The border vidette., 1918-05-04
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

Ray Consolidated Copper Com pany for the year ended Decem Der 31, 1917, shows $6I5 earned on stock ($1O par) against S7.42 in the previous year.
 It was reported at Tucson that an offer of $5O,OOO has been made for the bond and lease of the North Star mine. in the Twin Buttes district. A hoist is being erected on the property and operations are beginning.
 Pledging themselves to SUD- port the food administration in it's effort to win the war, seven ty- five Cochise county grocers met in Douglas and formed an organization to help execute the orders of the food adminiStra- tion.
 The Crimson and Crepin strike in the Papago district. near Tue son, is more spectacular than ever in the development of high grade lead and silver ore than in the wulfinite at first encount- cred. Lead and silver running as high as Ill ounces of silver and 47 per cent lead was found enclusted in several inches of high grade wulf1nite ore at a depth of about eight feet.
 The Oracle Liberty Loan con- mittee is still working at top speed and now is proud to re- port sales aggregat ting S11,OOO. The quota allotted to Oracle is $468. GO. so Oracle's flag will be we'll dotted with stars. Cosider- ing that this has been the dullest year Oracle has known in years as to the number of people there, it is all the more remarkable that this small community of fifty voters has raised such a sum. The committee is still at work and hope for even more.
 Carmel Combs of Jefferson, Oklahoma, a youth but 10 years old was on the Kansas City mar ket last week looking after shipment of five carloads of fed steers of his own handling that brought SIS, record price for cattle from that part of the country. These steers weighed 1, ,14O lbs. Young Combs owns a spirited saddle horse and takes a very active part in stock farm ing. The cattle sold last week had been under his personal care all the time they were on feed and were handled by him while on sale.
 There is hardly newspaper pend at least $50 every week in giving government measures free advertising and free write ups. These constitute the news paper stock of goods. Abso- lutely no other business gives steadily and of it's stock in this manner. In addition to this, the newspaper people subscribe lib- orally for bonds. This is not a complaint, but a statement of facts that people who expect newspapers to give more than they do should understand Prescott Courier.
 The Castle Butte mine has again been taken over on a bond and lease, it is reported, by Messrs. Miller and Scheerer, the same gentlemen who have been working the property, together with MT. c. F. Byron of Tucson. Several carloads of ore have been shipped from the Castle Butte lately, and the Iessees are to begin work immediately de- veloping the property. The ad- dition of machinery will facili- tate the work of taking out the ore, as the workings are too deep for hoisting with wind lass. SS.-Patagonian.
 News has been received in Tucson of the promotion of a soldier who was we'll known along the Arizona Mexico border during the Mexican troubles. It has reference to the promotion of Robert H. Noble to be brig adler general from a colonel. Nobel was in command of the Twenty Second United States infantry when it was camped at Douglas. He was then a lieut. enant colonel and in the summer of 1916 was made a full colonel. Many local people will remem Der with pleasure the soldier and man-Robert H. Noble, and
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