Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-09

whose support to the farmers tided over number of years of drOuth and Encouragement TOT the past four years the urm has OOne only whole sale business. Two or it's members. are in the army.
 l. W. Watson, a farmer of Maine. CocOnno county, claims to have a hitler Ot ~hberty pigs at his place There are siN Of me pigs. he says, and each is striped light blue, white and red, the stripes running length wise. A Poland China boar bred tO a Berkshire SOW produced Ihe- patrl otic porkers.
 Following Oruers received from Provost Marshal General CrOWder aI washington, Col Charles W. Harris. adJutanL general, Is preparing a book let to be printed which viii contain the names Of all persons in Arizona V no are connected with the operation or the selectIve draft law. no matter in what capacity. The booklet will contain several hundred names.
 The new Pima county road ooEmIs- sion has been organized by the elec- tion Of Nathan kendall as cnaIrman. Two important sections or road are o be built. One Is 10 be from Gunsight to A1o. a part or the through western road rom tucson, already construct ed to the PapagO reservation hne. The connection, IL is hoped, is to be buiit Dy the Indian bureau. The sec ond road is to give better eommuni- eaton between Tucson and Casa Grande. this to be in connection with similar work by Pinal cOunts. One feature of the new route Co be follower will be a short bridge across the Santa Cruz river.
 The Fl Paso & Southwestern city ticket office in Tucson has been closed upon orders received from the rail way administration al Washington. ana hereafter travellers on the SOutr- western will have to buy tickets at the station at the foot Ot Congress street. This order had been expected tor some tune and caused no surprise, since it Is the railway administration s policy to do away with all duplication of et- fort under the federal control of raii- ways. City Ticket Agent John T. Cray son will DC transferred tO the station ticket office.
 Tuesday. August 9th, is fixed as the date for the special election, at which voters will either ratify or reject the proposed drainage system In PhoenlN. m an ordinance prepared by Judge R. E. Sloan. The ordinance will be sub mitted Co the city commission for its approval at a special meeting to be held The ordinance provides that a SIOO 900 bond issue shall be flOatcd for the nurpose of constructing pump ing plants in this city. The project IS to be entirely under the control 0f the city and all proceeds secured from the sale of pumped water ere to gO into the city treasury. the ordinance provides
 Arizona had 3l,0O0 acres of grain sorghum last year. fheSr were prln- ciualh milo maize. but COnsidera- bic quantity of fatcria. kafir. hegari. dorsO and shallu were also growu it is conceded that a large increase in acreage to be devoted to the grain sorghum should result this season due Co several reasons, including the use of these grains as wheat substi- tutes. and the greater need tor these crops for silage and stock food The agricultural college of the University lf Arizona has estimated that our in- creased grain sorghum acreage. iu- ,luding dry farm and irrigated dis .ricts. should easily reach 15 per cent. which would give for 1918 a total off 42,550 acres devoted to these crops.