Williams news., 1919-10-17
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NesU MexicO
 and Arizona

COMING EVENTS. Arizona State Fair-Nov. to 8, 191'

OI IIcSCOlt, ATIZ., uTOppou uodQ OI heart failure as he was reaching for l high driven ball in a tennis game re- | gently in that city.
 Dr. J. J. Shuler, mayor of Raton, most popular executive in New Mexico and mayor of that city for 31 years, | died in the Santa Fe hospital at To- l reka, Kan, following an operation for appendicitis.
 Administration of the Grand Canon in Arizona has been taken over by the national parks service of the Depart ment of the Interior, according to an announcement by the district office of | the forestry service.
 A large section of the La Majada grant, 54,OOO-acre tract in the north central part of New Mexico, has been leased for grazing purposes to J. B. Okie, an extensive cattle and sheep raiser of Wyoming.
 Governor Thomas B. Campbell has accepted an invitation to ride with the winner of the Los Angeles to Phoenix airplane race, which will be one of the outstanding attractions of the Arizona State Fair to be held in Phoenix Nov. 3-S, inclusive.
 The much advertised elk hunt in the
 
 which was to have been conducted from Oct IT to 31, has been called off
 rntil next season by State Game War den PrOchaska on account of inability to get the hunting district posted.
 Ore bearing rich samples of cuprite and azurite and which will run be- tween 30 and 40 per cent, was struck On the S5O-foot level in the Night ,l- T,,;r county, Arizona, according to word reaching Lowell from Don Luis re- gently.
 The New Mexico highway depart ment has received notice that the sec retary of agriculture has approved the statement for federal aid project No 34 in Rio Arriba county. This will now be surveyed and plans and specifications prepared. This road is twenty miles from Chama to Tierra Amarillo. Arizona public school teachers last year received the highest average | wage, with one exception, of any state in the Union. The average salary, ac cording to reports on file with the su nerintendent of public instruction, c. O. Case, for men was $131.61 per month and for women $97.16. This year
 
 an extent that 10 per cent increase will be shown.
 The road up Santa Fe Canon is being further improved. The New Mexico highway commission has loaned trucks and supplied the culverts to repair the section of this road from the Santa Fe city limits to the boundary of the na- tional forest. A dozen convicts are em ployed in the work. The repair work is, under the direction of N. H. Thorpe, county road superintendent. The for est and the county have co-operated in inprOvin. the section in the national forest.
 In the HOlbroOk, AriZ., field it is stated that four rigs are actually drill ing and two more wells will be under way at an early date The Wind River company has taken up the drilling Op eratiOns on the Hop Wind river well and is down about 2,5O0 feet. The Hol- brook Oil Company is drilling and is in what is called the CoconinO sand stone The Adamana Oil and Land Company is down about l 800 feet. The Black Canon syndicate is said to be making good progress with an O'Keli core drill.
 The State Fair commission an nounced another superb attraction for the coming session to be held in Phoe- | nix, Nov. 3 to 8. inclusive, in the ar engagements which have been entered l
 into with Fl Paso and PhoenIX auto | dealers for the staging of a S10,000 load race between the metropolis of | the Southwest.
 The Yuma, Ariz.. Indian school won $45 in prizes at the California State | Fair The Yuma school won the S2O | first prize for having the finest school | exhibit at the fair, the first prize of $20 l for the best display of farm produce, | and Tom Osborn, day pupil at the | una school, won the first prize of $5 | for the best written exercise displayed | in the school department
 The mill of the Grant County Copper Company in the Santa Rita district. New Mexico, whose mining operations, are in charge of B. T. Link, is nearing completion. There is a large quantity | of ore on the dump, ready for milling, while vast quantities have been blocked out fo; mining. An immense concrete tank for water to supply the mill recently was completed on the property.
 The State Highway Commission of New Mexico has called upon State Treasures c. U Strong to offer for sale g block of S3OC,0O of state highway debentures. The original amount of state highway debentures authorized