The Benson signal., 1919-09-06
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-NoV. to 3. x91


William Menhennett, now on the
coast, will start at once on a $4,000
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, men,
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.
M.
| 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 ct
equalization.
The cider presses in the PecOS val
lev have started on the seasons work,
the run being on the early variety or
apples. Robert Beers of the Captain
orchard expects to make 10000 gallons
of cider during the 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 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 $4,000 or more.
| Union county, New Mexico, has a
county farm and livestock bureau.
which has filed it's articles of incorpor-
alton 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.
| 1t is for mutual benefit, but not for
profit.
Cochise county bears the distinction
of being the wealthiest in Arizona, ac-
cOrdng to a table released by the
| State Tax Commission at Phoenix. 1t
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-
ton 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 Civ
ing the names of the soldiers who lost
their lives during the war.
Construction of a great hydro-elec-
trio power plant in White Rock canon
on the Rio Grande, forty miles north
Of Albuquerque is a feasible and prac-
tical commercial undertaking. The de-
mand for electric energy in the district
embraced in radius of thirty miles
Of the proposed plant site has nearly
doubled within two years, having in
creased from 100000 k. w. hours in
1917, the date of a preliminary re-
port, to 68,SOO,OOO k. w. hours in 1919.
These are the outstanding features i'll
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 canon
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 Biological Survey, who
has charge of measures in this state
for control of predatory ANIMALS. Mus
grave declared predatory animals in
Arizona did 100000 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-
hibits 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
been brought to this country and have
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
Ration that the mOlybdenum mines
| which have been shut down for some