The border vidette., 1917-02-03
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIIed From Our
 Exchanges.

the Coconino Forest Reserve, headquarters at Flafstaff.
 The present Normal school year is regarded as one of the most successful in the history of the institution. The attendance in all departments has passed the seven hundred mark, and there will be nearly one hundred graduates.
 Word of the appointment of a Register to the U. $. Land office at Phoenix comes as good news to many of the settlers in the Sonoita Elgin district whose Applications to make Final Proof have been held pending, subject to the filling of the vacancy in office caused by Col. Weedin's death.
 Bulletins posted in the South ern Pacific offices at Bowie an nounce the establishment at that point of freight division term inal. The creation there of freight division is said to be due partly to increasing freight traf- fic and partly on account of the long haul from Lordsburg to Tucson.
 Announcement that the South ern Pacific company has adopted the plan of building all it's wood en freight cars, such as box and flat cars, at it's own shops and will make them from lumber o1o tc, made by President Wm. Sproule, who returned from New York and other eastern cities.
 As further evidence that the Patagonian country is the great est cattlegrowing region in the world a calf not quite ten months old, raised on the Sonoita grant just below town, was sold to the Parker Bros. Meat Market this week by Manager North craft of the grant, which weigh ed exactly 394 pounds dressed.
 Congressman Hayden's bill to relieve owners Of mining claims who have been mustered into the federal service from per forming the assessment work on claims has been faborably re- ported to the house of represen- tatives, and is practically cer- tain of passage. In addition Sec retary Lane of the department of the Interior has recommended the passage of the bill.
 Reopening of the boundary dispute between Yuma and Mari copa counties may be permitted by the state supreme court. A motion for leave to file an am- ended answer in. the case has been filed with the court by at torneys for Yuma county which is striving to recover a strip of land four miles wide from Mari copa county. The land now contains valuable mines.
 James W. Malcolmson, an en- gineel of note throughout the mining regions of the West, has been in Patagonia this week, from Kansas City, making an ex- animation of the HardShell mine. He is accompanied by a party of Kansas City men interested in the report he will make on the property. MT. Malcolmson is consulting engineer of the fam ous El Tigre mine iu Mexico.
 The Ryan hotel is being en- larged to meet the demands Of the growing camp and large in crease in wishing mining men. Tuesday morning carpenters began work of building an addi- tion on the west side of the hotel, this new building to house 12 rooms. Judge Ryan says that if this proves insufficient to care for the influx of tranSientS he will go still further in enlarging the Ryan hotel.-Chloride Her. aid.
 Ten cents pound is the price of wood in Oatman which is eX- periencing the worst fuel famine in it's history. Under ordinary circumstances Oatman depends upon Indians for wood, the Wal lapias bringing in arrow weeds and cactus roots from the low lands along the Colorado river. This stuff sells for $29 a cord. Merchants are selling their store boxes at ten cents a pound, and a small box sells for $1.5O to $33. .OO.