Taiban Valley news., 1920-09-17
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

of Gallup, New Mexico, has announced
that the Mckinley County Fair will be
held this year on Oct. l, > and 3,
which come on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
A carload of mining machinery is
now being hauled to the Barney Ca,
baliero mines near Hillsboro, New
Mexico, and will be used to develop
the properties in the Ready Pay gulch
Sierra county parties have a ten-year
lease on these properties.
Many of the Old-time miners of the
southwest are returning to the town
of Scholle in Valencia county, New
Mexico, where several of the old
mines are being opened up. Several
of these claims are now being worked
and some splendid ore has beer
shipped to the smelters.
At the first annual meeting of the
Arizona Automotive Dealers AssOcia
tion, at Nogales, Donald Dunbar OF
Phoenix. Ariz., was elected president
N. B. Mercer of Nogales, vice presl.
dent; c. f. Goyett of Tucson, treas.
urer. The meeting was attended by
fifty delegates. A permanent organt
Zation was effected
The well-known Ruby Silver Min.
ing Company, whose valuable proper
ties are located few miles northeast
of Lordsburg, New Mexico, in the
Gold Hill region, has been reorgan.
lied under a declaration of trust, with
an authorized capital stock of 100000
shares of the par value of one dollar
each.
Arrest of two fifteen-year-old boys,
Albert DriscOll and George Herrch
was followed, say the Phoenix police
by recovery of more than $1,000 worth
of stolen property of great variety,
taken in a series of burglaries. Fif
teen residences, q lumber company's
establishment and a bicycle shop were
among the places entered, the Officers
said.
Resolutions adopted by the Douglas
Chamber of Commerce and mines at
Douglas, Ariz, call upon President
Wilson and Secretary of State Colby
| to extend recognition of the United
States government to the present ma.
tional government in Mexico, which
has, the resolutions stated, "in
short time restored that country to
condition of peace and tranquility
A report of the Arizona Legislator
on the thirtieth annual conference OF
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held at st. Louis Aug. 1S to "a, is
being prepared by the Arizona state
librarian, Con 2. Cronin, who has just
returned from the conference Cronin
said he would prepare for presenta.
tion to the Legislature certain bills
based on the deliberations of the con.
ference.
j. f. McCammOnd, superintendent
of the Magda Mining Company, for
merly known as the Hardscrabble
holdings, near Magdalena, New Mex
leo, reports a big strike about 300
feet below the old workings. The
vein Is a fourteen-foot stope and is
very rich, assaying twenty-five ounces
of silver, four and one-half per cent
copper and six per cent lead.
The sun shone 1857 hours out of
possible Ala in the month of August
at Phoenix, according to a weather
bureau announcement, which added
that the prolonged cool weather of
the last week of August was unique
although lower temperatures had
occurred in previous Augusts. The
month, as whole, was two and half
degrees cooler than the average OF
past years, It was added.
Work on the Las Vegas-M Mora road
has started the work being begun on
the Mora end of the road. Work on
the complete highway will cost New
Mexico over S330,00O, or about $4,000
| per mile.
Dispatches received at Roswell,
| New Mexico, from Washington an
nounce that the secretary of agri-
culture has approved the expenditure
of $4,000 of federal road funds for
gravelng the Ruidoso road beginning
at the north side of the MescalerO
Indian reservation. This news will be
of great interest to tourists and to
| the people of the Pecos valley. as this
is one of the most important outlets
to the entire valley.
The Abo Pass Highway Association
will hold a meeting in Enid, Okla,
Sept. 20 for the purpose of definitely
| locating the road and marking the
shortest route to the Pacific coast.
This highway will connect with the
Ocean-to- Ocean and National Old
Trails highways at Magdalena, but
the route through New Mexico has
not yet been decided The associa-
tion meeting will be attended by dele
gates from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
and View Mexico.
Sittings of the Upited States Dis
trict Court for Arizona has been an
nounced as follows: At Phoenix. first
Monday in November; at Tucson, first
Monday in December; at Prescott,
first Monday in October; at Globe.
fourth Monday in October.
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