The border vidette., 1916-04-01
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIied From Our
 Exchanges.

Instructions to recruit the F
 national guard companies of Ari-
 zona to war strength have been
 transmitted to- company com
 manderS by the adjutant gen
 eral, on orders from the war de- apartment.
 Freighters are bringing in ore
 this week from the Ruby Copper
 company, at the old Mansfield
 camp north of Patagonia, for shipment to the Smelter. A new
 blower is being put in and the
 shaft retimbered where needed. l The drift from the 45O level is
 being continued.
 That gray will soon become a dominanJ color in the clothing of both men and women if the European war continues another year, was the statement yester
 day morning of G. Dauielson, a Los Angeles dry goods salesman, who left for Nogales after spend
 Are you in favor of prepar- edness ?' ''No," replied Broncho Bob. 1T think it's all wrong for people to pack guns" But you are carrying one right now!" Sure. If I didn't, something might happen to me that 'ud keep me from eXertin' my moral influence in the cause of peace"
 Letters were received at the capitol today from Senator Hen " F, Ashurst and Congressman Hayden assuring their cordial sympathy with and intention to support the bill now before con- l gross, introduced by Congress- man Kent of California, and pro- viding for the relief of indigent | tubercular sufferers in the south | western states.
 Messrs. T. M. Heck and Will | liam Powers have bonded to Frank Reichert and J. B. P. 1 Schultz the Dick Bland group, situated in the Alto district. The buyers are mining men of large experience, who will be backed in the development and equip ment of the mine by San Fran cisco capital, and they will com mence work as soon as their OODSI OtJSI WILL DSI The price at which the mine is bonded is $75, ,OOO.
 A number Of ring -pecked pheaSantS have recently been received by State Game Warden Willard for liberation in Arizona The distribution of the birds for the southern portion of the state is in charge of Special Deputy Game Warden O. F. Hicks, sta toned at Tucson. The latter has just; shipped pair to the forest at Portal, Arizona, locat ed on the edge of the San Simon valley, where they will be liber- ated.
 w. A. Moses, one of the vice presidents of Fl Tigre company, and who has been interested in | different properties in the Pata- gonia country, principally the Chief, arrived in town this week ] from his home in Los Angeles | to see how work is progressing | at the Bradford, a few. miles be- l low town. Recently two cars of | ore were shipped from this prop erty, and considerable ore is in sight, the west drift said to be all in good commercial copper ore. .-Patagonian.
 Injuries about the head and chest were sustained by Tom Proscie, Espee extra brakeman on the Nogales branch, early yesterday morning when he fell from the top of boXcar on a work train at Chavez into a gravel pit. Proscie was rushed to Tucson, distance of forty miles. and taken to St. Mary's | hospital, where it was found | that one rib was broken, several teeth knocked out and his nose and chin badly bruised.-Tucson Star. ..-....t.. ...
 Messrs: Tribolet, Me Naught, Harman and Fitzgerald, who have group of claims in the Dragons about fourteen miles east of Benson, on Wednesday brought in about a thousand pounds of tungsten ore for ship ment to a firm in Philadelphia. The ore was 65 per cent pure and netted the shippers $2. 28 a pound. They have just begun to scratch the surface, and eX- Dect to make continued ship