The border vidette., 1918-11-23
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest CulIed From Our
Exchanges.

The state tax commission has
announced a raise in the valua
ton of mines.
The state highway engineer
will make a personal appear in
| Washington for a permit to fin
ish the state higways.
The Arizona corporation COM
mission has offered defiance to
the United States railroad ad-
rninistration and has denied the
rig ht of the administration to fix
iutrastate freight rates, with
possible exception of conditions
that effect military transpol ia
ton.
According 10 figures furnished
by It. J. Croaff, president of the
Arizona Fedora ton Of Labor
and Arizona federal employment
director, since last June at No
gales have been importe1 ], under
suspension of he immigration
laws, 4343 Mexicans, of whom
978 have returned. At Naco
were brought in 694 men, with
only seven returned.
The hay dealers Of the Salt
part of the National Hay Deal
ers' association on plans pre-
sented by j. Vining Taylor, sec
retary of the national associa-
ton, who has headquarters at
Winchester, Ind. Hereafter,
there will be thorough grading
and inspection of hay shipped
on government order. and col
lections and inspections of ship
ments elsewhere will be under
national association rules.
Sus tanning the first special de-
murrer of Attorneys Alex. Muir
ray, Fred Sutter and e. J. Flan-
nigan, Judge A. @. Lockwood
today (Nov. l6) declared the Au-
tomobile Seizure Law to be I'M
constitu tional and the automo-
biles that had been sued for
replevin. to be returned to the
owners. The decision came in
the case of Edna Colwell and
the Bisbee Auto company, which
claimed the automobile, brought
against Guy @. Welch, as sheriff
of COchiSe county.
One of the most important gold
strikes ever made in the history
Of the Dos Cabezas district is re
ported by A. J. Welty Of Tue
son, who has leased ten claims
in the vicinity of the property
of the Gold Ridge Mining Com
pany, company in which there
are nun Der Of local stockhold-
erS. Working q small develop
ing force, Wilson struck a five
foot ledge of gold ore ten days
ago, which runs better than $3.50
to the ton. The ledge was en-
countered 80 feet under ground
and averages five feet in width
for the distance it has been eX-
plore5.
All over Arizona there is a
genuine battle on-a battle to
get enough dollars into the Unit
ed War Work Campaign fund in
the State to bring to the Baby
State one of the eleven honor
huts going to the eleven states
which furtherest oversubscribe
their quotas in this great drive
for the Y. NJ. G. A. the Y. w.
G. A, National Catholic War
Council knights of Columbus,)
Jewish Welfare Board, War
Camp Community Service, Am
erican Library Association and
the Salvation Army. The States
quota is S3O6, 900 and it is hoped
to oversubscribe this by at least
so per cent. Guardian.
- The United States Govern,
ment asked loan from the peO-
pie of the country Of S6, 900, ,OOO,-
600, an amount unprecedented in
all the history of the world. In
three weeks time, in spite of an
epidemic Of influenza which pre-
vented public meetings and cost
the people many millions of dol
lars in medical bills and lost
time, and in spite, too, Of the
peace rumorS that in some in
stances had a tendency to make
the success of the loan seem less
vital, some 21,OOO,OOO Of the
American people offered to the
Governments Sc, > ,866, 416, 300. Each
Federal Reserve district over
subscribed its quota. Thousands
of cities, towns, and cOmmuni
ties oversubscribed their quotas.
Secretary McAdoo says that the
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