The Benson signal., 1919-10-11
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Oil excitement in HOlbrook, Navajo
county, Ariz., is unabated, according to
reports from there.
Shipments of beans and grain from
all the stations in the eastern part Of
the state have been the heaviest In
many years.
That the highway to Mt Lennon
will be completed and ready for use
next summer is the announcement
made by District Forest Supervisor
Paul G. Reddington, while visiting in
Tucson, Ariz.
The annual Estancia valley fair will
he held at Estancia, N. NJ, on Friday
cording to reports of the officials in
charge, it will be the best fair ever
staged in the county.
The Campbell shaft of the Calumet
and Arizona mines is now down 200
feet. 1t will be remembered that it was
closed down in August, 1917, but was
resumed in July Of this year. 1t is ex-
pacted to carry it down 2,200 feet.
There are now to date 29643 motor
cars in Arizona, according to the motor
car licenses issued at the office of the
secretary of state 1t is estimated by
officials in that office that there will
lie about 1850 more motor licenses is
sued by the end of the year, making
total of 30,993 for the year 1919.
Lincoln county, n NJ, has remitted
$29,917 to the State Highway Commits
sion as part of that cOunty's pro rata
| of the cost of the three road projects
| On federal aid project No. II, between
| Captain and Fort Stanton, $6,25O will
he spent On federal aid project No
| 20, between Border Hill and Picacho,
| $4,000 will be expended. The forest
| aid road from the Hondo to the Mes
| calero Apache reservation will get $13,-
| 667 out of this remittance.
All tranScontinental trains of the
| San Diego and Arizona railroad will be
run over the lines of the InterCalifOr-
| MIA railroad part of the Southern Pa
| (ifc system, between Yuma, AriZ., and
| Mexicali, on the international border.
| it has been announced by General
| Manager E. G. Burdick of the Inter
| California More than a million dollars
| will be spent in relaying the main lines
of the Inter- California with heavy
tails and double-tracking for a short
distance in the vicinity Of Calexico.
The Santa Fe Canon road between
| the city limits of Santa Fe and the
boundary of the national forest is now
| undergoing repairs Of permanent
character, the state highway depart
| lnent has announced. The state is sup
| plying the necessary culverts furnish
| ing convict labor, and lOaning it's
| trucks. The work is being done under
| the direction of the county road super
intendent, Mr.. Thorpe. The highway
| department is required to maintain
| this section Of the road up the Santa
Fe cafion, according to a provision in
| The law which established the Canine
Real.
The matter of reducing the freight
rate on bakery goods from Los Angeles
| to Gallup, n NJ, will be considered by
| the San Francisco District Freight
|
the state corporation has been advised
| The present rate is $1671a hundred
| pounds and the proposed rate $1.27h.
| The purpose of the change is to give
| Los Angeles manufacturers the OppOr-
| tunity to compete with Denver manu-
| facturers who have a rate Of $1.2672
into Gallup. The distance from Los
Angeles to Gallup is 73O miles and
| from Denver 6S7 miles. The AssOci-
ated Jobbers of Los Angeles are the
petitioners.
That Arizona crop conditions are
| still we'll above the average is indicat-
ed by the federal crop report just is
| sued by l.. NJ Harrison, Arizona field
| agent for the bureau of crop estimates.
| II present prospects are realized, Ari-
zona farmers will produce crops to the
value of $47,OOO,O0O, compared with
| $40, 100000 last year, and $6OOO,OOO ten
I years ago. These figures do not in
| clude livestock products
Arizona families are being paid $2,-
1923, 800 in war risk insurance claims by
| Uncle Sam He is making restitution
| 10 those whose sons and husbands died
| in the service of their country during
| the greatest war of all times. There are
| 243 insurance claims being paid in Ari-
| IONA through the bureau of war risk
insurance to beneficiaries named at the
| time application for insurance was
made by soldiers, sailors and marines,
row dead. The average policy carried
| by those 243 men was $9,74O. Disabled
| soldiers as we'll as widows and children
and dependent parents Of those who
| lave died are being made comfortable
| by the government which is paying 217
compensation claims to residents of
| Arizona
The General Fertilizer Company of
| Carlsbad, N. NJ, expects to open up it's
euano caves southeast of there in the
| near future. The company claims to
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