The border vidette., 1917-03-03
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIled From Our
 Exchanges.

|
 passed the United State Senate,
 according to notification received
 by Supervisor Johnson of the
 Coronado national forest.
 The Samoan mine, lying south
 of the Lucky Boy east of Chlor-
 idle, is soon to be tapped by a
 tunnel 100 feet long at a depth
 of approximately 700 feet. The
 bore will bring the rich vein
 known to exist within easy tran sporta tion and do away with
 packing.
 The mill of the Leviathan
 Mines company is now turning
 out forty per cent molybdenum
 which is sold at Yucca at 5000
 per ton. It is expected that the ore values will greatly exceed
 this when the present plans for
 the new Notation plant are in operation, and that values as
 high as 70 per cent of 90 will be reached.
 w. J. Mitchell, representing the Standard Metals Company, which has recently taken over the old MOwry mine, says plans are going ahead satisfact torily for the early operation of this famous old property. About the first part of next month every thing is scheduled to be cOmplet- ed on the deal and immediately work will start.
 The board of supervisors of Navajo county has called a bond election to pass on the propoSi- tion of issuing $125 ,OOO worth of road bonds for this county. It is generally conceded that the issue will pass in which event a number of bridges recently con structed in the county over the many difficult little rivers will be connected pp with good roads
 Development has begun on the Black Cat group of claims about four and half miles southwest of Salome. The vein outcroppings are plainly visible for a considerable distance on the surface and are twenty five feet in width, with the copper values running in varying values from $8 co per ton to $1OO. A road is being constructed from the railroad to the mine.
 A franchise has been granted for the immediate erection and operation of an electric light plant for the town of Tombstone. The initial cost of the plant will be $15, ,OOO. Street lights will be installed at the street intersec- tions, and Tombstone will begin to assume city airs. Oil burning engines will be used for the generation of alternating cur rent. B. l.. Wright secured tn he franchise for J. B. Dowuey.
 The largest shipment of beans recorded in Arizona were receiv- ed in Flagstaff by Babbitt Bros. from little settlement eighteen miles south of Snowflake in Ma vajo county. Sixty thousand pounds is the weight of the ship ment. The beans were raised on some of the dry farms in that and represent some of prizes at the Denver Interna- tional Dry Farm congress in 1915.
 Sir Gilbert Parker, M. F., one | of the notable figures in the | British Empire, will spend the | winter this year in Arizona. after | an absence of some six years. Sir Gilbert is known all over the | world for his splendid novels, l while his services to the British Empire in a political way are no less noted. Since visiting here | before Sir Gilbert has been an booster for the Salt l River valley and Castle Hot which he also visited.
 Frank w. Turner, Sam Smith and w. P. McComas are back from their trip into Sonora, Mexico where they went to in- spect some valuable mining | They went as far south as Boludo, and everywhere were most courteously received by the natives who appeared | anxious to have the American mining companies in that sec tion resume operations. Mir. | Turner expects to go back to Mexico in a short time.-Tempe i News.