The Benson signal., 1919-11-08
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-NOV. 3 to 8, 191

unearthed on the Verde river a couple
of miles below Cottonwood, by Jerome
officers.
Following reports of the theft of a
large number of cattle from the ranges
of Maricopa county, Sheriff MontgOnl-
cry is investigating what he believes
to be the most daring gang of rustlers
which has operated in Arizona for
many years.
An organization to be known as the
Midland City Athletic Association,
composed of business men of Globe
and Miami, has been formed and ar
rangements are being made to pull off
some of the best boxing cards ever
seen in Arizona.
Hereafter sanitariums, stores, soft
drink stands and other commercial en-
terprises must obtain the consent or
the property owners within radius
of 500 feet before being granted per-
mission to open up in residential dis
tricts of Phoenix.
The city council Of Globe has given
approval to a plan presented by Geo.
H. Maxwell that series of small
check dams shall be built in the Pinal
mountains, to add to the limited sup
ply of water now at the disposal Of
the municipality.
During the year 1918, Yavapai
county had the distinction Of Organiz-
ing the only Girls Pig Club in the
state" This is the statement made by
w. E. Schneider, the Swine Extension
and State Pig Club man of the Uni
versity of Arizona
A heavy peach crop and normal
is the forecast in market circles
around Phoenix. Growers will begin
to pick apricots the middle of May.
A good market is anticipated because
the crop will come between crops from
other growing districts.
Stockmen all over Arizona will be
interested in the newest activity OF
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board
by which, under the enactment of The
Legislature, they are supplying those
who need it with "black leg" vaccine
and "hog cholera serum in small
quantities for just what they cost in
big wholesale lots.
The kangaroo rat is one of the most
aSs.duous seed collectors known, says
DR.. c. T. Vorheis, zoologist of the ag-
licu1tural department Of the Uliver-
sity of Arizona. AS proof of his state
ment the doctor exhibited bushal Of
seeds of mesa or crcwfoot grama
grass taken from the single burrow
Of night-prowling kangaroo rat.
Americanization work as carried out
lish for foreigners gains steadily in
momentum from week to week, ac-
cording to announcement made by the
chairman Of the state committee on
Americanization recently, at Phoenix.
In many centers classes for mothers
have been developed chiefly through
the assistance of the public health
service and the county demonstration
leaders.
The forester has recently approved
recommendations of the district for
ester at Albuquerque, N. NJ, allowing
stock1nen on national forests to COLI
struct, free of charge, reserve pastures;
to be used for short periods in the
spring for the purpose of caring for
poor stock which are in need of extra
feed and attention. One hundred acres
will be allowed permittees grazing fif-
txrh I'D 10
additional acres, depending on the
character Of the forage, for each head
of yearling permitted cattle in excess
of fifty.
Following his discovery that the city
and surrounding country had been
flooded with brandy, Sheriff Mont
gOmery of Maricopa county, with five
deputies raided house south of the
Buckeye road and captured, they lie
clared, dynamite bomb, an Illicit
still, barrel of malt and twenty bot
ties of brandy. They also took an
Italian named Felix Seitz into Gus
tody.
That Arizona will contribute her
share to the nations large winter
wheat production is shown by the crop
report issued in April. The condition
of this years crop on April 1st was 81
per cent of a normal, which compares
with 90 per cent last year and 94,
the average condition for the past ten
years Maricopa county, the largest
wheat producing county in the state,
reports a condition of 96. Graham
county reports condition of 100; Pi-
nal, 1O1; Pima, co. Cochise, 7S; Yava-
pal, 100; Coconino, 81, and Yuma. 90.
If no unfavorable conditions develop
between now and the time of harvest,
the state should produce about 1,OOO.-
600 bushels. This would be about 2O,-
600 bushels more than was produced
last year.
Agreement has been reached be-
tween all parties concerned and the
/ way is now clear for the government