The Benson signal., 1919-09-20
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. 8 to 8, 1918

SanC Win the OoVelOpmonlS III the I1Ol-
brook Oil Field in northeastern Ari-
zona.
The Pecos Valley Canning Company
of Roswell, N NJ, has finished canning
10000 cans of peaches-equal to ten
cars of canned goods This represents
about 5000 bushels of peaches or fif-
teen carloads.
The Aztec State Bank of Aztec has
received it's charter from the state cor
pOration, having been duly approved
by the state bank examiner. The bank
has a capital stock of $25, 900, the par
value of shares 500.
Boring holes around the lock which
they cut out of the front door of a
clothing store in Chandler, Ariz., bur-
glars gained entrance into the shop
which they looted to the extent of 3d.
600 worth of merchandise.
The state of Arizona has no author
ity to pay convicts for working on
highways, but can arrange to material
ly shorten their sentences by means of
a system of credits already in opera
tion, in the opinion of Attorney Gen
eral Wiley E. Jones.
For the past few weeks the ranch
ers in the Las Vegas section Of the
state have been making drive on the
predatory animals and the county Off
Gals believe that in short time all
the cats, coyotes and other cattle and
sheep killers in San Miguel county will
be under control.
Verde Combination at Jerome, Ariz.,
is apparently right on the verge of
making a mine. The northwest drift
on the 1,O80-foot level is now all in
ledge matter with three or four feet Of
ore right in the center. This ore is a
Quartz-schist with chalcOpyrite and
white iron shot through the mass Ex-
perts estimate that the copper content
is around per cent
The Arizona Copper Company re-
Gently increased it's force Of miners in
order to hasten the development of it's
fine property, fourteen miles south
west of Globe. There is already up
wards of $4,000 tons of commercial ore
proven up on the property which the
company very conservatively estimates
to average better than per cent cop
per.
Rapid progress is being made in
plans for the opening of unit "A'' Of
the Yuma, Ariz., mesa this fall Since
the announcement in Washington some
weeks back the unit "B' of the mesa
was to be opened up this fall and win
ter, the land owners of unit "a" have
been busily engaged so that unit "a"
can be opened up as soon as unit "B"
or a few weeks later.
Following the lead of other Arizona
cities and important cities of the coun-
investigating bureau for the purpose
Of prosecuting unscrupulous profiteers
according to word just received from
that place. G. P. Halls was appointed
food administrator and is acting upon
complaints recently filed with the No
gales Chamber of Commerce.
The State Highway Department sent
fifteen additional convicts to the road
camp near Rinconada in Taos county,
N NJ This will increase the number
Of convicts to fifty now being en-
ployed on section 4 of state highway
No. from Santa Fe to Taos. This
construction is north from Ronconada
towards the bridge across the Rio
Grande ON the Taos Junction-Taos
road.
Statistics compiled by the collector
Of customs for the fiscal year of 1918
show that Arizona led all border dis
tricts in exports and imports with No
gales transacting more than half Of
the business credited to the Arizona
district
Charles Johnson of Silver City,
.,ounty surveyor, and former highway
superintendent, has just harvested
what is thought to be the record corn
crop in the state of New Mexico. Mr..
Johnson few days ago measured up
part of the crop and found that it went
eighty-seven bushels to the acre and
harvested will average at least sixty
five bushels to the acre.
That New Mexico is to have an in
ternal revenue office of it's own for
the district of New Mexico and not for
New Mexico and Arizona" as at pres
ent, was announced some time ago.
Grant county, N. M, shows the tre-
mendOus increase in it's taxable prop
erty on the assessment rolls of S., ,852,- :
367 over last year. It's total is $751;
62O,377 and the amount subject to tax,
which is the total less exemptions, is
$31, 1863, ,437.
Work on the Gillespie dam, forty
five miles down the ella river from
Phoenix, by the CHA Bend Canal Com
pany, is progressing rapidly, according
to an official of the company. He
states that 300 men are being en-
ployed in the construction Of the dam