The border vidette., 1917-09-15
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

will have new automobile to be used by the chief and his as sistants in answering alarms and also to enable the chief to cover the territory on inspection tours.
 Congressman Carl Hayden is making a valiant fight before the war industries board to keep the price of copper where it, should be, and where it must be if the industry is not to be seriously hampered.
 Cato Sells, United States com missioner of Indian affairs, is now in this state to confer with officials in the Indian service with the aim to bring about a more extensive cultivation of the Indian lands.
 That Irish potatoes can be grown in the Gila valley suc- cessfully was demonstrated easi- ly by Alma Peterson of Graham. who has realized $521. 50 from 1 ] acres planted this year, says the Graham Guardian.
 J. s. Sellers. statistican for the council of defense reports conditions ia the southern part of the state as quite good along agricultural lines and that the cattle are showing a decided change since the rains.
 A telephone toll line from Pa tagonia to Nogales should be paying investment to anyone with the little capital necessary to finance the enterprise. After wards the line could be extend ed, and phones put in at many Patagonia homes.
 Forty per cent of this years lambs and fifteen per cent of this years calves were lost on ac- count of the exceptionally late cold spring in the national for ests of Northern New Mexico, according to estimates just com piled by the district forester.
 A delegation of capitalists, mine owners and laboring men from Bisbee, Arizona, introduced to President Wilson by Senator Ashurst, assured him of their desire to co operate in war ac-- tivities in the conduct of the copper properties in that state.
 Reports from Washington to the district forest office indicate that the 10th reserve engineers, better known as the forestry or lumberjack regiment, is be- ing whipped into shape. In it's fourteen hundred men, it has 125 forest rangers and lumberjacks from New Mexico and Arizona.
 The relapse of Benson from a prosperous town into whistling post on a blind siding seems quite a long way off yet, not withstand predictions to that effect by the pessimistic. On the contrary the railroad con- pany is making improvements to it's property here and seems more intent on building up than tearing down.
 M. J. H. Getzwiller, who made call on the Signal Tuesday, confirms the good report of cat tlemen generally that range con- ditions are excellent, with cattle doing unusually we'll. He says the range iS better than in the past seven years and that there will be a nice lot of fat cattle ready for marketing this fall.- Benson Signal.
 According to statement giv- en out by Secretary of State Sidney Osborn, there were 18, : 191 automobile licenses issued in the state up to the 1St of Sep tember. Of this number Co., chise county has 2,969 and Mari copa county 4,16O. There are more than 500 more machine in Cochise county this year than there were last.
 The catalog and premium list for the state fair, November 12- IT, has just been published and is ready for delivery to all in terested. The book is a neat publication of 18O pages, and contains, beside the premium list of all departments. all the necessary information for the guidance of strangers and new exhibitors, as we'll as the old ones. Directions are given for the making of entries. to whom to report, when, where and all