Williams news., 1919-09-12
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

As result of visit to Douglas
 made by w. B. Karps of Karns Bros
 Inc, tentative arrangements are under
 way for the laying out of a landing
 field for army aviators in the vicinity
 of Nogales, Ariz.
 The Swansea Mines Company, for
 merly called the Clara Consolidate
 twenty-two miles north of Bouse, on
 the cutoff are reported to be work
 ing thirty-two men and planning to put
 on a hundred more.
 W. H. Skinner, president of the Po-
 cahontas Mining Company at Mayer,
 Ariz., states that the installing imme-
 diately of 100-ton milling plant of
 the ball type had been decided upon.
 It win be equipped with the Callow
 system of Notation and Wilfley tables
 for concentration.
 The stockade with its enclosed houses will be finished and ready for occupancy not later than Sept. 15. On that date or possibly a few days ear Her, approximately 100 convicts vii. be taken to Superior to start actual construction work on the state high way through Apache canon. ' The reclamation service is to go ahead immediately with the sale and improvement of the Yuma project, ac- cOrding to an announcement made at Phoenix by State Senator Mulford WinsOr of Yuma, who has recently re- turned from a six weeks stay in Washington in the interest of this pro- ject.
 In addition to the large number of cattle which have been recovered with changed brands during the last two weeks near Magdalena, N M, several more have been discovered in the past few days and those who are best in formed think that an organized gang have been working in that vicinity for long time.
 The town of East Vaughn, on the Santa Fe system, and the town of Vaughn, N. M., on the Fl PasO & Southwestern system, have merged their two school districts and consoli- dated their separate schools. J. H. Wagner, state superintendent of pub lie instruction, was present at the meeting which perfected plans for the merger.
 Statistics just made public by Nit Sims, secretary of state, show total of 25,898 automobiles licensed in Ari- zona. Gila county ranks fourth. The total by counties follows: Apache, 1e3; Cochise, 3,O27; Coconino. 532; Gila, 2,256; Graham, 71S; Greenlee, 575; Maricopa, 9,S26; Mohave, 623 57O; Pima, 2,31S; Pinal, S75 Santa Cruz, 7O1; Yavapai, 1,8S&; Yu- ma, 1898.
 Eluterio Rodriguez, Jr., 5-year-old son of Mir. and Mrs. L. Rodriguez, was instantly killed near Las Vegas, N NJ, when he was kicked in the head by a horse. The youngster and his two sis terS had been sent to drive a stray horse from the corn field and he evi- 1ently approached too close to the ani- malls heels as one of his hoofs struck he boy just behind the right ear, kill ng him instantly.
 The erosscut of the vein 400 feet west | of the shaft on the 15O level of the Twins mine of the Daisell Mining Con- oany, near Kingman, Ariz., has dis | ,losed thirteen feet of high grade mill | ore. The company proposes raising | rom this level to connect with the 90 | Oot shaft and tpis shaft will be tim ,ered up and carried down on the ore o a depth of several hundred feet be- ow the present level.
 A strike of silver-lead-gold ore, pro- bounced by old timers "the richest trike in the history of the district" las been made by Purdy Wilcox and Goodwin, operating the Paloma King, ocated a few miles from Wickenburg
 Pinos Altos, N. M., which genera ion ago was one of the largest placer mining camps in the Southwest, is oming back as mining camp. Two irms are now doing placer mining at he head of Bear creek and doing it on
 much larger scale than it was ever one before.
 County Agent Powers, who has been 7Orking on the county fair movement or the past few weeks, has succeeded l getting nearly all the citizens inter- sted in the movement and has ap- Ointed committee to make the pre- minary arrangements. The commit ae will visit all the agencies in Lin Oln county and will report at an early ate just what may be expected in the 'ay of exhibits. It is expected that le fair will be held in the month of ctober after all the crops are in and le farmers have a chance to make areful selections from the seasons roduct. The fair will be held at Gal ID, N. M. L. H. McAdams, who has been an h. ian trader in Gallup, N. M, for the Lst thirty years, has left for a five