Williams news., 1919-09-19

Eant with the developments in the HOl- brook Oil Field in northeastern Ari- zona
 The Pecos Valley Canning Company of Roswell, N. M., has finished canning 10000 cans of peaches-equal to ten cars of canned goods. This represents about 5000 bushels of peaches or fiji teen carloads.
 The Aztec State Bank of Aztec has received it's charter from the state cor poration, having been duly approved by the state bank examiner The bank has capital stock of $25,OOO. the par value of shares $1OO.
 Boring holes around the lock which they cut out of the front door of a clothing store in Chandler, Ariz, bur glars gained entrance into the shop which they footed to the extent of $3,- GOO worth of merchandise.
 The state of Arizona has no author ity to pay convicts for working on highways, but can arrange to material ly shorten their sentences by means of system of credits already in opera ton, in the opinion of Attorney Gen eral Wiley B. Jones.
 For the past few weeks the ranch CTS in the Las Vegas section of the state have been making drive on the predatory animals and the county off cials believe that in short time all the cats, coyotes and other cattle and sheep killers in San Miguel county will be under control
 Verde Combination at Jerome, Ariz., is apparently right on the verge of making a mine The northwest drift on the 1,OSO-foot level is now all in ledge matter with three or four feet of ore right in the center. This ore is a quartz-schist with chalcopyrite and white iron shot through the mass. Ex- perts estimate that the copper content is around 4 per cent.
 The Arizona Copper Company re- gently increased it's force of miners in order to hasten the development of it's fine property, fourteen miles south west of Globe. There is already up wards of 5O,OOO tons of commercial ore proven up on the property which the company very conservatively estimates to average better than per cent cop per.
 Rapid progress is being made in plans for the opening of unit "A' of the Yuma, Ariz, mesa this fall. Since the announcement in Washington some weeks back the unit 'tB'' of the mesa was to be opened up this fall and win, ter, the land owners of unit "A" have been busily engaged so that unit "A" can be opened up as soon as unit "B'' or a few weeks later.
 Following the lead of other Arizona cities and important cities of the coun- try, NogaleS, ArfZ., has established an Investigating bureau for the purpose of prosecuting interruptions profiteers according to word just received from that place. G. P. Halls was appointed food administrator and is acting upon complaints recently filed with the No gales Chamber of Commerce.
 The State Highway Department sent fifteen additional convicts to the road camp near Rinconada in Taos county, N M This will increase the number of convicts to fifty now being em- ployed on section of state highway No. from Santa Fe to Taos. This construction is north from Ronconada towards the bridge across the Rio OTdHuc OH Iuc aus J JuHCllOu-IdOS road.
 Statistics compiledAby the collector of customs for the fiscal year of 1918 show that Arizona led all border dis tricts in exports and imports with No gales transacting more than half of the business credited to the Arizona district
 Charles nf county surveyor, and former highway superintendent, has just harvested what is thought to be the record corn crop in the state of New Mexico. Mir. Johnson a few days ago measured up part of the crop and found that it went eighty-seven bushels to the acre and believes that the entire crop when all harvested will average at least sixty five bushels to the acre.
 That New Mexico is to have an in- ternal revenue office of its own for the district of New Mexico and not for "New Mexico and Arizona as at pres ent, was announced some time ago.
 Grant county, N. M., shows the tre- mendous increase in it's taxable prop erty on the assessment rolls of S1 ,S52,- 367 over last year. Its total is S31,- 62O,377 and the amount subject to tax, which is the total less exemptions, is $31 1,363, ,437.
 Work on the Gillespie dam, forty five miles down the Gila river from Phoenix, by the Gila Bend Canal Com pany, is progressing rapidly, according to an official of the company. He states that 300 men are being em-
 
 and that fourteen miles of ditches have already haQn nvcauafod XNbo,,