The border vidette., 1916-10-21
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our Exchanges.

Redskin against paleface will ] be the situation in the San Xa- vier marathon Thursday after noon, October 27, when the feet footed Papago and Pima youths line up against their white com petitors for the long ten mile I grind on the half mile track at 1 the Southern Arizona fair.
 Jerome reports that within the last six months the express and telegraph business of the town has more than doubled. To ac- commodate the tradic a new building is being put up between the Miller store aud the United Verde Hospital It will be 2Ox5O feet, and will house the express company and the Western Union Telegraph Company.
 The reports which have been sent in to District headquarters of the Forest Service for Ariz- ona and New Mexico indicate that the Forest fire season is practically closed for this year in the two states. In ordinary I of bad Forest fires in the fall of the year, with the exception of | the extreme northern forests of New Mexico.
 Plans for the vast amount of tailings now on the dump below Hayden are being prepared by the Ray Consolidated Copper con pany which owns and oper- ates a 100000 ton concentrat- ing plant here. The new plant will have a. daily capacity 5000 tons of tailings and will employ betwe en 200 and 30Omen. It will be located on the bank of the GiIa river, close to the tailings dump, which consists of millions of tons with a low copper con | tent.
 | Application has been made to the State Corporation CommiS- phone and Telegraph Company for permission to dispose of it's property to the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Com pany. The application will be heard before the commission, at Phoenix, Monday, October 18th. The New State company is a local system, operating in O. chise county. with central office at Dragoon. D. A. Adams is president of the company. son Signal.
 Unprecedented prices of rnohair are being received by Yavapai goat raisers at the present time. Shipping early in September from Kirkland valley, at price of 38 cents per pound, the high est ever paid. Consignments total over 6O.OOO pounds from two loca lities of this county, of the seasons clip. and which next year it is stated will be swelled to over 75,OOO pounds. The healthy outlook of the industry is reflected in many new invest ors coming, as well are old time goat men enlarging their hold ingS.
 Arizona has no local facilities for marketing or manufacturing l livestock prod uctS. It happens that fully five times as much hog products are consumed in the state as are produced here. On the other hand, more sheep and cattle are produced in the state than are consumed. Thus it is shown that we should at least have market facilities for collecting, killing and preparing the animal products for market locally to supply the products used at home. : At the present time very few of the towns or cities use local meats but ship them in from eastern markets. Governor Hunt returned from a tour of the north on Tuesday
 to attend to official business. He
 will be one of the principal speakers at the big rally in
 Phoenix Saturday evening in
 which all state candidates will
 participate. E veryw h r e
 throughout the north were big
 crowds to meet the democratic
 candidates and were well receiv-
 ed. The governor is popular
 throughout the entire state and
 many guesses are made that he
 will carry every county. Some
 people believe Campbell has a