
 Drift and boundary fences about the ranges of the Chirica- hua- Coronado national forest are being planned for the coming year by local forestry officials. The fencing of the ranges by the local forest is the particular work being undertaken by the local forestry officials the pre- sent year. The plans for fenc ing are being made under the charge of Hugh M. Bryan, who was sent here recently to take charge of this feature of the work. He made surveys last on the Huachuca and Santa Rita divisions of the na tional forest where the first fences will be built. Other divi- sions will be taken up later. It is hoped eventually to fence the whole of the forest reserves. The benefits to cattlemen will be 
 One hundred miles north of Flagstaff is the location where the Navajo Copper company is This is one company that is not selling stock. The people who own the property | are operating it themselves. A big bin on the sand Mesa, 25 | miles from the mines, has been established. From this point big auto trucks will haul the product of the mines to Flag staff, there to be shipped over the Santa F'e to El PaSo for | Mining.men who have visited that section say the Ma vajo project is one of the great | est mining propositions in the state of Arizona. The quantity | of ore is practically unlimited and it is rich enough to haul a hundred miles by auto and then