The border vidette., 1917-01-27

over 75c an ounce. There seems
 to be a. general impression that
 peace will cause even higher
 prices for silver, and some of
 the nations students of finance
 are predicting an eventual price
 of S1 for the white metal, which
 would mean great prosperity for
 the silver producers.
 Prosperity in Arizona seems
 to be general and as a result the city of Douglas is preparing to spend half million dollars in
 paving streets. At Yuma the
 paving of Main street is in pro- gress. Flagstaff is in line and
 while 1t is too cold up there to
 pave at present. preparations are under way to begin early in the spring. Kingman is another rapidly growing place.
 A contract for drilling a water
 we'll to maximum depth of 800 feet at the Papago village of San Miguel, in the extreme south western portion of the reserva- tion, west of the Barbaqnivara mountains, has been let to Phil Head, drilling contractor of Tucson. The work is to begin within the next twenty days. Mr. Head has drilled several other deep wells for the Indian service in that part of the reservation.
 Arizona last year produced G. I'll 800 fine ounces of silver and $4, 378, 400 in gold, large in crease over the production of 1915. With the large mills in operation and many more big producing mipes the state will make a record production of the precious metals in 1917. Great is Arizona. Its gold, silver and copper production exceeds in value the metal production of any state in the union.-Mohave Miner.
 Transformation of the Douglas brewery into an ice plant is the plan of stockholders of the Cop per City Brewing company, which has filed a petition in dis solution in the superior court of Cochise county. Principal stock holders in the concern have ask ed to have the company disincor- porated and will form a new for the purpose of ice. A shortage of ice existed in Douglas last in spite of the fact that a carload was shipped in from 
 In the vicinity of Yuma more than 10000 acres of land are be- ing leveled preparatory to plant ing cotton. Through interces- sion of Senator Winsor the rate on cotton seed from Tempe to Yuma was reduced from Csc to 25c per hundred. When the matter was referred to the cor poration commission it was found the rate from Yuma to Tempe was 25c while the rate from Tempe to Yuma was 65c. The made the rate the same each way and the South ern Pacific accepted the rating.
 Three horses and three mules, owned by Orville Bozarth, died at his ranch near Williamson valley Thursday afternoon after eating barley that had been poisoned by 8 forest service off cial, with the object of killing and prairie dogs last The balance of the fodder was placed in a sack and stored away in the barn, and in some manner, not known, the animals reached that place and devoured all that was left, about 25 pounds. One of the horses was valued at over $500, and the mules at $75O.- Prescott Journal.
 Mining laws should be plain, simple and explicit, so as to work the least hardship on the and those who de- velop likely prospects. This is of vital importance in Arizona, the best nineralized section of the world. The industry of min ing is yet in it's infancy but in hundreds of localities the sound of the hammer may be heard. These men should not be ham pared by complicated laws that need lawyers and courts to inter- pret. Early day mining devel- oped more lawsuits than paying