The border vidette., 1917-12-01
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.


 for $2.5O per hundred. Only few of the ranchers however, are selling at this price, most of them having stored their pota toes for the winter, or until prices go up.-Flagstaff Leader.
 An urgent appeal to the women of the country for more knitted sweater, socks and wrist lets for the soldiers and sailors has been made by the national Red Cross. Half million machine made sweaters have been purchased by the Red demands.
 Production figures of the Ray Consolidated Copper company for the third quarter of 1917 shows an output of 21, ,656, 342 pounds of concentrates as com pared with P, ,255. .598 pounds in the preceding quarter. The daily milling average was 9.797 tons as compared with 9,8O4 tons daily during the previous three months.
 Diamond drilling operations have begun at the property of the Magma Chief Copper con- pany at Superior, drills having started Tuesday morning. The first hole is being started at the 900 foot point in the Watson tunnel and will be approximately 600 feet deep. Progress was being made this week at the rate of about fifteen feet day.-Cop per Camp.
 The campaign for the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals will soon be under way in Arizona and the State Anti Tuberculosis society has fixed as it's goal the sale of 100000 seals at one cent each, or $1O.OOO Of course the society is perfectly willing that all of the 2,5OO,OOO seals which it has on hand can be sold, but to fall below the 1,OOO.- GOO mark will be regarded as a state failure.
 Dr. F. E. Shine, for the last fifteen years chief surgeon of the Copper Queen medical department and of the El PasO & Southwestern Railroad med ical department, left his post at Bisbee Monday for Washington in answer to summons from the war department. Dr. Shine some time ago offered his ser vices to the war department, but the call that reached him last Sunday gave DO intimatiOn as to what his work is to be.
 The suffragette pickets around the White House are now dis playing banners that they are being sent to jail for opposing a political party. The statement is not true. They are being sent to jail on common vagrancy charges for insulting the pre- sident of the United States. The president is not a political party, nor a member of a ,. political party. He is simply the ruler of all the people Winslow Mail.
 Congressman Carl Hayden of Arizona today was the guest of Brigadier General Alexander M |. Tuthill, commander of the Se- venty ninth brigade at Camp Kearney. A special drill was given ill his honor. Later Con- gressman Hayden delivered a stirring address to the one hun dred and forty eight (Arizona) infan try. Congressman Hayden and Brigadier General Tuthill formerly served as captains in the same regiment.
 George Young, secretary of Greene Cananea, has gone to Mexico City, where he will prob. able be engaged the remainder of this month. Mr Young's visit
 to the Mexican capital at this
 time is considered to indicate
 that negotiations have again
 reached an advance stage with
 reference to the reSuption o1
 Operations by American mining
 interests in Mexico under altered
 and favorable government tel ms
 MT. Young has been very pro
 minently identified with Greene
 Cananea affairs in Mexico for { number of years and holds the esteem of all leaders among tht several Mexican factions. Few Americans might be assigned tt negotiations at Mexico City witt