The border vidette., 1919-11-01
ARIZONA NOTES.
Items of Interest Culled From Our
 Exchanges.

1 One of the oldest and richest
 copper mining districts in south
 ern Arizona will be opened up
 by the new highway being con
 Structed from Oracle to Mount
 Lennon at a cost of $175 ,OOO. This is the Old Hat district of
 Pima county, centering around
 Apache camp, which will be only
 22 miles from Oracle over the
 new highway. The highway
 from Oracle to Tucson is now
 one of the best in the state.
 The establishment of car
 line to Agua Prieta Is the pro- ject brought back to Col. Abram
 Fraijo, Presidente municipal of l Agua Prieta, after conference
 with Adolfo de la Huerta, gov
 ernor of Sonora. Fraijo was in-
 structed to take the matter up
 with the Douglas Traction 6 | Light company at tbe earliest moment and to inform them that aid would be given by the state of Sonora if the company would consent to install the line.
 Mitchell E. Palmer, attorney general of the United States, has written to Governor Campbell asking him to call conference of the mayors of all cities and the county attorneys to meet with the governor, the attorney general of Arizona and federal officials to deal with the pro- blems in relation to the high cost of living. The letter sug- himself is unable to attend he will send some representative of his office.
 The road repair gang working on the Tom bstone Gleeson high way under County Engineer Sid Smyth and headed by foreman Rushin, is doing fine work. The road in several places was prac, tically impossible, but these rough spots have been tempor- arily smoothed over pending the time that the gang can get that far with the work. The work done on Black Hill, just the other side of Walnut Gulch is first class. Another gang will be put to work on the Gleeson end of the highway Monday Tombstone PrOSpector.
 A sixteen inch silver cup, mounted on an ebony base, will be awarded the winner of the El Paso to Phoenix Road Race next November, according to an an nouncement by Julius Krakauer, prominent El Paso hardware and automobile man. The cup will be engraved with the name of car and record of the winner, and if he succeeds in winning the cup three consecutive times, the cup will become his per- manent property. Pending the final winning of the cup it will remain on display at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, which is the race.
 Although nearly all the cop per mines of Pima county, out side of Ajo, were forced to cease production temporarily when the bottom fell out of the copper market after the armistice was signed, the Twin Buttes district continued regular shipments to the shelter, the companies oper ating there under the direction of B. G. Bush, having maintain ed continuous production, and the Midland Copper company, one of MT. Bush's companies, is today shipping ten carloads of copper ore monthly to the Ell Paso shelter, running from ten to twenty per cent copper.
 Reduced railroad rates on the basis of one and one-third fares for the round trip will be avail able to all delegates, alternates. officers and other members of The American Legion together dependent members of their families who attend the first na- tional convention of the Legion in Minneapolis on November 10th, 11th and 12th. This re- duction has been authorized by the United States Railroad Ad- ministrat1on. At least ?, 500 de- legates from every state in the union and also from Alaska, Hawaii, Panama, Porto Rico, and Cuba, representing 100000