The Benson signal., 1919-12-27
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Engineers will meet at Ajo on the 5th
and 9Th of January, 1920. At that meet
ing the Warren district will be well
represented.
The State Insurance Department of
Arizona is now prepared to cooperate
with the bureau of war risk insurance
in aiding former service men in retain
ing, reinstating or converting their war
time insurance.
Resolutions passed by the state eX-
ecutive committee of the American Le-
gion at Phoenix, pledged the statewide
| organization of a vigorous campaign
against the L. w. w. and all other un-
| American organizations.
| That Arizona dates are the best in
| the world is the opinion of Ozora S.
| Davis, president of the Chicago TheO-
| logical Seminary of Chicago, prominent
| middle western churchman and a man
who has travelled extensively.
New Mexico had a balance of ST.
| $685. 1870 in it's Golfers at the end of
the fiscal year on Nov. 30, 1919, it has
! been announced by State Treasurer &.
/ IT, Strong The balance at the end of
the last fiscal year was $1,377 ,S662S.
The Duncan Mining and Milling Com
pany, which is developing Il large gold
and silver property in Grant county, is
soon to be in the producing class III. K.
| Spence, president of the company, re-
Gently returned from Nova Scotia, and
has gone to the camp where he will re-
main until the mill is started the first
of the year.
| Two years ago County Agent G. Il.
| Fillerup encouraged farmers in Nava-
jO and Apache counties, Ariz., to plant
| Marquis wheat for the main spring
| crop. Two seasons have now demon
strated that it is superior as dry
farm crop at the higher elevations
6,5OO-7 800 feet. The yield this year
was 81 to 35 bushels per acre.
The states hunter in New Mexico
killed or trapped 155 predatory animals
in November, including 127 coyotes, Ii
| bobcats, lions and one wolf, accord
| ing to the reports of hunters received
| by the State Council of Defense. Poi
sOning probably accounted for great
many more coyotes, as only those actu-
| ally shot or trapped were listed.
j. E. Cass, state superintendent of
! public instruction of Arizona, has is
/ sued "a teachers directory containing
the names of all teachers employed i'll
the state their salaries, length of serv-
ice and other facts pertaining to their
records The directory contains num-
erOus tables showing comparisons as to
| pupils, teachers and salaries in various
years.
| The Meza1'ko Mining Company oper-
! ;ating the Langston mines at PinOs AL
! t0s, New Mexico, is now running full
| time and expects to greatly increase
! the force of men in the near future.
| Regular shipments of gOld-slver ore
| are being made to the Smelter at El
! Paso and a Large tonnage is on the
| dump ready to be treated by the Calu-
| met and New Mexico mill.
The New Mexico State Club Encamp-
ment will be held at the State Agricul-
tural College from Jan. II to AZ. The
winners of first prizes in the various
club projects, namely: Maurine Wright,
Aphelia Hutchns, Bee Bonhanna of
Ranchvale, Henry and Marie McDan-
iels, all of TeXicO, Slater of FriO Draw,
Irene DeLOzier and Eugene Gallagher
of Pleasant Hill, will meet the first
prize winners from all the other cOun-
ties and compete for state prizes.
One of the largest individual land
sales ever made in New Mexico was
made recently when Sylvester Miribal
of Valencia county purchased 10000
acres Of land from the Mckinley Land
and Lumber Company, the purchase
price being about half a million dol
lars Mr.. Miribal is one of the largest
cattle and sheep growers in the state
and is now probably the largest indi-
vidual land owner, as his present hold
ings will total over 100000 acres
According to a report by County
Agent NJ r. Gonzales, over half mil
lion pounds of beans, 95 per cent of
them pintos, have been raised in San
Miguel county, New Mexico, this year
The beans are being sold for $5.75 per
hundred, leaving the farmers net
profit of S. per 100 pounds. Land which
is worth only $40 per acre has produced
as much as 500 pounds per acre and
some of the land has made as high as
1,2OO pounds per acre. The county is
shipping out corn for the first time
this year in its history and the big in
crease in the corn and bean crop is
said to be due to the increase in the
number of farmers.
Casa Grande will soon have one of
the finest high schools in Arizona, and
an institution that will rank higher
than any other high school in a com