The border vidette., 1917-07-14
ARIZONA NOTES.
items of Interest CulIed From Our
 Exchanges.

Self-impOSed cenSOrO on war news.
 The only bit of premature war
 news published was given out
 prematurely by government of ficials vested with authority in
 such matters.
 California completed it's quota of troops called for by the gov ernment Wednesday. making twelve states so far that have supplied the number of men call ed for. Arizona is still tagging,
 but campaign for recruits is now on, with prospects of secur- ing the required number
 Fire insurance rates in Phoe- nix are to be materially reduced as a result of report recently made by the fire underwriters associa tion. The report and re- commendatior followed a survey of the local field and an iuspec- ton of the Phoenix fire depart ment which now ranks as the best equipped and most efficient in Arizona.
 President Wilson has appoint ed Former Governor G. ". P. Hunt as conciliator- at large for the state of Arizona in the settle ment of the mine labor troubles now going on. If MT. Hunt has one half the influence with the la bor element of the state he is credited with he ought to be able to do a great deal of good in the nOSition Tomno NouS
 Daddy" Clark, for many years an officer along the border and in the early days consta ble at Naco, but who for the past several months has made his headquarters in Douglas, leaves today for Washington, D. O., summoned there by government an invention of his which may prove of great value to the gov ernment. - Tombstone Prospec- tor
 Four troops of the Seventh U. $. cavalry, with a machine gun company, arrived here on (July 5th) night from
  caused by I. w. w. strikers, who for four days open ly defied authority and establish cd a reign of terror in the Globe district. The troops were sent by order of the war department, which has ordered sweeping investigation of the situa tion here.
 The nation wide hunt of the | past two or three years for a supply of potash has been rewarded by a discovery of importance, and as in the case | of many other valuable deposits. l the find was made in Arizona The deposit lies in a valley or | basin, out thirty miles above Parker, on the Colorado river. Potash enters largely into the of explosives and the demand far exceeds the sup ply.
 It is reported that the drift on the 2OO-foot level of the Arizona and Butte Copper property is breaking into ore stringers, in licating that a large ore body will soon be uncovered. Owing to the nature of the formation the miners are only breaking about four feet daily in two shifts All of the drift at this point must be timbered. It is thought IS the drift progresses the forma 5ion will become more solid and that the timbering can be elim- mated.
 Leo Kessler and son, who nave been in this district the past several weeks buying hides, scrap iron and junk of all kinds, Ire now devoting considerable time to buying burros for their hides. Jim Parker is over on the desert west of Tucson, work ng for the Kesslers, buying and slaughtering Gurros by whole sale. A great number will be secured from the Arivaca coun- try. Thousands of wild burrOS ire reported in the Ajo country, and the authorities of Apache county have corraled several hundred head which they are anxious to dispose of. The Kess- ers, expect to secure several thousand hides. .-Patagonian.