The border vidette., 1918-03-23
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

Charles Korrick of Phoenix man who caused the Pullman company to change the German names of more than 100 of their sleeping cars to something pure ly American.
 The Eureka mine, in the Sal ero district, is being operated on lease from the Baca Float heirs, and will be ready soon to ship ore. The lessees are now looking for freighting outfit to haul the ore to Patagonia.
 Lettuce harvest in Salt River valley continues, Glendale being the principal shipping point. This head lettuce is sent out by the carload to eastern markets. Already thirty five carloads have been sent and the entire crop will reach fifty cars.
 More than 100000 head of sheep will soon be grazing in the Sacramento valley of Mo have county. Heavy rains fol- lowed by warm weather has made pasture good on that range and sheepmen from higher al titudes are going there for shearing.
 Thursday last the Thrift Cam paign started in earnest in King man, when Mrs. Mary Eleanor Cohenour opened her office in the postoffice and called upon all patrons of that necessary gov ernment appurtenance to fulfill their patriotic duty and buy Thrift stamps. And they really bought. Her sales for the day were S1O1.5 50.
 Postmaster Francis reports that the people of Patagonia are waking up to the advantage of war savings stamps, and says the following have invested in them at the Patagonia postofice: Charles W. Coon bS, Jr., Louise Stevens, Mignon Stevens, Geo. F. Wieland, Helen B. Patterson, Allison Gatlin, Lupe Valenzuela and Alice Ritchie.
 The Bland mine is to incorpor ate immediately, so stock can be sold for the purpose of raising money to develop the mine, which is now in good ore, but the work cannot be done with profit until the proper machin cry has been installed to sink the shaft deeper and make the work of getting out the ore cheaper and easier.- PatagO- nian.
 The Cochise County Draft Board announced today that or ders had been received from the adjutant'S office at Phoenix that no further special or voluntary inductions will be allowed, hay ing all been closed to regis trants. This means that any registered man who could have previously selected any special branch of the service as many have done, will now have to wait until he is called by the board to be sent to Camp FunS- ton.-Prospector.
 The quantity of corn remain ing on Arizona farms March 1 , 1918, was 173, 900 bushels or 20 per cent of the 1917 crop, ac- cording to the government grain report issued today. Corn of the 1916 crop on farms March 1, 1917, amounted to 77. .OOO bushels or 10 per cent of the crop; and of the 1915 crop, 96,OCO bushels or 16 per cent of the crop was on farms March 1, 1916. The proportion of the 1917 crop mer- chantable was 80 per cent. About 86 per cent of the 1916 crop was merchanta ble; and of the 1915 crop, 85 Ter cent.
 Continuous and heavy rains for 40 hours passed over every foot of Yavapai county, smash ing all previous records for many years is amount of pre- cipitation for single storm. According to reports received at the $. F. P. & P. office in Pres colt, the downpour was the heaviest south of Hillside and in the Humboldt country. The scene on the desert was remark able, and a solid sheet of water was in evidence at many places, wagon and auto traffic being | forced to standStill. From none of the higher elevations was a snow report sent in, and