The border vidette., 1918-02-16
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

ly shipped 1900 tons of alfalfa which netted BPS f. O. b..
 The Red Cross Nursing Ser vice has issued call for the re- gistration of nurses to care for
 the men in the field and in the cantonments. Miss Rosa Dar-
 cey, secretary of the Maricopa County Nurses association, No.
 214 East Van Buren street, has
 been appointed to enroll nurses.
 "The sacrifices we are exact
 ing of our noble American boys
 who are going to the bloody
 fields of France for the lives and
 liberty of us who stay at home,
 call to us with an irresistible appeal to support them with our
 most earnest efforts in the work
 we must do at home. ."-Secre-
 tary McAdoo.
 It is expected that work on the construction of the building at the corner of Keystone ave- nue and Live Oak street, Globe, by the Gila Valley Bank and Trust company will be started within a short time. Practical " all that remains to be done is the acceptance of plans for the structure by the banking organ ization.
 Tbe Andes mine, in. the Red Mountain, just outside of Pata gonia, owned Colonel R. R. Richardson, has struck very fine copper ore. While the extent of the ore body has not been deter mined it is encouraging to know that the mine has good ore in sight. The property has been worked by a few men for some time in charge of Ed. Bolinger.
 The option taken some time ago on the Henry Ford property in Alum Gulch has been renew ed. This is one of the promis- ing prospects of the Patagonia mining districts, and will un- owners when the proper devel opment is begun. It is owned by Ed. Massey of Bisbee, Kid O'Toole and H. H. McCutchan of Patagonia.
 John J. Birdno, receiver of the United States land office in Phoenix. is in a very serious MT. Birdno has not been we'll for about a yesr. Last summer he underwent an opera tion in Chicago and was later under the care of specialists in Los Angeles. For a time after each treatment he was able to be up and at the office but his condition is worse again.
 Although word has been re- ceived in several states from Provost Marshal General Crow der at Washington that the movement of the last increments of men selected in the first draft will begin on Saturday, Febru- ary g, and will continue for five days, Colonel Charles w. Harris, adjutant general of Arizona states that no such information has been received from Wash ington in this sta te.
 Following the pronounced suc- cess of the Inspiration war gard ems of last year, the Old De- and the Miami Copper company announced Tuesday that they, too. would maintain war gardens in 1918. The Old will cultivate six acres for a starter and the Miami Cop per 17 acres, while the Inspira- tion has added to its farm terri tory and will branch out in it's second year with 60 acres plant ed to war garden purpose.
 Potatoes are not authorized for wheat flour under the fifty fifty provisions of the new wheat conservation rules of the food administration, it was today at the office of the federal food administrator for Arizona. The use of pcta- toes in this connection, it was has been granted for a limited time to certain sections where the supply of substitutes had been entirely exhausted, and will be granted under like conditions upon application, but ill cases of this kind, it was en- phasized, potatoes must be sold in the proportion for four pounds to one pound of wheat flour.