Williams news., 1919-09-05
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NesU Mexico
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.

William Menhennett, now on the coast, will start at once on a $2O,0OO picture show and vaudeville theater to be built at Chandler, Arizona Frank Strickland, of Vaughn, Guada lupe county, has been appointed by Acting Governor B. F. Pankey, mem Der of the New Mexico mounted police. He is to serve without pay.
 Engineer w. s. Ford and Fireman Rix Mathews of the eastbound Rock Island Golden State Limited train were killed when the train turned over thirteen miles east of Tucumcari, N. NJ.
 The assessed valuation of the stat. of Arizona has increased $21, 100000 during the past year, according to fig ures. arrived at by the State Tax Com mission sitting as a state board of equalization.
 The cider presses in the Pecos val ley have started on the seasons work, the run being on the early variety of apples. Robert Beers of the Capitan orchard expects to make 10000 gallons of cider during tee season which will call for the grinding up of from ten to twelve thousand bushels of apples.
 The City Commission has donated to the Arizona Organization of the American Legion a quarter of city block on the edge of the business dis trict~as a site for the state headquar- ters building. The donation, which was not solicited, is conditional upon the legion's agreeing to erect build ing costing $75,OOo or more.
 Union county, New Mexico, has a county farm and livestock bureau, which has filed it's articles of incorpor- ation with the State Corporation Com mission. The bureau represents more than per cent of the total of the farmers and livestock men in Union county, and is organized under plans approved by the Agricultural College. It is for mutual benefit, but not for profit
 Cochise county bears the distinction of being the wealthiest in Arizona, ac- cording to table released by the State Tax Commission at Phoenix It leads all the state in taxable wealth. The Cochise figures are SIP. 142,- 473.34. They are especially interesting in comparison with the assessed valua- tion of the county published eighteen years. In 1902 the valuation was about four million.
 A memorial to the boys of the coun- ty who paid the greatest price to the war will be erected in the yard of the Bernalillo county court house, accord ing to the plans made at the meeting of the county commissioners. The monument is to be- a large granite boulder from the Sandia mountains, upon which will be bronze tablet giv- ing the names of the soldiers who lost their lives during the war.
 Construction of a great hydro-elec- tric power plant in White Rock canon on the Rio Grande,' forty miles north of Albuquerque is feasible and prac- tical commercial undertaking. The de- mand for electric energy in the district embraced in a radius of thirty miles of the proposed plant site has nearly doubled within two years, having in creased from 34,OOO,OO0 k. w. hours in 1917, the date of a preliminary re port, to 68,8O0,OO0 k. W. hours in 1919. These are the outstanding features in a report of Waldo c. Cole, commercial engineer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, upon the proposed plant of the Rio Grande Light, Heat ( Power Company in White Rock caflon.
 Approximately 1000 coyotes have been killed in northern Arizona this year, according to statement given out at Flagstaff by M A. Musgrave, of the Federal BfoleScal Survey, who has charge of measures in this state for control of predatory annals. Mus grave declared predatory animals in Arizona did $2,OOO,0OO worth of dam age to livestock each year.
 Announcement has been made by the Arizona State Fair Commission that the famous Victory Show" consisting of joint exhibits of government depart ments will be shown during the week of November 3rd, as one of the worth while features of the 1919 fair One of the biggest features of these ex- hfbits will be made up of trophies and other enemy material captured on the battlefields of France by American soldiers. The captured articles, includ- ing almost everything from a big trench mortar to a canteen, have just pSoh OiOuSnt tO tuiS CouHtry dHu nave never before been on exhibition With them will be shown military and naval equipment of the American forces, in addition to displays from other de- partments of the government.
 Raton.-Word has been received at Raton that the molybdenum mines which have been shut down for some time will resume operations in the near future. The company is now hir- ing men and teams and bava Iono