The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1919-01-18
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
Exchanges.

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| The Morning Glory has taken
out some high grade silver ore,
which was sacked and hauled to
| the loading platform at Pata
gonia for shipment to the smell
ter.
w. A. Frege, the old time
Dragon cattleman, has been in
Tucson several days looking
over the cattle situation prepar-
atory to doing some heavy buy
ing this spring.
Twenty eight inches of snow
is the report from Alpine. Guess
shat will make it some wet later
on, which makes a pleasing out
look for farmers and stockmen.
The Observer, St. Johns.
Phoenix is a blaze of lights,
following the lifting Of the in
| huenZa ban. The opening of the
city followed decision in the
| superior court that the closing
ordinance was stitutional.
The Pierce Gardner property
is still improving, and it looks
like the best mining proposition
in the Harshaw district. The
lessees have had some very
fiattering offers for the property,
but have refused all of them.
Bulletin No. "a, Dry Farming
in Arizona" has just been issued
by the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the University of Ari
zona. This publication is by G.
r. Fillerup and L. L. Bates, and
edited and revised by Fl. @.
Heard. Copies may be obtained
on application to the Agricult
ura1 Experiment Station, Tue
son, Arizona.
The Santa Nina mine has been
closed down, owing to the fact
that all the ore has been ex
tracted from the property. The
machinery has been dismaptled
and will be shipped to Miami.
The Miami Copper Co. owns the
Santa Nina, having purchased
it some time ago for S35, 600.
The ore body was a deposit in
solid granite-PatagoDian.
Aerial transportation, long the
dream of aviators and mannfac-
turers of airplanes, is to be in
augurated in Phoenix within the
course of the-next two months.
A company has been organized
for this purpose, secured the
initial machine and made ar
rangements to begin operation
within 60 days. The terminal
points will be Phoenix and
Globe
Noe for 25 years has Texas
faced brighter crop prospects at
the beginning Of the new year
than at present as a result of
rains and SHOWS of the last two
weeks, and despite the recent
extremely cold weather. the only
possible i'll effects will be the
in the extreme northern Pan
handle district where the ground
for two weeks has been covered
with snow.
After listening to discussions
of every angle of.the livestock
situation in the state, and fully
investigating the conditions un-
der which the livestock industry
will be carried on this year, the
state tax com mission, in it's
meeting with county and city
assessors from all parts of the
state, decided to retain last
years assessment valuation on
cattle and sheep for this year.
The decision was reached after
it had been decided that the in
dustry would be as financially
steady and safe during 1919 as
it has been during 1918.
A readjustment of the work
in dairying at the University of
A Arizona and the Agricultural
Experiment Station has been
made. and a separate Dairy De-
partment has been created On
der the direction of w. S. Gun
ningham, Dairy Husbandman.
This arrangement will make pos
sible greater specialization in
dairy work, as Prof. Cunning
hams attention, which formerly
was divided among various other
lines of live stock work, can
now be given entirely to dairy
ing and dairy interests. More
attention also will be given to
experimental work in dairying,
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