The Benson signal., 1919-05-10
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING TcVENrS

| COMING EVENTS.
| Arizona State Fair-Nov 3 to g. 1918.
Two elaborate distilleries have been
unearthed on the Verde river a couple
of miles below Cottonwood, by Jerome
officers.
Following reports of the theft of
large number of cattle from the ranges
of MaricOpa county, Sheriff MOntgOm-
cry is investigating what he believes
to be the most daring gang of rustlers
which has operated in Arizona for
many years.
An organization to be known as the
Midland City Athletic Association,
composed of business men of Globe
and Miami, has been formed and ar
rangements are being made to pull off
some of the best boxing cards ever
seen in Arizona.
Hereafter sanitariums, stores, soft
drink stands and other commercial en-
terprises must obtain the consent OF
the property owners within a radius
of 500 feet before being granted per-
mission to open up in residential dis
tricts of Phoenix.
approval to plan presented by Geo.
HI. Maxwell that a series of small
check dams shall be built in the Pinal
mountains, to add to the limited sup
ply of water now at the disposal Of
the municipality.
During the year 1913, Yavapai
county had the distinction of organiz-
ing the only Girls Pig Club in the
state" This is the statement made by
w. E. Schneider, the Swine Extension
and State Pig Club man of the Uni.
versity of Arizona.
A heavy peach crop and normal
apricot crop in the Salt river valley
is the forecast in market circles
around Phoenix. Growers will begin
to pick apricots the middle of May.
A good market is anticipated because
the crop will come between crops from
other growing districts.
Stockmen all over Arizona will be
interested in the newest activity OF
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by which, under the enactment of the
Legislature, they are supplying those
who need it with ''black leg" vaccine
and "hog cholera" serum in small
quantities for just what they cost in
big wholesale lots
The kangaroo rat is one of the most
aSs:duous seed collectors known, says
DR.. C. T. VOrheis, ZoOlOgist of the ag-
licu!tural department of the Univer-
sity of Arizona. AS proof of his state
ment the doctor exhibited a bushal Of
seeds of mesa or crowfOOt grama
grass taken from the single burrow
Of night-prowling kangaroo rat.
AmericanizatiOn work as carried out
in the establishment of classes in Eng
lish for foreigners gains steadily in
momentum from week to week, ac-
cording to announcement made by the
chairman of the state committee on
AmericanizatiOn recently, at Phoenix.
In many centers classes for mothers
nave been developed chiefly through
the assistance Of the public health
leaders.
The forester has recently approved
recommendations of the district for
ester at Albuquerque, N. NJ, allowing
stocklnen on national forests to con-
struct, free of charge, reserve pastures
to be used for short periods in the
spring for the purpose of caring for
poor stock which are in need of extra
feed and attention. One hundred acres
will be allowed permittees grazing fif-
ty head or less, and not to exceed two
additional acres, depending on the
character of the forage, for each head
of yearling permitted cattle in excess
of fifty.
Following his discovery that the city
and surrounding country had been
flooded with brandy, Sheriff Mont
gomery of MaricOpa county, with five
| deputies raided house south of the
Buckeye road and captured, they le-
clared, dynamite bomb, an illicit
still, barrel of malt and twenty bot
ties of brandy. They also took an
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tody.
That Arizona will contribute her
share to the nations large winter
wheat production is shown by the crop
report issued in April. The condition
of this years crop on April 1st was 81
per cent of normal, which compares
with 90 per cent last year and 94,
the average condition for the past ten
years. Maricopa county, the largest
wheat producing county in the state,
reports a condition of 90. Graham
county reports condition of 100; Pr
nal, 1O1; Pima, 90; Cochise, 79; Yava-
pal, 100; Coconino, 81, and Yuma, 90.
If no unfavorable conditions develop
between now and the time of harvest,
the state should produce about 1,OO0,-
600 bushels. This would be about 20
600 bushels more than was produced
| last Voar