The Benson signal., 1919-09-27
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. 3 to 8, 1919

LIE GIdUu LOuS0 OIL Odu Il cIlOWS
and the Grand Lodge Of Rebekahs of
New Mexico will meet in Albuquerque,
N. NJ, on Oct. 13, ii and Is.
The death rate in August at Douglas,
cording to the report of DR.. q. Causey,
city health officer. There were nine
teen deaths and eighteen births in in.
corporated Douglas during the month.
While sinking well near Hot
Springs, N. NJ, for the purpose of find
ing water, flow of hot artesian water
was struck at the depth of about 100
feet. 1t is estimated that the flow is
about fifteen gallons per minute and
the temperature as it comes from the
we'll registers 115 degrees.
Work on the paving began at Las
Cruces when a large force of men
started putting in the sewer connec-
tions on all the property which faces
the main street. Contracts have been
let for the concrete paving on the main
street and on the side streets for one
block each way from the main street.
All water holes throughout Santa
Cruz county are filled and the grass is
reseeding in soft earth as the result OF
the heavy rainfalls, according to re-
ports brought to Nogals, Ariz. Forty
eight hours of steady rainfall are re-
ported from various parts of the cOun-
ty and even the water holes that have
been parched for years are filled.
The valley farmers of Fort Sumner,
N NJ, are now considering the install
lation of large hydro-electric- plant at
the same time the new dam is built,
both for light and power purposes. The
plant would furnish both light and
power for the entire valley as well as
for the town The estimated cost of
the plant will be $4,000 to $4,000.
Gen. Santiago p. Rivera, formerly of
the Mexican army, recently was killed
at Escintla, Guatemala, according to
word received from Ezra LaWtOn, for
merly American consul at Nogales,
Sonora, now stationed in Guatemala.
General Rivera, before going to Guate-
mala, was under arrest at Tucson,
Ariz on Mann act charge and, by his
departure forfeited $1,000 bond.
From the first 140 bales of cotton,
ginned by the Yuma gin of the Somer-
ton Cotton and Commercial Company
the average is 36 per cent. This is an
exceptionally high average, as at this
season of the year the seed weighs
heavy because of the large amount of
moisture it contains. Both the Yuma
and SomertOn gins of the SOmertOn
Cotton and Commercial Company are
running steadily and the Gadsden gin
will be in operation shortly.
That Roy, N. NJ, is one Of the great
est dairy centers in the Southwest Is
shown by reports of cream shipments
this year. Tom Strong reports the
shipment of 1000 cans of cream from
the station at Roy since last February.
The cans weighed 80 pounds each and
represented S2,4OO pounds of cream
valued at $35,OOO. Besides this there
are several other buyers and several
Independent shippers on the mesa who
are also doing a fine business.
An industry and building that
Tempe, Ariz., is proud of, and justly
so, is the big five-story flour mill Of
the Tempe Milling Company OF Mon
olithic concrete construction, clean,
light and airy, it is an ideal plant of it's
kind Fitted with the latest type OF
milling machinery, even down to all
electric arc purifier, it is able to turn
out superior product. One of the
most interesting features of the big
mill is the fact that it is run entirely
by water power.
Building in Albuquerque took de-
cided jump during the month Of Aug
ust according to the report of the
construction of business houses and
residences totaled to the amount Of
$4,000 for the quarter ending Aug
80, which Is much larger than that Of
the same period in the previous year.
An all-Arizona automobile show un-
der the direction of Claude e. Wilson
will be staged as the outstanding night
feature Of the state fair week, Nov. g.
8 inclusive, at Phoenix. An agreement
has been signed by the fair commits
sion permitting Wilson exclusive con-
cession for the exhibition, which gives
promise of excelling any show Of the
kind ever held in the Southwest
Walter Daniels, a farmer living
twelve miles west Of Clayton, was bit
ten on the finger by rattlesnake re-
Gently while working in his bean field
The snake was coiled up under vine
end when Mr. Daniels started to pull
the vine the reptile sank his fangs in
his finger. Outside of the cash left by
the fangs and thei ncision made by the
doctor, Mr.. Daniels shows no effect of
the injury.
Standing on the body of a rattler
while it was sinking it's fangs into her
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