The border vidette., 1916-01-29
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.

AdOUuSI DlS dlIl dIlu SnOp
 storm occurred in the Patag agonis
 country Wednesday, It was one
 of the largest precipitat tions O.
 the season and seemed to be
 general over this part of the
 state.
 Last Tuesday J. J. Casey came
 in from theTom Reed mill, bring
 ing with him the four bars of but
 lion that were secured from a
 cleanup for the month of Decem.
 Der. The bullion weighed some
 thing less than $1OO, 1000.
 Jake Johnson sends word to
 town from the Dixie, where has
 been taking out ore for the past
 several days, that he will soon
 have shipment ready. He says
 everything is looking fine at the
 lead mine. .-Pata agonian.
 Yuma Valley is not large, but
 it is one of the most prod uctiye
 valleys in the world. It is locat-
 ed in the southern end of Yuma
 county, traversed by the Yuma
 Valley Railroad, building, paved
 highways, has good people, good schools, good churches and the most dependable government ir- rigation system in the world.- Clarion.
 Casa Grande is about to take | the lead in the matter of m municip- al ownership of public utilities | Not only is this progressive town to own it's water and electric light plants but it is to have municipal ice plant, which is to furnish the citizens of the town with the cold stuff at the rate of fifty cents per one hundred pounds. Tempe News.
 John c. Wichmann, who re- gently took over the tungten mines twelve miles east of Yucca, was in Kingman this morning and reports that the shaft that is being sunk on his group of tungsten claims has reached a depth of 40 feet and that a won- derful body of tungsten ore has been opened. He is also driving a drift on one of the veins and get ting great ore.
 One of the heaviest rain and snow storms ever witnessed in Benson occurred this week. The rain started early Wednesday morning and about noon it turn ed to snow. By night a blanket | of snow about two inches thick | covered the ground. Itcontinu- ed to storm all day Thursday. 1 Some of the snow is still OF the | ground. The storm did no dam age in this vicinity and is a great | benefit to cattlemen and farmers. 
 Recla nation and development of 12, ,OOO acres of land lying east of Maricopa on the main line of the Soul thern Pacific railroad has been begun by the Whyman Land 6 Development company of Phoenix, which has already started work on the first of sev- eral pumps installed. A town site of 80 acres surrounding the station at MaricOpa is being laid out and work on a new hotel aod office building for the company and several new stores will be under way within 30 days.
 Such a storm. Not the oldest resident of Courtland has any re- collection of as heavy a snow storm as visited this community during Wednesday and Wednes- day night and spent Thursday aud the forepart of the evening off. Automobiles, mo torcycleS, and even wagons were given one full day of rest, there being urgent need of some form of a rotary snow blow to make moving about possible, but de- livery wagons started moving Friday, finding travel very hard.
 The Blue Eagle in the Alum Gulch is one of the prospects in the Patagonia country which is very favorable atten- tion from mining men just now. It is owned by Marshall McDon- nell, Lou and Harry Stevens and Kane. Work is being dcne in winze now down about 100 feet, from which crosscut ting to the vein will soon begin. A tunnel has been run on the property for over 200 feet, and considerable good ore is in sight. The cross