The border vidette., 1918-05-11
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CuIled From Our
 Exchanges.

Chino Copper Company for the year ended Dec. 31, 1917, had earnings equal to S1O.93 a share (S5 par) against $14. 10 in the preceding year.
 The Arizona State Bureau of Mines has issued a bulletin on manganese which serves as an excellent guide to prospectors for that mineral, giving field methods of Identification, etc. This bulletin is for distribution and may be obtained by writing the Director, State Bureau of Mines, Tucson, Arizona.
 William G. McAdoo is such a matter of fact talker when he does get off on to an imaginative flight it is worth considering. When he told the Texans the other day that "there is not room enough in this great world for the German flag and the American flag and we are going to make the American flag fly over Berlin before we get through" it was not bragga- dociO such as some other promi- nent person might have said. - Cattleman.
 The United States Food Ad- ministration has refused to issue a license to Joseph Schwertner, of Wilcox, Arizona. following a hearing on the charge of hoard ing flour and violations of the 1 to be holding 6O,OOO pounds of wheat flour. Schwertner has agreed to dispose of all of his stocks of licensed commodities within a month and to turn over untarily to the Government the 6O,OOO pounds of flour as we'll as 23 sacks of cane sugar which he had in stock.
 The largest land deal closed in the valley of late years is that of the sale of the S. P. Morgan ranch, consummated last Wed nesday week, for $41, 500 fer 48O acres, George Tweedy, of Los Angeles, being the purchaser. The land is in the shallow water belt and the pumping plant is delivering about 2,OOO gallons of water per minute. MT. Morgan made a success of his farming venture and has demonstrated the possibilities of the valley where brain and brawn are worked together.-Casa Grande Dispatch.
 Friendships like those posses sed by Former Division Engineer Mathews of the Southern Pa cific, among the employees of the division, throw into the shadow the things which men strive for in this workaday world-money, honors, power. The employees of the division have presented to him as token of their regard, five hundred dollar Liberty Bond and a silver service. This was an intimate expression as between a man and his friends, but it is permitted to others to marvel, What a beautiful thing is friendshipn'
 To a Phoenix woman, Mrs. Minnie E. Smith, on Tuesday was awarded a patent for di rection signal for automobiles. The invention embodies among other features signal arm adapted to be controlled by a foot-operated mechanism to in- dicate the course the machine is to take. The signal arm is placed above the hood and is to be illuminated at night by a small light connected with the engine battery. Mrs. Smith has lived in Arizona for more than twenty years. She is a widow with one daughter. Fern, 19 years old. They reside at Five Points, in Phoenix.
 Miss Margaret Cronin, the 15- year old daughter of State Lib rarian Cronin of Phoenix, is the proud possessor of her commis- sion as an authorized junior four minute man. The commission is duly issued from Washington by authority of the government, and is signed by w. Mccormick Blair, national director of four minute men. Miss Cronin is a student at the Adams school in Phoenix, and will join the forces of four minute men now doing duty in Phoenix, speaking prin- cipally at schools. Already she l has delivered several talks at