The Benson signal., 1919-10-04
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair-Nov. to 8, 1919.

Archie Middleton, prominent grocer
of Prescott, Ariz, dropped dead of
heart failure as he was reaching for
high driven bali in a tennis game re-
Gently in that city.
DR.. J. J. Shuler, mayor of Ration,
most popular executive in New Mexico
and mayor of that city for 81 years,
died in the Santa Fe hospital at To
leka, Kan, following an operation for
appendicitis
Administration of the Grand Canon
| in Arizona has been taken over by the
| national parks service of the Depart
ment of the Interior, according to an
announcement by the district office of
the forestry service.
A large section of the La Majada
grant, a 54,OOO-acre tract in the north
central part of New Mexico, has been
| leased for grazing purposes to J. B.
| Okie, an extensive cattle and sheep
raiser of Wyoming.
Governor Thomas e. Campbell has
accepted an invitation to ride with the
winner of the Los Angeles to Phoenix
airplane race, which will be one of the
| outstanding attractions of the Arizona
| State Fair to be held in Phoenix Nov.
3-S, inclusive.
The much advertised elk hunt in the
| Sitgreaves national forest in Arizona
| which was to have been conducted
| from Oct II to 81, has been called off
until next season by State Game War
den Prochaska on account of inability
| tC get the hunting district posted.
Ore bearing rich samples of cuprite
and azurite and which will run be-
tween 80 and 40 per cent, was struck
On the S5O-foot level in the Night
Hawk mine, near Don Luis, COchise
| county, Arizona, according to, word
reaching Lowell from Don Luis re-
| Gently.
The New Mexico highway depart
ment has received notice that the sec
retary of agriculture has approved the
statement for federal aid project No. 81
in Rio Arriba county. This will now be
surveyed and plans and specifications
prepared. This road is twenty miles
from Chama to TERRA Amarillo.
Arizona public school teachers last
year received the highest average
| wage, with one exception, of any state
| in the Union. The average salary, ac-
| cOrding TO reports on file with the SUI
nerintendent of public instruction, c.
| O. Case, for men was $131.67 per
month and for women $97. .16 This year
salaries have been increased to such
| 'an extent. that a 10 per cent increase
| will be shown.
The road up Santa Fe Canon is being
| further improved. The New Mexico
| highway commission has loaned trucks
| and supplied the culverts to repair the
section Of this road from the Santa Fe
| city limits to the boundary of the ma
| tional forest A dozen cOnvicts are en-
| ployed in the work. The repair work
| is under the direction of n. HI. Thorpe,
county road superintendent. The for
est and the county have cO-Operated in
improving the section in the national
| forest
In. the HOlbrOOk, AriZ., field it is
| stated that four rigs are actually drill
ing and two more wells will be under
way at an early date. The Wind River
company has taken up the drilling Op
erations on the Hop Wind river well
and is down about $500 feet The HOl-
brook Oil Company is drilling and is
in what is called the COcOninO sand
stone. The Adamana Oil and Land
| &c, oh
Black Canon syndicate is said to be
making good progress with an O'Kel
core drill.
The State Fair commission an
nOunced another superb attraction for
the coming session to be held in Phoe-
rix, Nov to 8. inclusive, in the ar
rangements which have been entered
INTO with Ell Paso and Phoenix auto
dealers for the staging of $4,000
load race between the metropolis OF
the Southwest.
| The Yuma, Ariz., Indian school won
$40 in prizes at the California State
Fair. The Yuma school won the $50
| first prize for having the finest school
| eXnlDlu at In0 ldlT, Tie IlISt prize VI P%O
for the best display of farm produce,
and Tom Osborn, day pupil at the
una school, won the first prize of s.
for the best written exercise displayed
in the school department. ~
The mill of the Grant County Copper
Company in the Santa Rita district,
| New Mexico, whose mining operations
are in charge of B. ~. Link, is nearing
completion There is large quantity
of ore on the dump. ready for milling,
while vast quantities have been
blocked out for mining. An immense
concrete tank for water to supply the
mill recently was completed on the
property.
The State Highway Commission of
New Mexico has called upon State
Treasurer c.. U. Strong to offer for sale
| - block of $500 600 of state highway