Taiban Valley news., 1920-05-14
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

many new homes are now IN the pro-
cess Of construction in that city.
Work has been started on the twelve
room school house at Dawson, n. NJ,
and it is expected that the new struc-
ture will be finished in time for the
fall term of school.
The First National Bank of Douglas,
Ariz., purchased a carload of regis
tered pigs and distributed them among
the boys and girls clubs of Cochise
county.
Mrs. Imogen La Chance was re-
elected president of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union of Ari-
zona in the state convention held at
Casa Grande.
After lying idle for three years, the
| San Carlos bridge, spanning the ella
river below the San Carlos Indian
agency, near Miami, Ariz., has been
opened to traffic.
The w. w. Cox Company, which is
putting down a deep test well near
Las Cruces, ~ NJ, is now negotiating
with several large drilling companies
| TO complete the well, and expects to
have the drill running again in the
next sixty days.
The possibility that Tucson, Ariz.,
may be made stopping point on the
route of the aerial derby around the
| world is indicated in a letter received
by Governor Campbell from Il. NJ.
| Sterrett, general manager of the Ma
tional Airline Association.
| Most of the mail carriers of the
| Phoenix pOstoffice are in favor OF
| changing from the present standard
uniform to one made of overalls ma
tcrial, according TO Postmaster ). j.
| Mitchelson, he said he believed 1t
would be only short time until all
carriers would be clothed i'm denim. Per-
mission has been granted by the post
master general.
The Panhandle Bankers Association
| will hold its annual meeting in Clovis
| \. NJ, on May % and %, and plans are
now under way to make the meeting
| one of the best ever held in the east
| ern part of the state. Bankers from
all over the plains section of eastern
New Mexico and western Texas will
| attend and an extensive program is
nowe being prepared for the occasion.
Three hundred carloads of Mexican
| sugar refined in Sonora will be re-
l'leased for sale in the United States as
the result of the revolution in Sonora,
it has been announced at NOgales,
| Ariz. The sugar had been sent into
the United States under bond, but was
returned to Mexico by order of Presl-
dent Carranza. 1t now is being al
lowed to again return to the United
States.
Leslie Cunningham, aged 35 years,
was instantly killed near Columbus, n,
NJ, when a freight train collided with
the truck which he was driving at the
Fort Fillmore crossing south of Las
Cruces. The side curtains were down
on the drivers seat of the truck and
this prevented the driver from seeing
the approaching train. The truck was
|
neck was broken.
Santa Fe county, N. NJ, has chance
to get full-time health officer. 1t has
been announced by DR.. X. o. Brown,
OF the Public Health Association that
the Rockefeller foundation would pay
the health officers salary in three
counties in the state provided the
counties made the special levy for
public health work authorized by the
special session of the Legislature
Santa Fe county will be eligible if II
makes the levy.
i Fire of unknown origin destroyed
Dunbar's garage in block in the hear
Of Yuma, Ariz., burning up twenty
nine automobiles and stock of tires
and other accessories. The loss, aside
from the building, was estimated al
$4,000.
The Arizona Mining Journal reports
the finding of great body of copper
ore eleven miles from Ray, AriZ., In
what is known as the Dripping Springs
mining district. The mine is known as
the Columbia, and is the result of driv
ing tunnel into the side Of the noun
! tain for distance of 1000 feet. The
ore is a carbonate giving 6 to pei
! cent copper and about two ounces Ol
silver to the ton ore.
Grant county, New Mexico, is com
Ing on fast in athletics and plans art
now under way for track meet II
I Which five of the teams In the Min
, bres will compete. Four of the schools
in the Mimbres valley now have two
, teachers and as there has been mucf
interest in athletics by the pupils ot
the schools, the, teachers have beer
doing much development work aloni
these lines. 1t is probable that thu
meet will be held some time thii
month.
San Miguel county, N. NJ, Is to hav'
two new schools this summer, >one a
: Pecos and the other at Rowe. Specia
elections were held in these localities
recently and the people voted to favo
the bond issue by majority Of severd