The border vidette., 1918-08-03
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

J
 Truth" is to be issued soon un-
 der the auspices of the Jerome Central labor union It is to be
 edited and managed by James A. Powers, of the mechanical department of the Jerome News.
 The Trench mine is shipping
 another car of high grade ore. Manager Hoy reports that the
 mine will sink 200 foot deeper
 in order to give more working space and to tap the ore body at a lower level. New and larger drills have arrived and work of sinking will begin immediately.
 No more men will be released
 by the local board for enlist
 ment in the navy, the marine
 corps or the emergency fleet, ac cording to instructions received
 by the local board from Wash ington through the adjutant
 general. The same order was sent to all other local boards in
 Arizona a.-Prospector.
 The state road department is
 getting ready to commence the
 work which will connect up the state highway from Tom mbstone
 to the east end of the state high
 way where it ends in the Em-
 pire ranch country, and when completed will give a standard road way from Douglas to Flor ence via. Bisbee, Tombstone,
 Fairbank and TucsCn.
 Early action on construction of the new Verde river storage dam of the Salt River Valley Water Users association is in dicated by the filing in Prescott of copies of an application for permission to construct the dam at a point in Yavapai county about one mile north of the Ma ricopa county line, together with a formal filing upon the flood waters of the Verde river.
 A contractor recently discover ed that there are no union men in the state penitentiary. He was in search of skilled workers to repair state buildings, and in looking over the prisoners and examining them in an effort to secure the necessary help, dis covered that there was not a man in the place who could be l of service to him and he had to secure outside assistance to do the work.
 There has been received in | the Phoenix land office from the | general land office at Washing ton approval of the right of way | and maps of the Tucson, Phoe l nix and Tidewater railway, a corporation headed by James $. Douglas, designed as connection | between the Southwestern rail road system at Tucson and the ' Santa F'e at Phoenix, with pos | sible continuation northward to ] Clarkdale, in the Verde valley. |
 The Imperial valley weir is to | be reconstructed at once, over | the protest of the Yuma Valley | Water Users association. The | necessary order has been made | in Washington, on the ground | that the wier is necessary to 1 save many millions of dollars l worth of foodstuffS and cotton | and that it will be temporary in | character, merely to tide over a period before permanent con- nection can be made with the | Laguna system.
 The FluX mill started operat- | ing this week. There is a large | quantity of ore in the bins await ing treatment, and the FluX | company will soon commence to | get returns on their investment. | The men interested in the FluX | have spent a large amount of | money on the property. showing their faith in it's value, and de l serve success. The Flux mine l gives promise of developing l into money maker for it's owners. -Patagonian.
 More than twice as many mur- ders were committed in Mari copa county during the eighteen l months period ending June 3, 1918 than in any corresponding length of time since statehood, | according to records on file in | the office of Sheriff w. H. Will l ky. Likewise, Maricopa has had more murders since the