The border vidette., 1917-06-16

The minimum wage law for ! women will not go into effect at this time. but will be referred to l the people Of Arizona in Nove,u Der, 1918, for decision ty ballot.
 Arizona people are awaiting with interest the hearing before 1 the federal court in Los Angeles of the three cent railroad fare | litigation which has been hang 1 ing fire in the state since the 1 1913 legislature passed law setting the fares at cents.
 Flagstaff is the highest city I in Arizona being one and a quarter miles above the level of 1 the sea. When it comes to fur 1 nishing recruits for the army the ! city at the foot of San Francisco peak, has maintained the same l record beating all other Arizona cities by more than @ mile.
 The general complaint against the high cost of living is about to meet with some relief as far as the residents of Hayden are concerned, as notices have been posted by the merchants here
 that a reduction of five per cent
 in the price of all living conno- dities will shortly be made.
 Erection of a S5O,OOO smelter and reduction plant is contem-
 plated by the Mines Metal Elk
 traction company in the Rose
 mont section, according to ap-
 plication filed at the beadquar-
 ters of the Coronado National Forest in Tucson. It was stated at forest headquarters that the application will be granted
 Work of construction is expected to begin in the near future.
 Twin Buttes, Silver Bell and surrounding mineral country in Pima county are deserving of much more attention than they have been receiving Both Twin
 Buttes and Silver Bell have been doing some exceptionally good things in development and production and are bringing about a greatly increased degree of esteem for their worth. The management of these producers have earned much credit.
 Dr. c. Howard Davis and J. H. Chantry came in from Toltec and and Picacho Wednesday morn ing bringing in the registration from those precincts. pr. Davis says rabbits are doing a great deal of damage to cotton and milo maize crops in the Toltec country and that several acres of young cotton have been del stroyed by this pest. A rabbit drive would rid that country of many thousand of the animals Blade.
 Articles of incorporation were filed Saturday in the office of the state corporation commission by the Apache Transportation company, the Southwestern Sec uritieS company acting as at torney. The express purpose for which the company is or ganized is,s according to the art icles of incorporation, to estab lish aerial service for tranSpor- tatiOn of passengers, mail and express matters between PhOe- nix and Globe. Tempe News.
 The lead and silver production of the state will show a material ly higher value in 1917 than l 1916 if the gain in market prices for these metals continues, as there is now every prospect it will. Lead in the first five months of the year averaged S95, as compared with CSC in 1916. Present quotations are around 1O.5O as given by the Engineering & Mining Journal. Silver averaged 63.7 in 1916, and close to 75 cents for the first five months of this year, a gain of nine cents the ounce. In the old Gunsight district ard about Prescott, Kingman and Chloride there has been the largest in crease in the development and mining of these metals, if the activities of some of the big cop per producing mines in going after reserve ore bodies carrying high siiver-lead contents along with copper are left aside. Both silver and lead are claiming in creased attention thrOuhout the mineral districts of the state, however, and output promises